BumptUp vs Expecting and Empowered
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BumptUp
This app offers evidence-based physical activity guidance for pregnant and postpartum women. It provides customizable workout plans, symptom tracking, and educational content to support a healthy journey through pregnancy and recovery.
- Customizable workout plans
- Video demonstrations
- Prenatal yoga
- Symptom tracking journal
- Weight and calorie tracker
- Postpartum recovery programming
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BumptUp provides safe, effective, inclusive evidence-based physical activity guidance to pregnant & postpartum women. BumptUp offers features designed by certified exercise professionals, and will help guide you through a healthy pregnancy and postpartum journey. Workout on your terms. Follow your exercise plan on a week-by-week or day-by-day basis. Our app will provide suggested workouts for you. Each plan is different and customizable to help you stay strong during pregnancy and recover from delivery. Document it. Document your pregnancy symptoms for easy reference. When your doctor asks about symptoms, you will be ready to provide a detailed breakdown at each appointment. Information at a glance. Review your weekly exercise summary and daily dietary goals with the overview feature. By seeing each overview, you can quickly see how many minutes of exercise for each week and how many calories are left for each day. Postpartum Programming After the baby is born, BumptUp® does not forget about mom! Starting at four weeks post-delivery, our app will guide moms through twelve weeks of workouts. Our goal is to help you transition back to being active (with the baby in tow)! FEATURES: - Suggested workouts that meet you where you are - Video demonstrations - Prenatal yoga - Mommy & Me exercises - Tracker for weight and calories - Journal to document symptoms, exercises and meals in one place - Physical activity education - Nutrition education - Symptom tracking Terms of Use: https://bumptupapp.com/website-terms-of-use/
Expecting and Empowered
This app offers expertly designed at-home workouts for pregnant and postpartum mothers. It provides safe, effective, and manageable fitness plans tailored to each week of your journey, requiring minimal equipment and time.
- Pregnancy strength training
- Postpartum strength training (vaginal & C-section)
- Return to running programs
- Core strengthening series
- Prenatal and postpartum yoga
- Workout scheduling
- Community support
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The best at home workout app for pregnant and postpartum moms is waiting for you. All the workouts you need are waiting for you inside the Expecting and Empowered app! Expertly created by a women's health physical therapist and a personal trainer, Expecting and Empowered has safe and effective workouts to take the guesswork out of your fitness routine in motherhood. Whether you're trying to conceive, pregnant, or postpartum - we have programs for you! With easy to follow workout plans that will take you week by week through your pregnancy or postpartum journey, you can find manageable and efficient workouts you can do at home or the gym inside the app. Designed to be done in just 30 minutes or less with minimal equipment, moms love the Expecting and Empowered App. With built in accountability challenges, supportive community and moms just like you - you'll find encouragement like no other. Find workouts you'll love, including: -Pregnancy Strength Training -Postpartum Strength Training - both vaginal and C-section delivery -Elevated + Empowered Advanced Postpartum Strength Training -Postpartum Running Evaluation -Return to Running Program -Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Level Runs -Core Strengthening Series -Empower Your Core Programs - both vaginal and C-section delivery programs -Yoga - both prenatal and postpartum -Ability to Schedule Workouts STAY CONNECTED: -The app offers a community feature- where women that are going through what you’re going through can connect, support, and encourage each other. PRELOAD CLASSES: -If you’ll be without wifi, you can pre-download the classes that you’re planning to take. EXPERTISE + EDUCATION: Amy Kiefer is a registered nurse, doula, and personal trainer. Along with her co-founder and sister Krystle Howald who is a physical therapist, they offer educational posts that will help you navigate through pregnancy and postpartum. Whether you have a question about round ligament pain or about if working out will impact your milk supply- they have the answers in this section. Terms of use: https://www.expectingandempowered.com/app-terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://www.expectingandempowered.com/app-privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Expecting and Empowered at every 3 weeks against BumptUp's every 4 months. Expecting and Empowered also leads on ratings volume (444 vs 5). BumptUp's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. BumptUp sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Expecting and Empowered sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BumptUp holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Expecting and Empowered has 444 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
BumptUp ships an update every 4 months, Expecting and Empowered every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 19, 2026 and September 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BumptUp | Expecting and Empowered |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 4.8 (444 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 91.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 444 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BUMPTUP LABS INC | Expecting and Empowered LLC |
Customer experience
BumptUp
Expecting and Empowered
Bugs and requests
BumptUp
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Expecting and Empowered
Reported bugs
3 issues- Workouts skipping or getting stuck in loops
- Inability to preview upcoming exercises
- Automated log out issues
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to log weights used
- Improve scheduling and workout tracking
- Allow listening to own music during workouts
- Provide more modifications for exercises
In-app purchases
BumptUp
- BumptUp Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
- BumptUp Yearly Subscription$49.991 Year
Expecting and Empowered
- Monthly Subscription$19.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription1 Month trial2 variants$19.991 Month
- Annual Subscription1 Month trial$19.991 Month
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- Annual Subscription1 Year trial5 variants$149.991 Year
- Annual Subscription$149.991 Year
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