Nautilus Plus vs Craving Holdout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nautilus Plus
Manage your gym membership, track workouts, and access personalized fitness and nutrition plans. View schedules, book appointments, and sync data from various fitness trackers. Stay connected with trainers and nutritionists through integrated messaging.
- Virtual membership card
- Workout tracking and program access
- Sync data from fitness trackers
- Nutrition plan and tools
- Group exercise class schedules
- Appointment booking
- Integrated messaging with trainers
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You can now easily access all your Nautilus Plus membership information on your mobile or smartphone. Things like your virtual membership card, group exercise schedules, appointments with your personal trainer or nutritionist, record of workouts, your workout program, and more. Virtual Membership Card • Present your membership card by simply showing your phone Workout Session • Fix your weekly workout objective • Consult your weekly workout average • Consult your workout session total • Record of workouts (day, hour, club) • Sync your data from any trackers (Apple Health, Garmin, Fitbit, Strava, etc.) Workout Program • Consult your workout program • Complete your Fitness and Lifestyle Evaluation questionnaire • Consult the results of your Fitness and Lifestyle Evaluation questionnaire • Enter data during your workout session (duration, calories burned, number of reps, weights used) • Consult your workout data • Consult your workout calendar • Communicate with your personal trainer via integrated messaging Nutrition • Consult your nutrition plan • Consult different tools such as portion guide, your Healthy Plate, your Grocery List • Communicate with your nutritionist via integrated messaging Group Exercise Classes and Supervised Group Training Schedules • All class schedules in all clubs within our network • Refined search by type of class • Online registration Appointments • Book an appointment with your personal trainer, your nutritionist, your osteopath, or your massotherapist BOOMERANG Membership • Consult your accumulated credits
Craving Holdout
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Most cravings end at the fridge or the pantry. If you're going to reach for your phone anyway, this is what you open. Craving Holdout is a 20-minute session. You watch the urge on screen; amber pushing in from the edges, your presence in the center holding it back. The longer you stay, the more ground it loses. At 20 minutes, it retreats. That's it. There's a reason this works. Habit-driven urges run on dopamine, and dopamine doesn't keep building forever. The impulse peaks and falls off on its own, usually within 15 to 20 minutes, whether you act on it or not. What you're doing is urge surfing: staying with the discomfort long enough to watch it lose. Most people give in before they see that happen. The app makes the window visible. There's no breathing exercise here. No journaling prompt. No affirmation. Just a visual urge timer, something to watch that gives the urge somewhere to go. Every session gets logged. How long you held, the milestones you crossed, whether you made it. Not to guilt you when you didn't. Just so you can see that you've done this before. That's usually enough. If the fire theme gets old, there are eight others: void, ember, glacier, abyss, solar, aurora, dusk, nebula. Three come with the app. The rest are a one-time unlock if you want them. It's free. No account. Works offline. Nothing leaves your phone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nautilus Plus at none against Craving Holdout's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Craving Holdout sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Nautilus Plus asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Nautilus Plus | Craving Holdout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 23.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nautilus Plus | George Coicici |
Bugs and requests
Nautilus Plus
Reported bugs
76 issues- Reservations don't work
- Messaging doesn't work
- Gym crowd status not showing
- App constantly logs out
- Password reset emails not sent
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- App connects to multiple tracking websites on login
- Servers down for over a week
- Error message: problem with the server
- App crashes constantly
- Login problems
- Server issues
- App not working half the time
- Login issues every week
- Error with Nautilus server
- App crashes, error codes
- Cannot load info or card
- System is down
- App not showing member card
- Hard to login
- DNS requests to Google advertising servers
- Prevents login with ad blocker
- Lost history of weights
- Average number of weekly visits disappeared
- Cannot log in
- Error code: 'Error Try again later'
- Server error
- App is generally very slow
- Workout programs not saved locally
- Not working with the latest iOS
- Error: 'Cannot read property ‘data’ of undefined'
- Cannot access app
- Boomerang doesn't work sometimes
- Issues with client card and Boomerang
- Does not work on iPhone 14 Pro Max
- App unable to function on new iPhone
- Impossible to finish workout
- Error message: 'error with Nautilus Plus server'
- Old programs harder to find
- Membership card needs to be reloaded to wallet
- Weight changes don't always save
- Opening other app resumes workout a few sets back
- Messages sent are deleted/not showing up
- New version is worse than the old one
- New update is not optimal
- App is terribly slow
- Resets randomly
- Membership card difficult to access
- Cannot add card to phone wallet
- App always bugs when opened
- Cannot install membership card in Apple Wallet
- Buggy, crashes 99% of the time
- Cannot open menu on the right-hand side
- Top part overlaps phone status bar
- Lack of retention for orientation to display membership card
- Interface not adapted for Face ID phones
- Entering values in workout program is frustrating
- App not updated for new iPhone displays
- Information not visible due to Dynamic Island
- Impossible to add membership card to wallet app
- Screen not sized properly for various iPhones
- App not updated for 2 years
- Buttons and menus not optimized for iPhone 14
- Cannot add membership card to wallet
- New update is worse than the previous version
- More actions needed to execute training plan
- UX needs review
- Cannot add card to Apple wallet
- App is not adapted to recent iPhones
- Doesn't run easily
- Apple Pay feature for card is impossible to make work
- Multiple screens won't load
- Add to Apple wallet is broken
- Scanning still works but that's it
- App is junk and abandoned
- Doesn't work
- Previous version was better
Requested features
16 requests- Add Apple Watch app for tracking workouts
- Bring back average weekly visits on homepage
- Allow users to choose preferred branches
- Enable in-app membership renewal
- Allow users to customize home screen buttons
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- Add dark mode
- Improve workout timer functionality
- Allow users to disable auto-playing videos
- Add option to save workout programs locally
- Make app compatible with newer iPhone screens
- Improve navigation for gym hours and attendance
- Allow multiple preferred branches
- Add ability to prepare workout entry during rest periods
- Improve graphical clarity of the app
- Allow users to add membership card to Apple Wallet
- Improve account creation process
Craving Holdout
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Nautilus Plus
No in-app purchases
Craving Holdout
- Theme Pack$3.99
Questions
Is Nautilus Plus free?
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Do Nautilus Plus or Craving Holdout have ads?
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