Comparison

Squats Coach vs The Squat Challenge

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

Head to head
About

Squats Coach

This app guides you through a structured plan to increase your squat strength and endurance, aiming for goals like 200 consecutive squats. It offers personalized plans, progress tracking, and motivational features to help you achieve your fitness goals in about 30 minutes per week.

Highlights
  • Customizable squat training plans
  • Track squats and calories burned
  • Graphical training log
  • Customizable reminders
  • Music playback integration
  • Social sharing of workouts
  • Backup and restore functionality
Features
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Squats will train your muscles in thighs, hips and butt, it is easy to do and makes you have good shape in thighs and hips. If you make your decision to increase your strength, if you want to break your records of squats, if you want to do 200 consecutive squats, follow Squats Coach, this app is to help you achieving the goal. No matter what level you are in at this moment, just follow Squats Coach’s plan, do step by step, and only take about 30 minutes a week, you will become the hero of yourself after six weeks. Key Features: ⁃ Well designed squats plans. ⁃ Track your squats trainings and calorie burned. ⁃ Graphical log of your each squats and calorie burned. ⁃ Custom squats reminder. ⁃ Support backstage and lock screen running. ⁃ Passcode function. ⁃ Supports Face ID passcode. ⁃ Music plays, make it more fun when you are doing squats. ⁃ Share your trainings with your friends. ⁃ Make your own exercise plan if you have finished the default plans and found they are too easy. ⁃ Supports WiFi backup & restore. ⁃ Supports Dropbox backup and restore. ⁃ Supports Apple Watch version. ⁃ Supports universal version. If you have any question or suggestion, please send email to our support userfeed@vip.tom.com.

About

The Squat Challenge

This app offers guided squat challenges designed to tone and strengthen glutes, thighs, and core muscles. Choose from 30 to 100-day programs to achieve your fitness goals and build strength effectively at home.

Highlights
  • Multiple squat exercises
  • 30 to 100-day challenges
  • Glute, thigh, and core toning
  • Bodyweight exercise focus
  • Builds muscle and burns calories
Features
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We've put together the best squat challenges, featuring multiple squat exercises that tighten and tone. There's a reason everyone is still so crazy about squats: They're awesome for your glutes, thighs, and core, meaning you're burning caloriess and building muscles in one fantastic move. Take up our 30 to 100(!) Day Squat Challenges and tone up and boost your leg and butt muscles and body strength to the max and get into the perfect summer shape that you’ve been dreaming of for so long. In general, 30-day challenges are a great way to work on your fitness, because they give you an achievable (short-term) goal to keep you focused. The motivation to lose weight or get fitter is obviously great, but without something clear and defined to work towards, it’s all too easy to skip a session or two then slide back into inactivity. And of all the 30-day challenges you might try, a squat challenge is one of the best. That’s because the unweighted squat is a strong contender for the finest bodyweight exercise in town. It works almost every muscle in your lower body, hitting big muscle groups like the quads, hamstrings and glutes especially hard.

Screenshots

Squats Coach4 screens
The Squat Challenge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Squats Coach at 4.1 against The Squat Challenge's 1.0. Squats Coach also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 8) and ratings volume (27 vs 1). The Squat Challenge's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.0). On price, update cadence 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. The Squat Challenge sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Squats Coach asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Squats Coach holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Squats Coach has 27 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Squats Coach ships an update every 6 months, The Squat Challenge every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Squats Coach versus The Squat Challenge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSquats CoachThe Squat Challenge
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (27 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews91.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings27 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵Samantha Roobol

Customer experience

Squats Coach

All ratings27 ratings
Positive85.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.8%
Written reviews98 reviews
Positive91.8%
Neutral3.1%
Negative5.1%

The Squat Challenge

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Squats Coach

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App shows ad, then blank screen with graphic, no controls
  • Doesn't recognize purchase options
  • Apple Watch keeps asking to create profile
  • Won't stop asking for a rating

Requested features

7 requests
  • Higher reps and sets
  • More automatic Watch integration
  • Globally change reps/sets
  • Add a squat session per day
  • Combine all related apps into one
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  • Better tutorial on perfect squat form
  • Ability to program days of the week

The Squat Challenge

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Squats Coach

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

The Squat Challenge

One-time8
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • For Beginners$0.99
  • Squat Variations$0.99
Show 5 more
  • Plank & Squats$0.99
  • The Ultimate Squat Challenge$1.99
  • Super Tabata$1.99
  • 60 Day Squat Challenge$1.99
  • Full Bundle$3.99

Questions

Is Squats Coach free?
Squats Coach is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Squat Challenge free?
The Squat Challenge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Squats Coach or The Squat Challenge?
Squats Coach is rated higher. Squats Coach averages 4.1 out of 5 from 27 ratings, while The Squat Challenge averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Squats Coach or The Squat Challenge have ads?
Squats Coach shows ads; The Squat Challenge does not.
Which is updated more often, Squats Coach or The Squat Challenge?
Squats Coach ships an update every 6 months, and The Squat Challenge every 7 months. Most recently, Squats Coach was updated on October 22, 2026 and The Squat Challenge on October 12, 2026.

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