LSBU Active vs CaliSpot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LSBU Active
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With the LSBU Active APP, you can make the most of your facility's services when training both indoors and outdoors. Whether you want to stay fit, improve your athletic performance, or enhance your health, the LSBU Active APP guides you to reach your goals with a personalized training plan designed by our staff. Try the Challenges to make your training experience even more motivating! Push your limits in individual challenges or compete against the Community, compare your progress with others on the leaderboard, and be the first to reach the goal to earn Badges. Your facility at a glance. Discover all the programs, classes, and challenges offered by your facility. Use the LSBU Active APP to easily find and book group fitness classes that interest you and appointments with our staff. You’ll receive smart reminders to help you remember your appointments. Monitor your progress, calories, heart rate, MOVEs, and MOVERGY. Track your physical activity by connecting your heart rate monitor, Apple Health, or devices such as Garmin, Suunto, Polar, Withings, Swimtag, Strava, Runkeeper, MyFitnessPal, MapMyFitness, and FitBit. You’ll find your progress and MOVEs, a unit that objectively measures how active you are, in your Wellness Passport. Achieve your daily MOVEs goal and track your lifestyle with MOVERGY, your 2-week trend.
CaliSpot
Discover outdoor calisthenics spots, connect with training partners, and follow AI-generated workouts tailored to your progress. Track your goals and find local events to enhance your fitness journey.
- AI-powered personalized workouts
- Map of outdoor calisthenics spots
- Connect with local training crews
- Discover and host fitness events
- Goal tracking and skill progression
- Session logging and performance analytics
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CaliSpot is the home of outdoor calisthenics — and an AI coach that actually learns how you train. Meet CaliBot, your AI training partner. It builds workouts around your goal, your equipment, and the skills you've actually unlocked. Working toward your first front lever? CaliBot threads the right progression into every session. Logged a heavy pull day yesterday? Tomorrow's plan shifts to push. It's coaching that pays attention. Each morning, CaliBot picks one focus for your day — push, pull, legs, core, balance, or rest — based on what you've done over the last week. After every session you log, it sends a short insight: real numbers, real patterns, no generic hype. Once a week, you get a written report on what's growing, what's stalling, and what to do about it. THE SPOT MAP Pull-up bars in Brockwell. Dip bars in Hackney. The hidden street workout park behind your local council estate that nobody Googles for. CaliSpot maps every outdoor calisthenics spot — vetted, photographed, and tagged with the equipment actually there. Filter by what you need (bars, dip station, monkey bars), see who's training there right now, and check in when you arrive. Discovered a new spot? Submit it. We add the best ones. The map covers the UK and is expanding worldwide as our users grow. CREWS Train together, even when you're solo. Join a crew in your borough or start your own with friends. Post sessions, share spots, message in real time. Crew leaders get tools to keep things organised — polls, announcements, custom branding. EVENTS Calisthenics meets, jam sessions, and competitions across London. RSVP, see who's going, get reminders. Or host your own — promote it to the community for free or boost it to the top of the feed. GOAL TRACKING Set a goal — your first muscle-up, a 30-second front lever, fifteen strict pull-ups — and CaliBot builds your training around it. Skill progression is tracked automatically as you log sessions. The app celebrates when you hit the target. SESSION LOGGING Log every workout in seconds. Pick the spot, log the exercises, save the session. CaliSpot tracks your volume, streaks, training history, and personal bests automatically. No spreadsheets. No friction. WHO IT'S FOR You train outdoors. You like the bar, the bench, the rings, the parallettes. You're working toward something — a skill, a number, just being more consistent. You want a community that gets it. You want a coach that actually pays attention. You don't need to be advanced. CaliBot adapts to whatever level you're at — fundamentals, intermediate, or skill work — and grows with you. BUILT IN LONDON We're calisthenics athletes ourselves. Every spot on the map has been verified. Every feature exists because we wanted it. If something's broken, email us — a real person responds. calispot.xyz — Privacy Policy: calispot.xyz/privacy — Terms of Service: calispot.xyz/terms — Delete Account: calispot.xyz/delete-account
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LSBU Active at none against CaliSpot's 3. LSBU Active also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.2). CaliSpot's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months). On price 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
Both are free to download. CaliSpot sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. LSBU Active asks for nothing beyond the download.
LSBU Active ships an update every 2 months, CaliSpot every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LSBU Active | CaliSpot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | London South Bank University | Tyrese Bewry |
In-app purchases
LSBU Active
No in-app purchases
CaliSpot
- CaliSpot Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- CaliSpot Pro Yearly$99.991 Year
- Promote Event$2.99









