Comparison

Start Stretching vs OCoach

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

Head to head
About

Start Stretching

Improve your physical flexibility with guided stretches designed for beginners. This app offers simple instructions and a built-in timer to make daily stretching convenient. Track your progress and integrate with your health app to monitor your fitness journey.

Highlights
  • Beginner-level stretches
  • Easy-to-follow graphics and instructions
  • Configurable stretch durations
  • Built-in timer
  • Health app integration
  • Statistics tracking
  • Automatic stretch cycling
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Start Stretching is a stretching coach intended for healthy individuals who are seeking to improve their physical flexibility. The app is an entry point into the world of flexibility training for anyone with the capability to perform a few basic movements. The app features a routine of beginner level stretches designed to help people improve their health and mobility, whether you have a minute or 10 to spare each day. Simple graphics with easy to follow instructions and a built-in timer make stretching convenient. Integration with the Health app allows tracking stretching time as a workout. ---------------------------------------- Why Stretch With Start Stretching? ---------------------------------------- - Basic stretches, clearly described – both textually and graphically - Configurable stretch durations for difficulty adjustment - Integration with the Health app to record your stretching workouts - Statistics tracking - Stretch hold length timing - Automatic cycling through the stretch routine

About

OCoach

Create and follow personalized workout plans for Yoga, HIIT, rehab, and more with a unique voice-coaching system. Features customizable timers, scheduling, and motivational achievements to encourage daily movement.

Highlights
  • Customizable workout plan creation
  • Live voice-coach guidance
  • HIIT timer
  • Plan scheduler and reminders
  • Active workday movement prompts
  • Trophy achievements and streaks
  • Community workout sharing
Features
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O'Coach/OCoach app lets you create and execute fully customizable Yoga, HIIT, Injury Rehab, Sports Conditioning, Warmup and Cooldown etc workout plans with its unique Live Voice-Coach guidance system! It is especially useful for endurance athletes like long distance runners, yoga practitioners, physiotherapists, sports trainers and busy working professionals! Key features of the O'Coach custom workout planner app are: - A very easy and quick to use High Intensity Interval Training timer (HIIT) - Fully customizable workout plans for Yoga self-practice, Stretching, Tabata, Rehab etc - Fully customizable plan scheduler and reminder alerts for injury rehabilitation, sports conditioning, physical therapy and physiotherapy programs - Customize length of each exercise set, rest, warmup and cooldown - Add a repetition counter for effective tempo training - Add custom voice instruction per exercise ACTIVE WORKDAY REVOLUTION: O'Coach amongst other features, also brings to you the "Active Workday Revolution" - a set of exercises that should be done by everybody, everyday despite your age or fitness levels. It motivates and helps you to get up from your desk or otherwise routines every few hrs and do a quick 2-5mins workout with your colleagues/friends/family. THE PROBLEM Our modern lifestyles - long sitting hours, slouching over desk/laptop/phone, long driving hours etc - continually disrupt the natural bio-mechanical balance of our bodies! We are simply carrying the daily accumulating effects of this unnatural lifestyle into everything we do, including our workouts! THE SOLUTION Do not let it accumulate! Simple! Do not let the stress of these unnatural positions accumulate for more than a few hrs continually. We should aim to get up from our desks every few hrs during the day and give our bodies the gift of simple but essential 2-5 minutes natural movement workouts! More features: - Natural Movement Program - In-built essential natural movements program to counter the ill-effects of unavoidable modern sedentary lifestyles - All these programs are less than 5 minutes in time and can be done anywhere - Especially designed to be done a few times everyday, even while at work, so as to counter those long sitting hours - Trophy achievements and streaks - Receive a Silver Trophy every time you do even a single small workout - Get rewarded by the elusive Golden Trophy when you do 3 small workouts spread thorough the day, totaling a minimum of 15 minutes - Proudly show your mobility/activity streak and a be a fitness hero amongst your friends - Community gameplay - View workout updates from people across the globe - Create your own networks/gangs/groups and target those fitness goals together - Post your workout completion achievements and trophies to community and spread some motivation Key definitions: HIIT: High-intensity interval training (HIIT) is a form of interval training, a cardiovascular exercise strategy alternating short periods of intense anaerobic exercise with less intense recovery periods, until too exhausted to continue. Tempo Training: Tempo training is adding constant and measured speed into the workout. It helps in building more muscles, increasing strength and burning fat fast. The purpose of tempo training is to hold the worked muscle under positive tension simulation for longer period at a steady speed. But then, keeping a tab of either time or repetitions mentally takes our focus away from the essential aspects like breathing and form etc. And that is where the unique Live Voice-Coach feature of the O'Coach app really comes into play! Read our privacy policy at https://vaskut.ai/privacy Read our terms of use at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Start Stretching4 screens
OCoach4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Start Stretching at 4.6 against OCoach's 4.1. Start Stretching also leads on ratings volume (3.5K vs 15). OCoach's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Start Stretching sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and OCoach sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $49.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Start Stretching holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Start Stretching has 3.5K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 80% and 80% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Start Stretching ships an update every 4 months, OCoach monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Start Stretching versus OCoach: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStart StretchingOCoach
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (3.5K ratings) — better4.1 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews79.8% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.5K — better15
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.012.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB65 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperYogasoft ApplicationsVaskut

Customer experience

Start Stretching

All ratings3,509 ratings
Positive90.7%
Neutral4.3%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews242 reviews
Positive79.8%
Neutral5.0%
Negative15.3%

OCoach

All ratings15 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%

Bugs and requests

Start Stretching

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Occasional freezing or looping issues
  • Inconsistent behavior with left/right stretch variations

Requested features

4 requests
  • More stretching exercises and routines
  • Ability to create custom stretching programs
  • Guided audio or video instructions
  • Integration with fitness tracking apps

OCoach

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Start Stretching

One-time1
  • Start Stretching Premium$1.99
1 purchases

OCoach

Subscriptions1
  • O'Coach Premium Features$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Start Stretching free?
Start Stretching is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is OCoach free?
OCoach is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Start Stretching or OCoach?
Start Stretching is rated higher. Start Stretching averages 4.6 out of 5 from 3.5K ratings, while OCoach averages 4.1 from 15 ratings.
Do Start Stretching or OCoach have ads?
Start Stretching shows ads; OCoach does not.
Which is updated more often, Start Stretching or OCoach?
Start Stretching ships an update every 4 months, and OCoach monthly. Most recently, Start Stretching was updated on October 14, 2026 and OCoach on October 1, 2026.

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