Comparison

Avena Health vs SabStab

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

Head to head
About

Avena Health

Take control of your diet with personalized plans from online nutritionists. Explore thousands of diets and recipes, track your intake, and get exercise routines to build a sustainable healthy lifestyle.

Highlights
  • Personalized diet plans
  • Access to nutritionists
  • Extensive diet and recipe library
  • Food and water intake reminders
  • Macronutrient and calorie tracking
  • Video exercise routines
  • HealthKit integration
Features
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Avena Health is the platform that connects your day-to-day life with the plan set by your health specialists. Your specialist defines your plan, recommendations and routines. Avena Health helps you organize and follow it in a practical, clear and sustainable way, every day. We work with more than 15,000 specialists, available online and in person, focused on different health goals, lifestyles and life stages. With Avena Health you can: • Connect with your specialist and get your questions answered* • Receive and view your personalized meal plan* • Explore thousands of recipes and options for your day • Swap foods within your plan based on your preferences • Generate grocery lists automatically • Set meal and hydration reminders • Track your daily eating • Check the recommendations from your specialist • Access video workout routines • Connect your data with Apple Health (HealthKit) * Free if your specialist already works with Avena. If you don't have a specialist yet, it requires the paid program with a specialist (see Pricing). Avena Boost (subscription, purchase required) • AI habit analysis • Photo food logging • Weekly score and personalized insights Recipes and content Access more than: • 15,000 recipes • 500 types of meal plans Pricing • Downloading the app and creating an account is free. • If your specialist already works with Avena, using the app is free for you. • If you don't have a specialist yet, you can book your first consultation with a one-time in-app purchase. Ongoing monthly follow-up with your specialist is a paid one-to-one personal service, purchased separately. • Avena Boost is an auto-renewable monthly or yearly subscription, purchased in the app. It renews until you cancel it in your Apple ID settings. Important • Avena is a support tool. • All decisions about your health are made by your specialists. Legal • Terms of use: https://avena.io/terminos-y-condiciones/ • Privacy policy: https://avena.io/aviso-de-privacidad/ • Reference: World Health Organization – Healthy diet: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet

About

SabStab

This app applies biomechanics to strength training with a 3D muscle model and animated charts. It offers personalized routines based on your goals, equipment, and logs, with detailed exercise guides and progress tracking.

Highlights
  • 3D muscle figure visualization
  • Personalized workout routines
  • Animated progress charts
  • Detailed exercise guides
  • Offline workout logging
  • Customizable appearance settings
Features
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Biomechanics applied to every repetition. Your workouts just entered another dimension. SabStab polishes its neon style and futuristic energy for strength training with a 3D muscle figure, maps that come alive with light and animated charts that put your logs in the spotlight. Personalized routines and your workout logs, right at your fingertips. FRESH LOOK. REAL FOCUS. Deep black, neon green and smooth transitions. Explore the refreshed experience, from illuminated buttons to charts that rise with their numbers. Make it yours with Night, Day or System appearance, plus your choice of sound and motion settings. 3D MUSCLES. FULLY LIT. Spin the anatomical figure and explore your session’s illuminated muscle maps. View muscle groups and their parts to see which areas you are training. The light is a visual guide to the muscles involved, not a measurement of activation. YOUR PLAN. ZERO FUSS. Hypertrophy, strength, strength and hypertrophy, or fat loss. Your plan considers your goal, experience, available days, equipment and logs. Train at the gym, with dumbbells and bands, or with calisthenics, even at home without equipment. Review your weekly training coverage, explore compatible alternatives and track progression across comparable sessions. Optional measurements and preferences help inform suggestions. LOG IT. MAKE IT COUNT. Log load, reps and effort. Reuse your last entry, correct a log and reorder your exercises. Consult 98 guides covering equipment, setup, movement and the muscles involved. Tap session images to enlarge them, or press and hold images in Routine and alternatives. Find a replacement and manage rest between sets. Review load suggestions when enough data is available, plus complementary cardio tips for your goal and session. WATCH YOUR PROGRESS POP. Weekly volume charts, week-to-week comparisons, personal bests and history. Bars and numbers come to life to make your logs easy to read at a glance. Your data shows how your training changes; it does not measure muscle growth. EARN IT. SHARE THE MOMENT. Review completed sessions, discover recent achievements and share the same card you earned with your crew. Open the built-in guide whenever you want a refresher on the controls. Free, with no ads, no subscription and no account required. Your profile, routines and logs work offline. Available in English and Spanish. SabStab provides general training guidance. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any medical condition. Consult a healthcare professional for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment; if you have pain or an injury, review the exercise before training.

Screenshots

Avena Health4 screens
SabStab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SabStab at none against Avena Health's 10. SabStab also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 77%). Avena Health's advantage is ratings volume (4.4K vs 2). On price, rating, update cadence and device support 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. Avena Health sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. SabStab asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Avena Health against 5.0 for SabStab. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Avena Health has 4.4K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 77% of Avena Health's written reviews are positive against 100% of SabStab's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Avena Health versus SabStab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAvena HealthSabStab
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (4.4K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4.4K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 6 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size90 MB115 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAvena Technologies, IncEmmanuel Alvarado

Customer experience

Avena Health

All ratings4,358 ratings
Positive98.0%
Neutral0.9%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews256 reviews
Positive77.3%
Neutral2.0%
Negative20.7%

SabStab

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Avena Health

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Recipes fail to load properly
  • Meal plans not syncing across devices
  • Water tracking feature not working
  • Notifications not reliable

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to substitute ingredients
  • Provide more English language support
  • Implement dark mode option
  • Allow tracking of custom meals and exercises
  • Add notes section to provide feedback to dietitian

SabStab

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Avena Health

Subscriptions9
  • Avena Boost Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Avena Premium2 variants$17.491 Month
  • Avena Premium.$17.491 Month
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  • Avena Premium7 Days trial$48.991 Month
  • Avena Boost Annual$49.991 Year
  • Avena Premium7 Days trial$63.996 Months
  • Avena Premium7 Days trial$76.996 Months
  • Avena Premium7 Days trial$82.993 Months
  • Avena Premium.$89.996 Months
None

SabStab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Avena Health free?
Avena Health is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SabStab free?
SabStab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Avena Health or SabStab?
SabStab is rated higher. Avena Health averages 4.9 out of 5 from 4.4K ratings, while SabStab averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Avena Health or SabStab have ads?
Avena Health shows ads; SabStab does not.
Which is updated more often, Avena Health or SabStab?
Avena Health ships an update every 6 days, and SabStab every 6 days. Most recently, Avena Health was updated on November 2, 2026 and SabStab on November 6, 2026.

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