Comparison

Final Surge vs SplitTime

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

Head to head
About

Final Surge

This app helps endurance athletes, runners, cyclists, and triathletes manage their training. It offers features for planning, tracking workouts, and communicating with coaches or teams. Premium subscriptions unlock advanced analytics and tools.

Highlights
  • Dark Theme & Custom Icons
  • Dynamic Font & Navigation
  • Calendar Date Range & Labels
  • Training Plan Management
  • HRV & Morning Readiness (Premium)
  • Route Builder (Premium)
  • Apple Health & Wahoo Integration
Features
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Introducing Final Surge 4.0 – Train with a Purpose. With our biggest update yet, Final Surge is here to help you reach your goals, whether you're a seasoned runner, triathlete, cyclist, endurance athlete, or just starting your fitness journey. If you work with a coach, club, or team, or you train on your own using a training plan, Final Surge has robust features to ensure your training is efficient and tailored to your needs. Final Surge is compatible with many GPS watches, cycling computers, and other with various devices. What's New: -Dark Theme & Custom App Icons: Discover the beauty of contrast and depth with our Dark Theme. -Dynamic Font Size: Adjust the size of the app text based on your preferences, ensuring optimal readability. -Dynamic Navigation: Adjust and customize your navigation panel based on your preferences. -Calendar Date Range & Labels: The enhanced calendar allows for range selection, providing quick features like adding date range labels or clearing specific training days. -Training Plan Management: Edit, add, move, and remove workouts from your personal calendar, team calendar, or a specific athlete's calendar. What's New for Athletes: -Subscribe to Athlete Premium and unlock additional features such as HRV & Morning Readiness, Weather & Forecasts, Partner Discounts, Route Builder and more! -Apple Health Integration: Sync your fitness workouts, vitals data, and completed workouts to and from your Apple watch. -Wahoo Integration: Sync planned structured workouts to your Wahoo devices, and sync completed workouts from Wahoo to Final Surge. -Widgets: Choose from various widgets to view your upcoming workouts and fitness data from your home screen. -Time Zone Auto Adjustments: Whenever you travel, we detect and align your workouts to your new time zone seamlessly. What's New for Coaches: -New Coach's experience within the app to make it more efficient and coach-friendly. -Manage athlete and team calendar settings. -Update structured workout settings within the app. -Access to Athlete Notebook. Training Made Easy: -Quickly access today's workout on your iPhone or Apple Watch. -Push structured workouts to your Apple Watch, and let Siri guide you through each step of the workout. -Create a custom training plan or utilize one of the hundreds available online at FinalSurge.com. -Build a workout library to create training schedules effortlessly. -Get a Weekly Snapshot of your fitness summary at a glance. -Keep tabs on the mileage you're putting on your gear. Teams & Clubs: -Athlete and coach communication through post-activity comments, workout feel, and pain and injury reports. -Post activities to the Social Wall to stay accountable and celebrate progress with teammates. -Coaches can manage training plans, schedule group runs, and track athletes and team progression.

About

SplitTime

This app helps coaches and athletes manage workouts efficiently. Create custom routines, organize athletes into groups, and track performance with detailed split and lap timing. Save and export all session data for easy review.

Highlights
  • Custom workout templates
  • Athlete and group organization
  • Individual and group timing
  • Split, lap, and final time tracking
  • Workout history and export
Features
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SplitTime helps coaches and athletes run organized, efficient workouts from start to finish. Build custom workout templates, create rosters, time athletes live, and save every session in one place. Use SplitTime to: • Create and save workout templates • Add athletes and organize them into groups • Time athletes individually or as a group • Track splits, laps, and final times • Review workout history and export results Whether you are running daily practice or timing a focused workout session, SplitTime keeps your team organized and your results easy to manage.

Screenshots

Final Surge4 screens
SplitTime4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: SplitTime at 100% against Final Surge's 51%. SplitTime also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Final Surge's advantage is ratings volume (125 vs 5) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Final Surge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. SplitTime asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SplitTime holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Final Surge has 125 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of Final Surge's written reviews are positive against 100% of SplitTime's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Final Surge ships an update every 2 weeks, SplitTime every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Final Surge versus SplitTime: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFinal SurgeSplitTime
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (125 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings125 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size162 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFinal SurgeCode Clean LLC

Customer experience

Final Surge

All ratings125 ratings
Positive68.0%
Neutral5.6%
Negative26.4%
Written reviews91 reviews
Positive50.5%
Neutral14.3%
Negative35.2%

SplitTime

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Final Surge

Subscriptions2
  • Final Surge Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Athlete Premium7 Days trial$99.991 Year
None

SplitTime

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Final Surge free?
Final Surge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SplitTime free?
SplitTime is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Final Surge or SplitTime?
SplitTime is rated higher. Final Surge averages 3.8 out of 5 from 125 ratings, while SplitTime averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Final Surge or SplitTime have ads?
Neither Final Surge nor SplitTime shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Final Surge or SplitTime?
Final Surge ships an update every 2 weeks, and SplitTime every 5 weeks. Most recently, Final Surge was updated on October 24, 2026 and SplitTime on October 8, 2026.

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