Speedwork vs Buds Meditation
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Speedwork
This app creates adaptive training plans and interval workouts tailored to your fitness level and schedule. It integrates with popular cycling devices and adjusts your plan based on your performance and missed sessions, eliminating guesswork for structured training.
- Personalized training plans
- Adaptive interval workouts
- Integrates with Garmin, Wahoo, Zwift
- Automatic plan adjustments
- Schedule flexibility
- Structured training guidance
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Speedwork builds personalized training plans and interval workouts that adapt as you ride, rest, and improve. Whether you're training for your first race or chasing a new personal best, your plan fits your goals, your schedule, and your actual fitness. Connect your Garmin, Wahoo, and Zwift, and Speedwork takes care of the rest. Miss a day? Your plan adjusts. Have a strong week? It builds on that. Every workout has a purpose, and your schedule always reflects where you are right now. No spreadsheets, no guesswork. Just structured training that keeps you healthy and moving forward. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Buds Meditation
This app allows you to share your meditation practice with friends and a community. Encourage each other and stay connected, even when physically apart. Make your mindfulness journey more joyful by doing nothing, together.
- Share meditation practice
- Community support
- Encourage one another
- Stay connected
- Group mindfulness
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The path is more joyful with friends. Buds lets you share your meditation practice with your community. Encourage one another and stay connected, even when you're apart.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Buds Meditation at none against Speedwork's 4. Buds Meditation also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.5). Speedwork's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (9 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Speedwork sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Buds Meditation asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Speedwork against 5.0 for Buds Meditation. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Speedwork has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Speedwork ships an update fortnightly, Buds Meditation every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Speedwork | Buds Meditation |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Overlays Inc | Duncan Graham |
Customer experience
Speedwork
Buds Meditation
In-app purchases
Speedwork
- Speedwork Monthly1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- Discounted Monthly$14.991 Month
- Speedwork Yearly1 Month trial$99.991 Year
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- Discounted Yearly$169.991 Year
Buds Meditation
No in-app purchases
