The Body Lab Pilates vs Core
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Body Lab Pilates
Manage your fitness journey by accessing your account, viewing class schedules, and booking sessions. Stay connected with your fitness studio through this official app.
- Account management
- Class schedule viewing
- Class booking
- Fitness studio connection
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On the app, you can view your account, check out our schedule, and book your classes.
Core
This app aims to make fitness spaces less intimidating by using visual communication systems. It offers workout tracking and fitness advice, designed to be accessible for all experience levels.
- Visual communication for gym accessibility
- Fitness advice
- Workout routine tracking
- Habit building
- Accessible for all levels
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Welcome to the Core app! The Core brand has the mission of using visual communication systems to reduce psychological barriers to fitness participation. It integrates insights from environmental psychology, exercise science, and graphic design to make gym spaces more accessible and easier to understand, particularly to people new to those spaces, though it is designed to benefit users of all experience levels. Core provides users with fitness advice in and out of workouts, workout routine and split tracking in a way that builds a habit out of it, and more. Being a product of a college capstone project with the goal of making fitness tools as accessible as possible, all features are permanently free. No subscriptions, no purchases, no ads. Forever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: The Body Lab Pilates at 162 against Core's 2. The Body Lab Pilates also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). Core's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 weeks) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for The Body Lab Pilates against 5.0 for Core. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Body Lab Pilates has 162 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
The Body Lab Pilates ships an update every 4 weeks, Core every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Body Lab Pilates | Core |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (162 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 162 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | The Body Lab VT, LLC | Ben Treybal |
Customer experience
The Body Lab Pilates
Core
In-app purchases
The Body Lab Pilates
No in-app purchases
Core
No in-app purchases
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