B&M vs Sortabout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
B&M
This app offers personalized home strength training using kettlebells and bodyweight exercises. It provides structured programs and flexible workouts tailored to your goals, experience, and equipment, with instructional videos and progress tracking.
- Personalized workout recommendations
- Kettlebell and bodyweight training
- Instructional exercise videos
- Built-in workout timer
- Structured training programs
- Progress tracking and statistics
- Customizable workout plans
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Get strong. Move freely. Train at home with kettlebell and bodyweight workouts matched to your goals, experience, schedule, and equipment. Bells and Moves gives you flexible workouts when you want to train today and structured programs when you want a clear path forward. Build muscle, lose fat, get stronger, feel healthier, and improve mobility with training you can do at home. Choose bodyweight workouts, kettlebell workouts, or sessions that combine both. Each workout includes clear exercise guidance, instructional videos, and a built-in timer so you always know what to do next. For kettlebell enthusiasts, explore community-approved programs including: • Armor Building Complex • 10,000 Kettlebell Swing Challenge • Dry Fighting Weight • Simple & Sinister • Snatch and Long Cycle competition programs What you can do: • Find Your Next Workout: Explore personalized categories and workouts based on your goals and equipment. • Train Your Way: Use bodyweight, kettlebells, or both. Clubbell, mace, and sandbag training are also supported. • Follow a Program: Build consistency with proven kettlebell programs and clear progression. • Plan & Track: Efficiently plan your training and monitor progress with statistics on weight lifted and calories burned. • Adjust: Modify volume and intensity based on your body's feedback. • Stay Consistent: Schedule training reminders and keep your routine moving forward. • Encourage: Give and receive virtual high-fives, celebrating completed sessions together as a community. • Connect: Share support and get real feedback from experienced lifters by commenting on training sessions. Work out anytime, anywhere – at home, in the gym, or outdoors. FAQs: • Don’t know where to start? Your Home categories and recommendations are personalized around your goals, experience, preferred training style, and equipment. • Don’t know how to perform exercises? Each training session includes instructional videos for every exercise. • How much equipment do I need? You can train with bodyweight alone, one or two kettlebells, or combine both. Clubbells, maces, and sandbags are optional. • Can you get in shape at home? Yes. Bodyweight and kettlebell training can help you build muscle, lose fat, improve mobility, and get stronger without depending on a gym. • What if I struggle with consistency? Training reminders, ready-to-start workouts, and structured programs help you stay consistent and stick to your routine. • Can I create my own training plan? Yes! You can either choose from complete training programs or use the custom program builder to tailor your workouts, including exercises, weights, repetitions, and progression rate. • Don’t know how many sets and repetitions to perform, when to start, and when to rest? The app provides precise workout prescriptions and rest times, along with a built-in interval timer to guide you through each session. • Not achieving desired results with current training? Our programs are designed based on principles of personalization and progressive overload, ensuring you enjoy continual progress and desired results over time. • Feeling tired or overtrained? Bells and Moves tracks your Rate of Perceived Exertion and offers recommendations to prevent overtraining and maintain your level of performance. • Want to track your progress? The app collects detailed statistics for each training session and exercise so you can monitor progress effectively. • Need flexibility in your training plan? You can change parameters of your training plan at any time and continue the progression without restarting the plan. Bells and Moves was formerly known as Kettlebell Craft Training. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Sortabout
A relaxing game where you arrange bookshelves by color, author, title, or Dewey Decimal numbers. Enjoy a peaceful experience with no scores or timers, and share your creations. Access public domain books and design custom color palettes.
- No scores, timers, or judgment
- 464 public-domain books
- Sort by color, author, title, or Dewey Decimal
- Color Lab for custom palettes
- Adjustable book heights and reading-room atmospheres
- Gentle generative sound and haptics
- No accounts, ads, tracking, or internet required
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Sort Your Shelf Out Sortabout is a gentle bookshelf sorting game. There is no score. No timer. No “wrong” order. No streaks, no levels, nothing chasing you. You arrange a shelf of beautiful old books — by colour, by author, by title, or by their Dewey Decimal numbers — and when the shelf looks right to you, you're done. That's the whole game. It was made for people who are a little too online. Every choice serves calm: you choose when you are done, no-one else. Nothing is ever judged, and when you finish, a breathing light gently suggests this might be a good moment to look away from the screen. • No scores, no timers, no judgement — ever • 464 real public-domain books to arrange. If you see one you like - click through and download it to your e-reader for free. • Sort by colour, or by names and numbers — author, title, or Dewey Decimal • A Colour Lab for designing your own palettes allows more than 5,000 unique shelf combinations • Reading-room atmospheres and adjustable book heights to match your mood exactly • Gentle generative sound and soft haptics that mix under your own music, podcast or team meeting • No accounts, no ads, no tracking, no internet — nothing is collected, ever • Every game is a "self-portrait" to share with those worthy to truly know you Sort a shelf. Feel it settle. Put your phone down.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: B&M at Free against Sortabout's $0.99. Sortabout's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and review sentiment (100% vs 65%). On 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
B&M is free to download; Sortabout costs $0.99 up front. B&M sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Sortabout asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | B&M | Sortabout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (58 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 65.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 58 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Power Craft Training, LLC | Chris Elliot |
Customer experience
B&M
Sortabout
In-app purchases
B&M
- Weekly plan$7.997 Days
- Monthly plan$19.991 Month
- Monthly plan1 Month trial$19.991 Month
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- Quarterly plan$39.993 Months
- Quarterly plan1 Month trial$39.993 Months
- Discounted Premium Access7 Days trial$55.991 Year
- Annual plan7 Days trial$79.991 Year
- Annual plan1 Month trial$79.991 Year
- Discounted Lifetime Access$69.99
- Lifetime access$99.99
Sortabout
No in-app purchases







