Deskbike vs Benchline
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Deskbike
Track your cycling activity while working with this app. Monitor distance, calories, and duration, and sync data with health platforms. It offers a simple, distraction-free interface to help you stay active and achieve your fitness goals.
- Track daily, weekly, monthly, yearly activity
- Monitor distance, calories burned, duration
- Anonymous or account-based progress saving
- Integrate with Apple Health and Strava
- Simple, intuitive, distraction-free design
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Boost your Energy with the Deskbike app, the companion to your Deskbike. Pedal while you work and see live how far you ride, how long you're active and how many calories you burn. Pair the Deskbike Bluetooth sensor once. After that the app connects by itself every time you start pedalling. WHAT YOU GET • Live speed, cadence, time, distance and calories while you ride • Daily goals for calories, distance and time: collect a bolt for every level • Statistics per day, week, month and year: browse back, compare with last week, see your streak and your best day • Workouts start automatically. Stop them yourself, or they stop after 30 minutes without pedalling • Calories based on your own weight, height, age and sex • Sync your workouts to Strava and Apple Health • Join the Deskbike club on Strava • Your history is saved in your account, also when you switch phones Whether you're powering through a busy workday or just want more movement in your day: Deskbike keeps you active, focused and energised. Boost your Energy. Download the Deskbike app today!
Benchline
This app helps you monitor any goal and log daily habits. It offers custom benchmarks for fitness, reading, or finance, and visualizes your progress. Stay motivated with streak tracking and detailed statistics in a clean, ad-free interface.
- Customizable goal benchmarks
- Daily habit logging
- Streak tracking
- Detailed statistics
- Clean dark interface
- Offline data storage
- No ads or subscriptions
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Track anything. Improve everything. Benchline combines custom goal tracking and daily habit logging into one beautifully simple experience. BENCHMARK ANY GOAL • Create custom benchmarks for any discipline: fitness, reading, finance, and more • Define your own metrics with the exact units that matter to you • Set personal goals and watch your progress bar fill as you close the gap TRACK DAILY HABITS • Watch your streaks grow and stay motivated by your consistency • At-a-glance weekly view keeps you accountable across past days and today • Detailed stats: total completions, best streak, and quarterly completion breakdown DESIGNED FOR CLARITY • Clean dark interface — every element earns its place • No ads, no subscriptions, no account required • Your data lives entirely on your device — fully private and available offline • Reorder benchmarks and habits your way with drag-and-drop Whether you're training for a marathon, tracking your squat PR, or building a reading habit — Benchline gives you the tools to measure what matters and see yourself improve. Download free. Start tracking today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Benchline at 5.0 against Deskbike's 4.7. On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Benchline holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Deskbike | Benchline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Worktrainer BV | KOLJA MALTE KRISTEK |
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In-app purchases
Deskbike
No in-app purchases
Benchline
No in-app purchases









