PM8DAm vs Connect Gear
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PM8DAm
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The PM8DAm will let you: - Connect to the PowerMeter8 via bluetooth - Show in detail all the information about your PowerMeter8 - Perform the PowerMeter8 firmware upgrade and calibration - Record the torque data end easily export it in .csv format This app integrates Health app to store time, distance and heart rate data.
Connect Gear
This app acts as a comprehensive health and fitness companion. It tracks daily steps, calories, sleep patterns, and heart rate, while also offering social competition and achievement badges to motivate users. Integration with HealthKit provides extended health monitoring capabilities.
- Step and calorie tracking
- Sleep analysis
- Heart rate monitoring
- Notification reminders
- Leaderboard competition
- Achievement badges
- HealthKit integration
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1. Pedometer: Count your steps, calories, active time, distance 2. Sleep Tracker: record and analysis your sleeping. 3. Notification reminder: never miss notification on your phone 4. Heart Rate support: measure you Heart Rate and save your log. 5. Daily tracker: track your life and exercise 6. Compete on leaderboard with your friends. 7. Win badges to make sport more fun. 8.Use embeded HealtKit App for more health monitoring options Your perfect daily health and sport partner.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: PM8DAm at 4 against Connect Gear's 2. On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PM8DAm | Connect Gear |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 6.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.2 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 93 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ulrich Schoberer | 李缘 伍 |
Bugs and requests
PM8DAm
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Connect Gear
Reported bugs
68 issues- Cannot set time
- Screen goes dark then flashes light when pairing
- Too many glitches
- Device could not be connected to the app on Bluetooth
- Cannot log back in or reset password
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- Weather does not update
- Phone takes many tries to update time/date after charging
- Watch stays on permanently but won’t connect to the app
- Takes ages to load then crashes
- Super slow on device
- Hard to connect
- Delete the app multiple times to connect
- Cannot connect Kogan watch to the app
- Hardly anything was working
- Didn’t let me do things like changing the background
- Weather wasn’t updating
- Impossible to set time
- Won’t connect to Bluetooth
- Can’t send texts
- Not updating weather
- Missing shutdown and startup screen pics, screen shows a T in the middle
- Keeps flashing when trying to pair
- Cannot get the app to update watch face
- Keeps disconnecting
- Doesn’t track heart rate or temperature
- Cannot pair with Kogan PLS + watch
- Sleep monitoring stopped giving graph
- Useless - can’t even get a verification code to make an account
- Cannot pair kids Kogan watch
- Continually fails to recognise email in feedback section
- Says email is invalid
- Failure to send verification code to mobile
- Watch face doesn’t show analogue display
- Factory face is forever lost if you try a face type set from the app
- App runs very slow and exits when tapping on today’s steps
- Can’t connect watch even with latest version
- Message notification does not work
- Time changes after watch is out of charge, have to fix from app
- Watch stalls when charging, sometimes won’t come back on
- Always disconnects from Bluetooth
- App keeps shutting down
- Data doesn’t upload automatically
- Sleep monitor doesn’t work all the time
- Watch keeps disconnecting from Bluetooth
- Not fully compatible with iPhone
- App is awful, crashes, loses data
- Awful sleep data analysis
- App is supposed to integrate with Apple Health but it doesn’t
- Cannot connect to Strava
- App crashes when entering verification code
- App does not seem to record all steps
- Days and weeks are not shown
- Wish it recorded all data and stayed connected
- Apps cannot connect to Apple health
- Watch didn’t even show up for pairing
- Doesn’t let you see or reply to messages
- Keeps disconnecting from watch
- Kids updated watch and it crashed, now useless
- Watch and app don’t even recognize each other
- Doesn’t work how it’s supposed to
- Second watch worked for about 4 hours until app updated, watch crashed
- Attempted to update firmware, got to 39% and watch crashed, can’t turn on
- Can’t get a verification code to register
- OTA comes up and as soon as you say yes to upgrade the app crashes
- Crashes every time trying to do a firmware update
- When clicking check during update, app shuts down
- Cannot use simple characters in email like an _ when trying to log in
- Watch does not sync correctly, don’t get alerts on calls or messages
Requested features
8 requests- See messages on watch
- Get call notifications on watch
- Add more watch faces
- Connect to Strava
- See notifications for emails
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- See analogue watch face display
- Restore watch firmware option
- See sleep graphs (restless/deep sleep)
In-app purchases
PM8DAm
No in-app purchases
Connect Gear
No in-app purchases
