Comparison

Playbook vs Mom Unit

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Playbook

Access thousands of workouts from leading fitness influencers and athletes. Connect with creators, track your progress, and enjoy offline downloads. Support your favorite trainers directly with your subscription.

Highlights
  • Thousands of workouts from top influencers
  • Direct creator support
  • Community features
  • Offline workout downloads
  • Progress tracking
  • Live streaming classes
  • Wellness guides
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Playbook is one of the top fitness apps on the market where you can support your favorite creators directly. THE MAJORITY OF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION GOES DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE CREATING THE WORKOUTS AND CLASSES YOU LOVE. Get access to the world’s leading fitness influencers, trainers, wellness gurus, athletes, and more all on your phone. With over 56,000 workouts and more than 500 instructors, there is something for everyone to achieve health and wellness goals. Take Playbook with you to the gym; workout at home and even while traveling — with the ability to download workouts you can sweat any time, anywhere. Premium features: • Join a community of motivated individuals to help reach your goals • Communicate directly with your favorite creators • Get daily workouts and access to programs and challenges (with prizes) • Wellness guides for the full experience: Nutrition, supplements, recipes, mindset, productivity, and more • Unlimited offline downloads, plus stream to other devices • Favorite workouts, schedule classes, and track your progress • Live streaming classes to workout with instructors in real time • Your subscription money supports your favorite creators directly • Compatible with Apple health SUBSCRIPTION PRICING & TERMS Playbook is free to download and includes a 7-day free trial period to unlock access to the entire platform, including all instructors, workouts, programs, and videos. After trial period there are two subscription options: $14.99/month $99.99/year These prices are for United States customers. Pricing in other countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence. Your iTunes account will be charged when the purchase is confirmed. If you subscribe before your free trial ends, the rest of your free trial period will be forfeited as soon as your purchase is confirmed. Your Playbook subscription will automatically renew unless turned off in your iTunes Account Settings at least 24 hours before current period ends. You can go to your iTunes Account settings to manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew. Read Terms and Conditions here: www.playbookapp.io/terms-of-use Read Privacy Policy here: http://www.playbookapp.io/privacy-policy

About

Mom Unit

This app offers a gamified fitness experience designed for mothers, focusing on functional strength training and community support. It integrates training, nutrition, and habit tracking with an AI coach to help users achieve their fitness goals and compete on leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Functional strength training programs
  • Goal-specific training tracks
  • Social 'Fire Teams' for accountability
  • Integrated health and fitness data tracking
  • AI fitness coach 'Sergeant Gains'
  • Gamified habit tracking and leaderboards
  • Weekly fitness challenges and competitions
Features
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THE MOM UNIT A fitness community built for moms. Not another workout tracker. A proven system that's transformed thousands of mothers, backed by a sisterhood that holds the line and pushes through competition. We focus on functional strength training that makes you look good and perform even better. Sure, you'll get toned. You'll also be able to run a mile with your six-year-old on your back. Look great. Be useful. Don't settle for one. PICK YOUR TRACK Three tracks built around your goals, your equipment, and your real-world time. Alpha Mom, Hybrid Mom or Run Club. You can cut, bulk or recomp with goal-aware macros tuned to your TDEE, not some generic calculator your husband's coworker swears by. PICK YOUR FIRE TEAM This is a social app at its core. Although you can take the lone wolf route and just grind on your own but life's better when you do it with friends. Fire Teams are small squads of moms who push each other, compete weekly, and call out the silence when one of you ghosts. Start your own team with your real-life crew or jump into an open team and make new friends. Either way, you've got moms in your corner and moms breathing down your neck. That's the whole point. THE OPERATING SYSTEM The Mom Unit isn't a workout tracker glued to a food log. It's one system where everything talks to everything. Your training, your nutrition, your sleep, your steps, your weight, your HRV, your VO2 max — all flowing into one place. Metrics, graphs, data - it's all the stuff moms need and love. And then there's Sergeant Gains, your AI coach. He pulls all your data and tells you the truth. You skipped two workouts and your protein is garbage? She notices. No sugar coating. No participation ribbons. TICK THE BOXES TTFB. Seven daily habits that accrue points and make you look better. Train, Eat, Sleep, hydrate, and move. The whole program runs on it. Miss them and the leaderboard knows. Hit them and you start watching the rank tick up. RANK UP Mom Bod. Weekend Warrior. Suburban Spartan. All the way to Alpha Mom. You don't buy rank. You earn it. And Alpha Mom requires passing the PT test, so don't get cute. COMPETE OR COAST WED WODs. FYFridays. Weekly Challenges. Fire Teams Ranks. 41+ leaderboards. Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, all-time. Global and team. You can hide from a lot of things in life. You can't hide from the board. BUILT BY A GREEN BERET AND CELEBRITY TRAINER TURNED MOM BOD DESTROYER A former Special Forces medic and celebrity trainer got tired of watching moms dissolve into recliners. So she built this. Used every day by actual mothers. NO BS. JUST SHOW UP. Download. Pick your track. Find your fire team. Stay accountable. The Mom Unit is free to download. Pro subscription required for full access — workouts, leaderboards, nutrition tracking, Fire Teams, and Sergeant Gains. TTFB. Privacy policy: thedadunit.com/privacy-policy Terms of service: thedadunit.com/terms-of-service

Screenshots

Playbook4 screens
Mom Unit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Playbook at none against Mom Unit's shown. Playbook also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (37K vs 17). Mom Unit's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 79%). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Playbook sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month and Mom Unit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Playbook against 4.9 for Mom Unit. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Playbook has 37K ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Playbook's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mom Unit's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Playbook ships an update every 4 days, Mom Unit monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Playbook versus Mom Unit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlaybookMom Unit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (37K ratings)4.9 (17 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings37K — better17
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterMonthly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#207 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size169 MB117 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPlaybook Technologies IncMICAH ALLEN MEHAN

Customer experience

Playbook

All ratings37,180 ratings
Positive98.5%
Neutral0.5%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews851 reviews
Positive79.2%
Neutral4.6%
Negative16.2%

Mom Unit

All ratings17 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Playbook

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Videos not loading or playing correctly
  • Workout data not syncing or saving properly
  • Login and account management problems

Requested features

4 requests
  • Weight and rep tracking
  • Nutrition and meal planning integration
  • More video angles and exercise demonstrations
  • Ability to create custom workout routines

Mom Unit

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Playbook

Subscriptions2
  • Playbook Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Playbook Premium7 Days trial$99.991 Year
2 purchases

Mom Unit

Subscriptions2
  • MONTHLY$24.991 Month
  • YEARLY$249.991 Year

Questions

Is Playbook free?
Playbook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mom Unit free?
Mom Unit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Playbook or Mom Unit?
Mom Unit is rated higher. Playbook averages 4.9 out of 5 from 37K ratings, while Mom Unit averages 4.9 from 17 ratings.
Do Playbook or Mom Unit have ads?
Mom Unit shows ads; Playbook does not.
Which is updated more often, Playbook or Mom Unit?
Playbook ships an update every 4 days, and Mom Unit monthly. Most recently, Playbook was updated on November 7, 2026 and Mom Unit on November 5, 2026.

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