Active Experience vs Move Fat Potato
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Active Experience
Follow live event progress, view real-time leaderboards, and get participant alerts. Discover event landmarks, share photos, and stay updated on races like marathons and triathlons. Integrates with HealthKit for heart rate and workout data.
- Real-time leaderboards
- Participant GPS tracking
- Course map with landmarks
- Progress alerts and updates
- Event photo sharing
- HealthKit integration
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One app for all of your events. Track participants on an events course map, view real-time leaderboards, receive participant progress alerts and important updates from events. • View & share results and rankings. • Find event landmarks with the course map. • Track participants via GPS. • Accept or decline tracking notifications. • Receive push notifications for followed participants. • Take and share event photos with all other spectators and participants using the app. • Easily follow and stay up-to-date with Marathons, 5Ks, 10Ks and Triathlons near you. In the Watch app, Apple’s HealthKit is used to collect heart rate and exercise data, and at the end of a run, the workout is saved to Healthkit. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Move Fat Potato
This app encourages users to exceed 10,000 daily steps by challenging friends. Compete on leaderboards to achieve the highest step count within a given timeframe and stay motivated together.
- Step tracking challenges
- Friend leaderboards
- Motivation through competition
- Set period step goals
- Social fitness
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10,000 steps is just the beginning. Challenge your friends, keep each other motivated, and compete for the top spot on the leaderboard with the highest number of steps in a set period.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Move Fat Potato at 5.0 against Active Experience's 1.5. Move Fat Potato also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). Active Experience's advantage is ratings volume (150 vs 3) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Move Fat Potato holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Active Experience has 150 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Active Experience ships an update every 6 weeks, Move Fat Potato weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Active Experience | Move Fat Potato |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (150 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 6.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 150 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14 — better | 18.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Active Network, LLC | Louis Notteghem |
Customer experience
Active Experience
Move Fat Potato
Bugs and requests
Active Experience
Reported bugs
3 issues- Cannot enter date of birth to create account
- Tracking stops working mid-race
- Inconsistent and inaccurate runner locations
Requested features
3 requests- Improve runner tracking accuracy and reliability
- Provide course maps and mile markers
- Allow easy spectator tracking without complex setup
Move Fat Potato
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Active Experience
No in-app purchases
Move Fat Potato
No in-app purchases
Questions
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