WorkOther vs Workout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WorkOther
Create and customize your own workouts directly on your Apple Watch. Track your progress and monitor your fat-burning heart rate zone for improved weight loss efficiency. Integrates with HealthKit to sync your workout data.
- Create custom workouts
- Use workouts on Apple Watch
- Fat burning heart rate indication
- Weight loss efficiency improvement
- HealthKit integration
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Have you ever bothered looking for appropriate workouts on your watch? If so, why not create ones by yourself? WorkOther helps you do that, you can create custom workouts on it and use them on Apple Watch, which makes your Watch the all-round workout tracker. Another feature worth mentioning is fat burning heart rate indication, It ensures your exercise intensity is enough for burning fat, so as to improve weight loss efficiency. HealthKit WorkOther requires the HealthKit permission to read your heart rate while doing exercises with Apple Watch, and write workout data into Health app.
Workout
Track a wide variety of exercises with detailed metrics and personalized feedback. Monitor your progress, analyze training load, and receive motivational encouragement to optimize your fitness journey.
- Multiple workout types (running, yoga, cycling, etc.)
- Multisport and custom interval training
- Real-time key metrics display
- Running form and cycling power analysis
- Customizable alerts and voice feedback
- Training load and progress tracking
- Motivational workout buddy feature
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Workout with Apple Watch • Scroll through the list of workouts to choose the workout type that best matches what you’re doing, including running, hiking, yoga, and cycling. • Multisport workout supports training for a triathlon or duathlon and includes automatic switching. • Create structured intervals by selecting or building a custom workout. • Receive a reminder to start or end your workout for walking, running, cycling, elliptical, rowing, and swimming. • Raise your wrist to view key metrics, including calories, distance, pace, heart rate, running power, and more during your workout session. • Running form metrics track how efficiently you run and include: Vertical Oscillation, Stride Length, and Ground Contact Time. • Connect Bluetooth-enabled cycling accessories, such as power meters, directly to Apple Watch. • Support for Functional Threshold Power estimates and Power Zones for cyclists with a connected power meter. • Cycling workouts on Apple Watch will start a Live Activity on your paired iPhone to show workout metrics, views, and experiences optimized for the display size of iPhone, which can be mounted to a bike for easy viewing. • Customize alerts based on specific metrics for each workout type, with the ability to receive alerts when going above or below a metric like Pace, Running Power, Cadence, or falling within a target Heart Rate Zone. • With Voice Feedback, workout milestones like pace, speed, distance, progress against goals, and activity rings are announced. • When in an active workout, scroll the Digital Crown to see new Workout views and training experiences, including additional metrics, Heart Rate Zones, and to check your progress against your Activity Rings. • Training load helps you see how the intensity of your workouts may impact your body over time. So you can make informed decisions about how and when to adjust your workouts. • Track the effort of your workouts and use training load to see how your 7-day load compares to your 28-day load. • Get encouragement and stay motivated during your workouts with Workout Buddy. Using Apple Intelligence from your iPhone, Workout Buddy provides you with the right encouragement based on your workout data and fitness history.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: WorkOther at every 2 months against Workout's every 9 months. WorkOther also leads on review sentiment (58% vs 47%) and ratings volume (203 vs 29). Workout's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for WorkOther against 4.5 for Workout. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WorkOther has 203 ratings behind it against 29, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 58% of WorkOther's written reviews are positive against 47% of Workout's.
WorkOther ships an update every 2 months, Workout every 9 months. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | WorkOther | Workout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (203 ratings) — better | 4.5 (29 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 58.5% of reviews — better | 46.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 203 — better | 29 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 晓东 林 | Apple Inc. |
Customer experience
WorkOther
Workout
Bugs and requests
WorkOther
Reported bugs
22 issues- Watch app not installed
- Exercises stop after minutes
- Poor responsiveness, frequently stuck
- App crashes automatically
- Watch app closes unexpectedly
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- Syncing workout to Watch not working
- Watch app installation issues
- Watch app not configuring
- AirPods Pro disconnects during workout
- Custom workouts show as 'Other' on Watch
- App crashes when receiving notifications
- Watch app not installed
- Exercises stop after minutes
- Poor responsiveness, frequently stuck
- App crashes automatically
- Watch app closes unexpectedly
- Syncing workout to Watch not working
- Watch app installation issues
- Watch app not configuring
- AirPods Pro disconnects during workout
- Custom workouts show as 'Other' on Watch
- App crashes when receiving notifications
Requested features
28 requests- Add custom workout icons
- Sync custom workouts to WeChat
- Add GPS/distance tracking
- Allow choosing GPS or not
- Associate geographical information
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- Option to disable voice prompt volume
- Add weekly/monthly single item statistics
- Allow use with iTunes or Spotify
- Add calorie display on home screen
- Record number of repetitions
- Allow switching measurement units
- Disable voice prompts
- Add calorie display in overview
- Support modifying workout item icons
- Allow custom workout icons
- Sync custom workouts to WeChat
- Add GPS/distance tracking
- Allow choosing GPS or not
- Associate geographical information
- Option to disable voice prompt volume
- Add weekly/monthly single item statistics
- Allow use with iTunes or Spotify
- Add calorie display on home screen
- Record number of repetitions
- Allow switching measurement units
- Disable voice prompts
- Add calorie display in overview
- Support modifying workout item icons
Workout
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
WorkOther
No in-app purchases
Workout
No in-app purchases









