Comparison

BELLS, Kettlebell Workouts vs Protocol

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

Head to head
About

BELLS, Kettlebell Workouts

This app guides and tracks kettlebell workouts, allowing users to program and share custom routines. It offers QuickStart features for immediate training and the ability to add custom skills with video links. Premium content includes monthly new workouts and professionally designed programs.

Highlights
  • Custom workout programming
  • Workout sharing
  • QuickStart features (Ladder, EMOM, Straight Sets, Custom)
  • Add custom skills and video links
  • Workout history tracking
  • Monthly premium workouts
  • Professionally designed workout programs
Features
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Bells helps elevate your training by guiding and tracking your kettlebell workouts. It provides a simple way to program workouts to share them with other users and your students with the push of a button. It has four QuickStart features allowing you to jump into any training session. You can build on your QuickStart to create a workout on the fly with ease. Then save it for sharing or completing again at another time. Preset with a list of basic kettlebell skills and an option to add your own. You can provide detailed instructions to create workouts and include links to your video demos via YouTube or Vimeo links. Don’t want to program workouts? New workouts monthly in the premium feature, so your training never gets stale. Access premium for 12 tried and tested workouts created by professional kettlebell instructors for about $10 monthly. Or purchase professionally designed programs that will elevate your training. Each program is available for a single purchase and loads directly into your BELLS app. They are designed for all levels, from beginner to advanced, with instructions and videos. Download today and STAY STRONG! QUICKSTARTS Quickly and easily get into your workout or training session using our QuickStart features. Once you have started a session using the quickstart feature and it finishes, you can add additional skills or complexes and create a workout that can be saved and shared. -LADDER: This allows you to track your rungs as you go through a ladder-style training set. -EMOM: A simple ‘EVERY MINUTE ON THE MINUTE’ timer at your fingertips. -STRAIGHT SETS: quickly set up your rep and set schemes, including any rest breaks you need, and then all you have to do is follow along and do the work you program. -CUSTOM: In this feature, you can set custom timer settings. Such as specific work-to-rest ratios, and include sets and reps if desired. PLAN YOUR WORKOUT Build your workouts by selecting a ‘single skill’ or ‘build your complex.’ You can choose from our preset exercise selection or add your own skill. Choose whether you have one bell or two, the weight, sets, reps, and rest period length. Once you select your skill, you can move to the mode and choose between Ladder, EMOM, straight sets, or custom. You have the option to add instructions for specifics on your skill or complex and include a link to an external video if examples are needed. After adding all the workout elements, you can start the workout and get to it or save the workout and then generate a link to share or come back to it later. SHARE YOUR WORKOUTS Bells is excellent for coaches and trainers to have an easy and free way to create and share workouts with athletes/students/clients. With the bells app, you can plan your workout and create a customized one you can easily share with another user. WORKOUT HISTORY Here you can see a log of workouts you have completed. You will see how long your workout took and a total of kilograms lifted in the session based on the weight set in the workout. SUBSCRIPTION You can subscribe and pay through your iTunes account. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. The user may manage subscriptions, and auto-renew may be turned off after purchase by going to the ‘Manage Subscription’ page in settings.

About

Protocol

Features
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Protocol is a private logbook for anyone running a hormone, peptide or supplement protocol. It holds what you take, tells you when to take it, does the syringe maths, and shows you what your bloodwork is doing about it. Everything stays on your device. No account. No sign-up. No servers. Nothing to leak. SCHEDULES THAT ACTUALLY FIT Most trackers handle "daily" and give up. Protocol handles every-other-day, every third day, specific weekdays, several doses a day, on/off cycles like 5-on/2-off or 8-weeks-on/4-off, titration ramps that step your dose at set intervals, and fixed start and end dates. Before you save anything, it shows you the next five doses so you can see the schedule is right. REMINDERS THAT HOLD UP Notifications carry Taken and Snooze buttons you can hit from the lock screen. iOS caps every app at 64 pending notifications, so Protocol rebuilds its queue each time you open it and tells you exactly how far ahead you're covered — instead of quietly dropping the ones that don't fit. RECONSTITUTION, DRAWN TO SCALE Enter what's in the vial and how much water you added. Protocol converts each dose to units and draws the fill line on a to-scale U-100 syringe. It handles mg and mcg, tells you how many doses the vial holds, and warns you when a dose won't fit the barrel. SITE ROTATION A body map that colours every injection site by how recently you used it and suggests the one you've left alone longest. Subcutaneous and intramuscular sites, tracked across every compound. BLOODWORK THAT MEANS SOMETHING Log a panel by hand, or copy the text off your results and paste it — Protocol reads it and shows you every value it found for you to confirm before anything is saved. Around 30 markers: total and free testosterone, sensitive estradiol, SHBG, LH, FSH, hematocrit, IGF-1, lipids, liver, PSA and more, each with its own trend line. Two things make the trends readable. Every dose change you make is marked on the chart, so you can see what moved and when. And each panel is tagged trough, mid-cycle or near-peak based on when you drew it relative to your last injection — because a trough reading and a peak reading are not the same measurement. Protocol will also tell you when your next trough window falls. INVENTORY Counts down as you log doses, warns you before you run out, projects the date you'll run dry, and tracks the discard date on a reconstituted vial. STACKS Save an entire protocol as one thing — every compound, dose and schedule — and apply it, edit it, or hand it to someone as a share code. Import theirs the same way. Bring across their structure and set your own doses, or take it as-is. Tag stacks so they stay findable. FOR YOUR CLINICIAN Generate a single PDF: current protocol, adherence, every lab panel with draw timing, and your full dose-change history. Something to hand over instead of describing from memory. ALSO Travel mode shifts every dose time at once. Full light and dark. Haptics. JSON export. WHAT PROTOCOL IS NOT It does not recommend compounds, doses or protocols, and it ships none of its own. It records what you enter and does the arithmetic you ask for. It is not a substitute for a clinician — particularly for anything involving hormones or prescription medication. Reference ranges shown on lab charts are commonly cited adult intervals that vary by laboratory and assay; they are context for your own reading, not targets. PRICING A 7-day free trial, then $39.99 a year. Or pay $99.99 once and own it permanently. No free tier, no ads, no data collection, no upsells. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://wisejester-sudo.github.io/protocol/privacy.html

Screenshots

BELLS, Kettlebell Workouts3 screens
Protocol4 screens

Verdict

The call

BELLS, Kettlebell Workouts and Protocol are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. BELLS, Kettlebell Workouts sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Protocol sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $39.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
BELLS, Kettlebell Workouts versus Protocol: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBELLS, Kettlebell WorkoutsProtocol
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (27 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings27 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB41 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJanus movement solutions LLCKevin Marsh

In-app purchases

10 purchases

BELLS, Kettlebell Workouts

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Annually3 Days trial$89.991 Year
One-time7
  • Program A1$0.29
  • Program B1$1.99
  • Program B3$4.99
Show 4 more
  • Program C2$19.99
  • Program C4$29.99
  • Program C5$39.99
  • Program D4$89.99
2 purchases

Protocol

Subscriptions1
  • Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is BELLS, Kettlebell Workouts free?
BELLS, Kettlebell Workouts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Protocol free?
Protocol is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BELLS, Kettlebell Workouts or Protocol have ads?
Neither BELLS, Kettlebell Workouts nor Protocol shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BELLS, Kettlebell Workouts or Protocol?
BELLS, Kettlebell Workouts ships an update every 2 months, and Protocol every 2 months. Most recently, BELLS, Kettlebell Workouts was updated on November 3, 2026 and Protocol on October 24, 2026.

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