GetUp! vs Xera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GetUp!
This fitness platform helps you track daily activities, monitor body metrics, and access over 2000 exercises with 3D demonstrations. Create custom workouts or use presets to guide your fitness journey and earn badges.
- Class schedule and opening hours
- Daily fitness activity tracking
- Weight and body metric tracking
- 2000+ exercises with 3D demos
- Preset and custom workouts
- Progress tracking
- Badge earning system
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PLEASE NOTE: YOU NEED A GetUp! ACCOUNT TO ACCESS THIS APP. IF YOU'RE A MEMBER GET IT FOR FREE AT YOUR GYM! Begin your journey to a healthier lifestyle and let GetUp! help you along the way. Introducing GetUp!, most comprehensive fitness platform with: Check class schedules and opening hours Track your daily fitness activities Track your weight and other body metrics Over 2000+ exercises and activities Clear 3D exercise demonstrations Preset workouts and the option to create your own Over 150 badges to earn Select workouts online and synchronize them with your app to workout at home or in the gym while keeping track of your progress. From strength to weight lifting, this app acts as your own personal trainer guiding and giving you the motivation you need. You can sync this app with Apple Health App. If you enable this connection, any workout in the Health app with automatically be added to your Activity Calendar.
Xera
This strength training application helps users consistently lift weights, meticulously track each set, manage rest periods, and visualize their fitness progress. Users can select from pre-made workout templates or create personalized routines, logging their performance directly from their mobile device.
- Strength training tracking
- Workout template library
- Custom routine builder
- Set and rep logging
- Rest timer management
- Progress visualization
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Xera is a free strength training app built around better programs, meaningful goals, and effortless workout tracking. Put your personalized training routine on autopilot: build a Workout Program from your own saved workouts, set your schedule, and let Xera guide you through what’s next. Automatic strength progression advances your training weight as you reach your rep targets, while goals keep the lifts that matter most in focus and track your progress across every workout. Log weights, reps, sets, and rest quickly from your phone, Apple Watch, or Garmin watch. Powerful watch-based workout tracking is often locked behind a subscription—Xera makes it available for free, so you can stay focused on training instead of your screen. Find exercises fast with search by name, equipment, and muscle group.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Xera at every 8 days against GetUp!'s every 3 months. Xera also leads on ratings volume (13 vs 4). 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 — 4.8 for GetUp! against 4.9 for Xera. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 13 respectively.
GetUp! ships an update every 3 months, Xera every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GetUp! | Xera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) | 4.9 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 213 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GetUp! | William Hunt |
Customer experience
GetUp!
Xera
In-app purchases
GetUp!
No in-app purchases
Xera
No in-app purchases









