Comparison

MoveToPlay vs Salient Performance

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

Head to head
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MoveToPlay

Features
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Kids do kid-scaled workouts and chores. Minutes go in the bank โ€” they never expire. Spend them on timed play you choose. HOW IT WORKS Kids complete real movements โ€” strength, balance, cardio, and recovery โ€” plus chores you approve. Completed activities and chores both bank minutes, and both count toward the weekly maximum you set. Once banked, those minutes never expire: no midnight wipe, no weekly reset, no use-it-or-lose-it. When they've saved enough, they spend them on a timed play session you've set up โ€” a game, an app, whatever you picked as the reward. Offer two or three session lengths. If they stop early, unused minutes return to the bank. ON APPLE WATCH Exercises, instructions, and rep tracking run natively on Apple Watch. A kid can finish a full quest without picking up iPhone or iPad. AT A GLANCE A home screen widget on iPhone or iPad shows the current bank without opening the app. Start a play session and a Live Activity puts a running countdown on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. SIBLINGS WELCOME MoveToPlay supports more than one child in a family, each with their own bank, quests, progression, and reward history, kept fully separate from each other. A child's own device always shows their own data โ€” nothing about one kid's progress is visible to another. Alongside Family Sharing, a parent can also connect a second phone or iPad with a short pairing code from the dashboard, no child Apple ID required. PARENT CONTROLS A PIN-protected parent dashboard stays separate from what the child sees. You decide exactly how much each chore is worth, an overall dial for how much activities pay out, a weekly maximum on what a child earns through their own effort โ€” activities, walking and chores together (a daily baseline and any bonus you give sit outside it), whether a guaranteed daily baseline is credited even on quiet days, and exactly which play sessions exist. These rules apply across your whole family โ€” one set of dials, not one per child. Chore templates fill in a title and a suggested reward so you're not starting from a blank box. Minutes are the only thing a child earns, and minutes buy everything. Parents and grandparents can log real-world rewards โ€” a movie night, a trip to the mall, extra allowance โ€” and you set what each costs in minutes. One currency, one bank. BUILT FOR KID BODIES Movements include honest regressions, like a chair-supported squat, instead of pretending every kid should hit a full squat on day one. If something hurt, the child can report it. The parent dashboard groups those pain reports from the last two weeks by activity, body region, and category. Calm Mode is a parent toggle that turns off full-screen celebrations, haptics, and bounce animations for kids who find them overstimulating. Exercise demos still show the movement. PROGRESS THAT'S ACTUALLY TRUE A Move Buddy grows with real effort. A Journey Map spans 104 weeks. A Badge Shelf tracks mastery tiers earned through repetition. Rank and XP mark how far they've come. If it didn't happen, it isn't shown. WHAT'S FREE AND WHAT'S PREMIUM Premium is required to use MoveToPlay past the 14-day trial โ€” a subscription (or lifetime purchase) unlocks the full app for your family. Family Sharing means one purchase covers the kids in your family group; a pairing code works too, without Family Sharing. Family progress, minutes, and reward rules sync over iCloud. HOW WE DON'T BUILD No ads. No fabricated streaks. No guilt messages. No dark patterns that shove a kid back into the app. We'd rather a quiet Tuesday than a fake chain they were afraid to break. MoveToPlay is kids fitness and chore rewards for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch โ€” not a GPS family locator, and not a camera motion-game. Built by Duke & Duke, a small independent studio making the app we'd want our own kids using. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://dukeandduke.uk/privacy/

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Salient Performance

Features
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Download the Salient Performance app today to manage your account on the go.

Screenshots

MoveToPlay4 screens
Salient Performance3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Salient Performance at none against MoveToPlay's 3. Salient Performance also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). MoveToPlay's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads 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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. MoveToPlay sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Salient Performance asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MoveToPlay ships an update every 3 days, Salient Performance every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
MoveToPlay versus Salient Performance: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMoveToPlaySalient Performance
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days โ€” betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size21 MB191 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDuke & DukeSalient Performance LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

MoveToPlay

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly14 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Annual14 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$19.99
None

Salient Performance

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MoveToPlay free?
MoveToPlay is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Salient Performance free?
Salient Performance is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MoveToPlay or Salient Performance have ads?
Neither MoveToPlay nor Salient Performance shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MoveToPlay or Salient Performance?
MoveToPlay ships an update every 3 days, and Salient Performance every 2 weeks. Most recently, MoveToPlay was updated on October 10, 2026 and Salient Performance on October 11, 2026.

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