Open vs Bodywise Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Open
This app offers guided breathwork, meditation, and movement classes designed by experts to regulate your nervous system and promote personal growth. Access an extensive library of content for stress reduction, improved focus, and enhanced well-being anytime, anywhere.
- Guided breathwork techniques
- Daily meditation sessions
- Mindful movement classes
- Progress tracking and reminders
- Expert-designed methodology
- Extensive content library
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“We believe that mindfulness is more than a form of stress relief — it can be a tool for personal growth, deeper understanding, vibrancy. More than a way to disconnect — it can be a way to feel a part of something bigger. More than simply silence — it can be immersive, beautiful, moving.” –Raed Khawaja, Open Co-founder & CEO Regulate your nervous system with Open. Bridge science and spirituality to cleanse your body and mind. Learn breathwork, meditation, and movement techniques designed by experts in neurobiology. Practice on the app and in-person at our flagship studio in Los Angeles. CLASSES BREATHE: Since the dawn of civilization, humans have developed techniques for manipulating our breath to induce desired states of consciousness. Now peer-reviewed studies in neuroscience and psychology confirm that breathwork is a powerful toolkit for regulating your nervous system, optimizing your health and well-being, and catalyzing personal transformation. Breathwork is an umbrella term for myriad practices, both ancient and modern. While many techniques are deeply rooted in spiritual traditions like Yoga, Qi Gong, and Buddhism, contemporary applications integrate ancient wisdom with modern science.This synthesis of ancient and modern has given rise to transformational breathwork, designed to induce profound experiences of catharsis, insight, and breakthrough. Experience a mental reset with just a few minutes of conscious breathing. MEDITATE: Train your awareness and contemplate wisdom – with techniques that span generations, cultures, and traditions – with our daily meditations and monthly programs. Learn how to enhance your focus, reduce your stress and anxiety, and regulate your emotions with simple mindfulness techniques you can incorporate into your daily life. MOVE: Our methodology is designed through the intelligence of fitness – blending endurance, strength, mobility, and recovery – with the wisdom of mindfulness. A ritual for resilience, strengthening the body and mind. ANYTIME, ANYWHERE: Practice on your time with our endless library, with fresh classes added daily. From simple 5-minute breathwork techniques, to 60-minute strength and conditioning classes, build your practice to fit your schedule and meet your goals. Whether you’re starting your journey or seeking a new challenge, there are classes for every level and mood. PROGRESS TRACKING: Create a daily habit that sticks with progress tracking, push reminders, streaks, and badges. A consistent breathwork and meditation practice has proven to reduce cortisol levels and regulate the nervous system–decreasing stress, supporting emotional well-being, and enhancing mental clarity. These techniques can also improve physical health by increasing heart rate variability, promoting cardiovascular health, and boosting immune function. CONNECT WITH US Questions? Email us: support@o-p-e-n.com. Follow along on Instagram: @op_e___n. NOTES Data: Open reads and writes data to the Apple Health App to help you track your Mindful minutes. No data is being sent outside of your device. This is optional. Pricing info: This pricing is for our customers in the United States. Pricing in other countries may vary. Your subscription to Open will automatically renew, unless you disable auto-renew at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can turn off auto-renew or manage your subscription from your Apple account settings. Payment will be charged to your Apple account. You can read more about our terms of service here: https://o-p-e-n.com/terms and our privacy policy here: https://o-p-e-n.com/privacy. GooGhywoiu9839t543j0s7543uw1 - please add peter@o-p-e-n.com to GA account of property 199812543 - date 08/06/2026.
Bodywise Studio
This app offers a sanctuary for mind-body fitness and embodiment rituals. It blends educational and experiential elements to foster an intuitive relationship with exercise, prioritizing nourishment and self-empowerment. Discover a growing library of workouts and sync your movement with your menstrual cycle.
- Mind-body workouts
- Embodiment rituals
- Livestream classes
- On-demand library (250+ workouts)
- Cycle syncing for movement
- Weekly curated guides
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Welcome to Bodywise by Claudia Germuga — your digital sanctuary of mind-body workouts + embodiment rituals designed to spark inner and outer transformation. Bodywise is a mindful movement and somatic healing modality created to foster your most attuned and intuitive relationship with exercise. This space is meant to be your home base – where we are never *just working out* but rather, blending the educational and the experiential into a mind-body experience that enhances the way you relate to and inhabit yourself on and off your mat. Bodywise was developed to flip the script on rigid exercise regimens in favor of centering the question: What will nourish me today? By prioritizing attunement to the body and inner experience, learn to intuitively offer yourself rituals that promote harmonious health, self-empowerment and trust in your individualized wellbeing routine. Inside the studio you’ll discover an abundance of sequences developed to strengthen your body, expand your awareness, and liberate your authentic self-expression. With techniques ranging from resistance training, pilates, and embodied movement to breathwork, meditation, and well-being you’ll cultivate a movement practice that feels medicinal, no matter what feeling or circumstance may be unfolding for you. Break up with restrictive and rigid wellness routines that keep you feeling stressed or stuck and nurture a truly harmonious relationship with your being. Awaken your felt sense, become fluent in your body’s language, and develop your ability to find home within yourself. Are you ready to become Bodywise? LIVESTREAM CLASSES Interactive, livestream classes offered each week to cultivate presence, body awareness and athleticism alongside a safe and heart-centered community in Bodywise’s signature class formats: Embody, Sculpt, Sweat, Glide and Condition. ON-DEMAND Access to skillfully guided classes with a growing library of 250+ mind-body workouts and embodiment rituals, ranging from resistance training and pilates to breathwork, meditation, and more restorative well-being techniques. New content added weekly. SYNC MOVEMENT + YOUR MENSTRUAL CYCLE As a menstruator, hormones (and therefore mood and energy levels) are constantly fluctuating throughout the month. Cycle synching your movement practice is an excellent way to attune with your cyclical nature + honor your body. All Bodywise practices are categorized based on the phases of the menstrual cycle. Start to find your own rhythm and optimize your hormones by sweating during your Follicular Phase, channeling your power in the Ovulatory Phase, grounding and slowing down during your Luteal Phase, and replenishing during your Menstrual Phase. WEEKLY GUIDES Two curated pathways of recommended classes are released weekly to support your movement practice. Choose the (Expansive) Guide when your energy is high and you’re looking to expand your limits or choose the (Nourishing) Guide when your body is asking for practices that feel more medicinal. ABOUT CLAUDIA Claudia is a New York City based movement instructor and certified breathwork + meditation facilitator. Her career as a professional contemporary dancer alongside her studies in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Integrative Somatic Therapy have made her a lifelong student of the body, ignited her exploration of holistic + somatic healing, as well as shaped her devotion to sharing the ways our physiology often reveals our psychology. Deeply passionate about translating the subtle language of the body and expanding clients’ body literacy, Claudia empowers and educates those on the journey of reclaiming body trust, finding mental and physical flow, and feeling radically at home within themselves. “Claudia is such a bright, brilliant guider! Her classes test your strength while also giving you permission to listen to your own body and needs. Love her energy!” “Challenging and exciting. Stimulating on all levels!”
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Verdict
Open and Bodywise Studio both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Bodywise Studio's written reviews are positive against 60% of Open's. Bodywise Studio also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). Open's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (18K vs 1). On price, rating, 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. Open sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Bodywise Studio asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Open against 5.0 for Bodywise Studio. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Open has 18K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of Open's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bodywise Studio's.
Open ships an update weekly, Bodywise Studio every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Open | Bodywise Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (18K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 317 MB | 126 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Open Inc. | Sutra Fitness, Inc. |
Customer experience
Open
Bodywise Studio
Bugs and requests
Open
Reported bugs
3 issues- Subscription not showing in Apple account
- Inability to cancel subscription
- Unexpected charges after cancellation
Requested features
5 requests- Offline mode for classes
- More free content options
- Apple Watch app integration
- Better search and discovery
- Progress tracking and analytics
Bodywise Studio
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Open
- Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$19.991 Month
- Annual Subscription14 Days trial$149.991 Year
Bodywise Studio
No in-app purchases
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