Comparison

Settie vs BarbellKinetics

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

Head to head
About

Settie

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Achieve fitness greatness with Settie. Settie is an advanced workout tracker that helps you log training sessions effortlessly and get rich insights into your performance and progress at the gym. WORKOUTS AND LIVE LOGGING • Start instantly and repeat a recent or favorite session. • Start, pause, resume, finish, or cancel — with accurate session lifecycle, timeline, and duration. • Build the session as you train. Add, remove, and reorder exercise blocks, then move between exercises. • Log and manage sets and rests on the fly. • Capture weight, reps, distance, duration, set roles, methods, tags, and notes. • Track effort estimation with RPE or RIR, outcomes, and failure reasons. • Edit session environment, title, notes, tags. • Train with rich context from base and previous sessions, including volume and E1RM calculations. • Use contextualized tools like the barbell plate calculator and E1RM table. • Review detailed post-session reports. CUSTOM KEYBOARDS • Navigate between fields quickly, forward and back. • Tap increments and press-and-hold for rapid adjustments. • Use metric-aware copy and paste to fill values faster. • Use timers and stopwatches to track time precisely. • Configure your keyboard placement ergonomically. ANALYTICS, RECORDS, GOALS • Build your analytics dashboard with widgets you can add, remove, reorder, and resize. • Choose from 34+ widget families, filter by category and size, and drill down by time window. • Explore insights by exercise, body region, or movement pattern, including pull, push, squat, hinge, and 9 more. • Keep track of your records and milestones from 18+ record definitions. • See live analytical insights and get instant record-hit feedback during your session. • Define your goals to empower performance widgets. EXERCISE LIBRARY • Explore a large library of 1,100+ exercise variants. • Find what you need with search and filters for liked or custom, type, muscles and body region, equipment, movement pattern, laterality, mechanic, and level. Sort by frequency or recency. • Learn from rich exercise details with media, muscle maps, contribution breakdowns, instructions, tips, common mistakes, and usage context. • Create and edit custom exercises with muscle distribution editing and execution defaults. Add notes to any exercise. EXECUTION PROFILES • Choose which metrics each exercise tracks, including weight, reps, duration, and distance. • Select between single entry or left and right entry for unilateral work. • Use load semantics that match real training with absolute mode for total logging, additive mode for weighted bodyweight training, and subtractive mode for assisted exercises. • Pick a mass source, either body or hardware, and define its contribution factor. ENVIRONMENTS AND EQUIPMENT • Set up environments for home, gym, and travel. • Define your equipment and set availability by environment. • Track each equipment instance with real-world details, photos, and rich text notes. Define how it contributes to load. • Assign equipment in-session and set load and support roles. HISTORY AND BODY MEASUREMENTS • Learn from history in calendar and list views, filter favorite sessions, and spot patterns with session tags. • Track body measurements including weight, body-fat percentage, circumference points, notes, and times. • See how your current bodyweight impacts your training, and update bodyweight in-session. BUILT NATIVELY FOR APPLE • Enable Apple Health integration with bodyweight sync and workout publishing. • Use Live Activities and Dynamic Island for active session status. • Log fully offline with no internet required, then sync to the cloud manually or automatically. • Sign in with email, Apple, or Google, manage your Pro subscription, and customize theme, units, effort scale, layout, and keyboard position. HELP AND LEGAL Privacy Policy: https://settie.app/privacy Terms of Service: https://settie.app/terms Support: https://settie.app/support Seek greatness. Join Settie today.

About

BarbellKinetics

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Wear your Watch, tap start, do your Snatches or Clean and Jerks, tap stop. That's it. BarbellKinetics captures your wrist motion at 200 Hz and reconstructs a 2D barbell path trace with technique metrics — no camera, no tripod, no complex setup. FOR COMPETITIVE LIFTERS • Track acceleration through the pull — see how fast and aggressive your extension is • Compare turnover timing across lifts and weights • Measure path efficiency and horizontal drift rep to rep • Log in kg or lbs — switch anytime in settings FOR ATHLETES LEARNING THE LIFTS • See your bar path after every set — instant visual feedback on pull and turnover • If BarbellKinetics isn't detecting your lift, that's feedback too: focus on a faster pull and a more decisive turnover • Share raw session data with your coach for detailed analysis • Add notes to sessions to remember what you were working on HOW IT WORKS Your Watch (Series 6 or newer, 2020+) records wrist acceleration and rotation during the lift. Data streams to your iPhone, where the app segments individual reps, identifies pull → turnover → catch phases, and renders the classic barbell path trace. PRIVACY FIRST All data stays on your devices. No accounts, no cloud, no tracking. Your lifting data is yours.

Screenshots

Settie4 screens
BarbellKinetics4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Settie at Free against BarbellKinetics's $4.99. BarbellKinetics's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Settie is free to download; BarbellKinetics costs $4.99 up front. Settie sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.00 per month. BarbellKinetics asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Settie versus BarbellKinetics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSettieBarbellKinetics
PriceFree — better$4.99
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndrew TobilkoSatyanarayana Kakollu

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Settie

Subscriptions2
  • Settie Pro Monthly1 Month trial$5.001 Month
  • Settie Pro Yearly1 Month trial$30.001 Year
One-time1
  • Settie Pro Lifetime$90.00
None

BarbellKinetics

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Settie free?
Settie is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BarbellKinetics free?
BarbellKinetics costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Settie or BarbellKinetics have ads?
Neither Settie nor BarbellKinetics shows ads.

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