Comparison

Equinox+ vs Steady Blooming

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

Head to head
About

Equinox+

Access expert-led fitness classes from renowned instructors anytime, anywhere. Enjoy immersive content, track your progress, and sync with health data. Seamlessly integrate digital workouts with club memberships.

Highlights
  • Unlimited access to expert instructors
  • On-demand and live classes
  • Immersive audio and video content
  • Schedule classes and sync to calendar
  • Track progress and sync with Apple HealthKit
  • Available on mobile, web, and tablet
Features
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Equinox presents: Equinox+. Unrivaled access to expert instructors from Equinox, HeadStrong and more. Wherever you are. Whenever you’re ready. Download the Equinox+ app to get a complimentary 7-day trial to the digital experience.* Enhance your experience and sign up for Equinox club membership, or purchase a SoulCycle at-home bike and receive complimentary access. Features Unrivaled Instructors: Unlimited access to instructors from Equinox, PURE Yoga, Precision Run, and HeadStrong with on-demand and special live classes. Immersive content: Transport yourself to the front row of class with immersive audio and video guidance, high-quality class content, multi-camera views and concert-grade lighting. Schedule anytime: Take charge of your own itinerary by scheduling classes and syncing them to your calendar. Track progress: Log your activities and achievements. Sync with Apple HealthKit to access heart rate and biometric data. Complete challenges to unlock special badges and achievements. Stream everywhere: Equinox+ is available on your mobile device, web, and tablet. Maximize your membership: As an Equinox club member, experience seamlessly integrated physical and digital offerings. Access our world-class personal trainers, industry-best group fitness classes and state-of-the-art spas through the app. Equinox+ Wherever you are. Whenever you’re ready. *Membership Terms You will be charged with a recurring transaction through your iTunes account starting at the end of your complimentary trial (unless you cancel during the trial). Payment automatically renews unless you cancel your subscription at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription month. You can manage your subscription or cancel anytime by accessing your iTunes account. See the Equinox+ Terms for more details. Privacy Policy: https://www.equinoxplus.com/privacy Terms and Conditions: https://www.equinoxplus.com/terms California Consumer Privacy Statement: https://www.equinox.com/privacy#YOUR_CALIFORNIA_PRIVACY

About

Steady Blooming

This app offers a unique approach to habit and goal tracking by visualizing progress through a growing camp and blossoming plants. It focuses on gentle reminders and a persistent, private space for personal growth, moving away from traditional streaks and leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Habits visualized as campfires
  • Goals visualized as growing plants
  • No streaks or leaderboards
  • Gentle, non-pressuring reminders
  • Offline, private data storage
  • Living meadow visualization
Features
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A quieter place to keep your habits. Steady Blooming is a habit and goal tracker that grows with you. Habits become campfires. Goals become plants. Show up each day, and your camp slowly comes alive. Skip a day — it's still there, waiting. No streaks to break. No graphs. No leaderboards. Just a place that gets a little richer every time you tend it. Tend your campfires. Light a fire for each habit you care about. The flame deepens with rhythm and softens when you step away — then warms back up the day you return. Grow your goals. Break a goal into small steps. Each step nudges your plant taller. When you finish, it blossoms into a tree that stays in your camp for good — quiet proof you got there. Drift into a living meadow. Foxes pass through at dusk. Rabbits scatter when one draws near. The light moves with the world outside — morning gold, lantern dusk, deep night. Built on what actually works. The slow approach is the research-backed one: a single missed day doesn't reset what you're building (Lally et al., How are habits formed, UCL 2010). Steady Blooming is designed around three findings — visual progress beats abstract goals, daily check-ins should be near-frictionless, and consistency lives in a persistent place, not in willpower. Gentle reminders. No pressure. Set a time for any habit or goal. Check in right from the notification, without ever opening the app. Yours alone. Everything stays on your device. No accounts. No sync. No analytics. No ads. For people who'd rather watch something grow than chase a streak.

Screenshots

Equinox+4 screens
Steady Blooming4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Steady Blooming at 100% against Equinox+'s 28%. Steady Blooming also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Equinox+'s advantage is ratings volume (45K vs 2) and device support (4 vs 1). On price and ads 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. Equinox+ sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $39.99 per month. Steady Blooming asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Steady Blooming holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Equinox+ has 45K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Equinox+'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Steady Blooming's.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Equinox+ versus Steady Blooming: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEquinox+Steady Blooming
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (45K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings45K — better2
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size145 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEquinoxSRIKAR HANUMANULA

Customer experience

Equinox+

All ratings44,403 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral2.0%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews338 reviews
Positive28.1%
Neutral10.7%
Negative61.2%

Steady Blooming

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Equinox+

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Booking issues and errors
  • Inconsistent data sync
  • Compatibility problems with newer devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Search functionality for on-demand classes
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Calendar sync for booked classes
  • Instructor search and filtering

Steady Blooming

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Equinox+

Subscriptions1
  • Equinox+7 Days trial$39.991 Month
None

Steady Blooming

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Equinox+ free?
Equinox+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Steady Blooming free?
Steady Blooming is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Equinox+ or Steady Blooming?
Steady Blooming is rated higher. Equinox+ averages 4.7 out of 5 from 45K ratings, while Steady Blooming averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Equinox+ or Steady Blooming have ads?
Neither Equinox+ nor Steady Blooming shows ads.

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