Active Marion Project vs Zone ZHF
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Active Marion Project
This program encourages healthy lifestyles for residents and workers in Marion County, Florida. It offers tips, progress tracking, and rewards to help users stay motivated. The app integrates with HealthKit to use step data for county-wide competitions.
- Healthy lifestyle encouragement
- Progress tracking
- Reward system
- HealthKit integration for step data
- County-wide competition scoring
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Active Marion Project (AMP) is a free county-wide healthy lifestyle program designed to encourage Marion County citizens to adopt and maintain healthy lifestyles and to have fun while doing it. AMP is funded by the trustees of The Marion County Hospital District and is geared toward anyone who lives or works in Marion County, Florida. Staying motivated has never been easier. Find tips. Track progress. Earn rewards. Get in a groove and never look back. HEALTH APP INTEGRATION: AMP Integrates with Apple's HealthKit to gather your step data and use it for scoring purposes in a county wide competition. AMP gathers the following data from the Health app (HealthKit). -Steps
Zone ZHF
Monitor your fitness activities both inside and outside the gym. Access class schedules, social media, set fitness goals, and participate in club challenges. Seamlessly integrate with popular fitness trackers and apps, syncing your data with your iPhone's Health app.
- Workout tracking
- Class schedules
- Social media integration
- Fitness goals
- In-club challenges
- Fitness device linking
- Health app sync
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Track your workout in the club and on the go with the Zone Health & Fitness app. The Zone ZHF app provides class schedules, social media platforms, fitness goals, and in-club challenges. Our app will also allow you to link many of the popular fitness tracking devices and fitness apps on the market. The Zone ZHF app uses the Health app that is pre-installed on your iPhone to sync nutrients and workouts data. Because of this, the app will ask you to grant read and write access to your nutrients and workouts data. Your Health sync data is only visible to you and is not sent to anyone but yourself.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Zone ZHF at 79% against Active Marion Project's 9%. Zone ZHF also leads on rating (4.9 vs 2.9) and ratings volume (849 vs 24). Active Marion Project's advantage is iOS requirement (10.3 vs 14.0). On price, update cadence, 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.
Zone ZHF holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Zone ZHF has 849 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 9% of Active Marion Project's written reviews are positive against 79% of Zone ZHF's.
Active Marion Project ships an update monthly, Zone ZHF every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Active Marion Project | Zone ZHF |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (24 ratings) | 4.9 (849 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 9.1% of reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 | 849 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.3 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 120 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marion county Hospital District | Smart Health Clubs |
Customer experience
Active Marion Project
Zone ZHF
Bugs and requests
Active Marion Project
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Zone ZHF
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login kicks out users despite valid account
- Account creation not functional in app
- Session authentication failures
Requested features
2 requests- Increase Silver Sneakers class availability and capacity
- Improve app account creation interface
In-app purchases
Active Marion Project
No in-app purchases
Zone ZHF
No in-app purchases
Questions
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