Comparison

Expecting and Empowered vs Lāli

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Pregnancy strength training
  • Postpartum strength training (vaginal & C-section)
  • Return to running programs
  • Core strengthening series
  • Prenatal and postpartum yoga
  • Workout scheduling
  • Community support
Features
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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

About

Lāli

Features
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Lāli (Telugu: లాలి, "lullaby") is a first-year companion built around one household truth: after a C-section, two people are recovering — a newborn finding rhythm, and a mother healing from surgery. Most baby apps track the baby. Lāli holds both of you. ALARMS THAT ACTUALLY WAKE YOU Newborns must eat every few hours — even when everyone finally fell asleep. Lāli's feed alarms are real system alarms: they ring through Silent and Focus, count down in the Dynamic Island, and adapt to your baby's age using WHO- and IAP-informed intervals. Stopping the alarm doesn't fake a log — Lāli knows a feed started, checks in gently a few minutes later, and records the real duration. Miss nothing; log honestly. ONE TAP, OR NO HANDS AT ALL FED NOW logs a feed and arms the next alarm in one tap. Arms full? Just say: "Hey Siri, log a bottle feed in Lāli" — the volume defaults to the age-typical amount. "Log a breast feed" asks how long and remembers which side is next. "Start burp timer" runs a 10-minute timer that rings even on the Lock Screen, alongside step-by-step burping technique. FOR MOM — THE RECOVERY TRACK A week-by-week C-section recovery program: daily check-ins for pain, bleeding and mood with honest typical ranges, medicine reminders parsed straight from your prescription times — including "for 5 days" courses that stop on their own and SOS (when-needed) medicines logged with one tap, showing when it was last taken and how many times today — red-flag guidance that always errs toward "call your doctor", and gentle wins — because healing deserves tracking too. FOR BABY — THE FIRST-YEAR TRACK Feeds (sessions with rounds — side switches and top-ups merge sensibly), diapers, sleep, pumping, growth plotted inside the real WHO 3rd–97th percentile bands, milestones with honest age ranges, and India's IAP vaccination schedule with reminders. THE 3AM COMPANION A dim, amber screen for night feeds: breathing ring, soothing sounds, a kind word. And when the baby's down but you're wide awake — an eight-minute spoken body scan that talks you back to sleep over soft rain. A YEAR YOU CAN HOLD Little moments — a photo or video a day, kept on your devices and your iCloud only. A journal for everything, with voice notes transcribed on-device. Every Sunday, a gentle recap of your week: feeds handled, nights survived, moments kept. No scores. No comparisons. READY FOR THE CLINIC One tap makes the doctor visit pack: a clean 3-page PDF of the last two weeks — feeding rhythm, growth against WHO bands, medicines, mom's recovery check-ins, vaccines, and space for questions. Print it or send it ahead. LEARN, HANDS BUSY Short illustrated guides — burping, swaddling, latch, bathing, cord care — with a coach mode that reads each step aloud while your hands are full. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE No accounts. No ads. No analytics. No Lāli servers — your data lives on your device and in your own iCloud. Voice notes are transcribed on-device. We couldn't read your data if we wanted to. HONEST ABOUT MEDICINE Lāli is information and companionship, not medical advice. Its content is [reviewed by an OB-GYN and a pediatrician — ONLY CLAIM AFTER SIGN-OFF] and every "is this normal?" answer errs toward "ask your doctor". In any emergency, call your doctor first. One-time purchase. ₹299 for the whole first year and beyond — no subscription, shared with your family. The safety floor — red flags, vaccine schedule, basic logging — stays free forever. Lāli means lullaby. That's the goal: a calmer house, a healing mom, a fed baby, and everyone back to sleep.

Screenshots

Expecting and Empowered4 screens
Lāli4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Expecting and Empowered at 4 against Lāli's 2. Expecting and Empowered also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Expecting and Empowered sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and Lāli sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Expecting and Empowered versus Lāli: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExpecting and EmpoweredLāli
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (444 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews91.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings444 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB6 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperExpecting and Empowered LLCJyothiPrasad Uppalapu

Bugs and 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

Lāli

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Expecting and Empowered

Subscriptions5
  • 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
1 purchases

Lāli

One-time1
  • First Year Pass$2.99

Questions

Is Expecting and Empowered free?
Expecting and Empowered is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lāli free?
Lāli is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Expecting and Empowered or Lāli have ads?
Neither Expecting and Empowered nor Lāli shows ads.

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