Workout Calendar vs Soft Challenge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Workout Calendar
Track your fitness routine with a visual calendar. See completed workout days marked with checkmarks to stay motivated and understand your progress. Features include recurring workouts, notifications, and a full month view.
- Track completed workout days
- Visual progress indicator
- Recurring workouts
- Alarms and notifications
- Full month view
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Workout Calendar will keep track of your training sessions by showing you the completed days as a checkmark / completed sign. Its simple, and straight forward. Use it to keep yourself motivated! If you want to keep yourself motivated, you really want to give this app a try, it will help you see and feel the days where you've completed your workouts or when you actually failed, and just because of this, you will feel way better than not knowing the days you worked out. - Improved UI. - Recurrent / repeating workouts. - Alarms / notifications. - Full month view by swiping right to left on the screen.
Soft Challenge
This app guides users in building healthy habits through a customizable daily routine. It offers recommended rules for fitness, diet, hydration, and reading, allowing users to adapt the duration and tasks to their personal goals and lifestyle.
- Customizable habit rules
- Personalized goals and lifestyle adaptation
- Recommended daily workout routine
- Healthy diet tracking
- Hydration goals
- Reading habit tracking
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The Soft Challenge has its own recommended set of rules and guidelines that are all about creating healthy habits at a steady daily pace. The Soft Challenge is completely configurable to your personal goals and lifestyle, you can modify the tasks and or the duration as needed! The recommended rules for The Soft Challenge are as follows: - One 45-minute workout per day, with one day for active recovery every week. - Eat a Healthy Diet, of your choosing - Only Drink Alcohol socially, if any at all - Drink 3 liters of water per day - Read 10 pages of any book
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Verdict
Workout Calendar and Soft Challenge both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 81% of Workout Calendar's written reviews are positive against 64% of Soft Challenge's. Workout Calendar also leads on ratings volume (1.2K vs 286) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). On rating, update cadence, 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
Workout Calendar costs $0.99 and Soft Challenge $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Workout Calendar against 4.8 for Soft Challenge. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.2K and 286 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 81% of Workout Calendar's written reviews are positive against 64% of Soft Challenge's.
Workout Calendar ships an update every 8 days, Soft Challenge fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Workout Calendar | Soft Challenge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better | 4.8 (286 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.7% of reviews — better | 64.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 286 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #69 — better | #74 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrei Zaharia | White Belt Development LLC |
Customer experience
Workout Calendar
Soft Challenge
User reviews
Workout Calendar
From 1.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Excellent tracker
- 👍 Great value
- 👍 Very Useful for Keeping Track
- 👍 Perfect!
- 👍 Best workout calendar
Room to improve
- 🐛 Not worth .99
- 🐛 Bugs
- 🐛 Can't remove repeating workouts
- 🐛 Widgets will not load
- 🐛 Bugs
Soft Challenge
From 286 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Highly customizable and flexible
- 👍 Great for tracking 75 Soft
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 👍 One-time purchase, not subscription
- 👍 Helpful reminders
Room to improve
- 🐛 App gets stuck on Day 1
- 🐛 Navigation can be tricky
- 🐛 Cannot edit/disable certain features
- 🐛 Weight unit change not saving
- 🐛 Cannot go back to fix missed tasks
Bugs and requests
Workout Calendar
Reported bugs
3 issues- Cannot delete a session from a recurrent exercise without it reappearing
- Widgets will not load
- App keeps crashing
Requested features
4 requests- Add a recurring every X days option
- Additional fields?
- Color coding days
- Keep color choices
Soft Challenge
Reported bugs
6 issues- App stuck on Day 1 congratulation screen
- Water consumption not saving
- App won't allow moving forward without checking all tasks
- Cannot save changes to weight units
- App stuck on 'great job keep on crushing it' screen
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- Cannot go back and fix missed tasks
Requested features
4 requests- Allow users to share progress with others
- Option to edit/disable certain features
- Photo option for tracking
- Extend the number of days for challenges
In-app purchases
Workout Calendar
No in-app purchases
Soft Challenge
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Workout Calendar free?
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