Old HSN vs Built to Scale
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Old HSN
Achieve your health and fitness goals with personalized guidance from a nutrition coach. Receive customized meal plans, track your progress, and get ongoing support. Connect with a community and access valuable nutrition resources.
- Customized meal plans by Registered Dietitian
- Integration with Apple Health and MyFitnessPal
- Biometric and workout tracking
- Personal messaging with nutrition coach
- Ongoing nutrition support and tips
- Nutrition peer support group
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This application is for clients working with HSN coaches and is being phased out. All clients will be transitioned to the new Healthy Steps Nutrition app by August 2026. Whether your goal is to lose weight, improve overall health or increase performance, Healthy Steps Nutrition has the solution for you! Through the Healthy Steps Nutrition App, you work with a personal nutrition coach who will help design a customized plan to reach your health goals. Healthy Steps Nutrition App Features: - Integration with Apple Health - Integration with MyFitnessPal - Customized meal plan written by a Registered Dietitian - Biometric tracking - Ongoing nutrition support - Nutrition tips and video content - Track your workouts - Personal messaging with your nutrition coach - Nutrition peer support group Healthy Steps Nutrition and HSN Mentoring has partnered with hundreds of gyms and dietitians around the world to provide a comprehensive nutrition program for their clients. Members of HSN Mentoring use this app to help manage their personal nutrition clients.
Built to Scale
This app helps you log and track your fitness workouts, focusing on your personal progress and consistency. It analyzes your training patterns to help you maximize each session and earn achievements for building habits. The app captures your actual performance without prescribing specific routines or judging modifications.
- Log workouts and track movements
- Analyze workload trends and demand signals
- Earn achievements for consistency
- View effort across movement groups
- No prescribed programming or judgment
- Personal data privacy and cloud backup option
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Most workout apps were built for athletes who go Rx. Built to Scale was built for the rest of us. Log your workouts, track your movements, and see how each session compares to your own personal baseline. Built to Scale surfaces your real training patterns through workload trends and demand signals, so you can get the most out of every WOD. Earn achievements as you build consistency, and see your effort across entire groups of movements, not just single lifts. Built to Scale doesn't prescribe programming, tell you what to do, or judge your modifications. It captures what you've actually done so you can see the progress you're already making. The first 30 days are entirely free, no payment method required. Your workouts are your own, your data should be too. Built to Scale has no ads, does not track users, and only stores your workout data if you choose to use cloud backup. Happy Training! Terms & Conditions of Use: https://www.builttoscale.fit/terms-conditions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Built to Scale at free against Old HSN's freemium. Built to Scale also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks) and review sentiment (100% vs 87%). Old HSN's advantage is ratings volume (902 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 — 5.0 for Old HSN against 5.0 for Built to Scale. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Old HSN has 902 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Old HSN's written reviews are positive against 100% of Built to Scale's.
Old HSN ships an update every 5 weeks, Built to Scale weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Old HSN | Built to Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (902 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 902 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 212 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Healthy Steps Nutrition llc | Steven Gill |
Customer experience
Old HSN
Built to Scale
Bugs and requests
Old HSN
Reported bugs
2 issues- Login errors
- App crashes
Requested features
3 requests- Dark mode option
- Improved macro tracking capabilities
- Better iPad compatibility
Built to Scale
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Old HSN
No in-app purchases
Built to Scale
No in-app purchases
Questions
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