Comparison

PreventionCloud vs The First Mile

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

Head to head
About

PreventionCloud

This application facilitates participation in organizational health and wellness programs. It offers features for tracking activities, completing assessments, and engaging in challenges. Users can also monitor biometrics, nutrition, and exercise.

Highlights
  • Participation Tracking
  • Apple Health Kit Integration
  • Event Participation
  • Health Assessments
  • Biometrics & Nutrition Tracking
  • Exercise Tracking
  • Challenges & Quizzes
Features
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The PreventionCloud app helps users participate in their organization’s programs including: - Participation Tracking - Apple Health Kit Integration - Events - Visit Forms - Challenges - Quiz - Health Assessment - Biometrics Trackers - Nutrition Trackers - Exercise Trackers - Support And more.

About

The First Mile

This app analyzes your past running, walking, and hiking workouts from Apple Health to create a private history of your progress. It visualizes your journey with detailed stats, personal records, and route analysis, focusing solely on your own performance without social features or ads.

Highlights
  • Analyzes Apple Health GPS workouts
  • Visualizes entire running history
  • Detailed workout analysis (splits, elevation, heart rate)
  • Comfortable distance measurements
  • Personal records across 27 distances
  • Automatic route creation and leaderboards
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
Features
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The First Mile is an honest, private mirror of your running — built entirely from the workouts you've already recorded in Apple Health. Nothing to log, nothing to set up, nothing to chase. It meets you at whatever your first mile looks like: walking, jogging, or running, all equally first-class. YOUR JOURNEY Every GPS workout becomes a waypoint on a winding trail — your whole history on one screen, from day one to this morning. A five-level Running Level (measured from your recent workouts) shows where you are right now, and a weekly gauge shows how this week compares to your own normal. EVERY WORKOUT, FULLY ANALYZED Your route drawn on the map and colored by effort — walk, jog, and run zones. Mile-by-mile splits, elevation profile, heart-rate chart and time in zones, cadence and stride, even the weather your watch recorded. Replay any workout as an animated route with milestone callouts. HONEST NUMBERS Comfortable Distances measure what you can actually cover in each zone — conservatively, from your strongest recent efforts, never inflated. Progress charts show your pace, level, and walk-jog-run mix changing over months and years. RECORDS & PREDICTIONS Personal records across 27 distances, from 100 m sprints to 100-mile ultras — each with its route segment on the map and your top-10 history. Predictions give a realistic time range for every distance, anchored to your own record ladder — never hype. ROUTES, FOUND FOR YOU Run the same loop twice and it becomes a named route automatically — with a personal leaderboard of your runs on it, best paces, and direction-aware detection. AND MORE Orbit sets your milestone times in motion. Photo Finish lines up your fastest mile from each year on one finish line. Year Recap wraps your season into a shareable poster. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Siri shortcuts, and quiet notifications when a new personal record lands. ALWAYS YOU VS. YOU Every leaderboard, record, and race in the app is yours alone — today's you against last month's you. No feeds, no followers, no one else's times to measure up to. Your first mile counts the same as anyone's fastest. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything is computed on your device and stays there. The app only reads from Apple Health — it never writes. No account. No ads. No tracking. The First Mile describes what you've already done — it doesn't coach, prescribe workouts, or provide medical, training, or fitness advice. No streaks, no guilt, no noise. Just the truth of how you move. REQUIREMENTS The First Mile reads outdoor workouts that include a GPS route in Apple Health — runs, walks, and hikes recorded by Apple Watch, or by any app or device that saves routes there. Not sure if you have them? Open Fitness or Health, pick a recent outdoor workout, and look for a route map. If it's there, your history lights up the moment you grant access. Indoor and treadmill workouts don't carry routes, so they won't appear.

Screenshots

PreventionCloud4 screens
The First Mile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: The First Mile at 100% against PreventionCloud's 20%. The First Mile also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.6) and update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly). PreventionCloud's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99) and ratings volume (19 vs 2). On ads, in-app purchases 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

PreventionCloud is free to download; The First Mile costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The First Mile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PreventionCloud has 19 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of PreventionCloud's written reviews are positive against 100% of The First Mile's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PreventionCloud ships an update monthly, The First Mile every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
PreventionCloud versus The First Mile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPreventionCloudThe First Mile
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating2.6 (19 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings19 — better2
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#195 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB9 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperZomo Health LLCJames Ciraldo

Customer experience

PreventionCloud

All ratings19 ratings
Positive36.8%
Neutral5.3%
Negative57.9%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative70.0%

The First Mile

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

PreventionCloud

No in-app purchases

None

The First Mile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PreventionCloud free?
PreventionCloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The First Mile free?
The First Mile costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PreventionCloud or The First Mile?
The First Mile is rated higher. PreventionCloud averages 2.6 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while The First Mile averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do PreventionCloud or The First Mile have ads?
Neither PreventionCloud nor The First Mile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PreventionCloud or The First Mile?
PreventionCloud ships an update monthly, and The First Mile every 3 days. Most recently, PreventionCloud was updated on October 13, 2026 and The First Mile on October 6, 2026.

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