MOWL vs Distant Race App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MOWL
This app offers a vast library of indoor cycling workouts with real-time guidance. Connect devices, sync music, and build a fitness community. Enjoy ad-free, paywall-free training.
- 50,000+ expert-led rides
- Real-time workout guidance
- Bluetooth device connectivity
- Spotify music synchronization
- Fitness community features
- Ad-free and paywall-free
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Experience the ultimate indoor cycling companion with the MOWL® App: - Explore 50,000+ rides from experts like Keiser, Wattbike, Body Bike, and more. Find your perfect workout with our user-friendly search filters. - Stay on track with our workout player, offering real-time guidance in colour, heart rate, or power. No more guesswork; just peak performance. - Seamlessly connect to your Bluetooth devices for in-app training tracking. Link your Spotify account for perfectly synchronised music that moves you. - Build your fitness community – like, follow, and share your favourite creators' workouts. - Unleash your creativity with "Open Goal" mode for freestyle sessions. Best of all, our app is completely ad-free and without paywalls. It's indoor cycling made simple, fun, and efficient. Join us and press play on your ride to fitness success today!
Distant Race App
Compete in exciting step challenges to boost your fitness and achieve a healthier lifestyle. Track your daily steps, distance, and calories burned while engaging in friendly competitions with others. Discover various challenges designed for all fitness levels and stay motivated with real-time updates and leaderboards.
- Step challenge participation
- Daily step, distance, and calorie tracking
- Competition with other users
- Real-time leaderboards
- HealthKit data integration
- Variety of themed challenges
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Get ready to step up your fitness levels with our user-friendly step challenge app! Whether you are a fitness enthusiast or just starting your wellness journey, our app is designed to motivate towards heathier lifestyle and add some adrenaline rush by competing with others! Participate anytime and anywhere that suits you best! With our app, you can easily track your daily steps, distance and burned calories, and compete with other participants, or with your friends and colleagues. Our intuitive interface and user-friendly features make tracking and analyzing your progress effortless. Discover a variety of step challenges designed to fit your interests and fitness level. From themed challenges to team competitions, there is always something challenging and exciting happening in our app. Stay motivated with real-time updates, leaderboards, and friendly competitions that will push your limits. Join like-minded community that shares a passion for daily fitness competitions! Download our app now and step-by-step reach your goals! Challenge yourself and others! This app provides the simplest and fastest way to upload workouts that are stored on iOS device, by reading the tracking and heart-rate data from HealthKit. This means that exporting is not limited to workouts recorded with the Apple Watch. Any workout visible in the Health app, regardless of how it was recorded, can be sent to Distantrace.com. App also read Daily Activity data (steps, distance & active calories) from HealthKit and send this data to distantrace.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Distant Race App at 100% against MOWL's 65%. Distant Race App also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). MOWL's advantage is ratings volume (236 vs 1) and device support (5 vs 3). 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.
Distant Race App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MOWL has 236 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of MOWL's written reviews are positive against 100% of Distant Race App's.
MOWL ships an update every 6 weeks, Distant Race App every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MOWL | Distant Race App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (236 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 236 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 203 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Intelligent Training Group ApS | Distant Race Management SIA |
Customer experience
MOWL
Distant Race App
Bugs and requests
MOWL
Reported bugs
10 issues- App stopped after 10 minutes
- Won't login on iPad
- App won't connect to Apple Watch/workouts for HR data
- Cannot connect smart trainer and cadence sensor simultaneously
- Cannot connect to spinning class or pair bike
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- Spotify integration is broken after updates
- Settings icon and ? Icons blocking sensor selection
- App crashes when connecting Polar H10 heart rate monitor
- App crashes on iPad when scrolling pages
- History of rides not saving
Requested features
10 requests- Sync data with iPhone Health app
- Connect to Apple Watch for heart rate
- Simplify and optimize workout builder for mobile
- Customizable cue cards
- Bring Freeplay to the USA
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- Integrate playlist with AI for automatic ride creation
- Add rowing support
- Sync other power meters
- Add upgrades and new features
- Display Watts, heart rate, and pedal efficiency on screen
Distant Race App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MOWL
No in-app purchases
Distant Race App
No in-app purchases
Questions
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