Comparison

Showup vs Winter Arc

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

Head to head
About

Showup

Features
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Showup is one app for your whole training group โ€” workouts, bookings, memberships, and the community around them. It could be your gym, your box, your team, or just you. No separate apps for coaches, owners, or athletes. One app, every role. CREATE YOUR OWN SPACE You don't need to be a gym owner or a coach. Anyone can create a space, build a squad, program workouts, and train together โ€” from anywhere. Bring your crew, set the workouts, and get after it. TRACK EVERY WORKOUT Record scores for any workout type โ€” time, reps, weight, or distance. See where you stand on the leaderboard alongside your fellow members. SHARE WORKOUTS ACROSS SPACES Run the same WOD with another gym or training group, share a single leaderboard, and see how everyone did โ€” no matter where they trained. BOOK CLASSES Run a schedule your members can book into. Set the capacity for each class, and let the waitlist fill an empty spot automatically when someone cancels. MANAGE MEMBERSHIPS Give each member a plan with its own credits and duration. Put a membership on hold when someone travels or gets injured, and the expiry moves out by the same number of days. STAY CONNECTED Post to your community, react to each other's scores, and get notified when a new workout drops or someone responds to yours. BUILD YOUR PERSONAL RECORDS Keep a running log of your PRs across lifts, gymnastics, and cardio. Track your progress over time with detailed history for every movement. BENCHMARK YOUR FITNESS Compare yourself against standardized benchmarks. See how your numbers measure up and watch yourself improve. SHARE YOUR SCORES Finished a workout? Share your score along with photos or videos directly to your social media. Show the world what you did today. YOUR PROFILE, YOUR IDENTITY Claim a unique @username. Showcase your workout history, personal records, and benchmarks on your profile. Available in English, Korean, and German.

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Winter Arc

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YOUR RULES Before day one you write your own rules. Three to seven of them, small enough to do on your worst day. Your rules can change whenever your life does: add one, drop one or reword one on any day, and the days you have already held stay exactly as you held them. WHO YOU ARE BECOMING Four stats, BODY, MIND, GRIND and IRON, drawn from the rules you actually wrote. Watch the shape change across ninety days. The most honest picture of a season you will get, you never chose the numbers, you chose the habits. EVERY DAY YOU SHOWED UP Tap the day number for your calendar: every day you held, every shield that covered you, every day still to come. DAY 90 Add a progress photo whenever you want. They stay on your phone, nowhere else. On the final day they play back as a summit montage, first day to last, beside everything you held and banked. THE MOUNTAIN Your home screen is a climb, not a list. Every day you hold your rules the climber moves up the face, past the treeline, onto the ridge, into the summit push. START ANY DAY Missed October 1? Nothing is lost. Pick your start date when you set up, today or any day ahead, and the app builds the same climb, the same camps and the same summit from there. A winter arc that starts on November 3 is still a winter arc. THE DAILY CHECK-IN The work is yours: the training, the pages, the early nights. Logging it is the quick part. Open the app, tick what you did, close it. Change your mind any time the same day; nothing is final until the day is. STREAK SHIELDS Miss a day and a shield goes instead of your arc. Your gear covers it and the climb continues. No red screen, no broken chain, no starting again from zero. WEEKLY BOSSES Each camp opens a challenge built from your own rules: one of them before 6am, seven days in a row, or done somewhere that is not home. Complete it and you bank a streak shield. Skip it and nothing changes. A challenge is an offer, never an obligation. AURA AND RANKS Every rule you close banks aura, and aura carries you through five ranks: Basecamp, Treeline, Ridgeline, Summit push, Summited. EVERY WEEK CLOSES Seven days make a camp, and each one ends with a recap of what you actually did rather than what you meant to do. Hold every day and the camp is perfect, which banks you a shield. WRITE THE DAY DOWN A line a day, if you want one. A sentence from a book, a note about why it was hard, a photo from the gym. They collect into a private timeline you can scroll back through from day one. A REMINDER THAT KNOWS WHEN TO STOP One nudge at the hour you pick, an optional evening save if the day is still open, and nothing at all once your arc is done. It ends when the season ends. BUILT TO BE LOOKED AT Two themes: Summit, dark and cold and quiet, or Glow, warm and light. Home screen and lock screen widgets so today sits one glance away and one tap from done. PRIVATE No account, no sign up, no feed, no leaderboard. Your arc lives on your phone and in your own iCloud, so it survives a new phone and a reinstall. None of it comes to us. Every screen opens before you decide anything, and Pro starts with a free week for eligible new subscribers, then renews automatically unless cancelled. Terms of Use: https://winterarcchallenge.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://winterarcchallenge.app/privacy

Screenshots

Showup4 screens
Winter Arc4 screens

Verdict

The call

Showup and Winter Arc are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Showup sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Winter Arc sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Showup ships an update every 4 days, Winter Arc every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Showup versus Winter Arc: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShowupWinter Arc
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days โ€” betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size43 MB6 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperShowUp (KR)Moonshot Media Limited

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Showup

Subscriptions10
  • Showup Space S Monthly3 Months trial$9.991 Month
  • Showup Space L Monthly3 Months trial$24.991 Month
  • Showup Space XL Monthly3 Months trial$29.991 Month
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  • Showup Space Max Monthly3 Months trial$34.991 Month
  • Showup Space XS Annual3 Months trial$47.901 Year
  • Showup Space S Annual3 Months trial$95.901 Year
  • Showup Space M Annual3 Months trial$171.991 Year
  • Showup Space L Annual3 Months trial$224.991 Year
  • Showup Space XL Annual3 Months trial$269.991 Year
  • Showup Space Max Annual3 Months trial$314.991 Year
3 purchases

Winter Arc

Subscriptions2
  • Winter Arc Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Winter Arc Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Winter Arc Lifetime$34.99

Questions

Is Showup free?
Showup is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Winter Arc free?
Winter Arc is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Showup or Winter Arc have ads?
Neither Showup nor Winter Arc shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Showup or Winter Arc?
Showup ships an update every 4 days, and Winter Arc every 5 days. Most recently, Showup was updated on October 31, 2026 and Winter Arc on October 31, 2026.

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