Comparison

NOWCA Wild vs Training Builder

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

Head to head
About

NOWCA Wild

This app allows users to log their open water swims, share their location with safety contacts, and manage swim records. It provides a way to enhance safety during aquatic activities.

Highlights
  • Pin swim locations
  • Alert safety contacts
  • Manage swim records
  • Open water swim tracking
  • Safety features
Features
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Pin your swims - Alert your safety contacts - Manage your Swims.

About

Training Builder

Features
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Training Builder builds structured workouts and sends them to the Fitness app on your Apple Watch. Warm-up, intervals, cool-down – every section with its own duration or distance and its own target zone. That is all you need: build the workout, send it to the watch, go. If you want more, there is a coach that plans your week, asks in the morning how you are doing, and tells you afterwards what the workout delivered. THE EDITOR Build the workout on iPhone or iPad, from a template or from a blank sheet. Every section gets a duration or a distance, plus a target: heart rate, power, pace or cadence. Repeat blocks hold what repeats. 8 × 400 m with 200 m of jogging in between sits there as one block, not as sixteen rows. Change the repeat once and every round follows. Above the list sits the intensity profile as a chart. Tap to select a section, drag to reorder. THE COACH The coach builds workouts by training rules, not at random. Give it the sport, the duration and the intent – it places warm-up, work and recovery to match. A single workout, a whole week, or a twelve-week block up to race day. Threshold, VO2max and pace get fixed days, and every week brings a different variant – no two weeks are alike. It runs on the device: what you give it never leaves your iPhone. Your workouts themselves sync between your devices over iCloud, and the measurements come from HealthKit. Got a plan from your coach? Bring it in: paste the text or pick a photo. That needs an iPhone with Apple Intelligence – everything else the coach builds from training rules, on any device running iOS 26. THE DAILY CHECK-IN Three questions in the morning: how was your sleep, how are your legs, how much energy is there. Plus resting heart rate, heart rate variability and sleep from Apple Health. Out of that comes a traffic light for the day. If it shows yellow or red, the coach suggests easing the workout or taking a rest day – you decide. The Today card in the planner shows it all at a glance. THE PLAN Training blocks across several weeks – build-up, load weeks and tapering before the race. The hard sessions land on the days you actually have time, spaced apart and never right after the long one. How many there are depends on your experience. THE DIARY What you did sits next to what you planned. Time in zones, pace, heart rate, elevation, route map and laps. For your workouts the coach tells you whether you hit the zones and what that means for the next one. Statistics for fixed periods or for any period you choose. All from HealthKit, with no second account and no second watch. ZONES THAT FIT YOU Heart rate, power, pace and cadence ranges, kept separately per sport. Power for cycling and rowing, pace for running, walking, hiking, cycling, swimming and rowing. Taken from HealthKit or set by hand. Metric or imperial. SPORTS Running, cycling, swimming, rowing, walking, hiking, elliptical, strength training, core, HIIT, cross-training, martial arts, yoga, pilates and more. SEVEN DAYS TO TRY, THEN A SINGLE PURCHASE For seven days you get every feature – no payment details, nothing to cancel. After that, a single purchase: no subscription, no renewal. Family Sharing covers up to six people, and the purchase holds for Version 2 for good. If the trial runs out and you do not buy, the workouts you already built stay fully usable. Only building new ones is locked. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

NOWCA Wild4 screens
Training Builder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NOWCA Wild at none against Training Builder's 2. NOWCA Wild also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 14 months) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. Training Builder sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. NOWCA Wild asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NOWCA Wild ships an update every 6 weeks, Training Builder every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
NOWCA Wild versus Training Builder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNOWCA WildTraining Builder
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews10.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 14 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperpushpixelPottbyte Solutions GbR

In-app purchases

None

NOWCA Wild

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Training Builder

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Month$0.991 Month
  • Premium Year$3.991 Year

Questions

Is NOWCA Wild free?
NOWCA Wild is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Training Builder free?
Training Builder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do NOWCA Wild or Training Builder have ads?
Neither NOWCA Wild nor Training Builder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NOWCA Wild or Training Builder?
NOWCA Wild ships an update every 6 weeks, and Training Builder every 14 months. Most recently, NOWCA Wild was updated on October 13, 2026 and Training Builder on October 3, 2026.

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