Comparison

Ares vs Yoga Quest

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

Head to head
About

Ares

This app provides a customizable interval timer for various workouts like HIIT, Tabata, yoga, and stretching. It features real-time heart rate zone tracking with Apple Watch integration and allows users to create and save unlimited training sessions and workout sets. Voice cues guide users through workouts, ensuring focus remains on exercise.

Highlights
  • Customizable interval timer
  • HIIT, Tabata, Yoga, Stretch modes
  • Apple Watch control and heart rate zones
  • Unlimited training session saving
  • Workout set creation
  • Voice and sound cues
  • Training history tracking
Features
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An interval timer that does the counting for you. Set rounds, work and rest in seconds, and Ares guides you by voice through the whole workout: HIIT, Tabata, EMOM, AMRAP, circuits, yoga, stretching and mobility. Heart rate from Apple Watch or earbuds, your workout on the Lock Screen, no ads. INTERVAL TIMER • Work time, rest time and number of rounds, down to the second • Left/Right mode times each side for you. Perfect for stretching, yoga and exercises done one side at a time • Countdown before you start, the option to begin with a warmup and an optional final rest • Pin favorite workouts to the Home Screen and repeat your last one with a single tap WORKOUTS, SETS AND EXERCISES • Ready-made workouts and sets to get you started: 14 workouts and 6 sets, free • Save as many workouts as you like, each with its own name and icon, and edit or duplicate them anytime • Workout sets: rounds, custom rests between workouts, edit straight from the list • Share workouts and sets with a link or QR code, with a preview before adding • Exercise library, expanded regularly • Exercise names read aloud during your workout HEART RATE: APPLE WATCH AND EARBUDS • Control your workout from your wrist: pause, skip, resume • Live heart rate and heart rate zones on Apple Watch and iPhone • Heart rate from earbuds too, no watch needed, even on iPad: AirPods Pro 3, Powerbeats Pro 2 or newer (iOS and iPadOS 26 or later) • Train with just your watch: put a workout on Apple Watch and leave your iPhone at home • Calories tracked in every workout • Automatic sync with Apple Health ALWAYS AT HAND • Your workout on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a timer and a pause button, no unlocking needed • Widgets for the Home Screen and the Lock Screen • Keeps running with the screen locked and never stops your music, it just turns it down for voice cues • A big, clear timer on iPad that you can read from across the room PROGRESS AND HISTORY • Heart rate chart for every workout: work and rest with the average heart rate of each phase • Weekly trends for number of workouts and training time • Calendar, list and details of every workout • Share your result as a card for a story or post, with your own photo and title • Weekly streak: one workout a week keeps it alive • A reminder when your streak is at risk, at most once a week Privacy Policy: https://ares.eris.one/privacy-policy/ License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Yoga Quest

Features
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Yoga Quest is a visual sequencing studio for yoga teachers and trainees. Browse a curated pose library, shape a class into sections, tune timing and cues, and move into Teach Mode when it is time to guide the room. Save reusable class sections, use optional short voice commands, and keep a private teaching history with reflections. Create and edit without an account. Your class plans stay available offline. When you want a second starting point, the clearly labeled sequencing copilot can prepare a catalog-backed draft for your review; nothing changes until you accept it. Online AI remains off unless you explicitly enable it. Export a professional class plan as a PDF with an accessible text copy. Yoga Quest supports large text, screen readers, reduced motion, light and dark modes, and layouts for iPhone and iPad. Yoga guidance is educational planning support, not medical advice. Teachers are responsible for adapting timing, transitions, language, and poses for the people in front of them. Read aloud: Teach Mode can speak each step's cue in a natural voice as the class runs. Classes from the library are always read aloud free, and the cues you write are read free up to 50 a month. Yoga Quest Pro, an optional subscription for teachers who build their own classes: • Read your own classes aloud without a monthly limit • Record any cue in your own voice, and read-aloud plays your recording • Put your studio name on class plan PDFs Yoga Quest Pro is available as a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and renewal is charged within the 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://yoga-quest-hq.web.app/privacy

Screenshots

Ares4 screens
Yoga Quest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Yoga Quest at none against Ares's 3. Yoga Quest also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). Ares's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). 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. Ares sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Yoga Quest asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ares ships an update every 2 weeks, Yoga Quest monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Ares versus Yoga Quest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAresYoga Quest
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (25 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings25 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size113 MB104 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKrzysztof OrlowskiHUMAN QUEST LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Ares

Subscriptions2
  • Ares Plus$1.991 Month
  • Ares Plus$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Ares Plus Forever$24.99
None

Yoga Quest

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ares free?
Ares is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Yoga Quest free?
Yoga Quest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ares or Yoga Quest have ads?
Neither Ares nor Yoga Quest shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ares or Yoga Quest?
Ares ships an update every 2 weeks, and Yoga Quest monthly. Most recently, Ares was updated on October 22, 2026 and Yoga Quest on October 14, 2026.

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