Plush Pilates vs Cadence
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plush Pilates
This app helps Pilates instructors plan classes, manage clients, and organize their business. It offers a comprehensive exercise library, client tracking, invoicing, and a community forum for professionals.
- Class Builder with exercise library
- Client Management
- Customizable Exercise Flows
- Integrated Calendar
- Invoicing and Payment Tracking
- Community Feed for Instructors
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Plush Pilates — Built for Instructors, by Instructors Whether you're running a busy studio or teaching private sessions, Plush Pilates gives you everything you need to plan, organise, and grow your Pilates business from one beautifully designed app. Class Builder Create detailed class plans in minutes. With over 200 exercises, choose from a comprehensive exercise library covering Reformer, Mat, Cadillac, Wunda Chair, and Spine Corrector. Each exercise includes spring recommendations, teaching cues, injury alerts, and pregnancy modifications so you can plan with confidence. Save your classes, organise them into folders, and access them anytime. Client Management Keep track of all your clients in one place. Store contact details, session notes, injury history, and preferences. Never walk into a session unprepared again. Flows Build custom exercise flows and save them for quick access. Organise your flows into folders and reuse them across multiple class plans to save time. Calendar Schedule your classes and sessions with a clean, intuitive calendar view. See your upcoming week at a glance and stay on top of your teaching schedule. Invoicing Create and manage invoices directly within the app. Track payments, send invoices to clients, and keep your business finances organised without needing separate software. Studios Manage multiple studio locations with addresses and details all stored in one place. Community Feed Connect with Pilates professionals from around the world. Share class plans, exchange ideas, post tips, and discover new exercises from other instructors. Follow your favourite professionals and build your network. The community feed is moderated with automated content filtering to keep the space professional and welcoming. Custom Exercises Create your own exercises to add alongside the built-in library. Personalise your class plans with exercises unique to your teaching style. Beautiful Themes Make the app your own with three carefully crafted themes — Blush, Noir, and Rose. Switch between them anytime to match your mood or style. Achievements Track your milestones as you build classes, grow your client list, and engage with the community. Celebrate your progress as a Pilates professional. Free and Pro Plans Get started for free with access to core features. Upgrade to Plush Pro to unlock unlimited classes, clients, flows, studios, invoices, calendar events, custom exercises, full community feed access, all three themes, and detailed exercise information including spring recommendations, teaching cues, injury alerts, and pregnancy modifications. Plush Pro is available as a monthly or annual subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription automatically renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://plushpilates.com.au/privacy Terms of Use: https://plushpilates.com.au/terms
Cadence
This app helps movement instructors lead classes hands-free by syncing class timing, sequences, and cues to their Apple Watch. Build custom routines with detailed notes and transitions, and deliver polished sessions without needing to check your phone.
- Hands-free class leading
- Apple Watch sync
- Custom routine builder
- At-a-glance timing
- Tactile haptic cues
- Custom form prompts
- Offline class execution
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Teach the room, not the clock. Cadence is the class timer for instructors. Pilates first, and just as at home in barre, yoga, HIIT, bootcamp, and personal training. Plan the flow once on iPhone, then teach it from your Apple Watch, your iPhone propped on the reformer, or an iPad the whole room can read. It shows the current move, your private cue, and what is next, and taps you before every transition. Your eyes stay on your clients. Plan the class once • Name each move, set the seconds, and add the coaching cue only you see. • Color-code warm-up, work, and cool-down so the runner reads at a glance. • Repeat a block for rounds, rest between them, and open with a Get Ready countdown (Cadence Pro). • Start from a template: a 45-minute reformer flow, a 50-minute mat class, a 30-minute private, a 45-minute barre class, Tabata, HIIT, a five-station circuit, EMOM. • Tag routines Mat, Reformer, Private, Barre, Yoga, HIIT, or Strength and filter the library by class format. • Duplicate and remix any routine. Bring in the plans you already have (Cadence Pro) • Paste straight from Google Sheets, Excel, Numbers, or Notes. Cadence reads the moves, times, and cues and shows you a review before anything is saved. • Open CSV and tab-separated files. • Send a routine to a colleague as a link or a CSV. They open it in Cadence. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. Teach from whatever is closest • Apple Watch: current move, countdown, up next, and step count, with a tap at every change and five seconds before it. Pause, skip, redo a step, or end early from your wrist. • iPhone: the same view, big enough to prop on the reformer. Focus mode strips it down to the move and the time. • iPad: turn it sideways for a studio display, countdown and cue on one side, the full routine on the other. • Lock the screen so a stray touch cannot skip a move. Hold to unlock. • The Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show the current step and countdown, with pause and skip buttons (Cadence Pro). Cues the way you want them, or not at all • Everything is silent until you turn it on. • Haptics, plus a chime, beep, or bell at each step, a warning near the end, and a finish tone. • Voice cues read the move and your coaching cue aloud (Cadence Pro). • Halfway cues for longer holds. • Keep running when locked, with play, pause, and skip from AirPods or the Lock Screen. • Music from other apps dips while a cue plays, then comes back. Quick Intervals on Apple Watch (Cadence Pro) Set work, rest, and rounds on your wrist and start without the phone. Compound routines (Cadence Pro) Chain a warm-up, a main block, and a cool-down into one class that runs start to finish. Siri and Shortcuts "Hey Siri, start Thursday Reformer in Cadence." Count classes, not minutes Cadence keeps a tally of the classes you teach and marks the milestones along the way: 10 classes, 100 classes, a 12-week streak. Four looks Choose the appearance that suits your studio, from a dark boutique look to a light serif one. Your Watch follows. Free and Pro Cadence is free with up to 2 active routines, templates, step colors, sound alerts, and headphone controls. Cadence Pro adds unlimited routines, archiving, import and export, rounds, share links, the Lock Screen timer, voice cues, compound routines, and Quick Intervals for $9.99 a month after a 7-day free trial, or $59.99 a year. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Terms of Use: https://cadencetimer.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://cadencetimer.ai/privacy Cadence sends anonymous usage analytics: no account, no name, nothing about your routines.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Plush Pilates at daily against Cadence's weekly. Plush Pilates also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Cadence's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Plush Pilates sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Cadence sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Plush Pilates against 5.0 for Cadence. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Plush Pilates ships an update daily, Cadence weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Plush Pilates | Cadence |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kai Taylor | True AI Ventures |
Customer experience
Plush Pilates
Cadence
In-app purchases
Plush Pilates
- Plush Pro Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Plush Pro Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
Cadence
- Cadence Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Cadence Pro Yearly$59.991 Year









