Training Today vs Workout Builder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Training Today
This app analyzes your Apple Watch health data to provide a daily readiness to train score. It helps prevent overtraining injuries and guides your training intensity, offering insights into your body's recovery and performance potential.
- Calculates daily readiness to train (RTT) score
- Multi-day RTT score chart
- Independent Apple Watch app
- Uses HRV, workout detection, and custom algorithm
- Automatic data outlier filtering
- iPhone companion app with tutorial
- Complication support for quick RTT glance
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Take Readiness to Results. Understand your readiness. Choose training that fits today. Follow your progress over time. Training Today brings readiness and training together for triathletes, runners, cyclists and swimmers. Your Readiness to Train (RTT) score uses HRV readings from Apple Health and your personal baseline to help you decide when to push, keep steady or take it easy. FROM READINESS TO YOUR NEXT SESSION With Premium, explore structured swim, bike and run workouts that adapt to your RTT. Review the session, choose your options and send supported workouts to Apple Watch. Review readiness-based changes on iPhone before updating a workout on your Watch. BUILD YOUR TRAINING WEEK Shape Your Week around your training preferences. Choose sessions, move workouts and review suggestions as your week unfolds. Schedule strength and conditioning alongside your endurance training. CONNECT YOUR TRAINING Share readiness and health metrics with TrainingPeaks, with optional daily sync. Upload completed workouts separately from Workout Analytics after granting workout-upload access. Send supported cycling workouts to ROUVY. Choose power targets when configured, or free ride with heart-rate cues. Connected accounts and the relevant permissions are required. SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE Review recorded activities, readiness and HRV history. Use sleep context, Activity Intensity Score and Overall Fitness Index (OFI) trends to better understand your training. OFI is a personal HRV-based trend indicator, not a direct measurement of performance or VO2 max. START FREE. EXPLORE PREMIUM. Start with your readiness score, recent readiness chart, current sleep and resting heart rate, and recent OFI trends. Premium adds workout planning and the library, recorded activity review, deeper history, customization and integrations. Monthly, annual and lifetime purchase options unlock Premium; available options and local prices appear in the app. Training Today needs suitable Apple Health data to calculate readiness. Wear a compatible Apple Watch regularly, including overnight, and allow access to the health data you want to use. Watch workouts and other features depend on compatible devices and software. Your score supports training decisions: consider it alongside how you feel. Training Today does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy: https://trainingtodayapp.com/privacy
Workout Builder
Design personalized fitness routines on your iPhone, then seamlessly transfer them to your Apple Watch. Supports a wide range of activities from running and cycling to yoga and strength training, with options for simple goals, advanced intervals, and paced efforts.
- Create custom workouts on iPhone
- Send workouts to Apple Watch
- Supports running, cycling, swimming, yoga
- HIIT & Strength interval training
- Boxing and skipping interval options
- Goal-based workouts
- Advanced interval workouts
- Paced workouts
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Workout Builder lets you create custom workouts on your iPhone and send them to your Apple Watch. Build advanced workouts like: - Running workouts for tempo runs, intervals, hill sprints - Cycling workouts for intervals, pyramids, and distance efforts - Swimming workouts for specific distances and times - Flow, Yin, Vinyasa yoga - HIIT & Strength training intervals - Boxing and skipping intervals, with rest included - Plus many, many more sports! Workout Builder has three types of workouts you can send to your Apple Watch - Simple, goal-based workouts – set a time, distance, or energy burn goal - Advanced interval workouts – add multiple sets and reps, along with rest, warmup, and cooldown - Paced workouts – set a time and distance goal and pace your workout
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Training Today at 2.6K against Workout Builder's 23. Training Today also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3). Workout Builder's advantage is review sentiment (71% vs 53%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). 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. Training Today sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.95 per month and Workout Builder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Training Today holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Training Today has 2.6K ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 53% of Training Today's written reviews are positive against 71% of Workout Builder's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Training Today ships an update every 6 weeks, Workout Builder fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Training Today | Workout Builder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.6K ratings) — better | 4.3 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 52.5% of reviews | 71.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.6K — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Betoli Ltd | Matthew Palmer |
Customer experience
Training Today
Workout Builder
Bugs and requests
Training Today
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes on launch after purchasing subscription
- Widgets not working after recent updates
- Discrepancies between data shown on iPhone and Apple Watch
- Inability to get HRV readings without using the Breathe app
Requested features
6 requests- Extend the number of days shown on the chart
- Add more data points like sleep and oxygen levels
- Provide more detailed explanations of the metrics and how they are calculated
- Improve the Apple Watch complication to update more frequently
- Integrate with other fitness platforms like Garmin and Polar
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- Add training plans that adapt to HRV data
Workout Builder
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Training Today
- Monthly subscription$2.951 Month
- Yearly subscription$29.991 Year
- Additional charts$5.99
- Lifetime$59.99
Workout Builder
- Workout Builder Premium$9.99
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