Comparison

Foundation Training vs Silver Rising

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

Head to head
About

Foundation Training

This app offers body-weight exercises designed to improve movement, reduce pain, and enhance performance. It focuses on activating posterior muscles, stabilizing the hips, and decompressing the spine for better joint health and injury prevention.

Highlights
  • Access entire content library
  • Download videos for offline viewing
  • No equipment required
  • Beginner to expert instruction
  • Workout durations from 5-45 minutes
Features
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Change how you move and change your life for the better. No matter your age or your fitness level, Foundation Training puts you on the path to wellness. Through a series of body-weight exercises, Foundation Training activates your posterior muscle chain, anchors the hips, decompresses the spine, and teaches you to take the burden of supporting the body out of your joints and put it where it belongs - in your muscles. Foundation Training is an accessory tool like no other, taking you from pain to performance. It is a unique combination of prehab and rehab, both preventing and helping treat pain and injuries. Get an advantage over your opponent and an effective mechanism for injury prevention. Features: • Access to the entire Foundation Training content library. • Download videos to your device for offline viewing. • Workout anywhere, anytime, with no equipment. • Easy-to-follow video instruction for beginners through experts. • Videos perfectly times for your life with options from 5 to 45 minutes. "Like so many people who have found relief with Foundation Training, I am grateful for the healing." – Chris Hemsworth, Actor “Foundation exercises have been a great addition to my exercise routine. My back doesn't just feel better, it feels strong.” - Jeff Bridges, Actor "Foundation Training is the answer to my many years of research on the negative effects of sitting. It is a ticket to discover a more vibrant health life – no matter your age.” - Dr. Joan Vernikos, Former NASA Director of Life Sciences & Author of Sitting Kills, Moving Heals ▷ Already a Member? Sign-In to access your subscription. ▷ New? Try it for free! Subscribe in the app to get instant access. Foundation Training offers an auto-renewing subscription that will allow you unlimited access to content on all your devices. Payment is charged to your Account at confirmation of purchase. Pricing varies by location and is confirmed prior to purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. Cancel anytime in Account Settings. For more information see our: Terms of Service URL: https://www.foundationtraining.com/terms-and-conditions/ Privacy Policy URL: https://www.foundationtraining.com/privacy-policy

About

Silver Rising

This app guides women through the in-between stages of life with immersive music and honest reflection. It offers eight themes to explore grief, reinvention, desire, and more, providing a space to reconnect with oneself without pressure.

Highlights
  • Eight guided themes for life transitions
  • Immersive music for reflection
  • Private journaling space
  • Personalized song creation
  • Pattern analysis of reflections
  • Meditation space for stillness
Features
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Somewhere along the way of raising kids, caring for aging parents, surviving relationships, watching your body change, and wondering what the hell happened to the woman you used to be-you realize nobody gave you the roadmap. It's not the beginning of your life. And it's not the end. It's the in-between-that strange, complicated, surprisingly liberating stretch of life when so much of what has defined you is changing, and you're figuring out who you are. Finally. Over 8 weeks, we explore 8 themes that so many women experience but rarely fully feel: grief, reinvention, desire, the changing body, starting over, trusting yourself again, connection, and discovering what actually matters now. No affirmations. No pretending everything is wonderful. No pressure to become some "better version" of yourself. Just a place to stop for a minute and listen to what's inside. Each week combines immersive music and honest reflection to help you slow down, get out of your head, feel what's underneath the noise, and reconnect with yourself. And the music isn't background noise. It was created to take you somewhere. To help you remember. Feel. Release. Question. Grieve. Reclaim. Breathe. HOW IT WORKS Listen. Reflect. Write. Listen to the track. Then write a few honest lines about what comes up. No journaling expertise required, and there's no right way to do it. Just tell the truth about where you are in that moment. Then hear back from a voice that feels like your wiser self. Not therapy. Not advice. Not someone telling you what you should do. Just a thoughtful reflection on what you shared-and what it might reveal. WHAT YOU GET Eight guided themes for this chapter of life: Grief & Letting Go Reclaiming Your Identity Rediscovering Desire & Pleasure Facing the Changing Body The Courage to Start Over Learning to Trust Yourself Again Connection & Community Legacy & Purpose The Music Library Explore the whole collection anytime, organized by theme-so you can return to what meets you today, next month, or a year from now. Meditation Space Some days you don't want to think about anything. No prompts. No journaling. No self-improvement. Just immersive sound, stillness, and a place to breathe. Your Private Journal A personal space for your thoughts and reflections, organized by date or theme. What I Notice A gentle look at patterns across your recent reflections-things easy to miss day to day. Looking Back Bring your reflections around a particular theme together and see what has changed. Because sometimes you don't realize how far you've come until you look back. My Song Create a one-of-a-kind song inspired by the things you've shared in your reflections. Bring your story to life through music. Listen to it. Save it. Come back to it. Your story becomes music. ONE MORE THING: YOUR PRIVACY Your journal stays on your phone-not on our servers and not somewhere else waiting to be mined, sold, or used to target you. When you choose a reflection feature, what you write is securely sent to Anthropic's Claude to generate your response. That's it. No ads. No tracking. Nothing sold. THIS ISN'T THERAPY. It's a place to hear yourself think. Through music. Through reflection. Through stillness. Because after decades of taking care of everyone else, meeting expectations, keeping things together, and being who you needed to be... maybe it's time to get curious about who you are when you finally get to be you. Not who you were at 25. Not who you were supposed to become. Who you are now. Silver Rising is a place to pause long enough to hear what this version of you is trying to say. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Foundation Training3 screens
Silver Rising4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Silver Rising at 5.0 against Foundation Training's 4.4. Silver Rising also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and review sentiment (100% vs 68%). Foundation Training's advantage is ratings volume (87 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Foundation Training sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $27.99 per month and Silver Rising sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Silver Rising holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Foundation Training has 87 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Foundation Training's written reviews are positive against 100% of Silver Rising's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Foundation Training versus Silver Rising: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFoundation TrainingSilver Rising
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (87 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews68.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings87 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB772 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperFoundation Training, LLCCreation Fitness

Customer experience

Foundation Training

All ratings87 ratings
Positive81.6%
Neutral5.7%
Negative12.6%
Written reviews57 reviews
Positive68.4%
Neutral7.0%
Negative24.6%

Silver Rising

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Foundation Training

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • App crashes iPhone 13 Pro / iOS 16.5.1
  • Videos hang/buffer mid-workout
  • App freezes at title screen
  • Downloads are inoperable
  • Cannot create an account
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  • Invalid certificate error
  • App has no functionality
  • App signed up user for unwanted trial subscription
  • Removed a 14-week baseline program

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add a 'favorites' button on the home browse page
  • Link to Apple Health and Fitness app
  • More guidance for instructors' presentation style
  • Improve app functionality and stability
  • Make subscription process clearer
Show 1 more
  • Bring back sample workouts

Silver Rising

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Foundation Training

Subscriptions3
  • APP Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$27.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$27.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$199.991 Year
2 purchases

Silver Rising

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$49.99

Questions

Is Foundation Training free?
Foundation Training is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Silver Rising free?
Silver Rising is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Foundation Training or Silver Rising?
Silver Rising is rated higher. Foundation Training averages 4.4 out of 5 from 87 ratings, while Silver Rising averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Foundation Training or Silver Rising have ads?
Neither Foundation Training nor Silver Rising shows ads.

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