AirFlare vs Radius.fit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AirFlare
This app transforms your phone into a wilderness rescue beacon, ensuring you can be located during emergencies or for simple meetups. It offers reliable location sharing, even with weak cellular service, and utilizes patented technology for effective rescue without user initiation, preserving battery life.
- Wilderness rescue beacon
- Location sharing
- Works without cellular service
- Battery preservation
- Emergency contacts
- SOS strobe
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AirFlare turns your phone into a wilderness rescue beacon, allowing you or your loved ones to be located whether it’s just meeting up or an emergency! Stay connected with Location Sharing that’s easy to setup, finds the right device, and works reliably even in spotty cellular coverage. Be protected with the most effective rescue technology possible: the one you have on you when you need it! Our patented technology turns your phone into a mountain rescue beacon. It works without cellular service—although even better with it—without requiring user initiation, and actually preserves battery life up to a week. AirFlare also provides a suite of lifesaving tools and advice: like local emergency contacts and Text-to-911 status, and a camera-flash SOS strobe. Your subscription to the AirFlare Network is billed annually to your iTunes account and renews automatically, unless disabled or cancelled at any time by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase and at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged at confirmation of purchase and, for renewal, within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period.
Radius.fit
Record outdoor activities like running and cycling, track your progress in real-time, and compete in virtual races. Connect with friends, share your adventures, and even have them spectate live. The app also helps race promoters enhance events with real-time tracking and safety features.
- Real-time activity recording
- Speed, position, and altitude monitoring
- Virtual race competition
- Live spectating for friends and family
- Race promoter features
- Community-based proficiency grouping
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Radius is an activity building app where you go out into the Actual World™ and record your activities, share them with friends, or compete in virtual races while your friends and family spectate in real time. CAPTURE - Radius can capture an activity you do in real time, plotting the course while monitoring speed, position and altitude changes. COMPARE - Radius is teaming up with your favorite race promoters to augment your race with a little more competition, make spectating easier, and keep you safe by allowing race promoters to watch for participants who wander off course. COMMUNITY - Radius groups people together based on proficiency. Gone are the days of the bad running partner or lame group ride. You know how you'll measure up before the event begins.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Radius.fit at none against AirFlare's 15. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. AirFlare sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per year. Radius.fit asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for AirFlare against 4.5 for Radius.fit. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 13 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of AirFlare's written reviews are positive against 80% of Radius.fit's.
| Parameter | AirFlare | Radius.fit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (14 ratings) — better | 4.5 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 156 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vector Flight LLC | Fluid Software Designs, LLC |
Customer experience
AirFlare
Radius.fit
In-app purchases
AirFlare
- AirFlare Network$0.991 Year
- AirFlare Network7 Days trial$0.991 Year
- AirFlare Network$4.991 Year
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- AirFlare Network1 Year trial$4.991 Year
- AirFlare Network6 Months trial$4.991 Year
- AirFlare Network3 Months trial$4.991 Year
- AirFlare Network1 Month trial$4.991 Year
- AirFlare Network7 Days trial$4.991 Year
- Friends-and-Family membership7 Days trial$8.991 Year
- Friends-and-Family membership1 Year trial$8.991 Year
- AirFlare Network7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- AirFlare Network$19.991 Year
- Friends-and-Family membership7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Lifetime Subscription$14.99
- Large Family/Superfan Lifetime$48.99
Radius.fit
No in-app purchases









