Workout Builder vs WorkoutGPX
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
WorkoutGPX
This app transforms your iPhone fitness data into shareable GPX tracks. It seamlessly connects to Apple Health to export GPS-tracked activities like running, cycling, and hiking. Preserve all your workout details and share them easily with others.
- Apple Health integration
- Export GPS tracks
- Supports running, cycling, hiking
- Preserves route data
- Standard GPX format
- Effortless sharing
- Workout history browsing
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Export your Apple Health workouts as GPX files — every workout, every activity type, with the sensor data your other apps expect. WorkoutGPX connects directly to Apple Health and turns any GPS‑tracked workout into an industry‑standard GPX file you can open in Strava, Garmin Connect, Komoot, Google Earth, or any mapping app. Whether you want to analyze a run, share a cycling route, back up years of hikes, or move your data off your watch, WorkoutGPX makes it a few taps. KEY FEATURES • Your Complete History: No limits. Browse and export every workout Apple Health has recorded, going back as far as your data does. • Every Activity Type: Running, walking, hiking, cycling, swimming, skiing, rowing, and any other workout with a GPS route. Workouts without location data are tucked away so the list shows only what you can export. • Export One or Many: Swipe a workout to share its GPX file, or tap Select, tick the workouts you want or Select All for the current filter, and share every file in one go. Workouts without GPS are skipped and listed, never silently dropped. • Hide Your Start and End: Leave the first and last stretch of every route out of the files you export, from 200 m to 1 km (⅛ to ½ mile), so a shared run doesn't lead to your door. The map shows the hidden part in gray. • Shortcuts: Export your latest workout, or every workout between two dates, with the Shortcuts app. • Rich GPX Files: Each track point carries timestamp, coordinates, and elevation, and with Include Sensor Data on, heart rate, cadence, power, speed, and course from Health, using the standard Garmin extensions — so fitness platforms import your full effort, not just the line on the map. • Built‑in Route Viewer: See each route on the map, colored by effort (which follows the grade) or by elevation, with peaks and valleys marked. Scrub the elevation profile to follow your progress point by point. • Smart Filters: Narrow your workouts by activity type and date range with quick presets. Your filters are remembered and stay in place while you export, so bulk‑exporting a trip is fast. • Effortless Sharing: Send GPX files via AirDrop, Messages, Mail, Files, cloud storage, or any app that accepts files. Every export is also kept in the Files app, in the WorkoutGPX folder. • Your Choice of Units and Map: Kilometers or miles, standard, satellite, or hybrid maps, adjustable line width, and optional sensor data in exports. • Privacy First: WorkoutGPX has no servers, no accounts and no analytics. All processing happens on your device, and your health data only leaves it when you choose to share a file. Open your exports in GPX Explore on iPhone, iPad and Mac: every climb found and rated, any route ridden turn by turn, and tracks drawn or fixed. WorkoutGPX is for athletes tracking training, travelers documenting trips, and anyone who wants full control over their own workout data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WorkoutGPX at 5.0 against Workout Builder's 4.3. WorkoutGPX also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (100% vs 71%). Workout Builder's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 1). On price, ads, 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. Workout Builder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. WorkoutGPX asks for nothing beyond the download.
WorkoutGPX holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Workout Builder has 23 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 WorkoutGPX's.
Workout Builder ships an update fortnightly, WorkoutGPX every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Workout Builder | WorkoutGPX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Palmer | ObjectGraph LLC |
Customer experience
Workout Builder
WorkoutGPX
In-app purchases
Workout Builder
- Workout Builder Premium$9.99
WorkoutGPX
No in-app purchases
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