Dash vs ArtTrails
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dash
Visualize your fitness data from Strava, Apple Health, or Garmin directly on your Home and Lock Screens. Track various activities and key metrics with customizable widgets. Offers a privacy-first approach, keeping your data on your device.
- Customizable widgets for Home and Lock Screen
- Connects to Strava, Apple Health, and Garmin
- Tracks running, cycling, swimming, skiing, and more
- Displays weekly, monthly, and yearly stats
- Monitors mileage, pace, elevation, and heart rate
- Privacy-first data handling
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Turn your Strava, Apple Health, or Garmin workouts into widgets you can read at a glance. Track running, cycling, swimming, skiing, multi-sport, and steps right from your Home Screen and Lock Screen. - Pick your data source Connect Strava, Apple Health, or Garmin and switch whenever you want. - See your progress instantly Choose small, medium, and large widgets with weekly, monthly, and yearly stats and metric trends. - Track the metrics that matter Follow mileage, pace, elevation, heart rate zones, goals, heatmaps across time periods, Training Load (TRIMP), Metric Trends, Cycling Power and Achievements. - Great for Apple Health too Use Steps Mode, goal widgets, and trend views even without Strava. - Privacy-first Your workout data stays on your device. We do not track users. Whether you're training for a race or just want a better workout dashboard, Dash keeps your progress visible all day. More widgets and metrics are coming soon. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://dashworkouts.app/privacy/
ArtTrails
Transform your movement into unique GPS art by drawing or snapping routes to real paths. Generate, export, and share your creative masterpieces with friends and fitness apps.
- Generate GPS art from movement
- Smart Mode for road snapping
- Manual Mode for free drawing
- Interactive map tools
- Export routes as GPX files
- Share creations on social media
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ArtTrails turns your running, cycling, and walking routes into creative GPS art. Draw shapes on a map, snap them to real roads, and export as GPX files to follow with Strava, Garmin, Komoot, or any fitness app. HOW IT WORKS Pick a shape, draw freehand, or upload your own image to trace. Tap "Snap to Roads" to fit your drawing to walkable paths. Export as a GPX file and open it in your favourite fitness app. Follow the route and watch your GPS art come to life! UPLOAD YOUR OWN DESIGNS Got a logo, mascot, or drawing you want to turn into a route? Upload any image and ArtTrails will let you trace it directly onto the map. If you can picture it, you can run it. 50+ SHAPES TO EXPLORE Hearts, stars, animals, arrows, crowns, sea creatures, landmarks, and more. New shapes added regularly. SNAP TO REAL ROADS Your drawings automatically adjust to real walkable roads and paths, so you get a route you can actually follow - not just a line on a map. EXPORT ANYWHERE One-tap GPX export works with Strava, Garmin Connect, Komoot, Apple Fitness, AllTrails, MapMyRun, and any app that supports GPX files. MULTIPLE MAP STYLES Plan your route on the map style that works best - Standard, Outdoors, Light, Dark, or Satellite view. SAVE & SHARE Save your favourite routes and share them with friends. See the distance before you go so you can plan the perfect outing. PRO FEATURES Upload custom images and trace your own shapes Unlimited saved routes All 5 map styles including Satellite Completely ad-free Early access to new features Whether you're a runner looking to spice up your daily route, a cyclist planning a creative ride, or just someone who loves maps - ArtTrails makes every workout a masterpiece.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dash at 65% against ArtTrails's 0%. Dash also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). ArtTrails's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.4) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Dash sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and ArtTrails sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ArtTrails holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dash has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of Dash's written reviews are positive against 0% of ArtTrails's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Dash ships an update weekly, ArtTrails every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dash | ArtTrails |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 115 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rui Peres | Jonathan McKenna |
Customer experience
Dash
ArtTrails
In-app purchases
Dash
- Dash Pro7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Dash Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Dash Pro - Lifetime$49.99
ArtTrails
- GPS Art Pro$3.991 Month
- GPS Art Pro (1 Year)$9.991 Year
- GPS Art Pro$1.99
- Lifetime Purchase$14.99





