Comparison

Polar Flow vs Sequence

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

Head to head
About

Polar Flow

This app helps you track daily activity, analyze workouts with detailed metrics, and gain insights into sleep patterns and recovery. It allows for device management, route planning, and seamless syncing with other popular fitness platforms.

Highlights
  • Activity Tracking
  • Training Analysis
  • Sleep Insights
  • Training Load & Recovery
  • Device & Profile Management
  • Wireless Syncing
  • Third-Party Service Integration
Features
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Polar Flow: Your Personal Sports, Fitness, and Health Companion The exclusive app designed to maximize the potential of your Polar devices. Key Features: Activity Tracking: Monitor your daily activity, steps, calories burned, and distance to stay motivated throughout the day. Training Analysis: Dive deep into your workouts with detailed data on heart rate, speed, pace, distance, power, and more. Understand the impact of each session and optimize your training routines. Sleep Insights: Discover how well you sleep with advanced sleep tracking. Get feedback on sleep stages and quality to improve your rest and recovery. See how sleep boosts your day and track skin temperature changes. Training Load & Recovery: Understand how your training sessions strain your body and get recommendations on recovery time to prevent overtraining. Manage your watch and profile: Customize and manage your Polar device, Sports profiles for different activities, Routes, and Training Targets. Wireless Syncing: Automatically sync data from your Polar devices for real-time updates, notifications, and other insights. Stay Connected: Connect your profile and sync your data with Strava, TrainingPeaks, Adidas, komoot, and many other services. Why Choose Polar Flow? Personalized Guidance: Receive personalized feedback and guidance and understand your progress. Comprehensive Ecosystem: Integrates seamlessly with Polar watches, heart rate monitors, and more for a holistic experience. User-Friendly Interface: Navigate your data effortlessly with our intuitive and clean design. Notification support: Your Polar watch will receive the same notifications as your phone screen—incoming calls, messages, and app notifications. Secure and Private: Your data is safely stored and protected, giving you peace of mind as you focus on your journey. Polar Flow app allows you to share some of your wellness data with Apple Health. This includes details of your training, your heart rate, and steps. Please note Polar Flow app is not intended for medical or diagnostic use. Get Started Today! Download Polar Flow and unlock the full potential of your Polar devices. You can find more info at https://www.polar.com/flow Connect with us! Instagram: www.instagram.com/polarglobal Facebook: www.facebook.com/polarglobal YouTube: www.youtube.com/polarglobal Find out more about Polar products at https://www.polar.com/en/products

About

Sequence

This app provides structure for climbing training, allowing users to plan workouts, follow expert programs, and track progress. It offers climbing-specific exercises and performance metrics to help users improve their climbing ability.

Highlights
  • Plan training schedules
  • Follow expert training plans
  • Complete climbing-specific workouts
  • Track climbing grades and sends
  • Monitor finger strength
  • Analyze training volume and load
  • Customizable performance metrics
Features
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Train with purpose. See what’s working. Climb better. Sequence is a climbing training app for climbers who want more structure in their training and a clearer view of their progress. Plan your training, follow expert programs, complete climbing-specific workouts and track the things that actually matter to your climbing, all in one place. PLAN YOUR TRAINING Turn your goals into a training schedule you can actually follow. • Build your training week around your life • Plan workouts weeks or months ahead • Move and adjust sessions as things change • Organise climbing, strength, conditioning and recovery together • Keep your next goal front and centre TRAIN LIKE A CLIMBER Sequence is built around climbing training - not adapted from a generic gym app. Create and complete workouts for: • Climbing and bouldering sessions • Hangboarding and finger strength • Strength and conditioning • Endurance and capacity training • Mobility and recovery • Your own custom exercises and sessions Use the built-in workout timer to guide hangs, sets and rest periods while you train. FOLLOW EXPERT TRAINING PLANS Not sure what to train? Choose from 40+ expert training plans from Climb Strong and other experienced climbing coaches. Find a plan that matches your goal, add it to your schedule and make it work around your life. SEE YOUR PROGRESS Logging training is useful. Knowing whether it's working is better. Sequence helps you track: • Climbing grades and sends • Finger strength and benchmark tests • Strength and workout performance • Training volume and load • Effort and RPE • Custom performance metrics • Goals and milestones • Training consistency over time Re-test benchmarks, compare training blocks and see how your climbing changes over weeks, months and years. BUILT FOR YOUR NEXT GOAL Whether you're trying to break through a bouldering grade, prepare for a climbing trip, build stronger fingers or simply train more consistently, Sequence gives your training a structure and a history. No more scattered spreadsheets, notebooks and half-remembered sessions. Your goals, training plan, workouts and progress live together. START FOR FREE Start planning and tracking your climbing for free and discover a better way to train. Sequence is also available on the web, so your training stays with you wherever you plan or climb. ----- Apple's Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms & Conditions https://docs.sequence-app.com/terms-and-conditions Privacy Policy https://docs.sequence-app.com/privacy-policy A subscription (monthly or yearly) is needed when there are more than 50 workouts scheduled in your planner. After this you'll need to subscribe to continue adding more. During the trail period you'll have access to every feature that Sequence has.

Screenshots

Polar Flow4 screens
Sequence4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Polar Flow at 50K against Sequence's 3. Sequence's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Polar Flow sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $8.99 per month and Sequence sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Polar Flow against 4.7 for Sequence. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Polar Flow has 50K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Polar Flow ships an update monthly, Sequence weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Polar Flow versus Sequence: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPolar FlowSequence
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (50K ratings)4.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews49.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings50K — better3
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size189 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPolar ElectroSequence Pty Ltd

Customer experience

Polar Flow

All ratings50,010 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral4.5%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews2,219 reviews
Positive49.6%
Neutral11.2%
Negative39.2%

Sequence

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Polar Flow

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes during syncing
  • Inconsistent data sync between watch and app
  • Firmware updates causing loss of user data

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to manually edit workout data
  • Integration with more third-party apps
  • More advanced training programs and coaching
  • Improved sleep tracking and analysis

Sequence

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Polar Flow

Subscriptions1
  • Polar Fitness Program1 Month trial$8.991 Month
2 purchases

Sequence

Subscriptions2
  • Sequence Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Sequence Yearly$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Polar Flow free?
Polar Flow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sequence free?
Sequence is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Polar Flow or Sequence?
Sequence is rated higher. Polar Flow averages 4.6 out of 5 from 50K ratings, while Sequence averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Polar Flow or Sequence have ads?
Neither Polar Flow nor Sequence shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Polar Flow or Sequence?
Polar Flow ships an update monthly, and Sequence weekly. Most recently, Polar Flow was updated on November 7, 2026 and Sequence on November 3, 2026.

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