Comparison

PF Panama vs Fermata

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

Head to head
About

PF Panama

Access your personal fitness account, use a digital key for easy gym check-ins, and stream exercise videos led by local instructors. Everything you need for your fitness journey is conveniently located in one app.

Highlights
  • Digital gym key for check-in
  • Exercise videos by Panama instructors
  • Access personal PF account
  • All-in-one fitness hub
Features
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Welcome to the Planet Fitness Panama app! Some awesome features including a digital key for quick and easy check-in, exercise videos led by Panama fitness instructors and access to your personal PF account all in one place.

About

Fermata

Features
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Fermata records how still your iPhone was during the minutes you mark, using the phone's own motion sensor, and draws that minute as a field of light. There is no score anywhere in it. A hold ends with one plain word (still, settling, drifting or scattering) and the minutes you held the phone. When the phone cannot read a moment, Fermata says so. If the trace shows the phone was resting on a table rather than held, the hold closes as "not read" and no reading is invented. An instrument that refuses is more useful than one that guesses. WHAT A HOLD IS Mark a moment. Hold your iPhone for one, three or five minutes. Fermata reads how steady the phone was while you held it, using the phone's own motion sensor, and draws that reading as a field of light that is yours alone. The reading is a shape, not a score. A steady minute comes out as a band of light with a hard bright edge. An unsteady one comes out as the same light with no edge anywhere. You can read it in greyscale, upside down, from across the room, which is the point: nothing about it needs decoding. There is no number, ever. No percentage, no grade, no verdict. One plain word and the minutes it took. WHAT FERMATA DOES - Reads device motion at 50 Hz while you hold the phone, in the foreground only, with no Motion and Fitness permission prompt and no system alert of any kind - Draws every reading with a Metal shader that runs on your iPhone's own GPU - Keeps a dated vertical record of your readings, newest at the top, so a week of minutes is one screen - Puts the latest reading on your Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy as a widget WHAT FERMATA NEVER DOES - No account, no server, no sync, no sign-in - Nothing leaves the device. There is no network on any path except the App Store purchase itself. Try it in Airplane Mode - No motion trace is ever stored, sent or shared - No charts, no trends, no weekly summaries, no advice Fermata is an instrument, not a health or therapy tool. It observes how steady a phone was and how long you held it. It makes no claim about your body or your mind. ON EVERY IPHONE, THE SAME PRODUCT The picture is drawn by the shader, on your iPhone, on every device that runs the app. There is no hardware tier that gets a better field and none that gets a lesser one. The single line of text under a reading is written on the device too. THE FREE TIER IS COMPLETE, NOT CRIPPLED One hold a day at full render fidelity, a real widget, a real share card and seven days of record. In the same field style, the picture a free user gets is byte-for-byte the picture a paying user gets. Every hold you take is kept at both tiers; the free limit is a display window, not a deletion. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Fermata offers 3 ways to unlock unlimited holds, the full record, every field style and a share card with no marque: - Monthly $4.99. Auto-renewing subscription, no free trial. - Annual $39.99/year. Auto-renewing subscription, 7-day free trial for new subscribers only. - Lifetime $89.99. One-time non-consumable purchase, no subscription. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew at the same price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew at any time in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited if you purchase a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://hadgerapps.github.io/fermata/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://hadgerapps.github.io/fermata/privacy/ From Hadger studio: privacy-first, on-device-only, no analytics. We make calm utilities.

Screenshots

PF Panama3 screens
Fermata4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PF Panama at none against Fermata's 3. PF Panama also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Fermata sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. PF Panama asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
PF Panama versus Fermata: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPF PanamaFermata
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPF Management Group Inc.Vassiliy Shmigirilov

In-app purchases

None

PF Panama

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Fermata

Subscriptions2
  • Fermata Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Fermata Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Fermata Lifetime$89.99

Questions

Is PF Panama free?
PF Panama is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fermata free?
Fermata is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PF Panama or Fermata have ads?
Neither PF Panama nor Fermata shows ads.

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