Comparison

WOD Timer by Atlon vs How Often

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

WOD Timer by Atlon

This app automatically tracks functional fitness exercises without manual input, offering detailed insights into strength, skill mastery, and performance metrics. It features customizable workout timers on Apple Watch and provides monthly progress summaries.

Highlights
  • Automatic exercise tracking
  • Customizable Apple Watch timers
  • Consistency and effort score
  • Intelligent workout generator
  • Rep speed analysis
  • Monthly progress reports
Features
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Press start on your Apple Watch and train. Atlon recognises your exercises, counts your reps and rounds, and times your work and rest, so you never type a thing between sets. Atlon is built for functional fitness: WODs, HIIT, metcons, strength days and everything in between. Your watch does the logging. Atlon turns it into a training history you can watch grow. More than 28 million reps and 170,000 workouts have been tracked with Atlon so far. SIX WAYS TO TRAIN ON YOUR WATCH • Just train: no timer, no setup. Every exercise tracked. • Strength: just lift. Atlon logs every set at the weight you set. • AMRAP, RFT (rounds for time), EMOM and Intervals: set up in seconds with a slider, no crown needed. MADE FOR THE MIDDLE OF A WORKOUT • Big, clear numbers: your work or rest timer leads, with total time and heart rate beside it. • A live strip of your session shows every set: how long it lasted and how hard you worked. • Count a round with one tap, or with a double tap of your fingers on supported watches. Hit it twice? Undo. • Pause, resume and end from one page, with a confirmation so you never end a workout by accident. YOUR IPHONE AS A GYM TIMER Prop your iPhone up and it shows the workout running on your watch, big enough to read across the room, with countdown beeps everyone in the gym knows. Your watch stays in control, so there's no second timer to start in sync. STRENGTH THAT LOGS ITSELF Atlon detects each set as you lift and names the exercise. Correct it once and Atlon remembers next time. Set the weight while you load the bar, and see your last set at a glance. RESULTS ON YOUR WRIST AND YOUR IPHONE After every workout, right on your wrist: your points, time, rounds, heart rate, effort and top exercises. On your iPhone, the Workouts tab shows all of it and every set, and a class recorded in pieces (warm-up, strength, WOD) counts as one workout. ADD THE WORKOUT IN SECONDS Type the workout, paste a screenshot or snap the whiteboard. Atlon's AI writes it up as the day's plan, and you can change it in your own words. POINTS THAT ADD UP Reps, minutes and kilos don't compare, so Atlon scores every workout in points. Home on your iPhone shows your points for the month, the year or all time, how you're pacing against last month, what's new since you last looked, your training days and your week streak. On the 3rd of every month, your recap shows how the month went: points against last month, your month day by day, your streak, your top exercises and how you compare with other Atlon athletes. 37 EXERCISES, RECOGNISED ON YOUR WATCH Including air bike, bench press, bike erg, box jumps, box step-ups, burpees, carries, cleans, clean and jerks, deadlifts, devil presses, double-unders, front squats, GHD sit-ups, handstand push-ups, handstand walks, kettlebell swings, lunges, muscle-ups, overhead squats, planks, pull-ups, push-ups, ring rows, rowing, running, shoulder-to-overhead, single-unders, sit-ups, ski erg, snatches, squats, thrusters, toes-to-bar, wall balls and wall climbs. Recognition runs on your watch, in every workout mode, and gets better with every release. WORKS WITH APPLE HEALTH Atlon uses your heart rate and calories during workouts and saves your workouts to Apple Health, so your Activity rings stay up to date. Atlon requires an Apple Watch.

About

How Often

Log events and discover hidden patterns in your life, family, or pets. Automatically identifies correlations and trends, presenting them in clear language and visual charts. Export data for sharing with professionals or personal records.

Highlights
  • Automatic pattern discovery
  • Cross-profile correlations
  • Frequency charts with overlays
  • Day/time heatmaps
  • Milestone and streak tracking
  • CSV data export
  • PDF summary reports
Features
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How Often helps you track how frequently things happen — to you, your family, your friends, and even your pets. Whether it's headaches, coughing, exercise, mood swings, or anything else, just log it and let the app find the patterns you can't see on your own. DISCOVER PATTERNS AUTOMATICALLY The insights engine analyzes your data and tells you what it finds — in plain language: "Your headaches tend to follow nights of poor sleep. Over the last 3 weeks, this happened 6 times." "There's a clear pattern — migraine happens most often on Mondays." "Your nausea has dropped from severity 3.8 to 2.1 over the past two weeks." FIND CONNECTIONS ACROSS PEOPLE Track events across family members and discover cross-profile correlations. The app can detect patterns like a cold spreading through the household and tell you about it. SEE YOUR DATA CLEARLY Frequency charts with duration and severity overlays Day-of-week × time-of-day heatmaps Sparklines on the main list for quick trend checks Milestone tracking and streak detection EXPORT AND SHARE Export your data as CSV for analysis or generate a professional PDF summary report with insights, patterns, and correlations — perfect for sharing with a doctor or keeping records. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE No accounts. No cloud storage. No data transmitted anywhere. Speech recognition runs entirely on-device. Your data belongs to you.

Screenshots

WOD Timer by Atlon4 screens
How Often4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: How Often at 5.0 against WOD Timer by Atlon's 4.4. How Often also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%). WOD Timer by Atlon's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. How Often sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. WOD Timer by Atlon asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

How Often holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WOD Timer by Atlon has 59 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of WOD Timer by Atlon's written reviews are positive against 100% of How Often's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WOD Timer by Atlon ships an update every 2 weeks, How Often every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
WOD Timer by Atlon versus How Often: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWOD Timer by AtlonHow Often
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (59 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings59 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB3 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperWOD Scribe ApSSquare Remix Inc

Customer experience

WOD Timer by Atlon

All ratings59 ratings
Positive89.8%
Neutral1.7%
Negative8.5%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral4.8%
Negative28.6%

How Often

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

WOD Timer by Atlon

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

How Often

One-time3
  • Add 1 Profile$1.99
  • Add 2 Profiles$2.99
  • Add Unlimited Profiles$6.99

Questions

Is WOD Timer by Atlon free?
WOD Timer by Atlon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is How Often free?
How Often is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, WOD Timer by Atlon or How Often?
How Often is rated higher. WOD Timer by Atlon averages 4.4 out of 5 from 59 ratings, while How Often averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do WOD Timer by Atlon or How Often have ads?
Neither WOD Timer by Atlon nor How Often shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WOD Timer by Atlon or How Often?
WOD Timer by Atlon ships an update every 2 weeks, and How Often every 2 months. Most recently, WOD Timer by Atlon was updated on November 3, 2026 and How Often on October 6, 2026.

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