Comparison

Sleep Guard vs Workout Buddy

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

Head to head
About

Sleep Guard

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Sleep Guard lets you precisely track your sleep while capturing important context - no Apple Watch required! Fall asleep when you need to using the guided breathing exercise. Get visual insights into your activity and synchronize your data with Apple Health. Export your sleep data as CSV. Start improving your well-being by ensuring you get the sleep you need, now!

About

Workout Buddy

This app helps you track your fitness progress with a simple interface. Easily add, save, and manage custom workouts, using checkboxes to monitor your progress throughout the week. Focus on your fitness journey with a clutter-free design.

Highlights
  • Add and save custom workouts
  • Monitor progress with weekly checkboxes
  • Reorder and delete workouts
  • Clutter-free, user-friendly design
  • Personalized workout list
Features
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Your workout app should not become another workout. Workout Buddy is a fast weekly exercise checklist for the gym, a run, a walk or the yoga mat. Add each workout once, tap the days you did it, and get on with your day. NEW IN 2.0: SEE EVERY DAY YOU SHOWED UP Tap a workout’s name to open its Workout History, a month calendar with a blue dot under every day you checked it off. Swipe sideways or use the arrows to look back month by month. It fills in by itself, week by week, starting the week you first open Workout Buddy 2.0. YOUR WHOLE WEEK IN ONE LOOK Every workout gets its own row with seven boxes, Sunday to Saturday. Today’s box is tinted blue, so one glance tells you where your week stands. ONE TAP BETWEEN YOU AND DONE Did your squats today? Tap the box and feel a haptic tap back. Boxes stay checked until you tap them again, so a slip of the thumb is one tap to fix, and you decide when to clear the week and start fresh. JUST ENOUGH DETAIL Each workout has room for a short note right under its name. Keep your current weight, your sets or a form cue where you will see it at the gym. Tap the name to edit the note or rename the workout. YOUR ROUTINE, YOUR ORDER Put your workouts in the order you actually do them, and remove the ones you have moved on from. Workout Buddy always asks before it deletes anything. PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no account to create and nothing to sign in to. No ads, no subscriptions and no in app purchases. Your workouts, notes and history stay on your iPhone, which is why the App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected. SIMPLE ON PURPOSE Workout Buddy leaves out everything that turns a quick check into homework: • No set by set or rep logging • No timers to babysit • No charts to interpret • No streaks to guilt you • No social feed to keep up with • No prescribed plans or coaching What is left is fast, calm and yours. COMFORTABLE FOR EVERYONE Text grows with Dynamic Type, every control is labeled for VoiceOver, and it looks right in dark mode and in landscape. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO ALREADY KNOW HOW THEY WANT TO MOVE Lifters with a simple split. Walkers, runners and yoga regulars. Anyone keeping up a stretching or rehab routine at home. Anyone who wants to know, at a glance, whether this week is on track. If you want a coach, a plan or a wall of stats, there are apps for that. If you want to tap a box and get on with your day, welcome.

Screenshots

Sleep Guard4 screens
Workout Buddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sleep Guard at Free against Workout Buddy's $0.99. Sleep Guard also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.5). Workout Buddy's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). On ads, in-app purchases 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

Sleep Guard is free to download; Workout Buddy costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sleep Guard ships an update every 3 weeks, Workout Buddy every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sleep Guard versus Workout Buddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSleep GuardWorkout Buddy
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Paid
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoshua PuschBenjamin Staab

In-app purchases

None

Sleep Guard

No in-app purchases

None

Workout Buddy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sleep Guard free?
Sleep Guard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Workout Buddy free?
Workout Buddy costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sleep Guard or Workout Buddy have ads?
Neither Sleep Guard nor Workout Buddy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sleep Guard or Workout Buddy?
Sleep Guard ships an update every 3 weeks, and Workout Buddy every 2 days. Most recently, Sleep Guard was updated on October 5, 2026 and Workout Buddy on October 24, 2026.

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