Vana Habit Tracker vs Heavy Stride
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vana Habit Tracker
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How long does it really take to break a habit? Some say that it takes on avarage 66 days to form a new behavior. Use Vana to keep track on your daily activities, check in when you have completed your task so you can hit your 66-day goal and change your ways. Don't beat your self up for missing a day, you're in it for the long haul. About Health and Fitness data: Vana Uses health and fitness (HealthKit) data with your permission to automatically determine if you have reach your daily task. Vana fully comply to the WatchOS app review rules set by Apple.
Heavy Stride
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Heavy Stride is built for ruckers who want more than a generic walking workout. Track rucks on iPhone or Apple Watch with live distance, pace, calories, steps, heart rate, elevation, and pack weight. Review finished workouts with route maps, splits, break detection, load-aware recovery metrics, and analytics designed around load-bearing training instead of generic walking summaries. Heavy Stride helps you: • start workouts from phone or watch • set exact distance targets, including long events like 26.2 • track long rucks accurately on Apple Watch and iPhone • review maps, splits, and break-adjusted pace • infer stops after the workout, then edit or remove breaks and recalculate split pacing • compare training load, weekly tonnage, and same-weight pace improvement across workouts • understand how pack weight affects effort, calories, ruck work, and training stress • keep a live ruck visible across phone and watch, then transfer to iPhone if the watch battery gets low • share a polished route-and-stats recap image through Messages, Mail, and other share targets The companion experience keeps workouts visible across devices so you can train with the device that best fits the moment, hand off from watch to phone when needed, and still review the same workout afterward on iPhone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Vana Habit Tracker at 13.0 against Heavy Stride's 17.0. 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.
Vana Habit Tracker ships an update every 2 months, Heavy Stride every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vana Habit Tracker | Heavy Stride |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lomya | Plarix |
In-app purchases
Vana Habit Tracker
No in-app purchases
Heavy Stride
No in-app purchases
Questions
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