Comparison

SyncSet vs CurlBro

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

Head to head
About

SyncSet

This app helps personal trainers create custom workout plans, assign them to clients, and track progress. It facilitates direct communication and integrates with health data for a streamlined coaching experience.

Highlights
  • Build custom workout programs
  • Assign programs to clients
  • Track workout completion
  • Direct client messaging
  • Integrate with Apple Health
  • Client progress tracking
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SyncSet is the simplest way for personal trainers to program workouts and manage clients. All from one app. Build custom programs with exercises, sets, reps, and rest periods. Assign them to clients with one tap. Track who's completing their workouts and who needs a check-in. Message clients directly with automatic insights and changes from their feedback. FOR TRAINERS: - Build structured workout programs with a clean drag-and-drop editor (or paste your own texts & let the app parse through it!) - Organize exercises by day with sets, reps, weight, and rest - Assign programs to individual clients instantly - See real-time compliance — know who trained and who skipped - Message clients with built-in chat (no more texting from your personal phone) - View client health data (steps, weight, heart rate, and sleep) synced from Apple Health or Health Connect - 14-day free trial, then one simple subscription according to your client base FOR CLIENTS: - View your assigned workout program at a glance - Log sets as you train, with detailed overviews and guides. Unsure? Ask a question and get direct answers on movement tips. - Track your progress over time - Message your trainer directly in the app - Completely free! No subscription required for clients joining their trainer's team SyncSet connects to Apple Health (iOS) to display steps, weight, heart rate, and sleep data. This data is read-only and never shared with third parties or used for advertising. Whether you train 2 clients or 25, SyncSet keeps your coaching organized and professional. Main Website: https://syncsetapp.com Privacy Policy: https://syncsetapp.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://syncsetapp.com/terms

About

CurlBro

This strength-training app allows users to build, run, and log detailed workout sessions. It features an offline-first design with no account or subscription required, focusing on a clean tool for experienced lifters.

Highlights
  • Drag-to-reorder workout builder
  • Superset grouping
  • Built-in workout templates
  • Per-set logging
  • Rest timer with Live Activity
  • Full workout history
  • Share/import workouts as text
Features
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CurlBro is a strength-training app for people who already know how to lift. Build a workout. Run the workout. Log every set. That's the app. No account. No subscription. No coach telling you to crush it. Your workouts live on your phone, not on someone's server. HOW IT WORKS Build. Search the exercise catalog, drag exercises into order, group them into supersets, set your reps, weights, and rest. Save it to your library. Lift. Start the workout. Each set is pre-filled from your plan — tap in what you actually did. The rest timer runs in a Live Activity, so you can drop the phone between sets and watch the countdown from the Dynamic Island or Lock Screen. Finish when you're done. Log. Every session is saved with duration, volume, and set-by-set detail. Open last week's workout, see exactly what you lifted, and progressively overload from there. WHAT'S IN IT • Drag-to-reorder workout builder with superset grouping • Built-in workout templates to start from (machine beginner through heavy compound) • Fuzzy exercise search, filtered by muscle group, equipment, and difficulty • Per-set logging for reps, weight, duration, and distance • Rest timer with Live Activity and Dynamic Island support • Time-based exercises with a built-in countdown per set • Full workout history — volume, duration, and every set you logged • Share a workout as plain text. Import one somebody sent you. Round-trips cleanly. • Optional: save completed strength workouts to Apple Health PRIVACY CurlBro is offline-first. No account system. No cloud sync. No tracking pixel. Your workouts, sets, and logs stay on your device. If you want a workout on another phone, you share it as text — same format both directions. WHO IT'S FOR Lifters who already know what a superset is, what rest-pause is, and roughly how they want their training to look. Not a program. Not a coach. A clean tool that gets out of the way.

Screenshots

SyncSet4 screens
CurlBro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: CurlBro at free against SyncSet's freemium. CurlBro also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). SyncSet's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SyncSet against 5.0 for CurlBro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on August 30, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SyncSet versus CurlBro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSyncSetCurlBro
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBryce DempseySIMONE LONGO

Customer experience

SyncSet

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

CurlBro

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

In-app purchases

None

SyncSet

No in-app purchases

None

CurlBro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SyncSet free?
SyncSet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CurlBro free?
CurlBro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SyncSet or CurlBro?
SyncSet and CurlBro are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do SyncSet or CurlBro have ads?
Neither SyncSet nor CurlBro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SyncSet or CurlBro?
SyncSet ships an update fortnightly, and CurlBro fortnightly. Most recently, SyncSet was updated on August 30, 2026 and CurlBro on September 12, 2026.

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