Start Your Workout Plans vs Ardo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Start Your Workout Plans
Create and manage multiple daily workout routines with ease. Utilize sound effects to guide your training sessions without interrupting your music playback, ensuring a seamless workout experience.
- Create multiple workout plans
- Daily workout scheduling
- Integrated sound effects for training
- Non-interrupting music playback
- Easy-to-use interface
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Simple and clear easy to use. Create multiple plans for your daily workout. Use the sound effects to help you train, without interrupting music playback, keep music nonstop.
Ardo
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Ardo is the interval timer with an AI coach built in. Tell it your goal, your gear and how long you have — and it builds a custom interval workout, names every exercise, and drops it straight into the timer. YOUR AI COACH Chat with Ardo like a real coach: "20-minute fat-burning HIIT, no equipment" or "kettlebell strength, 15 minutes." It designs the intervals, picks the exercises and shows each move on screen as you go. Save it to your workouts or start right away. 140+ READY WORKOUTS Tabata, HIIT, EMOM, AMRAP, For Time, CrossFit benchmarks (Fran, Cindy, Murph), Hyrox, circuits, running and boxing — a big ring keeps you on pace with a 3-2-1 countdown, work/rest phases and a clear "next up" preview. BUILD YOUR OWN Lego-block editor with nested round groups; fork any preset, the original stays untouched. STAY ON TRACK Weekly chart, day streaks, full history and 20 badges. Beep on the 3-2-1 countdown plus haptics; 7 accent colors and Home Screen app icons; light and dark mode; 28 languages; daily reminders. Free: the full timer, all free workouts, the AI coach (3 free workouts), history, badges and reminders. Ardo Pro (one-time — no subscription) unlocks unlimited AI coaching, the full benchmark library plus Hyrox and Hero WODs, the advanced builder, unlimited custom workouts, color themes plus app icons and Pro badges. Pay once. No ads. No tracking. The timer works fully offline.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Start Your Workout Plans at none against Ardo's 1. Start Your Workout Plans also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Ardo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Start Your Workout Plans asks for nothing beyond the download.
Start Your Workout Plans ships an update every 3 days, Ardo every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Start Your Workout Plans | Ardo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ChiaKun Chen | Romana Samcova |
In-app purchases
Start Your Workout Plans
No in-app purchases
Ardo
- Ardo Pro$3.99
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