MoveX vs Arc Timeline 4
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MoveX
This app automatically tracks your daily activities, places visited, and time spent with others. It provides weekly journals with personalized insights to help you understand your past and plan for the future, boosting productivity and habit building.
- Automatic step counting and tracking
- Calorie burn calculation
- Activity and route mapping
- Editable daily timeline
- Integration with Apple Health
- AI-powered activity analysis
- Data export (GPX, CSV)
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MoveX automatically keeps track of your time and presents your life sorted into slices. It shows you your daily activities, places you go, and who you spend time with. MoveX weekly journal provides personalized insights and clarity to your week passed. Start each week with a look back. Remember where you’ve been and vision where you’re going. Life is precious and so is your time. And keeping that in mind, MoveX is here to help you achieve more of your goals, build a sustainable habit, and boost your productivity to a new height. A powerful pedometer! GPS Diary tracks your daily routes. Track your all-day activity without wearing a fitness gadget. Move X is the best Activity Diary and Step Counter because of its features: - Use your iPhone as a Step Counter & Step Tracker. Move X lets you easily keep track of your daily and weekly step counts without affecting your battery life. - Move X calculates calorie burn for your activities. You can also view your daily idle calorie burn. Seeing your everyday exercise helps you think about your life in a new way. Start with small changes that can lead to healthy habits and natural weight loss. - It displays your step count, walking distance, active calories, and heart rate data. It also generates charts for different time periods to help you view the statistics for all dates. - Move X automatically records your walking, cycling, and running, tracks your distance traveled using various modes of transportation, and keeps a record of your sleep time, among other things. - It generates an editable timeline based on all your data for the day to help you better document your life. - It displays all your routes on a map. - All tracking is automatic; there's no need to manually turn it on or off. - It provides in-depth integration with Apple Health to provide you with comprehensive health data. - It collates place statistics, average visit durations, average calories burned, heartrate, and more. - It provides daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly activity summaries showing duration, distance, calories burned, and much more for every activity type. - GPS tracking with 24/7 recording. - It automatically checks in at your location and calculates the duration of your stay. - It displays your real-time location, including a compass to help you get your bearings. - AI analyzes your travel or exercise mode, such as walking, running, cycling, taking public transportation, and more. You can also manually select from 16 different sports, including skiing, swimming, horseback riding, and rowing. - Multiple data display formats, including activity timelines, map routes, and data statistics, help you better analyze your travel activities. - Multiple sharing options, including picture trails, map routes, and 3D video, can bring you more sense of accomplishment. - You can export and generate various standard data files, such as GPX and CSV. - There are no ads, and your data is encrypted and stored securely, so no one except you can access it. If you need to track your work: - Track all the places you have visited and the duration of your stay. It can automatically record your visits whether you're visiting clients or traveling on business. - Record your work hours at the company and generate a commuting report to track your work hours per week/month. - Export .csv files for easy reimbursement. If you love to travel: - Automatically record your travelfootprints and light up the cities you have visited on a world map. - Import your previously visited places from your photo album to display your complete journey. - Share your travel route map with a 3D video to tell your travel story. - Export .gpx files that you can import into other tools like Google Maps. - This is the perfect app to replace Moves, and it can meet all your needs. We're always working hard to make it even better. Privacy Policy: https://www.movex.me/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.movex.me/terms-of-use.html
Arc Timeline 4
This app automatically tracks your location history, including how you travel and how long you stay at places. It learns your habits to provide a detailed, searchable timeline of your daily life, offering insights into your activity and health metrics.
- Automatic background location recording
- Smart learning engine for place recognition
- Detects over 20 activity types
- Searchable trip and place history
- Health and activity insights (heart rate, calories)
- Data stored on device with optional iCloud backup
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Arc Timeline automatically records where you go, how you get there, and how long you stay - all in the background, with no buttons to press. A smart learning engine gets more accurate the more you use it, building a detailed, searchable timeline of your daily life. Your trips, your places, your history - recorded effortlessly. WHAT ARC TIMELINE DOES ▸ Automatically detects and records your visits and trips ▸ Learns your places and recognises them by name ▸ Detects walking, running, cycling, driving, train, bus, airplane, and 20+ more activity types ▸ A learning engine that improves over time, personalised to you ▸ Search your entire history - find any place, any trip, any day BUILT FOR QUALITY ▸ High quality GPS data with advanced Kalman filtering ▸ Reliable background recording with intelligent sleep mode ▸ Built for iOS 26 with Liquid Glass design ▸ Full dark mode support YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE ▸ All data stored on your device ▸ Optional iCloud backup to your private iCloud account ▸ No accounts, no sign-ups, no data shared with third parties ▸ Export your data anytime in standard JSON format HEALTH & ACTIVITY INSIGHTS ▸ Heart rate, calories burned, steps, and altitude for every trip and visit ▸ Import workouts from Apple Health ▸ Sync visits to your calendar ▸ Places tab with visit history, occupancy charts, and geographic reports A free trial is included. An active subscription or lifetime purchase is required after the trial period. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.bigpaua.com/arcapp/terms
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Verdict
MoveX and Arc Timeline 4 both sit at 3.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 61% of Arc Timeline 4's written reviews are positive against 30% of MoveX's. Arc Timeline 4 also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). MoveX's advantage is ratings volume (417 vs 24) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, 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. MoveX sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Arc Timeline 4 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Arc Timeline 4 holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MoveX has 417 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of MoveX's written reviews are positive against 61% of Arc Timeline 4's.
MoveX ships an update every 3 weeks, Arc Timeline 4 weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MoveX | Arc Timeline 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (417 ratings) | 3.9 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.7% of reviews | 60.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 417 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 202 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 少星 高 | Matthew Bruce Greenfield |
Customer experience
MoveX
Arc Timeline 4
Bugs and requests
MoveX
Reported bugs
3 issues- Tracking stops working unexpectedly
- Fails to import data from the original Moves app
- Inconsistent performance after updates
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to edit tracked activities and locations
- Support for imperial units (miles, feet)
- Integration with other fitness/health apps
- Backup and restore functionality
Arc Timeline 4
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MoveX
- Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
- weekly$5.997 Days
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- Quarterly Subscriptions3 Days trial$12.993 Months
- Half-yearly subscription3 Days trial$23.996 Months
- Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$27.991 Year
- Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$42.991 Year
Arc Timeline 4
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$44.991 Year
- Lifetime Purchase$179.99
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