Avena Health vs SabStab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
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.
- 3D muscle figure visualization
- Personalized workout routines
- Animated progress charts
- Detailed exercise guides
- Offline workout logging
- Customizable appearance settings
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Avena Health | SabStab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (4.4K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4.4K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 6 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 115 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Avena Technologies, Inc | Emmanuel Alvarado |
Customer experience
Avena Health
SabStab
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
Avena Health
- 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
SabStab
No in-app purchases









