Dash vs Unlock Earth
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/
Unlock Earth
This app uses your GPS activities to permanently unlock real-world places you've traveled through. Connect your Strava account to automatically track runs, rides, and hikes against official municipality boundaries. Earn achievements and claim World Firsts as you build a personal collection of unlocked locations.
- Connect Strava account
- Automatic GPS activity tracking
- Unlock real municipality boundaries
- Permanent collection of unlocked places
- Dozens of achievements
- World First claims
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Unlock Earth turns your real GPS activities into a permanent collection of places you've actually moved through. Connect Strava once. From then on, every qualifying run, ride, hike or ski is automatically checked against real municipality boundaries — sourced from official government and international open-data providers, not approximations. Cover enough distance inside a municipality's real boundary in one activity, and it's yours: permanently unlocked, even if you later delete the activity from Strava. HOW IT WORKS • Connect your Strava account — no manual map or import steps, ever. • Your history syncs automatically, including in the background while the app is closed. • Meet the distance rule inside a real boundary, and that place unlocks for good. • Be the first person ever to unlock a municipality, and claim a World First. WHAT YOU GET • A permanent, personal collection of every place you've earned • Dozens of achievements, from your first unlock to conquering an entire country • Real municipality boundaries, independently verified against authoritative sources — not guesses • Full support for running, hiking, cycling, gravel, mountain biking, cross-country skiing and backcountry skiing COVERAGE More than 150 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania, including the USA (county level, the only US tier with complete, gap-free coverage), Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. Some boundary sets are older or coarser, and a few countries (for example India, China and Russia) are not available yet. The Coverage screen in the app lists every country, its status and the reason. PRIVACY Unlock Earth never sells your data. Your GPS routes are used only to determine what you've unlocked. Delete your account and all your data, permanently, any time from the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Unlock Earth at 5.0 against Dash's 3.4. Unlock Earth also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). Dash's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Unlock Earth asks for nothing beyond the download.
Unlock Earth 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 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Dash ships an update every 9 days, Unlock Earth every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dash | Unlock Earth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rui Peres | Eirik Enger Karlsen |
Customer experience
Dash
Unlock Earth
In-app purchases
Dash
- Dash Pro7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Dash Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Dash Pro - Lifetime$49.99
Unlock Earth
No in-app purchases









