Cling vs Gongfu
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cling
This app syncs with a wearable device to record and store your health data, including sleep, exercise, heart rate, and skin temperature. It offers in-depth health analysis, personalized solutions for fitness goals, and a social platform for users to connect and motivate each other. It also integrates with Apple HealthKit.
- Records sleep and exercise data
- Monitors heart rate and skin temperature
- Performs in-depth health analysis
- Generates personalized health solutions
- Social platform for fitness enthusiasts
- Integrates with Apple HealthKit
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*** You will need a Cling wearable device to use this App *** Cling App records and stores user health data by sync up to a Cling wearable device, including activity data such as daily sleep and exercise and vital signals such as heart rate and skin temperature. Cling App also allows user to check all the past health data, and perform a in-deep health analysis. Based on user personal health status, Cling App generates a health solution accordingly, and helps user to achieve various fitness goals and live a healthy life. In addition, Cling App provides a social platform where all the Cling user can get to know each other, exchange fitness ideas, and motivate others. Cling App also supports Apple HealthKit. Once authorized by user, it will sync health data from Apple HealthKit to the App, and perform further analysis for user. Please note, Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Gongfu
Track your martial arts and meditation practice, syncing data like duration and calories burned to Apple Health. Offers a simple timer for various practices and real-time workout stats on Apple Watch.
- Syncs workout data to Apple Health
- Simple timer for practice
- Real-time workout stats on Apple Watch
- Lap tracking for Taolu
- Mindfulness minute tracking
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Want to see your Martial art practice show up inside Apple’s Health app? Want to add mindfulness minutes from Yoga, Zen, and other meditation practice? Get a scientific insight into them with Apple's Health app! After each workout session, you can check the data from Apple’s Health App. Improve your training utilizing energy burned, heart rate pattern and laps! The iPhone app: provides a simple timer user interface to add workouts and mindfulness minutes. It can’t track the vitals and energy burned. We recommend you to use the Apple Watch app to record more health data. Everything made it easy for use on your wrist: - Provides timer for beginner to practice JingZhuo, and Qigong, helps you conquer the chaotic mind and sense of urgency in life. - Follow along with your workout from your wrist. Get details about your workout stats in real-time on your Apple Watch. - Integration with Apple Health: add the details of your workout, like duration and calories burned, to your Apple Health Application. - Provide Lap when you practice Taolu, so you know the time you spend one each repetition. Please send me an email if you have good ideas to add to this app! Luc.alexander.sun@icloud.com "The application made for you to enter Asian culture's meditation and martial art. Kungfu simply means the result of time spent on practicing a skill, within the process, it will n=just the skill elevated aslo the person is transformed. Hope you get enough self-control, you can throw away the app, find your self. Keep training." Notice: All the health record will be deleted if you decide to remove the app from your phone. It's the limitation of the Apple Health app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Gongfu at every 4 days against Cling's every 2 months. Gongfu also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Cling against 5.0 for Gongfu. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Cling ships an update every 2 months, Gongfu every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cling | Gongfu |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shanghai HanLin Electronic Technology Co., Ltd | 翔宇 孙 |
Customer experience
Cling
Gongfu
In-app purchases
Cling
No in-app purchases
Gongfu
No in-app purchases









