Six Pack in 30 Days alternative: Absly vs Six Pack in 30 Days

What Six Pack in 30 Days does

It is one of the largest ab apps in existence, and the numbers are not close. On the US App Store it holds 4.8 stars from about 38,000 ratings, in 17 languages, on version 1.52.1 released a fortnight before we checked. On Google Play, where Leap Fitness Group publishes it, it has passed 100 million downloads and 2.8 million reviews.

The product is a 30-day escalating routine for the abdominal muscles, at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. Every exercise has an animation and a video guide. Nothing but a floor is required. It records the workouts you complete, keeps your streak, and syncs the session to Apple Health. It is free with ads; premium removes them and unlocks the rest, from $9.99 a month, and you can buy the ad removal alone for $5.99.

That is a lot of app for nothing, and it is well made. If you came to this page hoping to be told it is bad, we cannot help you.

Where Absly is different

One thing, really, and everything else follows from it.

It measures instead of counting. Six Pack in 30 Days records what you did — days completed, streak intact, session logged. That is a record of your compliance, not of your body. Absly points your camera at your midsection for 90 seconds and returns an Abs Score from 0 to 100. It is an estimate of how visible your definition is, and it is the same number whether you like it or not.

The plan answers to the scan. A 30-day routine escalates on a schedule: day 14 is harder than day 7 because it is day 14. Absly’s 8-week program rewrites itself each week around your most recent score, so the reason a week gets harder is your body, not the calendar.

It shows you the change. A photo after each workout builds a timelapse from day one to today, alongside the score trend. Both stay in your private account — never shown to other users, never sent to advertisers.

Where Six Pack in 30 Days is simply better

It is free. Ads aside, you can use it for nothing, indefinitely. Absly is free to install but its programme sits behind a subscription — $3.99 a week or $39.99 a year. For a great many people that ends the comparison, and it should.

It is on Android, and it is everywhere. We are iOS only. It runs in 17 languages to our 8.

It has years of trust behind it. Thirty-eight thousand iOS ratings at 4.8 and a hundred million downloads are not marketing, and Absly is new by comparison.

Its exercise library is broader. Three difficulty levels and a video guide for every movement. Absly’s programme is narrower on purpose — abs, eight weeks, no equipment — but narrower is narrower.

It writes to Apple Health. Ours does not, so your sessions do not land in the place iOS keeps everything else.

Which one to install

Absly, if you want to train against your own body rather than against a calendar.

Six Pack in 30 Days hands everyone the same thirty days. It cannot do otherwise, because it never looks at you — day 14 is day 14 whether your abs are already close or nowhere near. Absly starts by scanning you, builds the 8-week programme around the physique you have today, and rewrites it every week around your latest score. The week gets harder because you got better, not because time passed.

And at the end you will actually know whether it worked — one score at the start, one at the end, a timelapse in between. That is the question a workout log cannot answer, whoever built it.

Challenge mode is the other half. Prop the phone up, pick a movement and 60 seconds, and the camera referees: reps short of full range, too fast to control, or taken out of frame are thrown out, and it tells you which. The run is then ranked on a global top 100, you can duel anyone on that board with their set replaying live against yours, and your record leaves as a share card — 42 reps in 60 seconds, counted by the camera. Beat that. Six Pack in 30 Days ticks off the day you completed. Nobody competes over a tick.

If free is non-negotiable, or you are on Android, Six Pack in 30 Days is a good app and it costs nothing. For everyone else: scan first, then train against the number.

What neither app is

Neither is a measurement of your health. Absly estimates how visible your abdominal definition is from a photo: it is not a body-fat measurement, it cannot see visceral fat, and it is not a medical device. Six Pack in 30 Days is an exercise programme, not a diagnosis. Visible abs are largely a matter of body fat, which is largely a matter of what you eat — and if you are making decisions about your weight or your eating, that is a conversation for a doctor or a registered dietitian, not for either app.