EveryStride vs Balanzia
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
EveryStride
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EveryStride turns your Apple Watch and HealthKit running data into clear, actionable insights β without recording a single run itself. Connect once, and EveryStride automatically imports every run from Apple Watch, Strava, Nike Run Club, Garmin, and any app that saves workouts to Apple Health. Then it gets to work. DASHBOARD AT A GLANCE Your Home tab is a living dashboard β weekly goal progress rings, training load gauge, running streaks, and personalized recommendations all update as you run. See your last run's full stats including distance, pace, elevation, and heart rate right at the top. TRAINING LOAD (ACWR) A sports-science metric used by professional coaches, now in your pocket. EveryStride calculates your Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio β comparing your last 7 days of training to your 28-day average β and tells you if you're in the sweet spot, undertraining, or at risk of overtraining. PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS Based on your training load, streaks, goals, and recent activity, EveryStride generates up to 3 prioritized suggestions each day: target distances for next week, overtraining warnings, goal catch-up nudges, and rest day reminders. WEEKLY & MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS Automatic, detailed summaries generated every week and month. See your run count, total distance, pace trends, personal records, and how you compare to the previous period β all with change indicators. ALL TIME STATS Premium users can view stats across their entire running history with year-by-year filtering. See your all-time records, averages, and trends. RICH CHARTS & STATISTICS Weekly Comparison, Weekly Breakdown, Monthly Distance, Pace Trend, Cardio Trend (pace + HR + elevation + resting HR), and Run Type Split charts give you deep insight into your training. CALENDAR HEATMAP Browse every month with color-coded day cells β green for outdoor, blue for indoor. Tap any day to see full run details. HOME SCREEN WIDGET A medium-size widget shows your weekly progress, goal rings, and streak count. FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE Toggle any card or chart on or off. Set weekly distance and time goals. Choose metric or imperial. Make EveryStride yours. PRIVACY FIRST EveryStride only reads your data β it never writes to HealthKit. Your workouts stay on your device and sync via iCloud. No accounts, no tracking, no ads. --- EveryStride Premium (one-time purchase) unlocks unlimited run history, All Time stats with year filtering, and all charts. Free users get the full feature set with the last month of data. Previously known as Askel. Love cycling? EveryRide β the same great analytics for your rides β is coming soon.
Balanzia
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Balanzia helps you understand how your body is really doing β every day and over time. Using your Apple Health data, Balanzia estimates your biological age, daily body battery and recovery state, so you can balance training, sleep and stress more intelligently. --- TODAY DASHBOARD --- β’ Recovery State See how ready your body is today based on overnight HRV, resting heart rate and sleep. Get a simple recommendation: go hard, train light, or rest. β’ Body Battery Track your daily energy level as a βbatteryβ from 0 to 100. Night-time sleep, daytime activity, training load and stress all charge or drain your battery. β’ Biological Age Compare your βhealth ageβ with your calendar age. Balanzia combines cardio fitness, nervous system balance, sleep patterns, activity and body composition into one simple number. β’ Weekly Summary Review the last 7 days at a glance: trends in sleep, load and energy, plus 1β2 concrete actions to improve your recovery next week. --- HEALTH INSIGHTS --- β’ Cardio Fitness Monitor your VO2max and resting heart rate trends over the last months. See if your cardio fitness is improving, stable or declining. β’ Sleep Score Understand your sleep duration, regularity and sleep debt for the past week. Learn when you are consistently sleeping too little (or too much). β’ Training Load Visualize hard days and recovery days, weekly load vs. your usual baseline, and your acute/chronic ratio. Avoid both overload and long periods of undertraining. --- GOALS & PERSONALIZATION --- β’ Set your personal sleep goal and daily activity goal. β’ Choose your main focus: Sleep, Recovery, Training or Overall Balance. β’ Balanzia adapts its recommendations to your priorities over time. --- PRIVACY & APPLE HEALTH --- Balanzia reads data from Apple Health (such as heart rate, HRV, sleep, workouts, steps and VO2max) to calculate your metrics. Data is processed on your device and is not shared with third parties. Balanzia is a wellness app only. It does not provide medical advice and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Always consult a healthcare professional for any medical questions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Balanzia at none against EveryStride's 1. EveryStride's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. EveryStride sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Balanzia asks for nothing beyond the download.
EveryStride ships an update every 3 days, Balanzia every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EveryStride | Balanzia |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days β better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No β better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad β better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 β better | 18.6 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PragmaTec | Gonzalo Barba Lopez |
In-app purchases
EveryStride
- Premium$4.99
Balanzia
No in-app purchases









