Petivity vs VMX Get Moving Challenge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Petivity
Monitor your pet's health proactively with data from smart devices and AI-powered insights. Get instant answers to pet health questions via a GenAI chat and track key health indicators like weight and litter box activity.
- Pet health monitoring
- GenAI pet health chat
- Smart litter box insights
- Weight tracking
- Behavioral change alerts
- Veterinarian-developed insights
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Reimagine pet care with the Petivity app. The Petivity app brings together decades of pet health research with data collected from your Petivity smart devices, so you can monitor your pet more closely from home and give them the care they deserve. Automatically get free access to our GenAI chat, powered by Purina, to get answers to pet health questions when you need them the most. Ask our chat anything from: • Common questions like if your new houseplant is toxic to cats • In-depth questions about worrisome symptoms you're seeing in your pet Then take your pet care a step further by pairing the Petivity app with a Petivity Smart Litter Box Monitor. It's a smart device, powered by AI technology, that sits under your cat's litter box to give you insights about your cat's health without disrupting their day. • See how often they go and what they do in the litter box each day • Track daily, weekly, and long-term changes in your cat’s weight • Get alerted to key changes that are easy to miss The Petivity app is especially helpful in tracking weight and behavior changes that may be associated with a health condition requiring veterinary diagnosis like a UTI, kidney disease, diabetes, hyperthyroidism, and obesity.* Designed and developed by Purina veterinarians, behaviorists and data scientists, the Petivity app gives you the answers, confidence, and peace of mind you’re doing the best for your pet.
VMX Get Moving Challenge
This app supports a health and fitness challenge for event attendees. It encourages participants to engage in healthy activities and friendly competition during a veterinary meeting and expo.
- Supports health and fitness challenge
- Encourages healthy activities
- Facilitates friendly competition
- Event-specific engagement
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App supporting the VMX GET MOVING Challenge sponsored by Librela at the Veterinary Meeting & Expo (VMX), January 25 - 29, 2025. The Challenge encourages event attendees to engage in healthy activities and some friendly competition.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: VMX Get Moving Challenge at 100% against Petivity's 35%. VMX Get Moving Challenge also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Petivity's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (595 vs 2). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
VMX Get Moving Challenge holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Petivity has 595 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 35% of Petivity's written reviews are positive against 100% of VMX Get Moving Challenge's.
Petivity ships an update every 5 weeks, VMX Get Moving Challenge every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on September 6, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Petivity | VMX Get Moving Challenge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (595 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 595 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 112 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nestlé Purina Petcare Company | Heka Health, Inc |
Customer experience
Petivity
VMX Get Moving Challenge
Bugs and requests
Petivity
Reported bugs
15 issues- Random logouts requiring re-authentication every 1-2 weeks
- Login timeout errors (Error 2011, Error 1041) preventing app access
- Data loss after app updates wiping cat names and device connections
- Events list showing 'No events to show' after recent updates
- App crashing and requiring hard resets of devices
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- Events not syncing to correct cat profiles
- Weight readings showing wildly inaccurate values
- Litter box scooping not detected or marked as non-cat events
- Scale not connecting to WiFi with certain routers
- App reverting to learning mode and forgetting cat identification
- Events list refreshing to top when editing, losing scroll position
- Notifications not sending despite being enabled
- Data appearing and disappearing inconsistently
- App taking 60+ seconds to load past month data
- Events not registering when cat uses box during cleaning
Requested features
15 requests- Multi-user account access and sharing functionality
- Manual event creation and editing options
- Direct username/password login without OAuth
- Better chart customization and data filtering options
- Event notes for health observations (stool consistency, blood, etc.)
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- Ability to mark maintenance events (scooping, litter changes)
- Real-time notifications with customizable alert types
- Exact timestamps instead of relative time displays
- Event filtering by cat and event type
- Larger litter box monitor size for bigger cats
- Ability to reset litter box status manually
- Web app or desktop access to account
- Event size/volume tracking and abnormality alerts
- Improved PDF report generation and formatting
- Time-of-day pattern analysis and insights
VMX Get Moving Challenge
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Petivity
No in-app purchases
VMX Get Moving Challenge
No in-app purchases