Xert EBC vs Tymewear
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Xert EBC
This app provides personalized, adaptive cycling training plans that adjust daily to your fitness level, goals, and schedule. It uses advanced technology to optimize workouts with dynamic intervals, eliminating the need for traditional fitness tests.
- Adaptive Training Advisor
- Personalized daily workouts
- Dynamic interval training
- Workout player interface
- Workout library access
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Xert Breakthrough Training - Discover. Improve. Perform. Adapt your training without nasty fitness tests and get ideal training that matches your abilities, your goals and your schedule .. every day. Using Xert's Adaptive Training Advisor technology, your workouts are continuously optimized and automatically adjusted to *you*. Smart workouts with personalized, dynamic intervals can be played using the app's new player interface. Access to the app's complete workout library requires an Xert Premium Subscription.
Tymewear
This app uses data from a compatible chest strap to identify your personalized training zones. It provides a tailored training profile and suggests workouts to help you improve your fitness.
- Personalized training zones
- Workout recommendations
- Heart rate data analysis
- Ventilation data integration
- Custom training profile
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Tymewear is the next-generation of wearable technology that helps you train smarter by identifying your personalized training zones. Powered by ventilation and heart rate data from the Tymewear VitalPro chest strap, the app delivers a personalized training profile and recommends workouts tailored to what you need to improve.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Tymewear at free against Xert EBC's subscription. Tymewear also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 weeks) and device support (4 vs 2). Xert EBC's advantage is iOS requirement (9.3 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.8 for Xert EBC against 3.7 for Tymewear. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 35 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of Xert EBC's written reviews are positive against 59% of Tymewear's.
Xert EBC ships an update every 5 weeks, Tymewear every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Xert EBC | Tymewear |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (25 ratings) — better | 3.7 (35 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 59.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 | 35 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 112 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Baron Biosystems Ltd | Tyme Wear, Inc |
Customer experience
Xert EBC
Tymewear
Bugs and requests
Xert EBC
Reported bugs
15 issues- Won't connect to trainer
- Timer on app not working properly
- Countdown timer goes by 2 then 1
- Cannot access paid account
- Free version no updates
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- Deleting/redownloading no fix
- Cannot repurchase
- Nothing loads
- Latest version drops ERG trainer control
- Lose ERG mode when pausing workout
- Slow adaptation of trainer in ERG mode
- Workout timer runs slow
- Doesn't save results in 50% of training sessions
- Workouts done through the player don't save and upload
- Selecting a workout from the list starts the wrong one
Requested features
17 requests- Send workouts to Zwift/Garmin/etc.
- Make app for Apple TV
- Support rotated screen/upside down
- Integrate with Apple Health
- Exploit Apple Watch data
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- Improve app GUI
- Add lap function for outdoor rides
- Configurable screens for outdoor rides
- Dark mode option
- Make app use full screen on iPad
- Switch off notifications to avoid crashes
- Fix ERG trainer control when pausing
- Improve user interface
- Add on-screen text for clarity
- Add number of intervals left
- Improve colors for sunlight visibility
- Improve chime volume for outdoor use
Tymewear
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Xert EBC
No in-app purchases
Tymewear
No in-app purchases
