Collective Studios vs The Iron Cactus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Collective Studios
Discover and reserve fitness classes, workshops, and events focused on well-being and personal growth. This platform fosters community and encourages a shared dedication to health through movement and positive experiences.
- Find and book fitness classes
- Discover workshops and events
- Focus on well-being and personal growth
- Inspires health and human connection
- Dedicated to sweat and joy
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Find and book transformative fitness classes, workshops and events designed to help you live well and be well using our convenient app. Collective Studios is more than a fitness studio. It's a space that inspires greater health, genuine human connection and empowered, personal growth through a collective dedication to sweat and joy.
The Iron Cactus
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, earning badges along the way.
- Class schedules and opening hours
- Daily fitness activity tracking
- Weight and body metric tracking
- 2000+ exercises with 3D demos
- Preset and custom workouts
- Progress tracking and badges
- Apple Health sync
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PLEASE NOTE: YOU NEED A The Iron Cactus 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 The Iron Cactus help you along the way. Introducing The Iron Cactus, 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Collective Studios at every 3 weeks against The Iron Cactus's every 3 months. Collective Studios also leads on ratings volume (439 vs 40). The Iron Cactus's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). 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 — 5.0 for Collective Studios against 4.8 for The Iron Cactus. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Collective Studios has 439 ratings behind it against 40, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Collective Studios ships an update every 3 weeks, The Iron Cactus every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Collective Studios | The Iron Cactus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (439 ratings) — better | 4.8 (40 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 439 — better | 40 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 178 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | The Collective Studios, LLC | joy quest llc |
Customer experience
Collective Studios
The Iron Cactus
In-app purchases
Collective Studios
No in-app purchases
The Iron Cactus
No in-app purchases
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