btwb vs CrossFit North Star
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
btwb
Log your workouts, discover new ones, and connect with your fitness community. Track progress, analyze performance, and manage nutrition with a comprehensive fitness tracking tool.
- Daily workout programming
- Discover millions of WODs
- Track workout results
- Macro and nutrition tracking
- Community and social features
- Performance analysis and badges
- Gym virtual programming
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btwb, the world's premier workout tracker, brings fitness communities together, in person & remotely. We are the world's largest workout Log with 100+ million results and counting. WORKOUTS - Get daily programming at your fingertips with btwb's Varied Not Random workouts. 4 versions available daily: Performance, Fitness, Dumbbell Only, and No Equipment. - Post results for every workout and/or create your own. - Discover the perfect workout among 12+ Million Unique WODs. - Perfectly capture and share your workout experience with attached images and location tagging. - See how you stack up against the world with World-Wide Leaderboards. GYMS - Keep your community connected by taking your gym virtual. Deliver custom programming to groups and individuals, include personalized movement demos and WOD briefs, view member activity and results via gym feeds and leaderboards, and encourage members with emojis & comments through private Squads. MACROS - Track your Macros. Get the best features of other macro tracking apps combined with our best-in-class workout tracking. With over 700k grocery items, 160k restaurant items, and 13k common foods, find exactly the food you’re looking for by searching our library or by scanning the barcode of your favorite packaged item! You can even create your own custom entries! Set your own macronutrient targets, or have coaches set them for you. - Set your own macronutrient targets, or have coaches set them for you. SOCIAL - Create private Squads and build Follow lists to keep up with your friends' results. - Use direct messaging to converse about fitness with individuals and groups. ANALYSIS - Earn badges for various workouts, gymnastics maxes, 1RM lifts, and running & rowing intervals. - Discover potential major and minor strength, mobility, and technique issues in specific categories with Imbalances. - How fit are you? (1-100) Work to unlock your Fitness Level. Track body fat, benchmarks and more!
CrossFit North Star
This app allows members of a specific gym to book their spot in classes, register for gym events, and manage their personal account details. Users can update their profile picture and payment information.
- Class reservation
- Gym event sign-up
- Account management
- Profile picture updates
- Payment information management
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For members of CrossFit North Star to reserve their place in a class, sign up for gym events, and general account management like updating headshots and credit card on file.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: btwb at 4.6 against CrossFit North Star's 3.0. btwb also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (1.5K vs 2). CrossFit North Star's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
btwb holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: btwb has 1.5K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
btwb ships an update weekly, CrossFit North Star monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | btwb | CrossFit North Star |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.5K ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 53.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 265 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BTWB, LLC | Method Strength and Performance, LLC |
Customer experience
btwb
CrossFit North Star
Bugs and requests
btwb
Reported bugs
5 issues- Subscription cancellation and billing problems
- Frequent crashes and white screens
- Inability to log certain workout types
- Barcode scanner and movement tracking issues
- Problems with data syncing and history display
Requested features
5 requests- Add dark mode or black background option
- Integrate with Apple Health and other fitness apps
- Improve custom workout creation and logging
- Provide better social/community features
- Fix issues with loading and saving workout data
CrossFit North Star
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
btwb
No in-app purchases
CrossFit North Star
No in-app purchases
