Comparison

Joy vs BDYWRK

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

Head to head
About

Joy

This AI-powered wellness platform offers personalized recommendations and exclusive content from experts. It recognizes emotions from voice in real-time, providing guided meditations, stress-reduction techniques, and mood-enhancing activities tailored to your needs.

Highlights
  • AI emotion recognition (any language)
  • Exclusive expert wellness content
  • Hundreds of practices (all levels)
  • Guided meditations
  • Stress-reduction techniques
  • Mood-enhancing activities
  • Personalized recommendations
Features
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Are you looking for an AI-powered wellness platform that understands your emotions regardless of the language you're speaking? Look no further than Joy, the ultimate app for personalized wellness practice recommendations. Using the latest advancements in AI technology, Joy can accurately recognize your emotions from the sound of your voice (in real-time) and deliver exclusive in-app wellness content from world-renowned experts that is keyed to your real-time emotional needs, with the push of just one button. Whether you're looking for guided meditations, stress-reduction techniques, or mood-enhancing activities, Joy has it all. With hundreds of quick and easy practices available in our content library, you'll be able to find the perfect mindfulness practice to fit your schedule. Here are just some of the features you'll enjoy when you download and subscribe to Joy: - Accurate emotion recognition technology that works in any language (access to this is free). - In-app and exclusive wellness content from world experts. - Hundreds of practices for beginners, intermediate, and advanced users. - Guided meditations, stress-reduction techniques, and mood-enhancing activities. - Personalized recommendations based on your real-time emotional needs. And the best part? You can enjoy all of these benefits with an annual subscription of just $69.99, or a monthly subscription of $9.99. So what are you waiting for? Download Joy today and start living your best life. SUBSCRIPTION PRICING AND TERMS: Joy offers two auto-renewing subscription options: $9.99 per month $69.99 per year (that's less than $5.99 a month) These prices are for United States customers. Pricing in other countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence. The subscription will automatically renew unless turned off in your App Store Account Settings at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can go to your App Store Account settings to manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew. Your App Store Account will be charged when the purchase is confirmed. If you subscribe before your free trial ends, the remaining period of your free trial will be forfeited as soon as your purchase is confirmed. WHAT YOU GET ACCESS TO WHEN YOU SUBSCRIBE TO EITHER THE MONTHLY OR ANNUAL PLAN: - In-app and exclusive wellness content from world experts. - Hundreds of practices for beginners, intermediate, and advanced users. - Guided meditations, stress-reduction techniques, and mood-enhancing activities. - Personalized recommendations based on your real-time emotional needs. In order to get access to the wellness practices and personalized content recommendations listed above, you must subscribe to either the monthly plan ($9.99 / month) or the annual plan ($69.99 / year). Privacy Policy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yz_RkGIXsLNWqtJ3ZM3jpxAGKg1xhKW8/view?usp=sharing Terms and Conditions (EULA): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m4a0d8g-_ynFQXX1ZquD7O6lTP8FbJeu/view?usp=sharing

About

BDYWRK

This app helps you build consistent fitness habits by tracking bodyweight exercises hands-free and monitoring daily protein intake. It offers adaptive goals and streak tracking, with premium features for advanced insights and easier nutrition logging.

Highlights
  • Hands-free rep counting with camera or motion sensors
  • Adaptive weekly exercise goals
  • Streak tracking with rest day protection
  • Natural language protein logging (Premium)
  • AI-narrated weekly recaps (Premium)
  • Apple Health integration for cardio and load scores (Premium)
  • Apple Watch and Home Screen widgets
Features
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Staying in shape comes down to two habits: move every day, and get enough protein to hold onto muscle. BDYWRK is built around both. It isn't here to replace your gym log or your macro tracker. It's here to cover the baseline: a bodyweight routine you can do anywhere, and the one nutrition number that matters most for keeping muscle. If you already have apps for those, BDYWRK works alongside them. If you don't, it's enough on its own. Count reps, hands-free, and keep track over time. Start a session and BDYWRK counts your push-ups with the camera, or your squats, pull-ups, and sit-ups with the motion sensors. Put the phone down and go. No tapping, no counting out loud, no losing your place at rep 23. Every session is saved, so you can watch the number climb instead of guessing. Goals that move with you Set a weekly goal per exercise, then just show up. Kitchen floor, hotel room, park bench, 6am or 11pm. Each week BDYWRK looks at what you actually did and suggests where to set the bar next. Accept it, edit it, or ignore it. The goal bends to your life instead of asking your life to bend around a number someone else picked. Streaks that survive a rest day Hit your goals on consecutive days and grow your streak flame. Green checks mark the days you finished, gold marks a new record. Turn on the Apple Health toggles and the work you do outside the app counts too: a run, a ride, a closed Exercise ring outside the app can help hit your goal or protect your streak. You did the work, so you keep the credit. It's optional, and it's off until you say otherwise. Protein, the easy way (Premium) Log food in plain English, like "two eggs and a chicken breast," and BDYWRK estimates the protein in grams right on your phone. You see the estimate before anything is logged. Protein is the single most important thing to track if you want to keep muscle, so BDYWRK makes it a five-second habit instead of a food diary you'll quit in a week. A recap every week At the start of each week, see last week's reps, active days, and best day, plus suggested goals for the week ahead. Premium narrates the recap with an on-device model, so it reads like someone actually looked at your week. On your wrist Apple Watch gives you real-time rep haptics and heart-rate capture during a session. With Premium, you can log protein straight from the Crown. On your Home Screen Widgets put your goals, streak, and protein where you'll see them without opening anything. Tap one and you're already where you need to be. BDYWRK Premium The free app counts your reps, tracks your goals, and keeps your streak. That's the core, and it stays free. Premium goes further: • Natural-language protein tracking, estimated privately on-device • AI weekly recaps narrated by an on-device model • Cardio Fitness and Load: turns your Apple Health cardio into Fitness, Fatigue, and Form scores, so you know when to push and when to recover • Premium widgets for protein and cardio load • Protein logging on Apple Watch • No ads Private by design Your protein estimates and AI recaps are generated on your device, not in the cloud. Your food log never leaves your phone. Do the basics, every day. BDYWRK keeps it simple. Terms of Use (EULA): https://bdywrk.app/terms

Screenshots

Joy4 screens
BDYWRK4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: BDYWRK at 100% against Joy's 50%. BDYWRK also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Joy's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.2). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and device support 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. Joy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and BDYWRK sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BDYWRK holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Joy's written reviews are positive against 100% of BDYWRK's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Joy ships an update every 2 months, BDYWRK weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Joy versus BDYWRK: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJoyBDYWRK
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKoer A. I., IncStudio Bokeh AI LLC

Customer experience

Joy

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

BDYWRK

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Joy

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Plan7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Annual Plan7 Days trial$69.991 Year
1 purchases

BDYWRK

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Yearly Subscription$2.991 Year

Questions

Is Joy free?
Joy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BDYWRK free?
BDYWRK is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Joy or BDYWRK?
BDYWRK is rated higher. Joy averages 4.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while BDYWRK averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Joy or BDYWRK have ads?
BDYWRK shows ads; Joy does not.
Which is updated more often, Joy or BDYWRK?
Joy ships an update every 2 months, and BDYWRK weekly. Most recently, Joy was updated on October 8, 2026 and BDYWRK on October 19, 2026.

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