Comparison

BUILD Workout Planner vs Winter Arc

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

Head to head
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.

About

Winter Arc

This app helps you build consistency by setting defined start and end dates for your goals. Track daily habits across chosen pillars and visualize your progress with a unique heat map. It offers flexible rules for missed days and private, offline operation.

Highlights
  • Set custom start and end dates for challenges
  • Define 3-5 pillars with daily habits
  • Binary daily check-offs (done or not done)
  • Flexible rules for missed days (streaks, consistency score, grace days)
  • Visual progress heat map
  • Optional before/after photos
  • Home screen widget
Features
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Winter Arc: Habit Tracker turns the last stretch of the year into one finite challenge. Pick a hard start and a hard end. Choose three to five pillars — the areas you actually want to move — and put a few daily non-negotiables under each. Then show up. Every day is binary: done, or not. Ninety days later you come out the other side, carrying momentum into January instead of writing resolutions from a cold stop. HOW IT WORKS • Set your dates. Ninety days by default, or any span you choose. • Choose 3–5 pillars, with one to three habits under each. • Check them off daily. No half marks, no partial credit. • Watch the arc fill in. CHOOSE YOUR RULES People don't all fail the same way, so you decide what a missed day costs. • Streaks — consecutive days where you completed everything. Simple and strict. • Consistency Score — the percentage of habit-days you completed against a target you set. Forgiving of the occasional miss. • Grace Days — a fixed budget of missed days. Spend them all and the arc is failed. You set the budget. SEE THE WHOLE ARC • A heat map of every day, so the whole arc is one picture. • Your consistency score, longest streaks, and a breakdown by pillar. • Tap any past day to see exactly what happened. • Weekly reflections, and a closing reflection when the arc ends. WHEN YOU MISS A DAY Missing a day isn't a crisis and the app doesn't treat it like one. You get one quiet note, the reason you started, and a clean slate. Run out of grace days and you choose what happens next: keep going with the arc marked failed, or restart with the same setup. BEFORE AND AFTER Add a photo at the start and another at the end, and see them side by side. Both stay on your device. Entirely optional. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN A widget shows the day you're on and how many habits are left, and updates as you check them off. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-in. No analytics, no advertising, and no third-party code of any kind. The app has no networking at all, so nothing can leave your phone even by accident. Everything lives in the app's own storage, and Reset app data erases all of it. Winter passes either way. Finish the year strong.

Screenshots

BUILD Workout Planner3 screens
Winter Arc4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: BUILD Workout Planner at 16.4 against Winter Arc's 18.0. On price, rating, ratings volume 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 BUILD Workout Planner against 5.0 for Winter Arc. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
BUILD Workout Planner versus Winter Arc: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBUILD Workout PlannerWinter Arc
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperScott WinkelmannVipin Pahwa

In-app purchases

None

BUILD Workout Planner

No in-app purchases

None

Winter Arc

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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