Comparison

Flowstone vs AbForge

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

Head to head
About

Flowstone

This app offers a sanctuary for your nervous system, heart, and family life. It provides guided breathing, meditation, journaling, and calming soundscapes to help you find peace and regulate emotions. Designed for all ages, it aims to make emotional well-being accessible to everyone.

Highlights
  • Guided breathing exercises
  • Hundreds of guided meditations
  • Calming soundscapes
  • Private journaling
  • Heart Check feature
  • Age-specific experiences
  • Storm Shelter for immediate support
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You don't need another app competing for your attention. You deserve a place that helps you come home to yourself. Flowstone is a sanctuary for your nervous system, your heart, your family, and your everyday life. Through guided breathing, meditation, reflection, emotional learning, journaling, calming soundscapes, and practical tools grounded in both science and lived, human experience, Flowstone helps you create moments of peace that ripple into every part of your life. Whether your sanctuary is prayer, nature, quiet reflection, mindfulness, gratitude, or simply one intentional breath, Flowstone creates space to pause, regulate, reconnect, and move forward with greater clarity. Created by humans who care deeply about humans. Flowstone was never intended to be another meditation app. It was built through the combined wisdom of an extraordinary team that believes emotional wellbeing should be accessible to everyone. Behind Flowstone are entrepreneurs, engineers, educators, counselors, veterans, parents, scientists, leadership coaches, developers, artists, creatives, agriculture and biology professionals, and lifelong learners who have spent decades helping people navigate life, relationships, business, trauma, growth, and change. Together we've led organizations, classrooms, families, nonprofits, startups, healing communities, and movements. Every meditation. Every breathing practice. Every reflection. Every feature. Was created with one simple question: "Will this genuinely make someone's life a little easier today?" One app. Every generation. Most wellness apps are designed for one person. Flowstone was designed for entire families. Children learn emotional language through stories, movement, and playful experiences. Teenagers discover practical tools for stress, confidence, relationships, identity, and emotional resilience. Adults gain a growing library of meditations, nervous system practices, journals, soundscapes, leadership reflections, and tools that support everyday wellbeing. One household. One subscription. One place where everyone belongs. Features you'll return to every day • Guided breathing that meets you one breath at a time • Hundreds of guided meditations • Sleep, focus, confidence, grief, joy, stress relief, and emotional regulation • Custom calming soundscapes • Private journaling • Heart Check using your phone's camera • Pattern Mirror to recognize emotional trends over time • Your personal Flowstone that gently celebrates practice without streaks, pressure, or guilt • Age-specific experiences for children, teens, and adults • Accessibility features designed to meet you where you are The Storm Shelter Some moments simply ask for support. Panic. Grief. Anger. Fear. Overwhelm. The Storm Shelter provides immediate grounding practices whenever they're needed. For children, it also helps connect them with a trusted adult. Because support during life's hardest moments should never sit behind a paywall. More than content. The internet already contains endless information. Transformation comes through practice. Flowstone isn't about collecting more knowledge. It's about building small daily habits that strengthen emotional resilience, deepen self-awareness, improve relationships, and create space for the life you actually want to live. One breath. One pause. One conversation. One family. One generation at a time. Wherever you are on your journey, Flowstone offers a place to begin again. Welcome home. Flowstone supports wellbeing, not medical care. In a crisis, contact emergency services or a professional. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Premium (one person) and Family (up to 6 family members) begin with a 7-day free trial: monthly Premium 19.99 / Family 29.99 USD, or yearly 199 / 299 USD. Per Apple policy, the subscription renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Billed to your Apple ID; cancel in Account Settings. Terms: https://flowstoneapp.com/terms Privacy: https://flowstoneapp.com/privacy

About

AbForge

This app analyzes your abdomen from a photo to identify your weakest core muscle group. It then creates a personalized workout and nutrition plan to help you achieve your fitness goals. Track your progress with scans, workout streaks, and recovery days.

Highlights
  • Personalized ab routines
  • Body fat estimation
  • Targeted weakest zone training
  • Video exercise demonstrations
  • Guided workout sessions
  • Nutrition tracking
  • Progress visualization
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Most ab routines treat your core as one muscle. It is not. Upper abs, lower abs, obliques and deep core develop at different rates, and the weakest one caps how the whole set looks. AbForge finds that zone and builds around it. HOW IT WORKS Take one photo of your abdomen. AbForge scores your zones separately, estimates your body fat, and tells you which zone is holding the rest back. Rescan whenever you want to see what moved. WHAT YOU GET A routine that targets your weakest zone Your plan is built from your scan, your training frequency and where you train. It rotates as you complete workouts, so you are not repeating the same four exercises forever. Fourteen exercises, every one on video No guessing at form from a static drawing. Each exercise plays a demo you can watch mid set. A guided session, not a list Countdown, timer, rest between sets, swap an exercise you cannot do today. The camera can count your crunch reps if you want it to, and you log the rest yourself. Nutrition that follows the same numbers Calorie and macro targets calculated from your body and your goal. Log a meal by photo, by barcode, or by search. Progress you can see Scan history, workout streak, rank tiers, and a recovery day when your core needs one. SUBSCRIPTION AbForge requires a subscription. Prices are shown in your local currency inside the app before you buy. Monthly: $11.99 per month Annual: $34.99 per year Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renewal is turned off 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. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings at any time. Deleting the app does not cancel the subscription. AbForge is for adults. Subscribing and using the body scan require you to be 18 or older. AbForge is a fitness tool, not a medical device. The scores it produces are visual estimates, not clinical measurements. Talk to a doctor before starting any training or nutrition program. Privacy Policy: https://abforge.online/privacy Terms of Use: https://abforge.online/terms

Screenshots

Flowstone4 screens
AbForge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Flowstone at free against AbForge's subscription. Flowstone also leads on ads (none vs shown) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Flowstone sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and AbForge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Flowstone against 5.0 for AbForge. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flowstone ships an update every 10 days, AbForge weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Flowstone versus AbForge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlowstoneAbForge
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings34 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size293 MB19 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperThe Nest GroupGabriel Quadros

Customer experience

Flowstone

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

AbForge

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Flowstone

Subscriptions4
  • Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Family7 Days trial$29.991 Month
  • Premium$199.991 Year
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  • Family$299.991 Year
2 purchases

AbForge

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$11.991 Month
  • Yearly$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Flowstone free?
Flowstone is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AbForge free?
AbForge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Flowstone or AbForge?
Flowstone and AbForge are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Flowstone or AbForge have ads?
AbForge shows ads; Flowstone does not.
Which is updated more often, Flowstone or AbForge?
Flowstone ships an update every 10 days, and AbForge weekly. Most recently, Flowstone was updated on September 20, 2026 and AbForge on September 17, 2026.

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