Workout Builder vs Sumyt
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Workout Builder
Design personalized fitness routines on your iPhone, then seamlessly transfer them to your Apple Watch. Supports a wide range of activities from running and cycling to yoga and strength training, with options for simple goals, advanced intervals, and paced efforts.
- Create custom workouts on iPhone
- Send workouts to Apple Watch
- Supports running, cycling, swimming, yoga
- HIIT & Strength interval training
- Boxing and skipping interval options
- Goal-based workouts
- Advanced interval workouts
- Paced workouts
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Workout Builder lets you create custom workouts on your iPhone and send them to your Apple Watch. Build advanced workouts like: - Running workouts for tempo runs, intervals, hill sprints - Cycling workouts for intervals, pyramids, and distance efforts - Swimming workouts for specific distances and times - Flow, Yin, Vinyasa yoga - HIIT & Strength training intervals - Boxing and skipping intervals, with rest included - Plus many, many more sports! Workout Builder has three types of workouts you can send to your Apple Watch - Simple, goal-based workouts – set a time, distance, or energy burn goal - Advanced interval workouts – add multiple sets and reps, along with rest, warmup, and cooldown - Paced workouts – set a time and distance goal and pace your workout
Sumyt
Create and manage custom workouts and training plans that sync seamlessly with Apple Watch. Track your progress across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with detailed summaries and weather forecasts for your activities.
- Create custom workouts
- Manage training plans
- Syncs with Apple Watch
- Track progress on multiple devices
- View weather forecasts
- Integrates with Apple Health
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Do you love using the Apple Workouts app but want more flexibility and control? That's where Sumyt comes in! Sumyt lets you create and manage workouts and training plans across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with automatic syncing to your Apple Watch. Your scheduled workouts will be ready for you on your watch, and once you've completed them, you can easily track your progress on any of your devices. Here's how it works: 1. Schedule a workout on your device of choice. 2. Complete the workout that's seamlessly synced to the Workouts app on your Apple Watch. 3. View the workout details in Sumyt, wherever you are. With a Sumyt+ subscription, you can unlock even more features, whether you're training for a marathon or prepping for your sports season. Free Features: - Schedule unlimited workouts on iPhone, iPad, or Mac. - Take control of your training with plans and custom workouts that sync seamlessly to your Apple Watch. Design, manage, and track your fitness journey all in one place. - Automatic sync to Apple Watch for workouts scheduled that day. - Create custom workouts with warm-up, work, and cool-down intervals. - Access any of Apple's 80+ activity types. - Set individual preferences for each activity type. - Review details of your upcoming and completed workouts. - View weather forecasts for upcoming workouts, with fully customizable locations. - Get a summary of your day, including activity rings and key metrics. Sumyt+ Subscription Features: - Create unlimited training plans and filter workouts by plan. - Organize your plans with training blocks and events. - Build a library of custom workouts that you have created. - Apple Watch companion app to view upcoming workouts. - Widgets and watch complications to track what's next. - Help support an indie developer and shape the future of Sumyt! Join the Sumyt community. This app is just getting started, and I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions. Together, we can make Sumyt even better. Reach out anytime at support@sumyt.app. Thanks for being part of the journey, and happy training! Your privacy is important. Sumyt integrates with Apple Health to sync workouts, and your data stays securely on your devices. Privacy: https://sumyt.app/privacy Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Note: While Sumyt is available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, you'll need an Apple Watch and iPhone to benefit from automatic workout syncing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sumyt at 5.0 against Workout Builder's 4.3. Sumyt also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and device support (3 vs 1). Workout Builder's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Workout Builder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sumyt sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Sumyt holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Workout Builder has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Workout Builder's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sumyt's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on July 26, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Workout Builder | Sumyt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Palmer | William Beal |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Workout Builder
- Workout Builder Premium$9.99
Sumyt
- Solo1 Month trial$3.991 Year
- Family1 Month trial$6.991 Year
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