Richards Muscle Lab vs Steady Flame
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Richards Muscle Lab
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A personalised fitness and nutrition app designed specifically for FIFO workers and tradies. Built to fit around long shifts, changing rosters, camp living, and busy schedules, the app helps you stay consistent with training, nutrition, recovery, and routine both onsite and at home. Access structured workout programs, practical nutrition guidance, habit tracking, and progress monitoring tailored to your goals, experience level, and available equipment. Whether your focus is fat loss, muscle building, improving energy, or creating better routines, the app provides a simple and sustainable system designed for real FIFO lifestyles. Features * Personalised training programs * FIFO friendly nutrition guidance * Progress tracking * Habit and routine tracking * Gym and minimal equipment options * Flexible programs built around your roster * Onsite and at home support * Designed specifically for FIFO workers * FIFO community of like minded users Built for mining, oil & gas, construction, and shift based workers. Stay consistent. Train with structure. Build long term results.
Steady Flame
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Steady Flame is a calm, secular daily practice for building the qualities of great humans โ made practiceable by anyone. You build one quality at a time through a gentle daily loop. THE DAILY LOOP โข Morning โ set an intention and read one short, one-minute lesson. โข Through the day โ carry one small practice into real life. โข Evening โ an honest reflection. No grading, ever. Just an honest look. NINE QUALITIES Equanimity, Self-Discipline, Courage, Presence, Equanimous Action, Purpose, Integrity, Compassion, and Joy & Lightness โ each a guided Season of daily practice, drawn from Stoicism, Buddhism, Confucianism, the Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads, and modern psychology, in plain human language. A PATH YOU CAN SEE Your season lays out day by day. Complete a day and the next one opens โ and your flame grows, from a small ember to a steady fire. Miss a day and nothing is lost: begin again, right where you are. A MINUTE OF STILLNESS A guided two-minute breathing practice for whenever you need to steady yourself, with ten original meditation soundscapes โ Eastern and Western, from Tibetan singing bowls to slow cello โ one for each kind of day. GUIDES, NOT IDOLS Meet real people who embodied each quality โ Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thich Nhat Hanh, and more โ taught honestly, flaws and all. SECULAR BY DEFAULT A framing toggle lets you add spiritual language where it deepens, or leave it off entirely. Secular is always the default; the toggle only ever adds. AN OPTIONAL AI MENTOR Off by default. If you want a companion for your practice, you can add your own Anthropic API key and chat with a calm mentor that knows your focus and recent reflections. It is the app's only online feature โ and it stays off unless you turn it on. BUILT TO RESPECT YOU โข No streak-shaming. Miss a day? Begin again, right where you are. โข One gentle daily reminder โ easily turned off. No nags, no manipulation. โข No infinite scroll, no badges, no fake urgency. โข Private by design: no account, no sign-in, no analytics. Your practice stays on your device. A steady inner fire โ neither dying down, nor burning out.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Richards Muscle Lab at 15.1 against Steady Flame's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Richards Muscle Lab | Steady Flame |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | richards muscle lab pty ltd | Sagar Shahi |
In-app purchases
Richards Muscle Lab
No in-app purchases
Steady Flame
No in-app purchases






