Comparison

WHOOP vs THE LAB

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

Head to head
About

WHOOP

This wearable device and companion app provide in-depth health insights, including sleep, recovery, and strain levels. It offers personalized coaching and recommendations based on your body's unique physiology to help you achieve your health and fitness goals.

Highlights
  • Personalized Sleep Insights
  • Daily Recovery Score
  • Cardiovascular & Muscular Strain Measurement
  • Real-time Stress Score
  • Behavior Tracking & Guidance
  • AI-powered Health Coach
  • Menstrual Cycle Insights
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WHOOP is the leading wearable that turns comprehensive health insights into daily action. By capturing dozens of data points every second, WHOOP delivers personalized Sleep, Strain, Recovery, Stress, and health insights—24/7. WHOOP uses those insights to provide coaching based on your body’s unique physiology and recommends everything from when to go to bed to new daily behaviors that will help you reach your goals. If you’re new to WHOOP, you can try both the wearable and app free for 1 month. Terms and conditions apply. WHOOP is screenless, so all your data lives in the WHOOP app—for a distraction-free focus on your health. The WHOOP app requires a WHOOP wearable. How it works: Healthspan*: A powerful way to quantify your age and slow your Pace of Aging. Backed by leading longevity research, it pinpoints the daily habits that impact your long-term health. Sleep: WHOOP helps you understand how well you sleep each night by measuring your Sleep Performance. Every morning, WHOOP provides a Sleep score from 0 to 100%. Sleep Planner calculates how much sleep you need to recover, tailored to your habits, schedule, and goals. You can even set a Haptic Alarm that wakes when you're fully rested, or at a specific time, with gentle vibration. Quality sleep is essential for improving your healthspan, metabolic mental resilience, recovery, and performance. Recovery: WHOOP lets you know how ready you are to perform by measuring your heart rate variability, resting heart rate, sleep, and respiratory rate. You'll get a daily Recovery score on a scale of 1 to 99%. When you're in the green, you're ready for strain, when you're in the yellow or red, you may want to evaluate your training program. Strain: WHOOP does more than just track your activity–it measures cardiovascular and muscular exertion to give you the most comprehensive view of the demands you put on your body. Each day, Strain Target will provide a Strain score from 0 to 21 and recommend your optimal target exertion range based on your Recovery score. Stress: WHOOP gives you daily insights to pinpoint your stressors, understand your physiological response, and discover techniques to help manage. Get a real-time stress score from 0-3 and, based on your score, choose a breathwork session to enhance your alertness or increase relaxation. Behaviors: WHOOP tracks over 160+ daily habits and behaviors—like alcohol intake, medication, and more—to better understand how these behaviors impact your body. WHOOP provides weekly guidance for behavior change and helps set accountability goals with the Journal and Weekly Plan features. WHOOP Coach: Ask questions about your health & fitness and get highly personalized, on-demand answers. Using your unique biometric data, the latest performance science, and generative AI, WHOOP Coach generates responses on everything from training plans to why you’re feeling tired. Menstrual Cycle Insights: Go beyond period tracking to better understand your fifth vital sign and get tailored cycle-based insights. What else you can do in the WHOOP app: • Dig into the details: See heart rate zones, VO₂ Max, steps, and more trends over time to adjust your behaviors, training, sleep and more based on your goals. • Join a team: Stay motivated and accountable by joining a team. Chat directly with your teammates in the app, or as a coach, see how your team's training is going. • Apple Health: WHOOP integrates with Apple's Health app to sync activities and personalize your experience. WHOOP provides products and services designed for general fitness and wellness purposes. WHOOP products and services are not medical devices, not intended to treat or diagnose any disease, and should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. All content available through WHOOP products and services is for general informational purposes only. Discover the future of health and performance. *Some availability restrictions apply.

About

THE LAB

This app provides a fitness hub with three distinct workout concepts: Strength, Cycle, and Sweat. It fosters a community-driven environment that integrates fitness, creativity, and personal growth, encouraging users to push beyond perceived limits. Seamlessly connect your favorite health devices and apps for comprehensive goal tracking.

Highlights
  • Three fitness concepts: Strength, Cycle, Sweat
  • Community and creativity integration
  • Connects with Apple Health, Fitbit, Garmin, and more
  • Comprehensive fitness goal tracking
  • Inclusive and empowering environment
Features
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Designed with high-performance living in mind, The LAB is about people. A unique hub offering 3 different fitness concepts, Strength, Sycle & Sweat. An ecosystem blending fitness, creativity, and community all in an inclusive space. Here, you’ll discover there are no such things as limits in all areas of life. For the people, by the people. Connect all your favorite apps and devices (Apple Health, Fitbit, Garmin, MapMyFitness, MyFitnessPal, Polar, RunKeeper, Strava, Swimtag and Withings) to track your fitness goals.

Screenshots

WHOOP4 screens
THE LAB4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: THE LAB at 100% against WHOOP's 41%. THE LAB also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). WHOOP's advantage is ratings volume (80K vs 7) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

THE LAB holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WHOOP has 80K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of WHOOP's written reviews are positive against 100% of THE LAB's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WHOOP ships an update weekly, THE LAB monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
WHOOP versus THE LAB: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWHOOPTHE LAB
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (80K ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings80K — better7
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
Best chart rank#51 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size497 MB117 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperWHOOPLAB STUDIOS MEN PHYSICAL FITNESS CLUB CO

Customer experience

WHOOP

All ratings79,575 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral1.5%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews1,742 reviews
Positive40.7%
Neutral11.4%
Negative47.9%

THE LAB

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

WHOOP

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Strap disconnecting frequently from app
  • Inconsistent and unreliable data tracking
  • App crashes and performance issues

Requested features

4 requests
  • Improved sleep and recovery suggestions
  • Better integration with other fitness apps and devices
  • More customization options for tracking
  • Ability to manually log activities and workouts

THE LAB

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

WHOOP

No in-app purchases

None

THE LAB

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WHOOP free?
WHOOP is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is THE LAB free?
THE LAB is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, WHOOP or THE LAB?
THE LAB is rated higher. WHOOP averages 4.8 out of 5 from 80K ratings, while THE LAB averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do WHOOP or THE LAB have ads?
Neither WHOOP nor THE LAB shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WHOOP or THE LAB?
WHOOP ships an update weekly, and THE LAB monthly. Most recently, WHOOP was updated on September 25, 2026 and THE LAB on September 4, 2026.

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