Comparison

Bladder Strong vs PelvicMax

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

Head to head
About

Bladder Strong

This 10-week program, created by a pelvic floor physical therapist, helps overcome bladder leakage after prostate surgery. It combines breathing, exercises, behavior strategies, and Kegels for a comprehensive approach.

Highlights
  • 10-week guided program
  • Developed by physical therapist
  • Addresses bladder leakage
  • Post-prostate surgery focus
  • Includes Kegels
  • Breathing exercises
  • Behavior strategies
Features
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A 10 week program developed by a pelvic floor physical therapist. This program is designed especially for the unique challenges in overcoming bladder leakage after prostate surgery. The multi-pronged approach includes breathing, exercises, behavior strategies, and Kegels. It's important to seek a doctor’s advice in addition to using this app and before making any medical decisions

About

PelvicMax

Features
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Most men train every muscle except this one. The pelvic floor is a muscle group, and like any other it responds to structured, progressive training. These muscles are involved in erectile firmness and ejaculatory control. PelvicMax trains them — a paced 12-week programme built from published pelvic-floor muscle training protocols. One price. $19.99 a year in the United States, and the equivalent in your own currency, shown on this page before you install. No weekly plan, no monthly plan, no upsells. FIRST IT TEACHES YOU THE MOVEMENT Most men have never been shown where the muscle is. Find-the-muscle gives you the location, the cue — lift, don't push — and the three things it is not: no clenched buttocks, no tightened abdomen, no held breath. The Form Check returns on day 3, day 21 and day 42, and any time you open it: five things you can verify alone, in private, with nothing but your own body. Every "no" routes to the correction, then asks that one again. A PACER, NOT A REP COUNTER The session screen answers one question at every instant: what should the muscle be doing now, and for how much longer. Contract, hold, release, rest, each phase with its own haptic, so a session runs correctly with the phone face down. The breath cue runs through the hold, because bearing down is the second most common mistake after squeezing the wrong thing. Release is timed. Every session ends with a down-training block. FOUR TO SIX MINUTES, AND IT NEVER STALLS Weeks 1 to 12 go from lying to sitting to standing, from 3-second holds to 10-second holds, and add functional work — holding through a cough, through standing up from a chair. From week 13 the maintenance phase builds new 14-day cycles: reps rise within safe caps, and the emphasis rotates across endurance, power, functional work and slow release. There is always a next session and it is never a repeat. MISS A DAY AND NOTHING RESETS Your place in the programme is a function of the sessions you finished, never of the calendar. Miss a week and you pick up where you left off. Nothing is locked behind adherence, and all twelve weeks are open from the minute you subscribe. Say easy, right or too hard when a session ends, and the next one adjusts. SOMETHING TO WATCH The Strength Test is two measurements you take yourself: your longest full hold, and how many quick flicks you manage in thirty seconds. At the start, then every two weeks, both charted. They are training measurements of a muscle — not a health score, not a symptom questionnaire, not a comparison against other men. NOBODY HAS TO KNOW, AND NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE No voice ever speaks; sound is off by default. No widget, no Live Activity, no lock-screen timer, no notification that names the subject. On the home screen it is called PelvicMax. No account, no login, no server, no sync, no analytics and no advertising code: the app works fully offline and your history stays yours. WHAT IT COSTS, PLAINLY One yearly subscription, one plan, one price. It renews each year until you cancel; cancelling takes two taps from Settings, and you keep access until the term you paid for ends. There is no free trial, on purpose — the technique teaching and the Strength Test are open before you pay, so you measure yourself with the app and then decide. PelvicMax trains a muscle group. It is not a medical device, it does not diagnose, treat or prevent any condition, and it makes no promise about anyone's results. If anything about your health concerns you, speak to a doctor. Still cannot feel a lift after two weeks of correct attempts? A pelvic-floor physiotherapist can assess this in a single appointment. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Bladder Strong4 screens
PelvicMax4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Bladder Strong at 15.1 against PelvicMax's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Bladder Strong sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PelvicMax sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Bladder Strong versus PelvicMax: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBladder StrongPelvicMax
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB4 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperPelvic Power Inc.Quantum Solutions d.o.o.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Bladder Strong

One-time1
  • Full Program Unlock$99.99
1 purchases

PelvicMax

Subscriptions1
  • PelvicMax Pro$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Bladder Strong free?
Bladder Strong is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PelvicMax free?
PelvicMax is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bladder Strong or PelvicMax have ads?
Neither Bladder Strong nor PelvicMax shows ads.

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