Workout Builder vs On Pace For
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
On Pace For
Automatically track workouts and forecast your fitness progress in real-time. Stay motivated with live dashboards and smart predictions for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly goals. Seamlessly syncs with Apple Health for comprehensive data.
- Automatic workout detection
- Seamless HealthKit sync
- Live progress dashboard
- Smart forecasting
- Real-time insights
- Goal tracking
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On Pace For helps you stay motivated by automatically tracking your workouts and forecasting your progress—so you always know whether you’re on track to hit today’s, this week’s, this month’s, and this year’s fitness goals. Every move counts • Automatic Workout Detection Runs, walks, rides, swims, HIIT and strength sessions are recognized without tapping a button. • Seamless HealthKit Sync Pull in heart rate, calories burned, steps, distance and more from Apple Health. Real-time insights & forecasts • Live Progress Dashboard Watch your daily and weekly totals update in real time—perfect for pacing yourself mid‐workout or throughout the day. • Smart Forecasting Based on your pace, consistency, and historical data, get reliable estimates of your totals for today, this week, this month, and the year. Why On Pace For? Life can be unpredictable. Whether you’re training for a race, building consistency, or simply aiming to move more, On Pace For gives you clarity and confidence—every step, rep, and ride of the way. Ready to see how far you can go? Download On Pace For today and start turning every workout into a clear path toward your fitness goals. Continuous improvement has never been easier—or more motivating. Terms of Use: https://timhibbard.github.io/on-pace-for-website/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: On Pace For at 5.0 against Workout Builder's 4.3. On Pace For also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Workout Builder's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (23 vs 2). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 On Pace For sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On Pace For 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 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Workout Builder ships an update fortnightly, On Pace For every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Workout Builder | On Pace For |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Palmer | Tim Hibbard |
Customer experience
Workout Builder
On Pace For
In-app purchases
Workout Builder
- Workout Builder Premium$9.99
On Pace For
- On Pace Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- On Pace Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
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