Active Blackpool Council vs Wainwrights
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Active Blackpool Council
Easily book fitness classes and activities, view timetables, and get up-to-date information on facilities and events. Receive push notifications for important news and offers, and manage your membership online.
- Book fitness classes and activities
- View fitness and swim timetables
- Receive news and offer notifications
- Manage memberships online
- Access centre information
- Share activities with friends
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With the Active Blackpool app you always have your facility in your pocket with quick and easy access to book your favourite fitness classes and activities. Get up-to-date information, news, fitness class timetables, public swim timetables, offers, events and receive push notifications for important news. FITNESS CLASS TIMETABLES Get real-time access to your centre’s timetable for classes, including times, fitness instructors and class description. FITNESS CLASS BOOKINGS Check availability, make a booking, amend a booking and cancel a booking – all on the move! PUBLIC SWIM TIMETABLES Get real-time access to your centre’s timetable for public swim sessions. CENTRE INFORMATION Find out about our opening times and facilities. NEWS AND PUSH NOTIFICATIONS Instantly get notified of centre news and events direct to your phone. With our app, you’ll immediately know when there are new events or classes, ensuring that you’ll never miss a thing. OFFERS Get push notifications for new offers so you always know about special promotions. MEMBERSHIPS AND ONLINE JOINING View our different types of membership to find the one which best suits you and join online. CONTACT US Easily contact us with site telephone numbers and email addresses or view directions and maps. SHARE THROUGH FACEBOOK, TWITTER AND EMAIL Share fitness classes, news, centre information and offers with your friends and family at the touch of a button. CENTRES COVERED: Blackpool Sports Centre Moor Park Health & Leisure Centre Palatine Leisure Centre APPLE HEALTHKIT We also use HealthKit to allow users to share their activity and workout data with the app. This data is used to incentivise users to stay active.
Wainwrights
Discover and navigate the Lake District's fells with an interactive map. Track your climbs of the 214 Wainwright mountains and hills, and optionally log the 116 Outlying Fells. A personal log helps monitor your progress on these iconic peaks.
- Interactive OpenStreetMap for fells
- User location and grid reference
- Personal progress log
- Track 214 Wainwrights
- Log 116 Outlying Fells
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Explore the fells of the Lake District using an interactive map from OpenStreetMap, with the user's location and grid reference. Track your progress on your personal log. Are you ready for the challenge of climbing the Lake District's Wainwrights? The 214 Wainwright mountains and hills were established by Alfred Wainwright in his Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells in the 1950s and 1960s. There is also an option for logging Wainwright's 116 Outlying Fells. The app supports The Wainwright Society. Base map and data from OpenStreetMap and OpenStreetMap Foundation © OpenStreetMap contributors. All images are subject to copyright through Creative Commons Licence.
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Verdict
Active Blackpool Council and Wainwrights both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 89% of Wainwrights's written reviews are positive against 64% of Active Blackpool Council's. Wainwrights also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Active Blackpool Council against 5.0 for Wainwrights. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 64% of Active Blackpool Council's written reviews are positive against 89% of Wainwrights's.
Active Blackpool Council ships an update every 2 months, Wainwrights monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Active Blackpool Council | Wainwrights |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.3% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Blackpool Council | Doug Colton |
Customer experience
Active Blackpool Council
Wainwrights
In-app purchases
Active Blackpool Council
No in-app purchases
Wainwrights
No in-app purchases
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