Comparison

Compex Coach vs thumbfulness

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

Head to head
About

Compex Coach

This app guides users in setting training objectives, planning sessions, and receiving reminders for their Compex device. It offers detailed instructions on electrode placement, intensity management, and program specifics for various fitness and recovery goals. Users can also share their progress with friends.

Highlights
  • Set training objectives
  • Plan Compex sessions
  • Reminders for sessions
  • Electrode placement guidance
  • Program details and explanations
  • Share sessions with friends
Features
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Compex Coach App will guide you to set up your objectives, it will help you to plan your training and remind you when to have your next Compex session. Also, you can easily share your sessions with your friends. Examples of objectives available*: - Prepare for a 10km, half-marathon, marathon - Prepare for a cycling race - Prepare for a triathlon - Improve your core stabilisation - Increase your muscle volume - Improve your strength - Treat your tendinopathy - Treat your cervical pain - Treat your contracture - Prevent cramps - Prevent low back pain - Tone your arms - Firm your thighs And many others... App features: - Find an objective that fits your needs (eg: Prepare for a marathon, triathlon or cycling race, Treat a back pain or tendinopathy, Increase your strength…) and set up the plan to reach it. - Show you the right electrode placements - Display precise images of electrodes placements and body position according to the programme - Explain how to manage the stimulation intensity according to the programme - Provide all the details for each Compex programme (description, usages, effects, stimulation intensity, electrode placements) - Explain how muscle stimulation works For more information on Compex product, please visit our website www.compex.com *Objectives availability related to the product ***This app doesn't control your Compex device, it is meant to be used as a standalone app***

About

thumbfulness

Features
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thumbfulness is a stillness timer. Rest a finger on a maximally darkened black screen and hold it for as long as your mind is quiet. The moment a thought arrives, lift. A huge pixel clock counts the hold; the lift drops it to zero and lands the time underneath as a lap. The practice is to make the laps longer — inside one sitting, and across the calendar. That is the whole app. There is nothing to configure before you start and nothing to read first. TWO MODES Two thumbs — the phone lands in your lap, held in landscape, both thumbs resting on the glass. One finger — the phone in portrait, on a table or a bed, any posture you like. They differ only in how many fingers the screen is waiting for. WHAT IT KEEPS Every sitting ends on a summary: the laps as a chart, the longest, the total held, and how much of the sitting was contact rather than thought. Give it a title and a note if you want one, or don't. History keeps every sitting. Progress draws the trend across a day, a week, a month, or all of it — a day you didn't sit is drawn as a gap rather than a zero, because a day off is not a failure. Your longest lap today and your longest lap ever sit under the clock while you hold. Passing either one is a single quiet haptic. Nothing else interrupts a sitting: no sound, no per-lap buzz, no notification. An app that congratulated you on a lift would be commenting on your thoughts, which is the one thing this one refuses to do. TWO THINGS IT DOES ON PURPOSE While a sitting runs, the screen goes to minimum brightness and will not auto-lock. Your brightness comes back when you lift, when you leave, and at the next launch if the app was killed before it could hand it back. While a sitting runs, the first swipe from a screen edge does not leave the app — a thumb resting near the bottom edge for ten minutes would otherwise send you home mid-sitting. A second, deliberate swipe leaves normally. FREE, AND STAYING FREE Everything above is free. There is no trial, no subscription, no locked mode, no history limit, and no ad. Nothing is ever unlocked by paying, because there is nothing to unlock. If you want to leave a tip, Settings has a jar. It buys nothing — no feature, no cosmetic, no removed limit — and it changes exactly one sentence of thanks. The app never asks; you have to go looking for it. PRIVACY No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no third-party SDKs, and nothing sent to us. Your sittings sync between your own devices through your private iCloud database, which we cannot read. iPhone, iOS 17 or later. Support: https://www.w3-digital.com/apps/thumbfulness/support/ Privacy: https://www.w3-digital.com/apps/thumbfulness/privacy/

Screenshots

Compex Coach4 screens
thumbfulness4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Compex Coach at none against thumbfulness's 4. Compex Coach also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. thumbfulness sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Compex Coach asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Compex Coach versus thumbfulness: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCompex Coachthumbfulness
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (277 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings277 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDJO, LLCW3 Digital

In-app purchases

None

Compex Coach

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

thumbfulness

One-time4
  • Small tip$0.99
  • Medium tip$2.99
  • Large tip$4.99
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  • Generous tip$9.99

Questions

Is Compex Coach free?
Compex Coach is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is thumbfulness free?
thumbfulness is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Compex Coach or thumbfulness have ads?
Neither Compex Coach nor thumbfulness shows ads.

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