Comparison

MoveHealth vs Firstlight

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

Head to head
About

MoveHealth

This app provides personalized exercise programs and educational content tailored to your health needs. It tracks your progress and survey results, offering real-time insights and connecting you with your healthcare provider for an effective rehabilitation journey.

Highlights
  • Personalized exercise programs
  • Educational content
  • Health surveys
  • Exercise completion tracking
  • Real-time progress visualization
  • Reminder notifications
  • Today's schedule
Features
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MoveHealth is an advanced exercise prescription app offering personalised exercise programs, educational content, and surveys, all tailored to your health needs. The app tracks your exercise completion and survey results to present real-time progress in a user-friendly and engaging way. Additional features include reminder notifications and "today's schedule". With MoveHealth, you stay connected to your healthcare provider, ensuring that your rehabilitation journey is both effective and efficient. Available to patients receiving care plans from providers using MoveHealth.

About

Firstlight

Features
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Most anxiety apps hand you a technique. Firstlight explains the machine first — because a tool you understand works better than one you're using on faith. For over ten years I sat with people in the middle of it. Heart going, mind three steps ahead, certain something was seriously wrong. The thing that helped most was almost never a new technique. It was the moment someone understood what their body was doing, and why their thoughts were running the way they were. The same explanations landed, over and over, with people who had nothing else in common. That's what this is. Those explanations, in order, at your own pace. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Why your heart races, your chest tightens, your stomach drops — and what each of those sensations is actually for. The four survival responses, and which one is yours. Why your thoughts speed up and where they run to. How the anxiety loop forms and where it can be interrupted. What to do in the moment, and what to do in the quiet weeks in between. How the beliefs you formed years ago still run the pattern now, and how to rewrite them. Written the way you'd explain it to someone you cared about. WHAT'S INSIDE 22 levels, worked through at your own pace Calm Now — breathing and grounding for when it's already happening A Toolkit that fills as you go: interactive tools and reference cards you keep A playbook you write yourself — your triggers, your early warning signs, your first move, in your own words THERE'S AN END TO IT Most apps in this category are built to keep you. This one isn't — the point is to reach the end and walk away understanding something you didn't before, carrying words you wrote yourself. FREE AND PAID Levels 1 to 5 are free. That's enough to know whether this is for you. The full journey is one payment — no subscription, no renewal, yours to keep. IT STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Everything you write stays on your phone. No account, no sign-up, no servers, nothing collected. Works offline. WHEN YOU NEED MORE THAN AN APP Crisis support numbers are one tap from the home screen and from Calm Now. Firstlight is education, not treatment, and it isn't a substitute for professional support.

Screenshots

MoveHealth4 screens
Firstlight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MoveHealth at none against Firstlight's 1. Firstlight's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Firstlight sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MoveHealth asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MoveHealth ships an update monthly, Firstlight weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
MoveHealth versus Firstlight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMoveHealthFirstlight
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews10.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB9 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperVald Performance Pty LtdAPERTURE STUDIO LIMITED

Bugs and requests

MoveHealth

Reported bugs

126 issues
  • Password requirements too complicated
  • Doesn't record multiple sessions
  • Marked complete exercise inaccessible
  • Keeps dropping out
  • Password needs changing all the time
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  • Giving error messages about passwords not matching
  • Videos don't play
  • Sessions aren't logged
  • Email links to App Store don't load in app
  • App is up to date but doesn't work
  • Audio track is played repeatedly
  • Shutting down app messes up set tracking
  • Asked for email/password, said wrong password
  • No email for password reset
  • No ability to correct mistakes
  • Font is way too small
  • Intuitive user interface is confusing and badly designed
  • Images zoom into the center of the image
  • Hierarchy of the text is very weak
  • UI and UX doesn't feel designed with user in mind
  • Constantly having to confirm decisions
  • App asks for every bit of personal data
  • Cannot skip an exercise
  • Cannot edit an exercise
  • Cannot change the order of exercises
  • Clicking on exercise 2 in superset bumps to exercise 1
  • Wastes time clicking through superset
  • Unable to edit results
  • Profile does not exist error
  • No audio on videos
  • Lost paid for exercises after app merger
  • Recording is buggy and not accurate
  • Does not record in results
  • Option to record retrospectively does not work
  • Videos hardly ever load
  • Impossible to keep track of completion
  • Cannot get past the log in page
  • Critical error on login page
  • Unable to access account
  • No contact numbers to reach out to
  • Forgot password emails not received
  • Support email bounces back
  • Cannot see how many sessions completed vs remaining
  • Cannot ramp up reps
  • Cannot skip exercises
  • Completion should be auto set to 0 with commentary
  • Doesn't retain completion status and notes when jumping between exercises
  • Unable to mark the session complete without stepping through each exercise
  • Physio can't see notes
  • Video controls are annoying (no loop)
  • Session should tell you what equipment you need
  • 2nd session of the day is often not saved
  • First session of the day is often not saved
  • Unable to delete account
  • App signed out and redirected to webpage to log back in
  • Won't bring up keyboard to input email
  • Unresponsive and utterly useless login
  • Videos don't play
  • Feedback server is down
  • Cannot directly leave a review (server not available)
  • No ability to manage or see what app has access to
  • No ability to turn off background activity or mobile data
  • Lost all progress after app wouldn't load
  • Ability to mark off individual sets missing
  • Ability to go back and mark off prior days exercises missing
  • Reminders by set per day missing
  • Ability for patient to set up own program or 'extra' sets missing
  • Ability to log measurements of flexibility missing
  • No keyboard appears to type email address
  • Needs a noise for remaining seconds of counting
  • Difficulty repeating an exercise already marked completed
  • App refuses to allow repeating exercise
  • App is not consistent in recording completed sessions
  • No option to correct reps
  • Font is very small
  • App fails to use standard technology to save passwords
  • iOS cannot remember passwords due to different domain name
  • App won't authenticate
  • No support available
  • Keeps prompting for password even after changed
  • Cannot see KOOS scoring after survey, just says 'completed'
  • Tried for three days to log in
  • Support is slow and hasn't helped
  • Signs me out every second day
  • Doesn't remember email address
  • App won't save exercise progress
  • Cannot do 1 rep and go to another exercise
  • Error: 'Request retry failed with retry error: Response could not be serialized'
  • Only have access to old programs after changing physio
  • Videos show 20 seconds of nothing, then one tiny clip
  • Cannot access current program with different physio practice
  • Keeps reverting to old program
  • Lack of support
  • Videos take 5-6 seconds to load
  • App is very simple
  • Cannot set reminders to specific times
  • Cannot choose to see missed sessions on summary screen
  • Instruction videos not loading
  • Feedback submission fails
  • Logging in issues
  • Slow app
  • Painful to use
  • Stopped working
  • No response from help email
  • Fails to login at the beginning
  • Fails to save session at the end
  • Entire session is lost
  • Can't log in anymore
  • App seems to be down
  • Not working since latest update
  • Start button is unresponsive
  • Exercises prescribed don't show
  • No way of searching for physio
  • Can't change notifications
  • Cannot set reminder after work shift
  • Videos don't work anymore
  • Renders the app pretty useless
  • Easier to log in to bank
  • Server with the specified host name could not be found
  • Failed to parse JSON response
  • Error code 403
  • Doesn't let you log in
  • Low res videos
  • Reps timer has no indication when reps are ending
  • Camera to record yourself is stuck to side on
  • Stopped working after one week

Requested features

28 requests
  • Ability to add notes retrospectively
  • Add feature to back enter exercise completion
  • Ability to mark off individual sets
  • Ability to go back and mark off prior days exercises
  • Reminders by set per day
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  • Patient to set up own program or 'extra' sets
  • Ability to log measurements of flexibility
  • App for Apple Watches
  • Allow setting of exercise reminders
  • Show missed sessions on summary screen
  • Option to correct reps
  • Option to correct mistakes on task/session
  • Ability to delete/edit mistakes
  • Allow setting of reminder times
  • Option to see KOOS scoring number
  • Make login easier for older people
  • Remember email address
  • Loop video controls
  • Show equipment needed before session
  • Ability to mark session complete without stepping through each exercise
  • Allow users to skip exercises with a reason
  • Ramp up reps feature
  • See how many sessions completed vs remaining
  • Basic intro to app usage
  • Allow users to edit/change order of exercises
  • Ability to skip exercises
  • Ability to edit exercises
  • Ability to change order of exercises

Firstlight

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

MoveHealth

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Firstlight

One-time1
  • Full Journey$22.99

Questions

Is MoveHealth free?
MoveHealth is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Firstlight free?
Firstlight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MoveHealth or Firstlight have ads?
Neither MoveHealth nor Firstlight shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MoveHealth or Firstlight?
MoveHealth ships an update monthly, and Firstlight weekly. Most recently, MoveHealth was updated on October 29, 2026 and Firstlight on October 19, 2026.

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