Comparison

TempoFlow | Routine Builder vs Cadence

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

TempoFlow | Routine Builder

This app helps fitness instructors precisely time workouts and organize custom routines for Lagree, Pilates, and HIIT classes. It allows for hands-free operation and efficient class planning, ensuring a confident teaching experience.

Highlights
  • Build and save custom routines
  • Timed exercises, spring loads, and rest intervals
  • Manage and edit routine library
  • Hands-free Apple Watch class timers
  • Class schedule planning with routine sequencing
  • Tap-to-run timer interface
Features
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Stop juggling a stopwatch mid-class or forgetting your routines. TempoFlow is the Lagree timer and routine planner built for Lagree, Pilates, Solidcore, and HIIT instructors who demand precision every class. Whether you're cueing a packed Lagree class or coaching one-on-one, TempoFlow keeps your timing sharp and your routines organized, so you teach with confidence, not chaos. TempoFlow helps you: • Build and save custom Lagree routines with timed exercises, spring loads, and rest intervals • Manage your routine library - organize, duplicate, and edit routines in seconds • Run class timers hands-free from your Apple Watch • Plan your full class schedule with routine sequencing built in • Track every second with a clean, tap-to-run timer interface The Lagree timer and routine planner instructors trust. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Cadence

This app helps fitness instructors manage class timing and cues. Plan routines, display information on various devices, and provide silent or audible guidance to clients. Offers free and paid tiers with advanced features for professional use.

Highlights
  • Plan class routines with custom moves and cues
  • Display current, next, and private cues
  • Teach from Apple Watch, iPhone, or iPad
  • Import routines from spreadsheets or notes
  • Customizable haptic and audio alerts
  • Sync workouts with Routine Together feature
Features
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Teach the room, not the clock. Cadence is the class timer for instructors. Pilates first, and just as at home in barre, yoga, HIIT, bootcamp, and personal training. Plan the flow once on iPhone, then teach it from your Apple Watch, your iPhone propped on the reformer, or an iPad the whole room can read. It shows the current move, your private cue, and what is next, and taps you before every transition. Your eyes stay on your clients. Plan the class once • Name each move, set the seconds, and add the coaching cue only you see. • Add between-step transition pauses for spring changes or setup, across the routine or per step. • Loop a move or a linked multi-step block for Left & Right sides or repeated sets, with an optional switch-sides pause (Cadence Pro). • Color-code warm-up, work, and cool-down so the runner reads at a glance. • Repeat a block for rounds, rest between them, and open with a Get Ready countdown (Cadence Pro). • Start from a template: a 45-minute reformer flow, a 50-minute mat class, a 30-minute private, a 45-minute barre class, a 60-minute yoga flow, Tabata, HIIT, a five-station circuit, EMOM. • Tag routines Mat, Reformer, Private, Barre, Yoga, HIIT, or Strength and filter the library by class format. Bring in the plans you already have • Paste from Google Sheets, Excel, Numbers, or Notes, or open CSV files — with 1 free spreadsheet import included, and unlimited imports on Cadence Pro. • Smart Import (Cadence Pro): paste a plan from notes, an email, or a PDF in any layout and Cadence turns it into a routine to review before saving. • Send a routine to a colleague as a link or a CSV (Cadence Pro). Nothing is uploaded when sharing a link. Teach from whatever is closest • Apple Watch: current move, countdown, up next, and step count, with haptics at each step change, at your warning mark, and at any custom haptic marks you set. • iPhone & iPad: focus mode, hold-to-unlock screen lock, landscape iPad studio view, and AirPlay/HDMI Studio Display for a TV or projector (Cadence Pro). • Lock Screen and Dynamic Island timer with pause and skip buttons, plus Apple Music playlist attachment per routine (Cadence Pro). • Routine Together: join any live synced workout by 6-digit room code for free, or host multi-device synced sessions with Cadence Studio. Cues the way you want them, or not at all • Everything is silent until you turn it on. • Haptics with custom per-step marks and optional 3-2-1 countdown taps, plus chime, beep, or bell tones and halfway cues. • Voice cues read the move and your coaching cue aloud (1 free sample class; unlimited with Cadence Pro). Free, Pro, and Studio Cadence is free with up to 2 active routines, templates, step colors, between-step transitions, custom haptic marks, sound alerts, headphone controls, 1 free spreadsheet import, 1 free voice-cue class, and joining Routine Together sessions. Cadence Pro is $9.99/month (after a 7-day free trial) or $59.99/year. Cadence Studio is $19.99/month or $119.99/year (7-day free trial) and adds hosting Routine Together live multi-device sessions. Terms of Use: https://cadencetimer.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://cadencetimer.ai/privacy

Screenshots

TempoFlow | Routine Builder4 screens
Cadence4 screens

Verdict

The call

TempoFlow | Routine Builder and Cadence both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Cadence's written reviews are positive against 75% of TempoFlow | Routine Builder's. TempoFlow | Routine Builder's advantage is ratings volume (124 vs 4). On price, rating, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. TempoFlow | Routine Builder sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per year and Cadence sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cadence holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TempoFlow | Routine Builder has 124 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of TempoFlow | Routine Builder's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cadence's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TempoFlow | Routine Builder ships an update every 3 weeks, Cadence every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
TempoFlow | Routine Builder versus Cadence: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTempoFlow | Routine BuilderCadence
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (124 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings124 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.117.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size105 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperElectric Bloom LLCTrue AI Ventures

Customer experience

TempoFlow | Routine Builder

All ratings112 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral0.9%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral6.3%
Negative18.8%

Cadence

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TempoFlow | Routine Builder

Subscriptions1
  • Pro Yearly14 Days trial$14.991 Year
4 purchases

Cadence

Subscriptions4
  • Cadence Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Cadence Studio Monthly7 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Cadence Pro Yearly$59.991 Year
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  • Cadence Studio Yearly7 Days trial$119.991 Year

Questions

Is TempoFlow | Routine Builder free?
TempoFlow | Routine Builder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cadence free?
Cadence is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TempoFlow | Routine Builder or Cadence?
Cadence is rated higher. TempoFlow | Routine Builder averages 4.8 out of 5 from 124 ratings, while Cadence averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do TempoFlow | Routine Builder or Cadence have ads?
Neither TempoFlow | Routine Builder nor Cadence shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TempoFlow | Routine Builder or Cadence?
TempoFlow | Routine Builder ships an update every 3 weeks, and Cadence every 2 weeks. Most recently, TempoFlow | Routine Builder was updated on November 12, 2026 and Cadence on November 13, 2026.

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