Workout Builder vs setFlow Pulse
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
setFlow Pulse
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Focus on your workout, not the clock. SetFlow Pulse guides you through exercise and rest intervals with a clear timer and voice cues, so you can spend less time checking the screen. BUILD YOUR OWN SESSIONS Set exercise time, rest time, the number of exercises and sets, and the break between sets. Save routines for your next session, whether you train at home or at the gym. FOLLOW THE TIMER AND VOICE CUES See your current interval and where you are in the session. Voice cues help you follow the workout, with pause and resume controls when you need a break. KEEP YOUR TRAINING HISTORY Review completed sessions, check their duration, and add notes about how each workout felt. MAKE IT YOURS Choose a color theme and select the interface and voice languages separately. English, Polish, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese are available. MORE WITH PRO An in-app purchase unlocks unlimited saved workouts and access to training history, removes ads, and lets workouts continue with the screen off. For background audio, choose whether other audio stays at its usual volume or is lowered for the active workout session. Set your intervals, start the timer, and get moving.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Workout Builder at 17.0 against setFlow Pulse's 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 setFlow Pulse sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Workout Builder | setFlow Pulse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (20 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 71.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Palmer | Wojciech Rogowski |
In-app purchases
Workout Builder
- Workout Builder Premium$9.99
setFlow Pulse
- SetFlow Pulse PRO$3.99
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