Comparison

Kangaroo Workout vs BUILD Workout Planner

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

Head to head
About

Kangaroo Workout

This app offers five distinct, illustrated workouts including HIIT, strength splits, and balanced routines. It provides a clean timer and automatic logging to Apple Health, with no accounts or paywalls required.

Highlights
  • Five distinct workout types
  • Illustrated exercise guides
  • Countdown timer
  • Apple Watch companion
  • Automatic HealthKit logging
  • No accounts or paywalls
Features
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Five workouts. Press play. Move. Kangaroo Workout is what happens when you stop hunting for the right routine and just commit to one. Five workouts, illustrated and timed, ready the second you open the app: HIIT, Day A, Day B, Standard, and Ultra. No accounts to create. No settings to configure. No "premium" tier paywall. Tap a workout. Start. Built by one person, for the workouts that actually work. What's inside: • HIIT, 16 exercises, 20 seconds each, big countdown timer on every screen • Day A, weighted strength split across hinge, squat, push, pull, plyo, and cooldown • Day B, the companion lift day for full-week coverage • Standard, a balanced routine for non-lifting days • Ultra, superset-based for when you want to go hard • Apple Watch companion with HealthKit, your workout is logged automatically • Hand-painted illustrations for every exercise so you never wonder what the next move looks like • Dual-track view: Focus mode for the current exercise, Overview track for the whole session at a glance • Confetti when you finish a HIIT session, because finishing should feel good What's not inside: • No accounts. No log-in. • No social feed. • No streak shame, skip a day and the app is still here. • No leaderboards. The only person you're competing with is yesterday's you. • No advertisements. • No in-app purchases. The whole app is the app. Built for: • People who already know what workouts work for them and want to stop browsing • Anyone who wants a clean, fast timer that just runs the session • Apple Watch users who want their HIIT and strength sessions in Health automatically Open it. Tap a workout. Move.

About

BUILD Workout Planner

This app helps you plan your weekly workouts and provides timers for various training formats like EMOM and Tabata. It features large, high-contrast text and audio cues, designed for use on the gym floor without distractions.

Highlights
  • Weekly workout planning
  • Drag-and-drop exercise ordering
  • EMOM, Tabata, and interval timers
  • Audio cues for rounds and intervals
  • Large, high-contrast display
  • Music ducking audio cues
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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BUILD is a workout planner and timer for people who already know what they want to do, and just want to get on with it. PLAN YOUR WEEK Lay out each day, drop in the blocks you want, and drag them into order. Flag rest days as recovery. The calendar colours every day so you can see at a glance what is planned, what is finished, and what you missed. RUN THE WORKOUT Timers built for the formats people actually train in: EMOM, Tabata, intervals and straight sets. Soft audio cues mark each round, and a voice calls the halfway point and the last ten seconds, so you are never squinting at your phone mid-set. BUILT FOR THE GYM FLOOR Large, high-contrast type you can read at arm's length. Audio that ducks your music instead of fighting it. No ads, no feed, no streaks to keep alive. YOUR ACCOUNT, YOUR DATA Sign in with Apple or Google and your plans follow you to any device. Delete your account from inside the app and everything goes with it, permanently.

Screenshots

Kangaroo Workout4 screens
BUILD Workout Planner3 screens

Verdict

The call

Kangaroo Workout and BUILD Workout Planner are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 Kangaroo Workout against 5.0 for BUILD Workout Planner. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Kangaroo Workout versus BUILD Workout Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKangaroo WorkoutBUILD Workout Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUrban Algorithm LLCScott Winkelmann

Customer experience

Kangaroo Workout

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

BUILD Workout Planner

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

In-app purchases

None

Kangaroo Workout

No in-app purchases

None

BUILD Workout Planner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kangaroo Workout free?
Kangaroo Workout is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BUILD Workout Planner free?
BUILD Workout Planner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Kangaroo Workout or BUILD Workout Planner?
Kangaroo Workout and BUILD Workout Planner are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Kangaroo Workout or BUILD Workout Planner have ads?
Neither Kangaroo Workout nor BUILD Workout Planner shows ads.

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