Comparison

Ergatta vs Affirmations.Chat

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

Head to head
About

Ergatta

Plan workouts, track performance, and view detailed historical data. Monitor your progress, rankings, and challenges, even without your rower. Sync data with Apple Health for a comprehensive view of your fitness.

Highlights
  • Workout history and breakdown
  • Workout library browsing and filtering
  • Detailed stats and personal records
  • Community and group rankings
  • Challenge progress tracking
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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Enhance your workout and race performance by planning ahead and staying on top of the results. Keep up with the Rankings and see where you stand, browse your workout libraries, see your history, highlights, and progress, even if your Ergatta rower is stored away. The Ergatta Companion App Includes: APPLE HEALTH INTEGRATION Sync your Ergatta workouts to the Apple Health App, where they will appear as part of your daily activity. YOUR WORKOUT HISTORY • View all our your completed workouts • Get a granular breakdown of each workout • See your monthly distance, time, and calorie totals • Favorite workouts YOUR WORKOUT LIBRARY • Browse through the workout libraries and filter by time, distance, type, and more • See each workout’s details and your projected performance • Favorite workouts for later YOUR STATS • View your dashboard • Personal Records • Monthly, weekly, and daily breakdowns of your stats • Your personal records and highlights RANKINGS • Your full rankings report • Monthly breakdowns of the full community, your age group, gender, and weight group • Sort by distance rowed, best split, and average split CHALLENGES Check in on challenges and track your progress This app is frequently updated with new features and enhancements, just as the Ergatta Experience evolves. Have an input? Email support@ergatta.com and share with the team.

About

Affirmations.Chat

This app offers a peaceful space to process your day by generating personalized affirmations. It uses an AI assistant to create unique responses based on your input, providing guided breathing and grounding exercises. Optional premium features include unlimited affirmations and a private journal.

Highlights
  • Personalized AI affirmations
  • Guided breathing exercises
  • 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique
  • Offline affirmation access
  • Private on-device journal
  • Ambient sound library
Features
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Affirmations.Chat is a soft room to end the day in. When the day has been a lot — or a little, or nothing you can name — open the app, say what's on your mind, and S.A.G.E. writes you an affirmation made for this exact moment. No feeds, no streaks, no noise. Just a quiet place to be spoken to gently. HOW IT WORKS Type what's going on, or simply choose a mood. S.A.G.E. (our assistant, built on Anthropic's Claude) responds with a personal, grounded affirmation — never a generic platitude. Sit with it, breathe, save it, or share it. FREE, ALWAYS • A fresh live affirmation every day • Unlimited offline affirmations, even with no signal • Guided breathing • A 5-4-3-2-1 grounding exercise for the hard moments • Beautiful shareable cards THE HEARTH For when this becomes part of your daily ritual, The Hearth opens everything up: • Unlimited live affirmations — as many as you need, any time • Your private Journal — a quiet, on-device space to return to yourself • The full ambient sound library — settle in and stay a while PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No login. No tracking, no ads, no analytics. What you write stays on your device. The only thing that ever leaves is the words you choose to turn into an affirmation. A GENTLE NOTE S.A.G.E. is here for comfort and reflection — not a therapist, and not a substitute for professional care. If you're ever in crisis, support is built in and always free, never behind a paywall. — The Hearth is an auto-renewable subscription. • Monthly — $5.99 / month • Annual — $49.99 / year Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://affirmations.chat/terms Privacy Policy: https://affirmations.chat/privacy-ios

Screenshots

Ergatta4 screens
Affirmations.Chat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Affirmations.Chat at 5.0 against Ergatta's 4.1. Affirmations.Chat also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 58%) and update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). Ergatta's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (80 vs 3). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Affirmations.Chat sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Ergatta asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Affirmations.Chat holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ergatta has 80 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Ergatta's written reviews are positive against 100% of Affirmations.Chat's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ergatta ships an update monthly, Affirmations.Chat every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Ergatta versus Affirmations.Chat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterErgattaAffirmations.Chat
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (80 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings80 — better3
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB68 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperErgattaYULA Development LLC

Customer experience

Ergatta

All ratings80 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral6.3%
Negative18.8%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive58.1%
Neutral16.1%
Negative25.8%

Affirmations.Chat

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Ergatta

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Affirmations.Chat

Subscriptions2
  • The Hearth (Monthly)$5.991 Month
  • The Hearth (Annual)$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Ergatta free?
Ergatta is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Affirmations.Chat free?
Affirmations.Chat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ergatta or Affirmations.Chat?
Affirmations.Chat is rated higher. Ergatta averages 4.1 out of 5 from 80 ratings, while Affirmations.Chat averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Ergatta or Affirmations.Chat have ads?
Neither Ergatta nor Affirmations.Chat shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ergatta or Affirmations.Chat?
Ergatta ships an update monthly, and Affirmations.Chat every 4 days. Most recently, Ergatta was updated on October 16, 2026 and Affirmations.Chat on October 10, 2026.

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