WAVE5® vs April Plank Pilates
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WAVE5®
This app provides guided video sessions for muscle and joint care, targeting over 25 body regions. It offers personalized self-care routines based on your pain points and tracks your progress. Rediscover your body's natural balance with expert-led techniques.
- Expert-led muscle and joint care videos
- Targets over 25 body regions
- Customizable self-care paths
- Tutorials on self-care techniques
- Post-session recommendations
- Muscle hydration history tracking
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WAVE5®: Compass addresses your body’s imbalances so you can live your best life. Our short, instructive videos give you knowledge and power to target pain and improve performance in over 25 body regions. Compass provides scores of expert-led, customizable muscle and joint care sessions. The WAVE5 app works together with the WAVE5 multi-tool to enable you to respond to pain and discomfort in muscles and joints when you need it. Rediscover your natural balance through our interactive, personalized experience. Compass guides your personalized self-care experience. WAVE5 techniques offer a unique approach to self-applied pressure to help relieve muscle and joint pain. Predicated on self-myofascial release, our step-by-step videos target the muscles affected by–and contributing to–your imbalance. Muscular Imbalances typically have more than one cause, so we offer multiple paths to help you find—and ultimately target—the source. Not every path is intuitive and many times requires focusing outside of the targeted area and into another. Our post-session feedback asks how you feel, and our post-session recommendations take the guesswork out of your next steps. We navigate the journey around your body from one ache or pain to another. Compass makes your self-muscle care convenient. Our easy interface asks you to point to the muscle or joint where you hurt. Then, you will learn how to hydrate that muscle or joint from the inside out to relieve the pain. Set up your profile, and we record your Muscle Hydration® history so you can keep track of your progress. If you run out of time while targeting an area, our “Continue Previous Muscle Hydration” option allows you to work into and around your busy schedule. We are your on demand self-muscle care when you need it most. Features: • Offers expert-led muscle and joint care videos • Targets over 25 body regions • Customizes the path around your body to reduce aches and pains • Provides tutorials on self-care techniques • Gives post-session recommendations on where to target next • Stores history of user muscle hydration Terms of Use : https://iqbody.com/terms-of-use/
April Plank Pilates
Access on-demand Pilates workouts for reformer, chair, tower, jumpboard, and mat. Designed by an experienced instructor to help you build strength, energy, and balance.
- On-demand Pilates workouts
- Reformer, chair, tower, jumpboard, mat exercises
- Designed for strength and balance
- Experienced NCPT instructor
- Suitable for daily practice
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On-demand pilates workouts using the reformer, chair, tower, jumpboard, and mat. My workouts are designed to help you feel stronger, leaner, energized, balanced, and empowered. Hi Everyone and Welcome to April Plank Pilates. I started teaching Pilates over 20 years ago and have helped hundreds of clients reach their health and fitness goals. I am a NCPT (nationally certified Pilates teacher) and have a MS in both Exercise Science and Health Enhancement and Appraisal. I’m a lifelong athlete and use my background as a former gymnast, college athlete, fitness instructor, marathoner, and personal trainer to build fun, effective, creative Pilates workouts. I love sharing my passion for Pilates with others and I hope you enjoy doing my workouts as much as I enjoy teaching them. I hope these videos inspire you to make Pilates a part of your daily life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: April Plank Pilates at none against WAVE5®'s 2. WAVE5®'s advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ratings volume, 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. WAVE5® sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. April Plank Pilates asks for nothing beyond the download.
WAVE5® holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of WAVE5®'s written reviews are positive against 80% of April Plank Pilates's.
WAVE5® ships an update fortnightly, April Plank Pilates every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WAVE5® | April Plank Pilates |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (17 ratings) — better | 4.7 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 121 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | IQBody LLC | Sutra Fitness, Inc. |
Customer experience
WAVE5®
April Plank Pilates
In-app purchases
WAVE5®
- Monthly subscription$1.991 Month
- Annual Subscription$19.991 Year
April Plank Pilates
No in-app purchases
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