GritCycle vs StriveWeekly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GritCycle
Experience high-intensity, full-body indoor cycling classes set to music. This app connects you to a fitness community focused on empowerment and supporting local charities.
- High-intensity cycling classes
- Full-body workouts
- Music-driven choreography
- Fitness community
- Charity support
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GritCycle is a premium indoor cycling boutique with four locations in Southern California. They offer high-intensity, full-body cycling classes, during which clients follow choreography set to music, taking them out of their fitness comfort zone and creating a community based on empowering each other. Giving back to the community has always been at the core of GritCycle believes in, and they believe that community is stronger, together. Both in the studio and out, the team strives to create an atmosphere focused on empowering each other, along with supporting local charities and organizations.
StriveWeekly
This program helps students build better habits through weekly lessons and practice activities. It covers topics like time management, stress coping, and physical exercise, fostering a sense of community among campus users. Discover your values and priorities while improving your well-being.
- Weekly habit-building lessons
- Campus-specific courses
- Practice activities
- Value and priority sorting
- Social support and community
- Stress coping and time management
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StriveWeekly is a wellness and habit change program offered to students through their campus. Is YOUR campus signed up for StriveWeekly? If so, download the app and get started! Not sure? Enter your school email and the app will tell you right away. StriveWeekly courses are curated for each campus with lessons about habits like time management, social life, stress coping, procrastination, physical exercise, sleep, conflict management, and more. This program also helps you sort out your values, priorities, and sense of self. Every week you will open a new lesson. Then you try out new habits through practice activities on the app and in real life throughout the week. All student users from your campus will be following the same week-by-week lessons, so you'll be in it together. Better yet, get some friends to sign up with you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: GritCycle at 5.1K against StriveWeekly's 2. StriveWeekly's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 4 weeks) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for GritCycle against 5.0 for StriveWeekly. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GritCycle has 5.1K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
GritCycle ships an update every 4 weeks, StriveWeekly every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GritCycle | StriveWeekly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5.1K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5.1K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Mariana Tek Corporation | Strive Weekly Inc |
Customer experience
GritCycle
StriveWeekly
In-app purchases
GritCycle
No in-app purchases
StriveWeekly
No in-app purchases
