Mobility Manual vs Rival Coach
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mobility Manual
Enhance athletic performance with sport-specific mobility routines designed to improve range of motion and prevent wasted stretching. Build a daily habit of movement and feel the difference in your body within weeks.
- Sport-specific mobility routines
- 40-day step-by-step programs
- Mobility assessment and progress tracking
- Sport-specific coaching videos
- Extensive mobility exercise library
- Community access
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Move, feel and perform at your best with focused sport specific mobility routines. Get the right routine that will actually help you progress in your sport without wasting time doing endless stretching. The Mobility Manual offers 40 day sport specific mobility routines to help you build the habit of daily mobilizing, increase your range of motion, and improve your sport performance. With mobility routines you can do anywhere, anytime, our ever growing library of sports and incredible community allow for consistence progress in how you move and feel. Stick with our mobility sessions, and you will notice a change in your body in just a few short weeks Incorporate mobility into your daily routine with a selection of paths you can take depending on your goals. Our Mobility Manuals include: Mobility Assessment - easily track your mobility progress and see a visual difference in how your body moves. 40 Day Step-by-step Mobility Routine - This sport specific mobility routine focuses on the key areas you need to be mobile in for your selected sport Sport Specific coaching videos - Each manual comes with bonus videos to help improve your performance in your specific sport. Mobility Video Library - over 140+ mobility exercises you can use whenever you need a stretch 24/7 Access to The Mobility Manual Community Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Rival Coach
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Rival Coach is the coach's remote for Rival — the live team-competition platform for gyms. HOW RIVAL WORKS • The free Rival desktop app (rivalfitness.app) runs on your gym's laptop and reads your machines WIRELESSLY — every Concept2 rower, SkiErg and BikeErg, plus compatible bikes and runners — calories, metres, watts and pace, straight off the monitors. No cables to the machines, no typing in scores. • The laptop fills your gym TV with live leaderboards, and can even send the workout to each Concept2 PM5 screen. • This app is the coach's controller for all of it — and the full workout builder in your pocket. IN THE GYM • Open the app and it finds your gym's Rival laptop on the WiFi — signed in, you're connected automatically. • Run the whole session from your phone: pick the workout, place teams on machines, start, pause, score. • Run full competition days — divisions, waves, judged score sheets, live standings and the podium — with a public spectator page for every phone in the building. • Send the live leaderboard to the gym TV with one tap, and see exactly what the TV shows, right on your phone. • Pair machines and heart-rate straps from the gym floor, standing at the machine. ANYWHERE (OFFLINE MODE) • The full app in your pocket: build workouts, set up fleets and teams, and run complete demo classes with a live leaderboard — no gym hardware needed. • Sign in with your Rival account and everything you build lands on the gym laptop automatically. • Browse your gym's saved results and leaderboards, and set the branding your members see. IMPORTANT: Rival Coach needs the free Rival desktop app running on your gym's laptop for live machine scoring — download it at rivalfitness.app. The laptop reads the ergs wirelessly and drives the TV; this app is the remote in your hand. Scores come live from the machines — every rep counts.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rival Coach at none against Mobility Manual's 6. Rival Coach also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 5 weeks). 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
Both are free to download. Mobility Manual sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $18.99 per month. Rival Coach asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mobility Manual ships an update every 5 weeks, Rival Coach every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mobility Manual | Rival Coach |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (29 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 37.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 167 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Mobility Manual Limited | Rival Fitness Ltd |
Bugs and requests
Mobility Manual
Reported bugs
20 issues- App gets stuck on exercises
- Timers get stuck or have a mind of their own
- Videos not loading or are black
- App crashes when receiving calls/notifications
- Autoplay repeats the same exercise
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- App doesn't track progress
- Login issues (credentials not working)
- App closes randomly
- Assessment videos won't download
- App doesn't open
- Subscription cancellation button leads to FAQs
- Send message function in app doesn't work
- Membership purchased online doesn't carry to app
- Videos don't play, subtitles don't work
- App doesn't recognize purchase
- Timers are unclear (two sections, repeated countdown)
- Unilateral exercises only done on one side
- Lost assessment data after re-downloading
- Progress not saved between phones
- App doesn't store progress
Requested features
12 requests- Add voice instructions/audio cues
- Allow playing own music
- Add a countdown before movement changes
- Improve timer clarity
- Option to mark exercises as complete
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- Add 'favorite protocol' option
- Add 'notes' option
- Improve UI/UX
- Add vocal instructions during timer
- Keep phone screen on during session
- Clarify pricing for manual vs. subscription
- Option to purchase specific protocols instead of subscription
Rival Coach
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mobility Manual
- The Mobility Manual Monthly$18.991 Month
- The Mobility Manual Annual$129.991 Year
- Runner's Manual$59.99
- Everyday Athlete$59.99
- ROM Strong$59.99
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- Weightlifters Mobility Manual$69.99
Rival Coach
No in-app purchases









