Comparison

Blaine's Workout Routine vs Rings

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

Head to head
About

Blaine's Workout Routine

Features
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Routine is a strength training log that builds your week and keeps you moving through it. BUILT FOR YOU Answer a few questions — your goal, how often you train now, how long you have, what equipment you can reach — and Routine builds a weekly plan. It starts where you are and steps up as you show up. FAST LOGGING Every exercise shows what you lifted last time. Type a weight, tick the set, move on. When you've earned a heavier weight, Routine offers it — it never fills it in for you. A REST TIMER THAT LEARNS Rest starts when you tick a set. Add time or skip, and the timer learns how long you actually need. It follows you to the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. BUILD YOUR OWN WORKOUTS Pick movements from the library, set your sets and reps, and choose a color. PROGRESS YOU CAN SEE Personal records, a history for every lift, weekly volume by muscle, body measurements and bodyweight. APPLE WATCH AND HEALTH Follow your workout and log sets from your wrist, with heart rate. Finished sessions save to Apple Health. A step complication and home-screen widget keep your goal in view. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No account, no server. Automatic CSV backups you can open in Files. Kilograms or pounds, your choice.

About

Rings

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Rings is a timer, a journal and a tracker for people who meditate on their own. No audio guides, no feed, no account — a bell, silence and an honest record of your time. Every session is a ring Instead of bar charts, Rings draws a tree slice. You sat for twenty minutes — a new growth ring appears. The longer the session, the thicker the ring; morning sessions are paler, evening sessions denser; today's ring is red. A week is a twig, a month is a slice, a year is a trunk — something you want to keep growing. Timer • Presets from 5 to 30 minutes, a custom duration up to 3 hours, or an open-ended session • A warm-up before the start, a bell at the start and the end, interval bells • Works with the screen locked; a pause leaves a visible mark on the ring • Save your own presets Journal • A note, a technique tag and how you felt before and after — shown as a line, not a number • Search, filters by tag and period, manual entries for sessions without the app • Export to CSV Rings • The slice for the month, the year and all time; tap a ring to open its entry • Totals, averages, streaks with one rest day a week so a single miss does not break it • Share your slice as a picture for your feed or stories Lessons • The Basics course: ten short chapters — posture, breath, the wandering mind, body scan, metta, habit • Each lesson ends with a "Practise" button that starts the timer with the right settings Also • Apple Health: mindful minutes are written after each session, with your consent • Gentle reminders: a daily one at your time and an evening one if you have not sat today • iCloud sync across your devices; your data never leaves your Apple account • Light and dark "paper and ink" themes Rings Pro unlocks all sounds and interval bells, presets, the year and all-time slices, sharing, full statistics with tags and search, all ten lessons and CSV export. Free users keep a fully working timer and journal. Rings is a tool for habit and practice, not a medical product. Privacy Policy: https://grigorev-indi.tech/en/apps/rings-meditation-timer/privacy Terms of Use: https://grigorev-indi.tech/en/apps/rings-meditation-timer/terms

Screenshots

Blaine's Workout Routine4 screens
Rings4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Blaine's Workout Routine at none against Rings's 2. Blaine's Workout Routine also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). Rings's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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

Both are free to download. Rings sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Blaine's Workout Routine asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Blaine's Workout Routine ships an update every 4 days, Rings every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Blaine's Workout Routine versus Rings: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlaine's Workout RoutineRings
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlaine AsburyAlexander Grigoriev

In-app purchases

None

Blaine's Workout Routine

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Rings

Subscriptions2
  • Rings Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Rings Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Blaine's Workout Routine free?
Blaine's Workout Routine is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rings free?
Rings is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Blaine's Workout Routine or Rings have ads?
Neither Blaine's Workout Routine nor Rings shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Blaine's Workout Routine or Rings?
Blaine's Workout Routine ships an update every 4 days, and Rings every 3 weeks. Most recently, Blaine's Workout Routine was updated on October 31, 2026 and Rings on November 6, 2026.

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