Comparison

SmartDrive MX2+ vs TransformationBuddy

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

Head to head
About

SmartDrive MX2+

Control your power wheelchair with intuitive gesture-activated commands. Track your activity and enjoy enhanced convenience and flexibility for greater independence.

Highlights
  • Gesture-activated controls
  • Activity tracking
  • Enhanced screen visibility
  • Improved wearable battery performance
  • Increased user comfort
  • Fewer pushes for greater independence
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Power Your Push Your Way using the new SmartDrive MX2+ app for Permobil SmartDrive! With gesture-activated controls and activity-tracking technology, you can start your SmartDrive with a simple tap of your hand – no pushing or reaching necessary. Bringing SmartDrive MX2+ App to Apple Watch brings a premium experience to SmartDrive users. SmartDrive users have reported better screen visibility, increased wearable battery performance, and higher comfort when using their Apple Watch compared to the PushTracker E2. The SmartDrive MX2+ app for Apple Watch makes it easier than ever to achieve fewer pushes by increasing confidence, flexibility, and convenience for SmartDrive users.

About

TransformationBuddy

This app helps you track your body transformation journey with features like barcode scanning for food logging, progress photos, and streak tracking. It syncs with Apple Health and offers a private, ad-free experience where all data stays on your device.

Highlights
  • Barcode food scanning with nutrition facts
  • Progress photo tracking and comparison
  • Daily, weekly, and monthly streak tracking
  • Apple Health integration for seamless data sync
  • Customizable water intake goals and reminders
  • Detailed journaling for mood, energy, and cravings
  • Home screen and lock screen widgets for quick access
Features
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TransformationBuddy is a calm, consistency-first sidekick for a body transformation. No account, no ads, and everything stays on your phone. SCAN ANY BARCODE Point your phone at a packaged food and the calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber, sugar and sodium fill in before you've put the box down. No barcode in the database? Photograph the Nutrition Facts label instead and the numbers are read on your phone, nothing uploaded. A FOOD LOG YOU CAN IGNORE Calorie counting helps some people and hurts others, so it lives in its own tab that you can hide completely. When you want it: 7,800 generic foods searchable offline, meals, favorites, recents, a daily calorie target with a sensible macro split, and a CSV export. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN A widget shows your day number, check-in status, streaks and calories at a glance, with one-tap buttons to check in, log food or scan a barcode. Lock Screen widgets and an iOS 18 Control Center button get you to the scanner even faster. SYNCS WITH APPLE HEALTH Connect Health and the check-in fills itself in: the weight your scale sent, the steps and sleep your Watch recorded, the water you logged elsewhere. What you log here flows back, so Health shows one honest record. You pick what to share, and it all stays on your phone. TALK TO IT "Check in with TransformationBuddy" and Siri fills your journal from what you say. Or tap Talk, press the Action button or use the Control Center button, and the app listens itself: your words appear on screen, you stop talking, it saves. "Log a meal" and your food is logged with real calories. Describe a meal in plain words on the Food tab and every item gets a portion and a number. Speech becomes text on your phone, nothing is recorded, and on iPhones with Apple Intelligence the on-device model does the reading. WATER, WITHOUT THE NAGGING A daily goal suggested from your weight, glasses logged with one tap from the Today tab or the Water widget, and reminders only between the hours you choose. Hit the goal and the reminders stop for the day. THREE CHAINS, NOT ONE Daily, weekly and monthly streaks run at the same time. Miss three days and log once, and the weekly chain survives. That's the honest way to model a year-long project. Back-filled days count, and no streak can shame you. DAY 1 STAYS ON THE LEFT Your first front and side photos are pinned on the left, forever. Every new check-in lands on the right, with the weight difference between them. A timeline strip lets you hold any past date against Day 1. THE TREND, NOT THE NUMBER Raw weigh-ins are dots. The bold line is a 7-day trend drawn against your goal, so water weight stops being a mood. A trend-low readout gives you a number that only moves when something real changed. A JOURNAL THAT ASKS BETTER QUESTIONS Weight and tape measurements, yes, but also mood, energy, sleep, water, workouts, and a 1-to-5 cravings scale that asks for a note at every level: what triggered it on a hard day, what was different on a calm one. Rotating reflection prompts, a non-scale victory box, and one thing for tomorrow. PROGRESS YOU CAN SHARE A progress-post-style summary (age, height, start, now, weeks) you can copy anywhere, plus CSV and JSON export of everything you've logged. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no sign-up, no analytics, no ads. Everything lives on your phone. The only thing the app ever sends over the internet is a barcode, to the Open Food Facts database, and only when you scan one. Optional Face ID lock keeps your photos out of the app switcher. Built by one person. Food data: USDA FoodData Central (public domain) and Open Food Facts (Open Database License).

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: TransformationBuddy at 100% against SmartDrive MX2+'s 30%. TransformationBuddy also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 15 months). SmartDrive MX2+'s advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (14.5 vs 17.0). On 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

SmartDrive MX2+ is free to download; TransformationBuddy costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SmartDrive MX2+ ships an update every 15 months, TransformationBuddy weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SmartDrive MX2+ versus TransformationBuddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartDrive MX2+TransformationBuddy
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating3.3 (24 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews30.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings24 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 15 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMax Mobility, LLCMatthew Brown

Customer experience

SmartDrive MX2+

All ratings15 ratings
Positive53.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews96 reviews
Positive30.2%
Neutral11.5%
Negative58.3%

TransformationBuddy

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

SmartDrive MX2+

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • App not downloadable/installable even when marked as purchased
  • App crashes or does not open on Apple Watch
  • Frequent disconnections from Smart Drive
  • Unreliable double tap registration for starting/stopping motor
  • App disappears from the Apple Watch after re-pairing or updates
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  • Support pages lead to 404 errors
  • Bluetooth connectivity issues
  • App not detected or paired with Smart Drive
  • Incompatibility with certain iOS/watchOS versions
  • App not showing up on iPhone after download

Requested features

6 requests
  • Adjust double tap sensitivity for quick taps
  • Improve double tap registration speed
  • Add option to choose between Mx1, Mx2, Mx2+ modes
  • Add shortcut to home screen
  • Provide Spanish language support (already implemented)
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  • Improve documentation on installation

TransformationBuddy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

SmartDrive MX2+

No in-app purchases

None

TransformationBuddy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SmartDrive MX2+ free?
SmartDrive MX2+ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TransformationBuddy free?
TransformationBuddy costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do SmartDrive MX2+ or TransformationBuddy have ads?
Neither SmartDrive MX2+ nor TransformationBuddy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SmartDrive MX2+ or TransformationBuddy?
SmartDrive MX2+ ships an update every 15 months, and TransformationBuddy weekly. Most recently, SmartDrive MX2+ was updated on November 3, 2026 and TransformationBuddy on November 6, 2026.

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