Kano Train vs The Formula App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kano Train
This app helps you track and organize your training progress. It provides detailed reports and a "Kano Score" to help you understand your performance and identify areas for improvement.
- Training organization
- Training reports
- Kano Score
- Performance tracking
- Improvement insights
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Kano Train organizes your training. With Training Reports and your Kano Score, you'll always know where you stand and how to improve.
The Formula App
This app helps families, athletes, and coaches manage schedules, teams, and billing for a specific cheerleading gym. It provides updates on classes, practices, competitions, and allows for communication and payment processing.
- Event scheduling and calendar views
- Team roster and news updates
- Direct messaging with coaches and staff
- Attendance tracking
- Digital form signing
- Secure billing and payment processing
- Real-time notifications
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The Formula App is for the families, athletes and coaches of Formula Cheer in Lake Zurich, Illinois. FOR FAMILIES • Schedule: every class, team practice and competition, by day, week, month or as one list. Closures and cancellations show right on it. • Teams: practices, competitions, call times and team news from your coaches. • Messages: write to the front desk or billing, and reply to your coaches. • Attendance: see when your athlete is marked absent, and tell the gym if they were there. • Forms: read and sign waivers and documents on your phone. • Billing: see what you owe and what it is for, save a card and pay. Cards are handled by Stripe, so the gym never sees your card number. • Notifications: schedule changes, team news and receipts as they happen. FOR COACHES AND STAFF • Your schedule, rosters and attendance. • Skills tracking, team posts and messages with families. The app is for families enrolled at Formula Cheer. Sign in with the email address the gym has on file.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: The Formula App at 5.0 against Kano Train's 4.6. The Formula App also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). Kano Train's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
The Formula App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kano Train has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Kano Train ships an update every 2 weeks, The Formula App every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kano Train | The Formula App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.2 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 154 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kano Performance LLC | Jason Tercall |
Customer experience
Kano Train
The Formula App
In-app purchases
Kano Train
No in-app purchases
The Formula App
No in-app purchases
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