One big fitness app, or one small focused plan?
Emily Skye FIT and Mumma Glow are trying to solve two different problems. Here is how to work out which one actually suits the stage you are standing in right now.
Quick answer
Emily Skye FIT is a broad fitness subscription that contains a Post-Pregnancy program inside a much larger library of workouts and meal plans, billed monthly, quarterly or yearly after a two-week free trial. Mumma Glow is not an app and not a subscription: it is a small set of one-time digital guides focused on deep-core and pelvic-floor rebuilding, bought once and kept forever. Pick Emily Skye FIT if you want ongoing variety, food guidance and general fitness coaching. Pick Mumma Glow if you mainly want a focused, affordable core-recovery plan with no recurring bill. Results vary from mum to mum.
What Emily Skye FIT actually is
Emily Skye FIT is an Australian-founded digital fitness platform. According to its own website at the time of writing, the membership includes more than 600 workouts across eight programs, over 500 meal plans, and a pregnancy section containing dedicated pre-natal and Post-Pregnancy training. Access runs through an app, and everything sits behind a subscription: it lists $19.99 a month, $49.99 billed quarterly, or $119.99 billed annually, starting after a two-week free trial and auto-renewing at the end of each period. Prices change, so check their site before you sign up.
That breadth is a genuine strength, and it deserves saying plainly. If you want your postpartum training, your strength work, your cardio and your dinners solved in one place, a library like this does that. The Post-Pregnancy program gives you a structured on-ramp rather than leaving you to guess, and a two-week trial means you can look before you pay.
What Mumma Glow actually is
Mumma Glow sells written digital guides, not video memberships. Individual guides start at $15 and the full bundle is $50, paid once. There is no app, no live coaching, no rotating workout library, and no meal-plan database. What you get is a step-by-step written plan for rebuilding the deep core and pelvic floor after birth, with short sessions designed to fit into a baby's nap time, plus the diastasis and C-section material that mums most often go looking for.
The honest framing is this: Mumma Glow is the affordable, one-time, no-subscription option. It is the budget alternative to programs like MUTU, and it is deliberately narrow. If you want variety and novelty every week, a written guide will feel thin. If you want one clear thing to do at 10am while the baby sleeps, that narrowness is the whole point.
Side by side
| Emily Skye FIT | Mumma Glow | Women's health physio | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | App, video workouts, meal plans | Written digital guides | One-to-one appointments |
| How you pay | Subscription, recurring | One-time, from $15 | Per session |
| Access after you stop paying | Ends with the subscription | Yours to keep | Not applicable |
| Postpartum-specific depth | One program inside a general library | The entire focus | Highest, and individualised |
| Personal assessment | No | No | Yes, including internal exam if appropriate |
| Food and nutrition | Yes, extensive | Limited | Usually referred out |
| Best for | Mums who want one app for everything, long term | Mums who want a focused core plan without a recurring bill | Pain, leaking, prolapse symptoms, or a gap that is not shifting |
of women still had diastasis recti at six weeks postpartum (Sperstad et al., British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2016)
workouts listed in the Emily Skye FIT library, spread across eight programs
one-time price of the full Mumma Glow bundle, with no renewal
When Emily Skye FIT is the better choice
Choose the subscription if any of these sound like you. You are past the earliest weeks and your goal has widened from "rebuild my core" to "get fit again". You like being told what to do on camera and you lose interest reading instructions. You want meal ideas solved as well as training. You expect to train for years, not months, and you would rather pay a little each month than think about it again. Under those conditions a large library earns its keep, because you will actually use the parts you are paying for.
It is also a reasonable fit if you are not dealing with symptoms. A mum with no leaking, no doming and no pain has more freedom in what she picks than a mum who is managing all three, and general-fitness content is lower risk for her.
When Mumma Glow is the better choice
Choose the one-time guides if your budget is the deciding factor, if you have tried a subscription before and quietly stopped opening it, or if what you want is the core-recovery piece and not the whole gym. A written plan is easy to reread at 2am, easy to follow with one hand, and does not need Wi-Fi or a spare 45 minutes. Because you buy it once, there is no clock running while you take a slow month, and plenty of postpartum months are slow ones.
If you are weighing this against a monthly service more broadly, our breakdown of paying monthly versus paying once goes through the maths, and what lifetime access really means explains what that phrase does and does not promise.
What neither one replaces
Neither a subscription app nor a written guide can assess you. Only a clinician can do that. The NHS, ACOG and RANZCOG all describe the postnatal check and pelvic health assessment as the front door for anything symptomatic, and a women's health physiotherapist can examine your abdominal wall and pelvic floor directly rather than working from what you can feel through your own fingers.
Book that assessment first if you have pain, urinary or bowel leaking, a heaviness or dragging sensation, a bulge along your midline when you sit up, or a gap that has not changed at all in months. Our guide to what happens at a pelvic floor physio appointment covers what to expect if you have never been.
How to decide in five minutes
Ask three questions. First, is my main goal recovery or general fitness? Recovery points to the focused guide, general fitness points to the library. Second, what will I still be using in eight weeks? Be honest here rather than optimistic. Third, does a recurring charge stress me out? If the answer is yes, that stress will follow you into the training, and a one-time purchase removes it. Our piece on choosing a program you will actually finish takes this further.
One more thing worth checking before you commit to any high-energy app program: whether you are ready for the intensity it will ask of you. We wrote a companion piece on whether HIIT is safe postpartum that walks through the staged return to impact, because a lot of the disappointment mums report with fitness apps comes from starting at week six with content designed for month twelve.
Want the focused, one-time option?
Core Reconnect is the deep-core rebuilding guide at the centre of the Mumma Glow range: short nap-time sessions, written so you can follow them one-handed, bought once and yours to keep. Guides start at $15, the full bundle is $50, and the code GLOW20 takes 20% off. See what is inside Core Reconnect.
The verdict
Emily Skye FIT is the stronger product if you want breadth, video and food guidance and you are happy to keep paying for it. Mumma Glow is the stronger product if you want depth on one thing, at a price you pay once. Neither is a substitute for a pelvic health assessment when symptoms are present, and results vary from mum to mum whichever you choose.
Frequently asked questions
Is Emily Skye FIT good for diastasis recti?
It includes a Post-Pregnancy program and core work, but it is a broad fitness platform rather than a dedicated diastasis rehabilitation curriculum. If closing a gap is your main goal, choose a plan built around graded deep-core progression, and see a women's health physiotherapist first if you have doming, pain or leaking.
Which costs more over a year?
On the pricing listed at the time of writing, the subscription does. Emily Skye FIT lists $119.99 billed annually, while the full Mumma Glow bundle is $50 paid once and does not renew. Always check current pricing before you decide.
Can I use both?
Yes, and plenty of mums do it in sequence rather than at the same time. A focused core plan in the early months, then a general fitness library once you have been cleared for load and impact, is a sensible order.
Does Mumma Glow include videos or an app?
No. Mumma Glow is written, illustrated digital guides you download and keep. That is the trade-off that keeps the price low and one-time.
Which should I start with at six weeks postpartum?
Whichever you buy, start with breathing and deep-core reconnection rather than intensity, and only after your postnatal check. Six weeks is a clearance milestone, not a finish line, and tissue healing continues for months.
Sources: Emily Skye FIT website, inclusions and pricing as listed at the time of writing (August 2026); Sperstad JB et al., "Diastasis recti abdominis during pregnancy and 12 months after childbirth", British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2016; American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), guidance on physical activity after pregnancy; NHS, postnatal check guidance; RANZCOG, postnatal care guidance.
This article is general education, not medical advice. Mumma Glow is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Emily Skye FIT, MUTU System or any other program named here. Results vary from mum to mum. Please see your GP, midwife or a women's health physiotherapist before starting or changing an exercise program after birth, and sooner if you have pain, leaking, heaviness or a midline bulge.