Comparison

Workouts vs Heroic

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

Head to head
About

Workouts

Features
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The application for training sessions anywhere: in the gym, at home or on the street. • Usability interface • Can be used by novice athletes, as well as professionals and coaches. The main features of the program: • Create / Delete / Modify workouts; • Create / Delete / Modify exercises for training; • Changing the order of exercises in training; • Pre-installed exercises with a detailed description of the exercise; • Ability to set for exercise in training: number of approaches, number of repetitions, weight; • Search exercises, filter by muscle; • Save and view completed workouts; • Monitoring the progress of training; • Ability to set a reminder for training; • Ability to set a target for gaining / reducing weight; • Weight control: week, 2 weeks, month, two months, half a year, year;

About

Heroic

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You picked your exercises. You walked into the gym. Now what weight goes on the bar? Heroic is a strength-training coach that handles the calculations for you. Log your reps and Heroic figures out the rest — next week's working weights, warmup loads rounded to real plate increments, deloads when a lift stalls, and a clear progression for every exercise in your program. Spend your time training, not doing math between sets. WHAT HEROIC DOES FOR YOU • Calculates next week's weights based on this week's reps • Generates warmup sets rounded to plate increments • Applies deloads when a lift stops progressing • Estimates your 1-rep max for every main lift • Tracks bodyweight and strength trends with charts TWO COMPLETE PROGRAMS Men's Program : a progressive-overload plan built around the major compound lifts: squat, bench press, deadlift, overhead press, and row, with carefully chosen accessory work. Women's Program :built around lower-body strength,glute and hip development, and a pressing progression that moves week over week. BUILT FOR THE WAY YOU TRAIN • Native iOS app designed for one-handed logging between sets • Syncs across your iPhone and iPad through iCloud • Works offline at the gym and syncs when you reconnect Heroic works with the Apple Health app on iPhone. Bodyweight measurements are read from the Health app to seed your starting weight, and your completed strength workouts are written back to Health so your training history stays in one place. You can change this anytime in Settings > Apple Health. PRIVACY Heroic stores your training data in your private iCloud. No account sign-up is require

Screenshots

Workouts4 screens
Heroic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Workouts at none against Heroic's 1. Workouts also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Heroic's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 5 weeks). On price and ads 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. Heroic sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Workouts asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Workouts ships an update every 5 weeks, Heroic daily. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
Workouts versus Heroic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWorkoutsHeroic
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB108 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOleg LadykaAhmet Adem

In-app purchases

None

Workouts

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Heroic

One-time1
  • Get in shape: Heroic PRO$19.99

Questions

Is Workouts free?
Workouts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Heroic free?
Heroic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Workouts or Heroic have ads?
Neither Workouts nor Heroic shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Workouts or Heroic?
Workouts ships an update every 5 weeks, and Heroic daily. Most recently, Workouts was updated on September 21, 2026 and Heroic on September 13, 2026.

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