StayActive vs Stresso
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StayActive
This AI-powered fitness app creates personalized workout plans based on your available equipment, goals, and schedule. It offers smart tracking, an AI coach, performance reports, and recovery insights to help you progress effectively. Train with friends and sync data from Apple Health.
- AI-generated personalized workout plans
- Smart workout tracking with rest timers
- AI coach for guidance and adjustments
- Monthly performance and recovery reports
- Exercise video demonstrations and form guidance
- Train together with friends
- Apple Health integration
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Tell us what equipment you have. We build the exact workout to match it. StayActive is an AI fitness app made for beginners: the people who walk into a gym, or look at their home setup, with no idea where to start. Check off the equipment you own (dumbbells, a barbell, a bench, a pull-up bar, resistance bands, machines, or nothing at all), tell us your goal and how much time you have, and StayActive builds a real workout around exactly what you've got. Need one session for today? Train now has it ready in seconds. Want a full program? The AI builds a structured, multi-week plan in about a minute. Not a generic template recycled from a library. Training built for you. WHAT STAYACTIVE DOES Train Now: One Workout, Ready in Seconds Answer four quick questions (where you're training, how long you've got, what to focus on, and any injuries) and get a complete session for today, warm-up included. Try another in one tap, save the ones you love, and turn your favourite sessions into a full program when you're ready. AI Workout Planning Tell the app your goals, your equipment, and your schedule, and the AI workout generator builds a structured, progressive plan designed specifically for you. Prefer to plan it yourself? Build your own week, day by day. Your plan adapts as you get stronger. Smart Workout Tracking Log every set, rep and weight with a clean tracker built for the gym floor. Rest timers, RIR tracking, previous-performance display, and personal-record detection, all built in. Meet Vita, Your AI Coach Vita guides you through each session, answers your questions, and adjusts your training over time so you keep progressing instead of plateauing. Monthly Performance Report Every 30 days, Vita analyses your training data and delivers a personal debrief: your grade, your progress vs last month, recovery analysis, a muscle-activation map, and clear coaching recommendations for the month ahead. Recovery Intelligence Track your sleep, resting heart rate, and training load in one place, so you know when to push and when to back off, based on your data, not guesswork. 500+ Exercises Full video demonstrations, muscle targeting, progressive-overload tracking, and form guidance for every exercise in the library. The League and Training Groups Compete on one global weekly leaderboard where everyone starts level every Monday, earn season medals, and cheer on other athletes. Or start a private group with friends and keep each other consistent. Works with Apple Health Connect Apple Health to automatically sync your steps, sleep, and heart-rate data into your recovery dashboard. WHAT YOU'LL NEVER SEE IN STAYACTIVE - Ads - Generic plans built for the "average" person - Your data sold to third parties FREE TO TRAIN Building your plan, tracking your workouts, and training with StayActive is completely free. No trial, no credit card, and no paywall between you and a real workout. The essentials will always be free, whatever your budget. Download StayActive and get your first workout in seconds.
Stresso
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Stresso turns your Apple Health data into a clear daily recovery plan. Instead of checking sleep, workouts, HRV, resting heart rate, stress signals, and supplements in separate places, Stresso brings them together and explains what changed, what matters, and what to do next. Use Stresso to understand your body before you train, work, or push harder. Key features: - Recovery score based on sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, workouts, and recent load - AI Daily Briefing for a quick summary of your readiness and trends - Sleep analysis using Apple Health sleep stages, including REM, awake time, and total sleep - Fitness history with workout days, rest days, workout-to-rest ratio, and training balance - Outdoor workout route maps from Apple Health route data - Stress and wellness trend tracking - Supplement tracking so you can compare routines with recovery changes - AI Training Recommendation for smarter workout decisions - AI chat for follow-up questions about your health and fitness trends - Cached AI insights to avoid repeated analysis when your data has not changed Stresso is built for people who want practical guidance from the data they already collect. Open the app in the morning for a quick recovery check, review sleep and training details when something feels off, and use AI to understand patterns across your week. Apple Health integration: Stresso reads health and workout data only after you grant permission. You stay in control of what data is shared through iOS Health permissions. Important: Stresso is a wellness and self-tracking app. It does not provide medical diagnosis, treatment, or emergency advice. Always speak with a qualified healthcare professional for medical concerns. Terms of Use: https://stresso.app/terms-and-conditions/ Privacy Policy: https://stresso.app/privacy-policy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: StayActive at none against Stresso's 1. StayActive also leads on device support (4 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Stresso sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. StayActive asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | StayActive | Stresso |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Naser Al Zier | Stefan Stanic |
In-app purchases
StayActive
No in-app purchases
Stresso
- Stresso Pro7 Days trial$2.991 Month









