Comparison

Pocket Yoga vs SunUps

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

Head to head
About

Pocket Yoga

Practice yoga at your own pace with guided sessions and a comprehensive pose dictionary. Learn proper alignment and benefits, track your progress, and unlock new environments. Integrates with Apple Watch and Health app.

Highlights
  • Guided yoga sessions
  • Pose dictionary with explanations
  • Over 500 pose illustrations
  • Progress tracking
  • Customizable music options
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Health app integration
Features
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With Pocket Yoga you can keep up with your practice at your own pace in the comforts of your own home. Simply roll out your mat, place your device in front, and Pocket Yoga will guide you through your entire session. Choose between 27 different sessions of varying duration and difficulty. Learn the poses with the pose dictionary containing detailed explanations of the correct posture, alignment, and benefits. Features: • Soothing, detailed voice and visual instruction guides you through every pose. • Expertly designed practices by experienced yoga instructors. • Over 500 beautifully illustrated pose images show correct posture and alignment. • Dictionary of poses contains the descriptions and benefits of each pose. • Play music from your music library, Apple Music, or Spotify as an alternative to the default music in the app. • Quickly preview a practice to see if it is right for you before you start. • Unlock new environments as you progress in your yoga journey. • Track your progress with an ongoing log of all your yoga practices. • Accounts sync environments and progress across devices. • Play the practices on your Apple TV through AirPlay. • Integrates with the Health app. Track your workouts, heart rate, and calories burned. Accolades: ‣ Listed among the “15 Best Beauty Apps” - InStyle ‣ Selected by CNN as one of the "10 great mobile health apps" ‣ Featured by Apple in "Get in Shape", "Let's Get Moving", "10 Essentials" and "New and Noteworthy" APPLE WATCH Pocket Yoga works great on your Apple Watch. When you are playing a practice on your iPhone you can get extra information directly on your wrist. See the current pose, time remaining, heart rate, calories burned, and much more. You can even control your practice directly from your Apple Watch. WIDGET The “Pose of the Day” Widget helps you learn the names of the poses by showing you a different pose each day. You can see the name of the daily pose in English, Sanskrit and even in Devanagari script. Also tap on the pose image to launch Pocket Yoga and go directly to that pose.

About

SunUps

Learn and practice Surya Namaskar, an ancient yogic exercise, with this personal trainer app. It guides you through the routine, tracks progress, and offers motivational features to make it a daily habit for improved energy and wellbeing.

Highlights
  • Guided Surya Namaskar routine
  • Progress tracking and streaks
  • Calorie and time calculation
  • Proximity sensor for automatic counting
  • Daily practice reminders
  • Guided relaxation
  • Social sharing and challenges
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Did you know there is one exercise which works wonders on your mind, body and soul? The secret lies in an ancient yogic practice called as Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutations). SunUps is your personal trainer to help you learn Surya Namaskar and make it a daily habit. Use it to transform your body's biology to feel energised, productive and feel your best. One Surya Namaskar set comprises of twelve yoga positions in a particular order. SunUps is an easy to learn routine, and can be done anywhere, and doesn't require any exercise equipment. This efficient workout provides amazing benefits such as increased stamina, strength, flexibility and overall physical and emotional wellbeing. It is an adaptogen-- it helps restore balance to your mind and body. SunUps can be adopted by anyone who may or may not be seeking specific benefits. It can be done as a warm up to other yoga poses or as a cardiovascular workout. Sun Salutations is a way of showing gratitude towards the sun, and thus promotes an attitude of gratitude. The more one is grateful, the more one finds things to be grateful for! Sunups provides the convenience of learning, training and performing an amazingly efficient workout whenever and wherever you want; and improves your experience of working out as well as improves the quality of your life. For experts who already know Surya Namaskar, SunUps provides an engaging soulful flute music and Sun Chants as an accompaniment to your daily practice . Advanced trainees and Experts can challenge themselves by setting a goal for repetitions and monitor their streaks. SunUps also calculates the calories burned and the time you took to complete the sets. SunUps uses the proximity sensor of the device to detect the step in the set so as to automatically keep count of the sets completed so you can focus on the exercise than keep count. SunUps can also remind you to do the exercises until it becomes your daily health habit. A guided relaxation is also provided to relax after doing your SunUps. You can share your streaks and invite your loved ones to practice SunUps. Keep count of SunUps till date and and challenge others to accept your SunUps fitness challenge. Save your SunUps Scores and participate in a #5MillionSunUps for world peace and wellbeing. Guided instructions in English, Hindi and German. Ask your doctor if these exercises are right for you before you embark on this journey.

Screenshots

Pocket Yoga4 screens
SunUps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SunUps at Free against Pocket Yoga's $2.99. SunUps also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Pocket Yoga's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (5.2K vs 26). On update cadence, ads 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

SunUps is free to download; Pocket Yoga costs $2.99 up front. SunUps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pocket Yoga asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pocket Yoga holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Yoga has 5.2K ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Pocket Yoga's written reviews are positive against 65% of SunUps's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pocket Yoga ships an update every 5 weeks, SunUps every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Pocket Yoga versus SunUps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket YogaSunUps
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (5.2K ratings) — better4.4 (26 ratings)
Positive reviews81.0% of reviews — better64.7% of reviews
Number of ratings5.2K — better26
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#44 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size235 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRainfrog, LLCShivachandra Javalagi

Customer experience

Pocket Yoga

All ratings5,193 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral2.6%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews793 reviews
Positive81.0%
Neutral8.2%
Negative10.8%

SunUps

All ratings26 ratings
Positive84.6%
Neutral3.8%
Negative11.5%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive64.7%
Neutral5.9%
Negative29.4%

Bugs and requests

Pocket Yoga

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes or freezes
  • Inconsistent voice prompts
  • Inaccurate calorie tracking
  • Syncing issues with Apple Health

Requested features

7 requests
  • Create custom yoga sequences
  • Add more diverse yoga routines
  • Include shorter 15-minute sessions
  • Provide option to adjust pace of transitions
  • Offer different voice options for narration
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  • Improve Apple Watch integration and sync
  • Add ability to track progress and unlock new content

SunUps

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Pocket Yoga

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

SunUps

One-time1
  • Unlock Full Features$1.99

Questions

Is Pocket Yoga free?
Pocket Yoga costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is SunUps free?
SunUps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pocket Yoga or SunUps?
Pocket Yoga is rated higher. Pocket Yoga averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5.2K ratings, while SunUps averages 4.4 from 26 ratings.
Do Pocket Yoga or SunUps have ads?
Neither Pocket Yoga nor SunUps shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Yoga or SunUps?
Pocket Yoga ships an update every 5 weeks, and SunUps every 6 weeks. Most recently, Pocket Yoga was updated on November 1, 2026 and SunUps on October 24, 2026.

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