The Training Lab vs Salwa
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Training Lab
Plan and schedule fitness classes directly from your device. View class schedules, sign up, and access studio location information. Optimize your time and convenience for class bookings.
- View class schedules
- Sign up for classes
- Access studio location
- Schedule classes from device
- Optimize time for bookings
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Download the The Training Lab NYC App today to plan and schedule your classes! From this mobile App you can view class schedules, sign-up for classes, as well as view the studio’s location information. Optimize your time and maximize the convenience of signing up for classes from your device! Download this App today!
Salwa
This app guides you through a 90-second practice to train your brain to let go of unresolved thoughts and emotions. It uses a timed breathing exercise and offers options to permanently delete or save your reflections.
- 90-second guided breathing timer
- Write and release unresolved thoughts
- Save reflections as 'Moments'
- Visual 'Pond' to reflect progress
- Activity tab for emotion tracking
- End-to-end encryption for privacy
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Salwa is a 90-second practice for training your brain to let things go, not just feel better for a moment. THE METHOD Write down what you're carrying. Anything unresolved. Anything you keep coming back to. Then sit with it. A breathing timer runs while you stay present with what you wrote. Ninety seconds by default, longer if you want it. Then let it pass through you. When the timer ends, you decide. Release it and it's permanently deleted. Or save it as a Moment and return when you're ready. Letting something go feels different from just forgetting it. That difference is the whole practice. THE POND The pond reflects where you are. Release something and the water settles. Keep showing up and it goes still. Step away for a while and it ripples again. The pond doesn't judge you. It only reflects. YOUR MOMENTS The reflections you save stay with you. Come back when you're ready. Sit with them again. Release them when the time is right. You can hold up to 7 Moments at once. More than that and holding becomes collecting. The constraint asks you to stay honest about what still matters. YOUR ACTIVITY After a few weeks, the Activity tab shows which emotions have been coming up most. It's there when you want to look. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN A widget sits under the same sky the app does. The light moves through the day, and it tells you where your pond stands. Tap it to sit, or to start writing. There is a lock screen version too. PRIVACY Everything you write is encrypted before it leaves your phone. Salwa can't read your reflections and neither can anyone else. When you release something, it's gone for good. WHY SALWA This isn't another motivation app. Motivation fades, usually right when you need it. What Salwa builds instead is the resilience to break the emotion loop, the part of you that keeps replaying something long after it's done anything useful. The memory stays. The loop is what lets go. THERE'S AN OLD ZEN STORY Two monks are traveling together and come to a river, where a young woman stands at the bank, unable to cross. Without a word, the older monk offers his help, picks her up, carries her across, and sets her down on the other side. They walk on. An hour passes. Another. Finally the young novice monk can't hold it in. "How could you carry her? We've taken vows." The older monk says: "I set her down at the river. Why are you still carrying her?" Most of us are the young novice monk. We carry things long after we could have put them down. Not because we have to. Because no one ever taught us how to set them down. That's what Salwa is for. Salwa offers a 14-day free trial with full access to all features, followed by an auto-renewable subscription: $5.99 per month or $59.99 per year. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID account settings. Privacy Policy: https://salwaspace.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://salwaspace.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: The Training Lab at none against Salwa's 2. The Training Lab also leads on ratings volume (52 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). Salwa's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating and update cadence 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. Salwa sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. The Training Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for The Training Lab against 5.0 for Salwa. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Training Lab has 52 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
The Training Lab ships an update every 4 months, Salwa every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Training Lab | Salwa |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (52 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 52 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 131 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Warrior Fitness LLC | Quan Ho |
Customer experience
The Training Lab
Salwa
In-app purchases
The Training Lab
No in-app purchases
Salwa
- Salwa Monthly$5.991 Month
- Salwa Annual$59.991 Year
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