Counterpace vs TBCommunity
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Counterpace
This app guides rhythmic movement synchronized with your heart cycle to improve aerobic performance, health, and recovery. It connects to a sensor to help you match your step rate to your heart rate for optimized blood flow and efficiency during various exercises.
- Heart cycle synchronization
- Rhythmic movement guidance
- Aerobic performance enhancement
- Treadmill, outdoor, and elliptical training
- Metronome training for step rate
- Optimized blood flow and oxygen delivery
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STEP IN SYNC WITH YOUR HEART. The Counterpace® guidance system is a sensor-based training platform that coordinates rhythmic movement with your heart cycle to enhance aerobic performance, health, recovery & experience. The Counterpace app connects to the Counterpace sensor and guides you to match your heart rate to your step rate, while ensuring that each step is precisely timed to the relaxation phase of your heart’s pump cycle. Simply step to the audible prompts to optimize blood flow and oxygen delivery throughout your body. Based on the science of cardiac counterpulsation, the Counterpace system guides you to align each step with your body's natural cardiac rhythm so you can exercise longer and faster with less effort and greater efficiency. • Treadmill Walking & Running - Counterpace is easiest to use on a treadmill, where you can control speed & incline to fine tune your heart and step rate. • Outdoors - improves your running, walking, or hiking experience, from the track to the trails, whenever your natural heart rate during each activity approximates your natural step rate. Accessories, such as walking poles, or ankle or hand weights increase blood flow, calorie burn, and help you raise your heart rate towards your natural step rate. • Elliptical Training - Adjust resistance to ensure you're at a comfortable step rate. Counterpace guidance also works on "paddle based" stair stepping machines. • Metronome Training - Learn to run at your optimal step rate. Metronome training can teach you to step precisely to a beat at a variety of target stride frequencies. The Counterpace sensor is required for use of the Counterpace app. The sensor is available for purchase only at www.counterpace.com. Terms of service: https://counterpace.com/pages/terms-of-service Privacy policy: https://counterpace.com/pages/privacy-policy
TBCommunity
This fitness app offers personalized workout plans tailored to your goals, preferences, and lifestyle. Access exclusive educational content, connect with a community forum, and track nutrition with a calorie/macro tracker. Integrates with Apple Health Kit for step and calorie monitoring.
- Personalized fitness plans
- In-app educational content
- Community message forum
- Calorie/macro tracker
- Apple Health Kit integration
- Weekly Q+As
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’TBcommunity is a state-of-the-art fitness App brought to you by World Leading Coach Tom Brazier. You can choose to work with him directly or sign up for one of his Fitness Challenges. Whatever your fitness goal, your plans will be tailored to not only best achieve your goal, but to make it easy by adapting it to your likes/dislikes, diet type, and lifestyle. Keep up to date with exclusive In-App educational content and stay in touch with the entire community using our In-App message forum. 300+ healthy, tasty recipes to help you stay on track with your nutrition and an option for a flexible diet (track your macros) using our In-App calorie/macros tracker. Furthermore, subscribe to keep a trail of all the steps walked and burnt calories by Apple Health Kit and Weekly Q+As are available for all users via chat. ‘Your Health in an Investment, not an Expense.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: TBCommunity at none against Counterpace's shown. TBCommunity also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Counterpace's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (10 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Counterpace holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Counterpace has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Counterpace ships an update every 2 months, TBCommunity every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Counterpace | TBCommunity |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (10 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Pulson, Inc. | Thomas Brazier |
Customer experience
Counterpace
TBCommunity
In-app purchases
Counterpace
No in-app purchases
TBCommunity
No in-app purchases









