Comparison

Pivot Journey vs Split

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

Head to head
About

Pivot Journey

This app provides a structured plan and support to help users quit smoking at their own pace. It offers educational resources, skill-building activities, and daily check-ins to manage triggers, cravings, and maintain a smoke-free lifestyle long-term.

Highlights
  • Personalized quit plan
  • Skill-building activities
  • Trigger and craving management
  • Daily check-ins and accountability
  • Carbon monoxide breath sensor
  • Progress tracking
  • Life coach support
Features
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Quitting smoking is really hard - and like anything really hard you’ll be more successful going into it with a plan, skills, confidence and support. Pivot is here to support you on your journey to become smoke free. Quit now or start reducing and quit for good at your own pace – with Pivot you quit your way. Small Steps to Success: Pivot helps you understand how quitting smoking can positively affect your health and life and gives you motivation for change. Activities and educational resources help you learn your personal smoking habits, develop personal strategies to overcome your triggers and stressors, build skills to quit, practice quitting and gain confidence in your ability to control your urges and stay quit. Break up quitting into small steps to make it easy for you to stop smoking. Stay Quit: Quitting smoking for good takes time, the journey doesn’t end the second you stop. Daily check-ins from Pivot help keep you accountable. Educational resources for after you quit help you learn how to deal with tough situations. Pivot supports you long-term to maintain your smoke free lifestyle. Whether you’re ready to quit now or thinking about quitting, Pivot can help. Your Pivot Journey to Quitting: -Learn. Increase your motivation and interest in quitting before you quit smoking, learn quit skills and build confidence. Coaches provide you support along the way -Reduce. If you’re not ready to quit right away, reduce your smoking and practice coping with triggers and habits. Keep reducing and you can eventually quit -Prepare to Quit. If you’re ready to quit, use Pivot to build your quit plan right away. You’ll explore your triggers, build strategies to fight cravings and have a plan to deal with tough situations -Quit. When your quit date comes, put your quit plan into action. Don’t worry if you slip up, Pivot can help you get back on track. Your coach will rally behind you to give you support throughout your smoking cessation process - Maintain. Sustaining change after a long time with any habit takes time and effort. Pivot can support you and help you keep learning to make sure your quit is stable. Daily Tracker for Progress: -Pivot has an FDA cleared smart sensor that measures carbon monoxide in your breath from smoking. The sensor gives you immediate feedback for how smoking affects your carbon monoxide levels, and increases your motivation to reduce and quit cigarettes. -The breath sensor provides a reading of your carbon monoxide levels: green (non-smoker), yellow (on the way to smoke-free) or red (smoking) -Use the sensor to challenge yourself: reduce or quit smoking to get to green levels -Every day is an opportunity to improve and reduce your levels of carbon monoxide Build Motivation: -Explore your reasons for smoking and quitting, build knowledge, and develop coping skills to increase motivation -See your progress by tracking cigarettes and skipped cigarettes Life Coaches: -Trained smoking cessation coaches know the unique challenges smokers face -Get paired with a coach to guide you with expert advice and no-stress support Based on science and rooted in empathy, let Pivot Journey be your guide to quitting smoking. We would be honored to help you achieve your goal. Join our community & follow us on social media. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pivotjourney Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pivotjourney/ For information about our Privacy Policy, click here: https://pivot.co/privacy-policy/

About

Split

Build a personalized running training plan that adapts to your schedule and goals. Easily edit workouts, rest days, and distances on the fly. Log your runs with detailed notes and sync with Strava.

Highlights
  • Build custom training plans
  • Edit plans anytime
  • Log runs with notes
  • Strava integration
  • Share progress with coaches
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Split is a place to create your training plan, shape it around your schedule, and follow it from your first run to race day. Simple tools, one clear plan. Split requires a Split Pro subscription. New members get a 7-day free trial, then $9.99/month or $79.99/year, billed to your Apple ID. BUILD A PLAN THAT FITS YOUR WEEK Start from a plan built around your goal race and goal time, or just log your runs with no race in mind. Swap workouts, move rest days, change distances. Everything is editable in seconds. CHANGE IT WHENEVER YOU NEED TO Skipped a run? Race date moved? Adjust your plan without starting over. Make the changes yourself, or tell Split what you want in plain English and it updates the plan for you. Changed your mind? Undo it. SEE WHERE YOU ARE Your Plan tab shows your race countdown, the week you're in, your weekly mileage, and what's next. Upcoming workouts for the week ahead are one tap away. LOG RUNS AND ADD NOTES Connect Strava and your runs sync automatically, or log them by hand. Open any run to see distance, pace, heart rate, and laps, and how it compared to the workout you planned. After a run, rate your effort and how it felt, flag anything that was off, and add a note for next time. A SUMMARY OF YOUR WEEK Every Sunday, get a short recap: how the week went, how hard it felt, and what's coming next. ASK SPLIT Have a question about your plan or a recent run? Ask in plain English and get answers based on your actual training. BUILT FOR EVERY RUNNER Training for a race? Build around your race date and goal time. New to running? Start with a plan that eases you in, mile by mile. Working with a coach? Share your plan and progress with them in Split. Just staying fit? Keep it simple and consistent, on your terms. Download Split and run with a plan - your plan. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.getsplit.ai/support#privacy

Screenshots

Pivot Journey4 screens
Split4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pivot Journey at none against Split's 2. Pivot Journey also leads on ratings volume (773 vs 1). Split's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Split sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Pivot Journey asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Split holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pivot Journey has 773 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pivot Journey ships an update fortnightly, Split monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pivot Journey versus Split: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPivot JourneySplit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (773 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews34.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings773 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size441 MB40 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPivot Health Technologies Inc.Split Running Co.

Customer experience

Pivot Journey

All ratings769 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral3.6%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive34.8%
Neutral8.7%
Negative56.5%

Split

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Pivot Journey

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • App crashes on startup
  • Device sensor fails to pair after battery depletion
  • Device reset button unresponsive
  • Login page next button non-functional
  • Tobacco type submission error
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  • Server not responding errors
  • App stops opening after initial use

Requested features

4 requests
  • Support for higher nicotine concentrations (50mg pods)
  • Cigarette consumption tracking graph
  • Accessibility features for deaf/hard of hearing users
  • Free tier for users with disabilities

Split

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Pivot Journey

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Split

Subscriptions2
  • Split Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Split Pro Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Pivot Journey free?
Pivot Journey is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Split free?
Split is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pivot Journey or Split?
Split is rated higher. Pivot Journey averages 4.7 out of 5 from 773 ratings, while Split averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pivot Journey or Split have ads?
Neither Pivot Journey nor Split shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pivot Journey or Split?
Pivot Journey ships an update fortnightly, and Split monthly. Most recently, Pivot Journey was updated on November 2, 2026 and Split on October 31, 2026.

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