Comparison

Activity Glance vs Activity Plus

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

Head to head
About

Activity Glance

This app displays your Apple Watch activity data from the Health app with large, easy-to-read numbers. It can also prevent your iPhone from automatically locking while you're exercising.

Highlights
  • View Apple Watch activity data
  • Large, easy-to-read numbers
  • Track move, exercise, and stand progress
  • Prevents iPhone auto-lock
  • Power-saving black background
Features
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A handy app for checking your Apple Watch activity at a glance. • Activity Glance gathers your Apple Watch activity data from the Health app • Has large, easy-to-read numbers that let you track your Apple Watch move, exercise, and stand progress. • While Activity Glance is active, it prevents your iPhone from automatically locking, making it a great companion app while working out on a treadmill or other stationary exercise machine. • The background is pure black, which saves power and looks especially great on the iPhone X.

About

Activity Plus

This app helps you maintain your activity streaks and recover lost ones by closing your rings. It offers global challenges, customizable widgets, and detailed progress insights to keep you motivated and informed about your fitness journey.

Highlights
  • Streak recovery for activity rings
  • Global fitness challenges
  • Customizable home screen widgets
  • Monthly challenges and awards
  • Graphical progress insights
  • Comprehensive activity tracking
  • Audio and video-guided workouts
Features
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Activity Plus helps you track your activity rings, protect your Move streak, review workouts, compare progress, and stay motivated every day. Follow your Move, Exercise, and Stand goals, recover missed ring days, customize widgets, unlock awards, and see your activity history across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Main Features: - Siri: Ask Siri to check your activity rings, daily metrics, and nutrition, compare weeks, or open your latest workout. - Energy & Nutrition: Compare calories consumed and burned, and view protein, fat, and carbs from Apple Health. - Protect Your Move Streak: Missed a day? Use Close Rings to recover a previous day and keep your Longest Move Streak on track. - Activity Rings: Track your Move, Exercise, and Stand progress throughout the day. - Home Screen Widgets: Keep rings, steps, distance, workouts, energy, and nutrition in view on your Home Screen. - Awards & Monthly Challenges: Stay motivated with goals, badges, and achievements. - Activity Stats: View steps, distance, and floors together, track progress toward your goals, and review active energy and daily metrics. - Workout Insights: Search your workouts and review routes, pace, distance, energy, and monthly results. - Global Challenges: Compete with friends and users around the world. - Global Leaderboard: Compare Move, Steps, Distance, and Exercise results. - Goal Notifications: Get notified when you reach your daily goals. - Share Your Progress: Share activity rings and workout stats with photos or videos. - Custom Goals: Set personal goals for Move, Exercise, Stand, Distance, Steps, and Floors. - Light & Dark Mode: Choose the look that works best for you. - Custom App Icons: Personalize Activity Plus with your favorite icon. Apple Watch Features: - Use Activity Plus directly on Apple Watch. - Review activity from previous days. - Add activity details to your watch face with complications. - Join the global leaderboard without adding contacts. Privacy: Activity Plus requests access to your Health data, including Activity, Steps, Distance, and Workouts, to show your stats, progress, widgets, goals, and workout history. Nutrition and energy data from Apple Health are also used to display your nutrition and calorie summaries. Terms of Use: https://gaivoronskii.com/activity/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://gaivoronskii.com/activity/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Activity Glance3 screens
Activity Plus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Activity Plus at 4.6 against Activity Glance's 3.6. Activity Plus also leads on review sentiment (51% vs 25%) and ratings volume (2K vs 13). Activity Glance's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (11.3 vs 18.0). On price, 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. Activity Plus sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Activity Glance asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Activity Plus holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Activity Plus has 2K ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Activity Glance's written reviews are positive against 51% of Activity Plus's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Activity Glance ships an update monthly, Activity Plus every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Activity Glance versus Activity Plus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActivity GlanceActivity Plus
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (13 ratings)4.6 (2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews50.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings132K — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS11.3 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB74 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKyle CroninGaivoronski Andrei Vyacheslavovich, IP

Customer experience

Activity Glance

All ratings13 ratings
Positive61.5%
Neutral7.7%
Negative30.8%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%

Activity Plus

All ratings1,979 ratings
Positive88.7%
Neutral3.8%
Negative7.5%
Written reviews173 reviews
Positive50.9%
Neutral15.0%
Negative34.1%

Bugs and requests

Activity Glance

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Activity Plus

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes frequently
  • Syncing issues
  • Inaccurate data tracking
  • Compatibility issues with older devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to manually log exercises
  • Add water intake tracking
  • Improve widget customization
  • Sync data across devices
  • Add more workout options

In-app purchases

None

Activity Glance

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Activity Plus

Subscriptions3
  • Activity+$2.997 Days
  • Activity+$6.991 Month
  • Activity+$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Close Rings$1.99

Questions

Is Activity Glance free?
Activity Glance is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Activity Plus free?
Activity Plus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Activity Glance or Activity Plus?
Activity Plus is rated higher. Activity Glance averages 3.6 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Activity Plus averages 4.6 from 2K ratings.
Do Activity Glance or Activity Plus have ads?
Neither Activity Glance nor Activity Plus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Activity Glance or Activity Plus?
Activity Glance ships an update monthly, and Activity Plus every 2 weeks. Most recently, Activity Glance was updated on June 1, 2026 and Activity Plus on September 27, 2026.

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