Hyperice vs Gradient
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hyperice
Enhance your physical performance and recovery with personalized routines guided by expert advice and your own health data. This app connects to your smart devices to offer customized workouts and insights, helping you move better and achieve your fitness goals.
- Personalized routines powered by HyperSmart™
- Syncs with health and fitness data (Strava, Apple Health, Garmin)
- Control Hyperice Bluetooth® devices
- Automated speed control for select products
- Expert-guided warmup, maintenance, and recovery routines
- Wellness insights from health professionals
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Transform the way you move and do more of what you love with the Hyperice App. Powered by HyperSmart™, the Hyperice App helps you get the most out of your Hyperice products through expert guidance, personalized routines, and the added motivation you need to unlock the best version of yourself. The ultimate personal trainer HyperSmart™ syncs your physical and digital activity to create an experience entirely customized to you. It combines advice from our team of scientific advisors with information from your daily activity and other health and fitness data, including Strava, Apple Health, and Garmin, to create personalized recommendations that are fully in tune with your body’s needs. Operate your Hyperice Bluetooth® devices Pair your Bluetooth® connected Hyperice devices, start a routine, and let HyperSmart™ do the thinking. Control your devices from your phone, tap into curated routines, unlock pro-level features with the Normatec 3 remote, and enjoy automated speed control for select products in the Hypervolt and Vyper lines. Knowledge and insights from the world’s best Tap into warmup, maintenance, and recovery routines from the world’s best athletes and follow along as they guide you step-by-step. Get wellness insights from leading health professionals, including physical therapists, sports medicine professionals, and elite trainers, all designed to help your body and mind be at their best.
Gradient
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Stop guessing your pace. Gradient reads the real elevation of your race — every hill, every descent — and gives you a target pace for every kilometre, before you take a step. MOST PACE CALCULATORS ASSUME A FLAT WORLD. YOUR RACE ISN'T. A flat average pace punishes you on the climbs and wastes free speed on the descents. Gradient solves it properly: target speed falls in a straight line with the gradient. Ease off going up, take the time back coming down — and your average still lands exactly on your goal. BACKED BY REAL EVIDENCE, NOT A GUESS Across 78,912 Boston Marathon finishers, even-paced runners beat the ones who faded late by close to an hour, on average. Gradient's method is built on published pacing research (Townshend et al., Med Sci Sports Exerc), not a hunch. EVERY MILE, ALREADY PACED - 43 splits per race, each one tuned to the ground beneath it — not a flat number - Full elevation chart with your pace, gradient, and effort layered in - A 3D relief view of your course, so you can see the shape of what you're about to run - Race Day mode built for glancing at, not reading A COURSE FOR EVERY RACE - 21 real courses with genuine elevation data, from marathons to half marathons - Don't see yours? Sketch it on the map — Gradient snaps it to real roads and pulls the real elevation - Import a GPX file directly - Share your course with the community, and the next runner starts from your line BUILT FOR RACE DAY - Works fully offline once your plan is built - Export a pace card to keep on your wrist or in your pocket - Miles or kilometres — set once, applied everywhere - Post-race breakdown to see how you actually paced against the plan Gradient isn't a stopwatch. It's the plan you needed before the gun even went off.
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Verdict
Hyperice and Gradient are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
| Parameter | Hyperice | Gradient |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (1.1K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hyper Ice, Inc | Rodrigo Sanchez |
In-app purchases
Hyperice
No in-app purchases
Gradient
No in-app purchases









