Comparison

PT Distinction vs OSTEO

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

Head to head
About

PT Distinction

This app connects clients with their personal trainers, allowing them to access training programs, assessments, and coaching. Clients can also record exercise technique videos and track their results directly within the application.

Highlights
  • View training programs
  • Access assessments and coaching
  • Track progress and results
  • Record exercise technique videos
  • Communicate with trainer via messages
Features
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PT Distinction is the industry leading personal training software designed for world class personal trainers and their clients. This app is for clients of trainers who use PT Distinction to accompany their training. Clients can only use the app if they are working with a trainer who uses PT Distinction. If you're a client, ask your trainer for your account details so you can login to this app. Features - View your training programs, assessments, coaching, tracking, and messages in app. - Video your exercise technique, record results quickly and respond to messages.

About

OSTEO

This program offers a 52-week bone strengthening exercise plan for pre-menopausal women aged 31-50. It includes pre-conditioning and stretching routines, with daily 3-5 minute osteogenic exercises designed to improve hip and lumbar spine bone density.

Highlights
  • 52-week bone health program
  • Pre-conditioning routines
  • Stretching exercises
  • Daily 3-5 minute workouts
  • Progress tracking
  • Osteogenic exercises
Features
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You can build and strengthen your bones with our OSTEO-GAINS Bone Health Program Year One. Proven for pre-menopausal women from 31-50 years of age to effectively stimulate bone to benefit your hips and lumbar spine over 52-weeks. The OSTEO-GAINS Bone Health Program Year One costs US$24.99 for 12-months access. No free trial is offered with the Bone Health Program. Once you download and register for the App, you get FREE access to the Pre-Conditioning Program and FREE access to the Stretching Program. Future access, e.g., Bone Health Year One or Bone Health Year Two, will require manual separate payments of US$24.99 for Year One or $28.99 for Year Two. Subscriptions do not auto-renew annually. ONE: Prepare Start with our OSTEO-GAINS Pre-Conditioning Program for the first 4 weeks. You will repeat each session (approximately 23-24.5 minutes) 3 times each week to get your body ready for the OSTEO-GAINS Bone Health Program. Complete the 12 sessions over one month before purchasing the OSTEO-GAINS Bone Health Program. TWO: Stretch Perform the OSTEO-GAINS Stretching Program (approximately 14-14.5 minutes) after every Pre-Conditioning session to help your muscles recover, or use the Stretching Program as often as you like. THREE: Perform The OSTEO-GAINS Bone Health Program Year One is performed barefooted on a firm and forgiving surface, such as carpet, grass, wooden floors or sand and works in 4-week blocks. You repeat the same session for 4 weeks before progressing to the next new 4-week block. The OSTEO-GAINS Bone Health Program Year One is designed to be progressive and repetitive. This program includes osteogenic exercises that take approximately 3-5 minutes a day, and you can do them in the comfort of your own home ... while you wait for the kettle to boil. In the OSTEO-GAINS Bone Health Program Year One, you will be guided through a structured exercise program that becomes progressively more difficult over 12-months. In the Bone Health Program Year One, you will 'Jump, Jump, Rest, Repeat' to strengthen your bones 2-5 times each week, using a series of specific jumps and jump-landings. Our research found that bone health in premenopausal women improved (3.5 to 5% at the end of 12-months) when they performed the exercises, taking only 3-5 minutes a day. Our research informed how we structured our 12-month OSTEO-GAINS Bone Health Program Year One. We measured improved compliance and technique, which led to significant lower body bone health improvements in our research participants. The OSTEO-GAINS Bone Health Programs are a supplementary osteogenic exercise program to specifically target bone health and can be performed alongside your regular exercise programs. PROGRESS Keep track of your landings/impacts progress over 52 weeks. DEXA Scan We recommend, where possible, getting a DEXA scan done before you start our OSTEO-GAINS Bone Health Program Year One. This will provide a benchmark measure of your current bone health and the ability to track any changes in your bone health over time.

Screenshots

PT Distinction3 screens
OSTEO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PT Distinction at 4.2 against OSTEO's 2.4. PT Distinction also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). OSTEO's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 weeks) and review sentiment (36% vs 28%). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. OSTEO sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. PT Distinction asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PT Distinction holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 121 and 48 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 28% of PT Distinction's written reviews are positive against 36% of OSTEO's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PT Distinction ships an update every 4 weeks, OSTEO every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
PT Distinction versus OSTEO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPT DistinctionOSTEO
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (121 ratings) — better2.4 (48 ratings)
Positive reviews28.2% of reviews36.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings121 — better48
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPT Distinction LtdOSTEO-GAINS LTD

Customer experience

PT Distinction

All ratings119 ratings
Positive76.5%
Neutral6.7%
Negative16.8%
Written reviews71 reviews
Positive28.2%
Neutral15.5%
Negative56.3%

OSTEO

All ratings48 ratings
Positive29.2%
Neutral10.4%
Negative60.4%
Written reviews58 reviews
Positive36.2%
Neutral8.6%
Negative55.2%

User reviews

PT Distinction

From 121 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 User-friendly and easy to navigate
  • 💪 Great for tracking workouts and progress
  • ✨ Customizable and packed with features
  • 🤝 Seamless messaging with trainers
  • 🏋️‍♀️ Good demo videos for exercises

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Clunky and cumbersome to use
  • 🐛 App crashes regularly
  • 🐛 Data loss during workouts
  • 🐛 Poor user experience
  • 🐛 Lacks essential features

OSTEO

From 48 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 🔬 Research-backed and genuine
  • 💪 Great for bone health
  • ✨ New updates are great
  • 🏃‍♀️ Motivating for exercise

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Very buggy and glitchy
  • ❌ App doesn't work properly
  • 💳 Expensive renewal cost
  • 🚫 No free trial or sample
  • ⚠️ Price not as advertised

Bugs and requests

PT Distinction

Reported bugs

30 issues
  • App randomly loses data mid-workout
  • Autocorrect feature not working
  • Update pop-up appears every time
  • Workouts not interactive enough
  • App not keeping track of workouts or giving stats
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  • Impossible to sign in, password reset does nothing
  • App crashes regularly, needs frequent reloading/reinstalling
  • Saving meal adherence never works
  • Workout data cleared when hitting back button
  • App crashes mid-workout, losing progress
  • App quits when switching to another app or locking phone
  • Starts from Home Screen when away from app for a few seconds
  • Workout tutorial videos stop phone music
  • Video won't rotate from portrait to landscape on iPad
  • App crashes repeatedly, unable to access workouts
  • App overwrites previous set data for exercises
  • App crashes when opening any Workout
  • Slow open/close animation for navigation menu
  • Message alerts not sent to trainer's phone
  • Video sound issues, no sound on videos
  • App doesn't work offline
  • Customized app was a waste of money
  • Reminders to clients stop being sent
  • App is slow and glitchy
  • Pictures and videos don't come through from clients
  • App freezes when switching screens or locking phone
  • Not compatible with Apple Watch
  • Cannot upload videos recorded through app if more than a few seconds
  • Order of inputting reps and weight seems backwards
  • App doesn't allow adding items done outside the program

Requested features

25 requests
  • Upload photos/screenshots to workouts
  • Autocorrect/spellcheck in notes
  • Display previous weight and reps for exercises
  • Allow uploading videos from photo library
  • Offline mode for logging workouts
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  • Swap workouts for clients
  • Update rep number and weights for clients
  • Timeline view of logs
  • Make clock/timer bigger and more accessible
  • Fix notes deletion issue
  • Downloadable workouts for offline use
  • Landscape mode for iPad
  • Add dark mode
  • Improve calendar view for trainers
  • More in-depth tutorials
  • Allow users to create workouts if trainer hasn't
  • Add spellcheck to notes field
  • Allow jumping ahead in workouts/circuits
  • Improve color contrast and type size for WCAG compliance
  • Ability to add cardio workouts easily
  • Make password reset available on login screen
  • Allow users to fill out forms on the app
  • Make video playback compatible with phone silent mode
  • Fix video rotation issue on iPad
  • Improve trainer app functionality (view programs, schedules, message alerts)

OSTEO

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • App crashes or won't open
  • Login issues (email/account not recognized)
  • Purchased app doesn't allow login
  • Cannot create a login
  • App freezes or doesn't progress
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  • Videos not playing or loading
  • Workouts not showing as complete
  • Upgrade causes loss of access
  • Intro video stuck, cannot exit
  • Dio exception errors
  • Jumps counter not working
  • Manual entry required for signup
  • Charged but no access to programs

Requested features

8 requests
  • Add 'get ready' verbal cues
  • Calendar-style progress dashboard
  • Verbal instructions for exercises
  • Option to skip intro videos
  • Countdown feature without volume
Show 3 more
  • Default to previous session
  • More intuitive layout
  • Free intro exercise

In-app purchases

None

PT Distinction

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

OSTEO

One-time2
  • 12-Month Plan$24.99
  • Year Two Plan$28.99

Questions

Is PT Distinction free?
PT Distinction is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OSTEO free?
OSTEO is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PT Distinction or OSTEO?
PT Distinction is rated higher. PT Distinction averages 4.2 out of 5 from 121 ratings, while OSTEO averages 2.4 from 48 ratings.
Do PT Distinction or OSTEO have ads?
Neither PT Distinction nor OSTEO shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PT Distinction or OSTEO?
PT Distinction ships an update every 4 weeks, and OSTEO every 2 weeks. Most recently, PT Distinction was updated on November 1, 2026 and OSTEO on November 8, 2026.

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