Comparison

Whistle vs Idle.

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

Head to head
About

Whistle

This AI-powered app creates personalized training plans for running, cycling, swimming, and strength exercises. It adapts to your schedule and goals, providing insights into your training load, recovery, and progress. Seamlessly integrates with Apple Watch and HealthKit for comprehensive data analysis.

Highlights
  • AI-driven personalized training plans
  • Adaptive workout adjustments
  • Progress tracking and insights
  • Integration with Apple Watch and HealthKit
  • Weather-aware planning
  • Privacy-first data handling
Features
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Whistle is an AI training planner for running, cycling, swimming, strength work, and everything in between. Build a plan around your goals, adapt it when life changes, and understand what your training is doing over time. Plan with a coach that understands your week Ask Whistle to build a training week, create a longer program, adjust a workout, review your progress, or explain what your body is telling you. Your coach can use your goals, schedule, recent workouts, recovery, sleep, vitals, and local weather to help you make better training decisions. Training programs, not just single workouts Start a guided setup, tell Whistle what you are training for, and get a structured program you can follow week by week. Already following a plan? Bring that structure into Whistle and let your coach help you keep it organized. Workout planning that stays flexible Plan workouts for today, the week ahead, or a longer training block. Create structured sessions with warmups, intervals, targets, cooldowns, and activity-specific goals. Save workouts as templates so repeated sessions are ready when you need them. Train with better context Whistle turns workout and health data into practical planning support: - Training load to understand how much work you are absorbing - Projected load to see how planned workouts may shape your week - Recovery, sleep, and vital trends for daily context - Workout predictions for distance, duration, calories, and load - Training insights, heatmaps, and streaks to review consistency over time - Weather-aware planning with multi-day forecasts for outdoor sessions Apple Watch ready Send planned workouts to Apple Watch and start them from your wrist. Whistle also works with Apple’s Workout app experience, so your sessions fit into the tools you already use. Works with Apple Health (HealthKit) When you choose to share Apple Health data, Whistle can use workouts, activity, heart rate, recovery, sleep, and vitals to make planning and coaching more personal. The goal is useful training insight, not medical advice. Built privacy-first No account is required. Your workout and health data are handled with care, stored locally and in your personal iCloud where possible, and used only to power the features you choose. When AI processing is needed, Whistle uses the data required for the task instead of building a long-term personal profile on our servers. Some features require Pro or Ultra. Health, weather, watch, and AI features depend on device capabilities, permissions, region, and data availability.

About

Idle.

Features
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Idle offers one 7-minute guided meditation per day. Made for people with little time who want to reduce mental load and support concentration through a short, consistent practice. The session structure stays the same. There are no routines to learn and no choices to make, just a simple daily reset. A personal streak supports consistency. No performance metrics. No comparison. Intentionally minimal, easy to use, and no collection of personal data.

Screenshots

Whistle4 screens
Idle.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Idle. at none against Whistle's 5. Idle. also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18). On price, ads and device support 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. Whistle sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Idle. asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Whistle versus Idle.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhistleIdle.
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS1816.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB9 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperVogelhaus Apps GmbHJette Schreiber

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Whistle

Subscriptions5
  • Pro 1 Month$4.991 Month
  • 1 Ultra Month$9.991 Month
  • Ultra 3 Months3 Days trial$24.993 Months
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  • Pro 1 Year7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Ultra 1 Year$99.991 Year
None

Idle.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Whistle free?
Whistle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Idle. free?
Idle. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Whistle or Idle. have ads?
Neither Whistle nor Idle. shows ads.

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