Brolift vs Empatica Care Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brolift
Easily track your gym workouts, log sets and reps, and plan future sessions. Share custom workouts with friends and sync your heart rate and calorie data from Apple HealthKit.
- Track gym workouts
- Log weight and reps
- Create custom workouts
- Share workouts with friends
- Apple HealthKit syncing
- Sync heart rate and calories
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At the gym and want to track your sick workout as you lift? Or you have already created a workout ahead of time and want to just enter in your weight and reps. Maybe you just got done with your workout and didn't bring your phone. You're in the right place! Track your workouts now! Planning on going to the gym later today and are looking for an easy way to have your reps and sets ready for you? Or you want to create some workouts to share with your friends. You're in the right place! Create a workout for yourself or share it with your friends. Once you are done working out you can now sync your heart rate and calories into your workout via Apple HealthKit Syncing from the Apple Health App.
Empatica Care Lab
This app facilitates the collection and secure upload of data from a wearable device to a cloud platform for academic and institutional research. It offers live system status checks, continuous data streaming, and smart troubleshooting to ensure research integrity.
- Live system status check
- Automated wearable data streaming
- Wearing time indicator
- Smart troubleshooting
- Secure, de-identified login
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The Care Lab App is part of Empatica’s research ecosystem for academic and institutional research and longitudinal studies. The app uploads data collected from the EmbracePlus wearable to the Cloud, so it can be accessed by researchers. Key features include: Live status check of the system Continuous, automated EmbracePlus data streaming Wearing time indicator to safeguard adherence Smart troubleshooting and notifications Easy onboarding for EmbracePlus Secure, de-identified login credentials The Care Lab App is intended for research use only and should not be used as part of diagnostic or clinical procedures. Care Lab is not intended for medical or diagnostic purposes. Always seek the doctor’s advice if you feel unwell. Care Lab should never be used to make medical or diagnostics decisions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Empatica Care Lab at 100% against Brolift's 0%. Empatica Care Lab also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Brolift's advantage is rating (4.2 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Brolift holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Brolift's written reviews are positive against 100% of Empatica Care Lab's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Brolift ships an update every 2 weeks, Empatica Care Lab monthly. The most recent releases landed on July 27, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brolift | Empatica Care Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 199 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | max Studener | Empatica |
Customer experience
Brolift
Empatica Care Lab
In-app purchases
Brolift
No in-app purchases
Empatica Care Lab
No in-app purchases
