Comparison

Activity Complications vs Actionary

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Activity Complications

Features
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Activity Complications is a standalone Apple Watch Application. Allows to track activities such as burned calories-active energy, exercise, steps, sleep and water from Health app through Integration. Optionally tracking limits could be integrated to Nutrition+ apps via https://glucoseplusapp.com user's account, thus adding an extra colour-coded complication to track an additional activity level. Allows to add water readings quickly to Health app and to Nutrition+ app. Allows to customize activities tracking limits for both apps used by the complication and rings. The complication could display any current activity as per user's convenience, the app automatically syncs the latest activity level keeping the complication updated both the text and the main colourful graphic Corner or graphic Circle complications among others. Apple Watch notifies accordingly to low levels of the current activity or water being tracked, also allows to change the time period to refresh the app data, also advises by voice when app is active. Finally it displays Apple activity rings and steps, sleep and water current activity level with individual colour-coded rings displaying its reached percentage.

About

Actionary

Quickly access key health metrics directly from your wrist. This app provides beautifully designed complications and widgets for easy viewing of steps, heart rate, and more. Search for specific metrics with simple text input.

Highlights
  • Check steps, flights climbed, heart rate
  • Cardio fitness and recovery tracking
  • Customizable complications and widgets
  • Quick search by typing keywords
  • Supports watch, iPhone, and iPod
Features
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Actionary lets you check health metrics quickly on your wrist. Features: • Check steps, flights climbed, heart rate, cardio fitness and more • Beautifully designed Complications & widgets to match your style • Search quickly by typing fewer characters Search to view: • ‘hr’ → heart rate • ‘rhr’ → resting heart rate • ‘whr’ → walking heart rate • ‘hrv’ → heart rate variability • ‘cf’ → cardio fitness • ‘cr’ → cardio recovery • ’fc’ → flights climbed • ‘st’ → steps

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Actionary at Free against Activity Complications's $2.99. Actionary also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Actionary is free to download; Activity Complications costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Activity Complications versus Actionary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActivity ComplicationsActionary
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating—4.4 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings—13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB8 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperEdison CuencaNayan Vemula

In-app purchases

None

Activity Complications

No in-app purchases

None

Actionary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Activity Complications free?
Activity Complications costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Actionary free?
Actionary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Activity Complications or Actionary have ads?
Neither Activity Complications nor Actionary shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Activity Complications or Actionary?
Activity Complications ships an update every 2 months, and Actionary every 2 months. Most recently, Activity Complications was updated on November 7, 2026 and Actionary on November 3, 2026.

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