ZoneCycle vs PepTimer

Your air bike is the most brutal, most effective cardio machine in the gym. ZoneCycle makes sure every minute on it counts. Connect any Bluetooth (FTMS) fan bike — like the Rogue Echo Bike — wear your Apple Watch or a Bluetooth heart-rate chest strap, pick a coach, and ride guided intervals that adapt to YOUR heart rate zones. Push hard when the screen burns orange. Recover when it cools to green. Watch your Push Power Score climb. WHY ATHLETES LOVE IT - APPLE WATCH IS YOUR STRAP: Nothing to pair. Start a workout and the Watch sends your live heart rate to the phone, and shows your zone against the target on your wrist. - LIVE ZONE TRAINING: The whole screen is your zone. A band shows where you are and where you should be, driven by your real heart rate and watts. - PUSH POWER SCORE: One number for the work that matters — total watts produced during push intervals. Beat it next time. - SIX VOICE COACHES: From a calm sensei to a shouting drill sergeant to a chilled-out surfer. Real voices, real personality, or go silent and grind. - PROVEN PROTOCOLS: 10/40 and 20/60 push-recover cycles built on sprint-interval science. Warm up, work, cool down — done in under 20 minutes. - RECOVERY TRACKING: 60-second heart-rate recovery measured after your last push — the fitness marker that improves fastest. - CONNECTS TO YOUR GEAR: Live watts, RPM, and calories from your bike over Bluetooth. Heart rate from your Apple Watch or any Bluetooth chest strap. Or ride any bike with just a Watch or a strap. NO SUBSCRIPTIONS. NO ACCOUNTS. NO ADS. Your workouts stay on your phone. Period. Made by an athlete who wanted a better way to suffer. Clip in, pick your coach, and go earn your score. ZoneCycle is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any equipment manufacturer. Product names are trademarks of their respective owners, used only to indicate compatibility.

PepTimer is an interval timer that shows you each exercise and calls out the next one. Everything you need to train is free: no ads, no account, no subscription. A voice counts you down and calls out what's coming – laid over your music instead of pausing it, even with your iPhone locked in your pocket. 80+ EXERCISES THAT SHOW YOU HOW • Every exercise has a small figure that demonstrates the move – some from the side and from the front. In lunges the figure switches legs • From strength and cardio to stretches like the downward dog or the cobra • Pilates moves like the Hundred, swimming and the half roll-down, also as the ready-made workouts "Pilates short" and "Pilates long" • During the get-ready countdown and every break, you see what's next, and the current exercise while you do it, too • Browse them in the Exercises tab, with search (under an exercise's old name too) and body-area filters, and build a workout straight from your picks A VOICE THAT GETS YOU THROUGH • Announces the next exercise, counts you down, calls halfway and the last round • Tells you when to switch sides in one-sided moves • Grace in English, Anna in German, whatever the app's language • Or no voice at all, tones only START RIGHT AWAY • "What do you feel like today?": ready-made workouts for Upper body, Legs & glutes, Core, Full body, No jumping, Tabata, Warm-up & Cool-down, Mobility and Pilates, the 7-minute workout among them • Tabata: classic, with exercises or in four blocks • A quick look at every exercise before you start • Templates for HIIT, EMOM, AMRAP, circuits and boxing rounds YOUR OWN WORKOUTS • As many as you like: exercises from the catalog or with names of your own • Add several exercises at once, with one length for all of them and rests in between if you like • In blocks: say 10 rounds of burpees, a break, then 10 rounds of planks • Drag to reorder, and undo a delete • Share by link: whoever opens it adds your workout in one tap EVEN WITH THE SCREEN LOCKED • Announcements and tones keep going when you lock the screen or switch to another app • On the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island: the time left and a bar of every phase of your workout APPLE WATCH AND APPLE HEALTH • Your iPhone's workout on your wrist too: the phase, the time, the exercise and what comes next • A vibration at every phase change, even with your wrist down • Your heart rate while you train • Pause, resume, skip and end right from the watch • If you like, your workouts go to Apple Health, with or without a watch BUILT FOR TRAINING • Big digits you can read from the mat, portrait and landscape • Figure off, normal or large • Every phase has its own color • Tones: beep, gong, boxing bell or whistle • Vibration on every phase change • Announcement volume independent of your music • Your music dips for announcements – briefly, for longer or not at all • Announcements as captions if you like • Text grows with your text size, up to a cap that keeps every screen readable • The screen stays on while you train • A history of your sessions, with the time trained and the exercises skipped • Light, dark or whatever your iPhone uses PEPTIMER PLUS Buy once, keep it for good. No subscription. • Train together: you lead a workout, and the people next to you join on their own iPhones, all in step. Joining is free. • More voices: Megan, Sam and Reginald in English, Elena, Jonas, Chris and Oma Gerda in German. Listen to them before you buy. • Whatever is added to Plus later is yours at no extra cost • With Family Sharing for everyone in your family YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU PepTimer collects nothing. No tracking, no analytics, no server. Your workouts and your history live only on your device, your heart rate and saved sessions only on your devices and in Apple Health. When you train together, the iPhones talk to each other directly, without the internet, and a shared workout travels inside the link itself.