Comparison

PowerDot vs PBSplits

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

Head to head
About

PowerDot

This app guides users through muscle stimulation sessions using a connected wearable device. It intelligently adjusts intensity, duration, and pad placement based on fatigue and activity levels for safe and effective muscle re-education and recovery.

Highlights
  • Smart muscle stimulation guidance
  • Personalized intensity and duration
  • Intelligent pad placement suggestions
  • Fatigue and activity level analysis
  • Muscle re-education programs
  • Body recharge and recovery
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****THIS APPLICATION REQUIRES A POWERDOT WEARABLE DEVICE**** Re-educate your muscles. Recharge your body. Muscle stimulation, minus the guesswork. The accuracy of pad placement, intensity level, and session time of any muscle stimulation is critically important for safety and efficacy. That's why our smart app finds the precise combination for you, intelligently taking fatigue level, recent activity, and unique needs into account. PowerDot is now a part of Therabody - www.therabody.com

About

PBSplits

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PBSplits is a free app that finds your fastest split at every standard distance across your run history. Most personal-best tools only know your finish times. If you've never raced a 5K, they think you've never done one. PBSplits looks inside each run and finds the fastest continuous window for every distance on the ladder, so the best 5K you ever ran shows up even if it was the middle 5K of a 12 K training jog. Three tabs, and it opens on the first. Runs is every run in your Health data — pull to refresh, tap any one to open it, even the ones that never hit a standard distance. Trends plots a distance over time, as pace or as finish time, with a year-over-year view to lay this season against the last. Bests is the record book: the ladder from 400 m to 100 K, grouped Short / Road / Ultra. Tap any effort and you get the whole run — the route on a map with the record-winning segment highlighted, a mile-by-mile splits table, and pace and elevation charts. Tap a split and its window lights up on the map and across the charts, so you can see exactly where you found the time. Season and all-time crowns mark the efforts that took a podium. Great for: • Runners who want PBs from training, not just races • Tracking progress over a season or a year • Finding the fastest you've ever covered a 5 K, 10 K, half, or marathon • Comparing efforts across short, road, and ultra distances • Anyone whose watch knows more than they do What you get: • Best-effort engine that finds your fastest continuous split at every distance, not whole-run averages • Full distance ladder from 400 m to 100 K, grouped Short / Road / Ultra • Every run, browsable: pull to refresh, and open runs that never hit a standard distance • Trend charts, progression and year-over-year, by pace or by time, pinch to zoom either axis • Mile-by-mile splits: tap a split to highlight its window on the map and the charts • Map view per effort, with the winning segment highlighted on the route • Season and all-time crowns on podium efforts • Share cards for a new PB, a podium, or your whole record book • Pick your pace units: min/km or min/mi • PBSplits reads your workouts from Apple Health and never writes to it • Your run data stays on your device Free to download — no subscription, no account.

Screenshots

PowerDot4 screens
PBSplits4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: PBSplits at every 4 days against PowerDot's every 2 months. PowerDot's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PowerDot ships an update every 2 months, PBSplits every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
PowerDot versus PBSplits: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPowerDotPBSplits
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (33K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews45.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings33K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size159 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTherabody, Inc.Cow Cow Technologies LLC

Bugs and requests

PowerDot

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Frequent disconnections between device and app
  • Intensity level changes not registering properly
  • Login and account issues preventing app usage
  • App compatibility problems with newer iOS versions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to manually control stimulation settings
  • Improved pad placement guidance with illustrations
  • Apple Watch app for better on-the-go control
  • More recovery-focused programs and routines

PBSplits

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

PowerDot

No in-app purchases

None

PBSplits

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PowerDot free?
PowerDot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PBSplits free?
PBSplits is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PowerDot or PBSplits have ads?
Neither PowerDot nor PBSplits shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PowerDot or PBSplits?
PowerDot ships an update every 2 months, and PBSplits every 4 days. Most recently, PowerDot was updated on September 28, 2026 and PBSplits on September 19, 2026.

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