Eight Minute Abs vs Random Abs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Eight Minute Abs
This app provides a quick core strength workout using a series of randomly selected abdominal exercises. Each exercise is performed for one minute, with a timer and vibration to signal transitions. It's designed for efficient core training to start or end your day.
- Randomized ab exercises
- One-minute exercise intervals
- Timer and vibration alerts
- Core strength focus
- Quick daily workouts
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Eight Minute Abs is a quick little workout app for core strength fitness. Start the timer and do each randomly selected Ab Exercise for One Minute. When the buzzer sounds and the phone vibrates at the end of each minute, check the phone for the next Core Strength building exercise and start again. 8 Minute Periods of Core Abdominal / Core workouts are great ways to start the day, or to end it to promote Core Strength. Give it a try and get in shape!
Random Abs
This app provides unique daily ab workout routines, varying exercises, reps, and sets each day. It includes exercise demonstrations and a history tracker. An optional cloud account syncs progress across devices.
- Daily randomized ab routines
- Exercise demos and descriptions
- Completed routine history
- Built-in stopwatch
- No account required
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FREE, daily, ab exercises routines! NO ADS either. We think you'll be pleasantly surprised ;-) Variety is the key to motivation and success. Random Abs was built around this idea. We generate a new ab routine each day from a large pool of exercises. Which exercises, the quantity of exercises, the reps for each exercise, AND the number of sets varies in each routine. • Daily ab routines • Demos and descriptions for each exercise • Maintains your completed routine history for you • No account necessary • Optional (and free) accounts to keep your history safely in the cloud for using between devices • Built-in stopwatch for timed exercises like Planks • Crunches, planks, Russian twists, and more! We want Random Abs to be a useful tool for you and we care what you think. Please send us through our contact form on our website your ideas, suggestions, complaints, bugs, or praise you may have.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Random Abs at none against Eight Minute Abs's 1. Random Abs also leads on ratings volume (660 vs 8) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Eight Minute Abs sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Random Abs asks for nothing beyond the download.
Random Abs holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Random Abs has 660 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Eight Minute Abs's written reviews are positive against 95% of Random Abs's.
Eight Minute Abs ships an update every 2 weeks, Random Abs every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Eight Minute Abs | Random Abs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (8 ratings) | 4.9 (660 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 95.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 660 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.4 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Elliott Williams | Hammock LLC |
Customer experience
Eight Minute Abs
Random Abs
Bugs and requests
Eight Minute Abs
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Random Abs
Reported bugs
1 issue- Plank timer went missing with update
Requested features
3 requests- Adjustable overall difficulty
- Timer for breaks between sets
- Option to select/deselect exercises
In-app purchases
Eight Minute Abs
- Eight Min Abs Basic Membership$4.991 Month
Random Abs
No in-app purchases
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