Calisthenics Home Workout vs Kelva
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Calisthenics Home Workout
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Calisthenics for women, synced to your cycle β train with your body, not against it. Lunaletics combines cycle syncing with calisthenics: functional strength training with your bodyweight, no equipment, 3Γ 30 minutes a week. The app matches intensity and exercises to your cycle phase and your fitness level. THE PROBLEM Most fitness apps ignore your period, PMS, and hormone shifts. In the follicular phase, estrogen is anabolic β a good time to build strength. In the late luteal phase and during menstruation, your body needs recovery. Training through that high-energy pattern risks overtraining, cortisol stress, and a plateau. HOW CYCLE SYNCING WORKS β’ Follicular phase and ovulation: harder calisthenics for strength and a higher resting calorie burn. β’ Luteal phase: less volume, more mobility and mindfulness β in phase with your body, not against it. β’ Period: yoga for menstrual cramps and period pain. A workout on your period that actually feels right. This is cycle syncing as strength training β not more cardio, and not another diet. WHAT YOU GAIN β’ Faster strength gains in the first half of your cycle. β’ Ease PMS with training: fewer cycle symptoms, more energy in daily life. β’ Recomp instead of rebound: lose fat and build muscle without crashing your metabolism. β’ Better posture, higher bone density, lower injury risk β the app accounts for hormone-related changes in joint stability. β’ Your plan is automatic. Beginner or advanced, at home or on the road. WHAT'S INCLUDED 100+ calisthenics exercises plus video workouts for strength, flexibility, yoga, and mindfulness. The cycle tracker stays free and ad-free. Lunaletics PRO is the full cycle-synced calisthenics program β less than a weekly latte. Try one month free. "I train less, but I finally see progress." β Anna, 28 "Lunaletics changed how I relate to my body." β Mara, 33 Not the right app if you don't have a natural menstrual cycle β for example in menopause or on hormonal contraception. An irregular cycle is fine. If you have a medical condition, check with your doctor first. Start now: calisthenics for women. Synced to your cycle. No equipment.
Kelva
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Kelva is a training app for women: a plan that stays put, and someone who guides you through every session, set by set. YOUR WEEK A few questions about your goal, your level, your training days and where you train: at the gym, at home with dumbbells, or with no equipment at all. From that Kelva builds your week out of a hand-curated exercise catalogue, with a glutes focus if you want one. After that it is yours: drag the blocks, move the days, put sessions together yourself. YOUR PLAN STAYS PUT Progress comes from consistency and progressive overload, not from a programme reshuffled every week. Kelva does not rebuild your plan behind your back. If a day does not suit you, tell Kelva and the session moves to your next training day. On a rest day you can bring the next session forward to today. Both apply to this week only. GUIDED THROUGH EVERY SESSION Before each exercise Kelva shows you how it is done. Then comes the set with its target, one tap on "Set done", and the rest counts down, as do holds and the warm-up. At the end you see how far your week has come. If you like, Kelva reminds you at the start time of every session, and the widget shows the next one with a countdown. 150 EXERCISES, EACH AS A CLIP Every exercise shows an animated clay figure doing it. With it: the instructions step by step, the muscles, the equipment, and where there is one, a substitute and an easier version. ASK KELVA Kelva sits in the bottom right corner. Tap a topic or type her a question: what today asks of you, how an exercise is done, what to do instead. When you say yes, she moves, shortens or swaps today's session. She also tells you what she does not say. No supplements, no diagnosis, nothing on pregnancy or menopause, no medication. If something hurts, she points you to someone who can judge it. ADD WHAT YOU NEED Training is always in. The rest you switch on or leave out: β’ Cooking and shopping: more than 680 dishes with recipes, matched to how you eat, planned as a week, with a shopping list β’ Calories: photograph your plate and Kelva estimates its calories and nutrients, measured against your daily target β’ Period: cycle day, estimated phase and next period, from what you enter or from Apple Health β’ Friends: someone in it with you ABOUT THE CYCLE, HONESTLY We do not tell you to train differently in a particular phase. The evidence does not support it: a 2023 systematic review found no influence of cycle phase on strength performance or on training adaptation. So your phase never changes your training. A FRIEND IN IT WITH YOU Link up with a code, a QR code or phone to phone. She sees how many sessions you completed each week, and your streak and training week only if you switch them on. Never your cycle, never what or how heavy you trained. YOUR CYCLE STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE Your cycle is stored and calculated on your iPhone, not sent to our server and not passed on: there simply is no endpoint for it. Kelva only ever reads your cycle, and we never write anything back to Apple Health. A question you type to Kelva and a photo you scan go through our server to an AI model, without your name and without your cycle, and are not stored by us. KELVA PLUS With Plus, Kelva changes today's session herself instead of asking first, if you allow her to. Along with your full history, your sessions in a calendar of their own, and meal scans without a limit (three without Plus). Kelva Plus is an auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly. It renews unless you turn it off in your App Store settings at least 24 hours before the period ends. Purchases can be restored in the app. Requires an iPhone on iOS 16.4 or later; the widget needs iOS 17. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use https://kelva.space/privacy https://kelva.space/terms
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Verdict
Calisthenics Home Workout and Kelva are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters β price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them β neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Calisthenics Home Workout sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Kelva sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Calisthenics Home Workout ships an update fortnightly, Kelva every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calisthenics Home Workout | Kelva |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 10 days β better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod β better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 β better | 16.4 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 131 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lunaletics GmbH | Alain Kessler |
In-app purchases
Calisthenics Home Workout
- Pro monthly1 Month trial$6.991 Month
- Pro annually1 Month trial$44.991 Year
Kelva
- Kelva Monthly$4.991 Month
- Kelva Yearly1 Year trial$29.991 Year
- Kelva Yearly$29.991 Year
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