Corrate vs Back Country Workout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Corrate
This app provides real-time audio feedback on your heart rate during training and competition, allowing you to maintain optimal pace. It supports Bluetooth heart rate monitors and includes a Fartlek training program and heart rate recovery tracking.
- Real-time audio heart rate alerts
- Customizable alert frequency
- Beats per minute (bpm) or % of max HR
- Bluetooth heart rate monitor support
- Fartlek interval training program
- Heart rate recovery measurement
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The app “HRT - Heart Rate Training” helps you keep the right pace while training and competing. The app tells you what your current heart rate is using audio. You select how often you want to be alerted and you select whether you want the information in bpm (beats per minute) or % of your maximum heart rate. To use the app you need a bluetooth smart heart rate device, for example Wahoo Blue HR or Polar H7. Many watches can also broadcast heart rate to your phone. Check in the user manual whether your can. The app also features a Fartlek training program. This is a fun way of doing intervals. You will find many articles describing how to do heart rate training on the internet, by searching for ”Heart Rate Training” for example. The main idea is that you get different results depending on what heart rate you have compared to your maximum heart rate. When competing, staying in an elevated heart rate zone too long can decrease your performance. One of the advantages with the HRT app is that you can select how often you want to be alerted and be able to adapt your performance immediately. The app is easy to use and is as suitable for professional athletes as for amateurs. The app also features a customizable heart rate recovery mechanism. Measure how fast your heart rate drops after training. It is normally considered to be a sign of improving physical condition if your heart rate drops faster. The app is free. If you use it more than 10 times, a dialog box will be displayed giving you the option to support the development of the app. You can continue to use the app for free by dismissing the dialog box. After an hour you will also hear a short audio message asking you to buy the app such that my wife can buy herself new shoes. This message will then be announced gradually more often, finally every 10 minutes.
Back Country Workout
Record your cross-country skiing sessions with detailed metrics and map your routes. Track your progress over time and share your adventures with friends. Integrates seamlessly with Apple Health and Strava.
- Record cross-country ski workouts
- View routes on phone map
- Customize location names
- Show photo locations on map
- Lifetime workout statistics
- Upload routes to Strava
- Integrates with Apple Health
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BackCountry Workout is your premier gateway to recording Cross Country Skiing workouts on Apple Watch and iPhone! - Record workouts - View your routes on your phone - Customize names for locations and experiences you have in the great white outdoors - Show locations on your map of where you took photos - Lifetime workout statistics - Upload workout routes to Strava Workouts are recorded in Apple Health and show up as workouts in the Apple Activity app. Requires Apple Watch running watchOS 5.0 or greater.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Corrate at Free against Back Country Workout's $2.99. Back Country Workout's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On review sentiment, ads, monetization model 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
Corrate is free to download; Back Country Workout costs $2.99 up front. Corrate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Back Country Workout asks for nothing beyond the download.
Back Country Workout holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Back Country Workout has 125 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Corrate's written reviews are positive against 53% of Back Country Workout's.
Corrate ships an update every 6 weeks, Back Country Workout every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Corrate | Back Country Workout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (4 ratings) | 4.6 (125 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 52.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 125 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Erlend Thune | Wayne Hartman |
Customer experience
Corrate
Back Country Workout
Bugs and requests
Corrate
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Back Country Workout
Reported bugs
33 issues- Adds all kinds of distance
- Zig zag lines on track
- IOS 26.2 appears to have broken app
- Stuck in initializing state
- Stopped working on iOS 18.2
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- Phone portion unresponsive
- App doesn't open
- Data All Gone & Not Calculating Kms Properly
- Recorded distances are all over the map
- Whole lot of distance added for route changes
- Doesn’t Track Distance or Route
- GPS Track Start in random locations
- Does not show correct distances
- Terrible at recording miles skied accurately!
- Time lapse isn't visible
- Only records part of data
- Never once recorded elevation, distance etc.
- Distance, heart rate graph data not synched
- Elevation gain/loss and splits not synched
- Can't delete a workout
- Accidentally forgotten to end the workout
- App says I skied less than actual distance
- Shows only a yellow notes page
- Starting elevation incorrect
- Highest elevation incorrect
- Total elevation gain incorrect
- Only shows 46 seconds of workout
- Pinned my starting location as half a mile away
- Said I was going 61.7 mph at that start
- Not sure if any of the stats from this trip are accurate
- Shows just a yellow notes page
- It’s not on my watch yet either
- Can’t reach a page that gives me the option to download it to my watch
Requested features
13 requests- Integrate a “pause workout” function
- Integrate physical button pinch to pause
- Show season totals
- Option to measure distances in kilometers
- Add workout distance to Apple Health
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- Report speed in minutes per mile
- Delete a workout
- Pause workout function
- Integrate physical button pinch to pause
- Show season totals
- Option to measure distances in kilometers
- Add workout distance to Apple Health
- Report speed in minutes per mile
In-app purchases
Corrate
- Heart Rate Training$2.99
Back Country Workout
No in-app purchases
