Parallel vs MinervaOS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Parallel
Record and analyze your squat form to improve depth and consistency. Get instant feedback on your angle and rep count. Optimize your training with detailed insights.
- Squat depth analysis
- Rep counting
- Consistency scoring
- Form angle measurement
- Quick analysis
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Film and analyze your squat. Get back your depth angle, rep count and consistency score in under a minute.
MinervaOS
This app provides a comprehensive calorie tracking system, calculating both intake and expenditure. It offers personalized burn estimates based on your data and supports numerous wearables for accurate workout tracking. Users can also engage with a social community and view fitness trends over time.
- Comprehensive calorie tracking
- Personalized calorie burn calculation
- Wearable device integration
- Workout data recalculation
- Social fitness community
- Fitness trend analysis
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MinervaOS Is The Only Truly Comprehensive Calorie Tracker. You can track your calories in, and through our custom formulas you can track your whole burn. From your BMR to the calories used digesting food, MinervaOS does it all, and it learns you over time, creating a personalized burn for you, for more accuracy as you log. 49 wearables supported, recalculating raw workout data to give better estimates for your workouts. Social community, trends over time, MinervaOS offers an extremely comprehensive view into your fitness life. MinervaOS requires a subscription to access all features: $9.99 per month or $69.99 per year, each with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Parallel at none against MinervaOS's 1. Parallel also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). MinervaOS's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and device support 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. MinervaOS sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month. Parallel asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Parallel against 5.0 for MinervaOS. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MinervaOS has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Parallel ships an update every 2 days, MinervaOS every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Parallel | MinervaOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 91 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | KRISTIN,WARLTIER AUSTIN | Brizo Finance LLC |
Customer experience
Parallel
MinervaOS
In-app purchases
Parallel
No in-app purchases
MinervaOS
- Minerva Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
