Active Pause vs Exercise at Your Desk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Active Pause
This app offers guided office workouts and stretches to combat sedentary work. It features voice guidance, custom routines, and challenges to improve physical well-being and reduce stress. Earn trophies by burning calories to unlock more exercises.
- Guided office workouts
- Voice and sound guidance
- Customizable routines
- Weight tracking
- 7-28 day challenges
- Specific body part focus
- Trophy-based unlocking
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Exercise is an important part of a healthy lifestyle because it prevents health problems, develops resistance, provides more energy and helps to reduce stress. With our app you can prevent health problems due to repetitive work or prolonged static positions in your workplace. You can do exercise anywhere you wish, no equipment needed. With text to speech engine included, you can perform the entire workout without interrupting the exercise. Additionally, you can activate a sound guide per second for best rhythm in the exercises. Each exercise contains an illustrative detail to facilitate their execution. It has warm-up workout and final stretch workout to improve training results. Additionally, we have the option to create custom workouts or custom the workouts that the app provide. All workouts are made by professionals and you can do them in the comfort of your home. You start your training with 200 trophies, and you can earn more burning calories. Trophies helps you to unlock more workouts. Some features are: * Weight control: Track your weight within the application. * Challenges: You can challenge yourself with challenges of 7, 14, 21 or 28 days. * General Pauses: These are exercise routines that help you to mobilize different parts of the body. * Visual pause: Helps you rest your eyes by preventing irritated eyes and visual fatigue. * Hands: Helps prevent diseases such as carpal tunnel. * Neck: Focuses on movements and stretches for the neck. * Hip: Helps you mobilize the middle and lower body. * Shoulders: Mainly mobilize the arms and shoulders. * Abdomen and back: Helps you prevent back pain. * As a couple: Helps to integrate work teams while preventing occupational diseases. * In a chair: This short break helps you exercise and mobilize your body without further interruption of work tasks. Terms and conditions: https://movilixa.com/eula-pausas-activas/ Privacy policies: https://movilixa.com/politica-privacidad-pausas-activas/ Before starting your routine remember: Ask your doctor to let you know the best exercise for your physical condition. Get hydrated before, during and after physical exercise.
Exercise at Your Desk
Perform simple exercises and stretches at your desk to combat the negative health effects of prolonged sitting. This app offers routines for muscle strengthening and short bursts of aerobic activity without requiring much space or time.
- Desk exercises
- Stretching routines
- Muscle strengthening
- Short aerobic bursts
- Combats prolonged sitting
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We’ll take you through simple exercises that you can try right there at your desk and without taking up too much. Exercise is clearly beneficial in so many aspects of our lives, including our jobs. Don't forget that sitting for prolonged hours is actually harmful to your health. You can do stretching, muscle-strengthening, and even short stints of aerobic exercises right at your desk.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Active Pause at 50% against Exercise at Your Desk's 0%. Active Pause also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.7). Exercise at Your Desk's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, 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. Active Pause sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month and Exercise at Your Desk sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Active Pause holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Active Pause's written reviews are positive against 0% of Exercise at Your Desk's.
| Parameter | Active Pause | Exercise at Your Desk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | MoviliXa SAS | Fitric |
Customer experience
Active Pause
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In-app purchases
Active Pause
- Premium one month$0.491 Month
- Premium 3 months$0.993 Months
- Premium 6 months$1.496 Months
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- Premium one year$1.991 Year
- One year Ad-free version$1.99
- Three years Ad-free version$3.99
- Lifetime Ad-free version$4.99
Exercise at Your Desk
- Remove ads$0.99
- Stretching Exercises$1.99
- Exercises for Beginners$1.99
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- Relieve Back Pain$1.99
- Mind & Body Relaxation$1.99
- HIIT Workout for Stress Relief$1.99
- Lower Body Stretches$1.99
- Plank Variation Exercises$1.99
- Good Posture in 30 Days$1.99
- Full Bundle$4.99
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