Basic vs ICE smart
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Basic
This app supports your fitness journey with personalized workouts, progress tracking, and nutrition tips. Access audio-guided exercises, training plans, and connect with coaches to achieve your health and fitness goals.
- Personalized workouts
- Training plans
- Audio coach workouts
- Progress tracking
- Nutrition tips
- QR code entry pass
- Club finder
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The Basic-Fit App is there to complete your personal fitness journey (and it is free for all members)! Find everything you need in one app; explore personalized workouts and inspiration, while accessing guidance and support. Easily build your own fitness habits and reach your goals by keeping track of your progress, getting health and nutrition tips, doing audio-guided workouts, and so much more! Making fitness your basic is not a journey you have to do alone. Let’s make fitness a basic together: anywhere, anytime, and Go For It! FEATURES: • QR code entry pass • Club & Home workouts • Training plans • Mind & Recovery • Audio coach workouts • Workout builder • Equipment tutorials • Workout reminder • Nutrition & Lifestyle • Personal profile page • Achievements (badges & streaks) • Progress page • Tips and tricks from the coach • Club finder • Club Popular Times • Overview of live classes EXTRA(S): • Personal Online Coach • Personal training intro • Find your coach or physiotherapist GET STARTED: Choose between various fitness goals to access a complete fitness experience with content tailored to your needs and level: • Weight loss • Muscle building • Get fit • Shape & Tone • Improve performance WORKOUTS: Whether you are a beginner or professionalTRAINING PLANS: Fitness plans for different fitness goals and with different duration. Train outdoor, at home only or combine home training & in-club training. Workout anywhere anytime to reach your goals and test your limits. AUDIO COACH: Put your headphones on and Go For It! With the Audio Coach you are always motivated when you do your workout. Have fun and stay motivated with a wide range of workouts with or without equipment and club machines. NUTRITION BLOGS & RECIPES: A healthy lifestyle is not all about working out, but also maintaining healthy nutrition habits. Take a look at our healthy and tasty recipes. Need a boost before or after your workout? Together with NXT Level, Basic-Fit provides you with several sports nutrition options to help you reach and maintain your fitness goals. PERSONAL TRAINERS: Find your personal trainer and book a session to get professional guidance! That way you can broaden your training knowledge and bring your fitness journey to the next level. Check out the articles written by our coaches in the tips & tricks category. PROGRESS: Track your progress such as the number of calories burned and your number of club visits. Keep an eye on your progress by connecting your devices and completing workouts or programs in the app. Check the overview of your daily progress and your latest achievements. The Basic-Fit app can be connected with Apple Health, which enables the collection of personal data from different Apple devices, such as iPhone and Apple Watch. CLUB POPULAR TIMES: gives you a prediction of the crowdedness of your home club, as well as all your favorites clubs. athlete, the app offers a variety of club & home workouts, anywhere, anytime. Find the perfect workout that matches your needs, based on your own level, fitness goals, and preferences.
ICE smart
This app connects to a smartwatch to track fitness, sleep, and workouts. It also provides phone call functionality, weather updates, and notification syncing. Users can interact with their phone's voice assistant and use the watch as a camera remote.
- Fitness tracking (steps, distance, calories)
- Sleep analysis
- Workout tracking
- Phone call synchronization
- Weather forecasts
- Notification syncing
- Voice assistant integration
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The app name has been updated to ICE smart, pls go to APP Store to download the updated app "ICE smart" to be fully compatible with your smartwatch "ICE smart one". Thanks! Ice-Watch, the young and colourful brand, launches its SMARTWATCH which surfs both on current trends and on the brand's DNA. The watch faces remind the brand's best designs and offer you colourful, floral, iridescent backgrounds... enough to keep your wrist well dressed for every season! Compatible with all smartphones, the ICE ONE will make your daily life easier with its various functionalities. - Sport: track the number of steps, covered distance and calories burned during your day. Phone: synchronize your contacts and make simple calls, wherever you are! - Sleep: find out the total length of your sleep periods, as well as the deep and light sleep phases you experienced during your last night. - Workout: choose your sport activity and analyse your data. - Weather: view the weather conditions for the day and the week ahead. - Notifications: sync your phone's notifications to your connected watch. - Voice assistant: interact with your phone's voice assistant. - Camera: use your watch as a remote control for your camera. - And many more... timer, alarm clock, music, stopwatch, screen brightness, find your phone and settings! License description 1.We will access iPhone Health and synchronize device data to iPhone Health in real time 2.We will access the mobile phone location to get local weather information and synchronize it to the device display 3.Continued use of running GPS in the background can affect battery life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: ICE smart at free against Basic's free with in-app purchases. ICE smart also leads on iOS requirement (13 vs 15.1). Basic's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Basic holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Basic has 169 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Basic's written reviews are positive against 46% of ICE smart's.
Basic ships an update weekly, ICE smart monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Basic | ICE smart |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (169 ratings) — better | 4.5 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 56.1% of reviews — better | 45.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 169 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 325 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Basic-Fit International b.v. | ICE SA |
Customer experience
Basic
ICE smart
Bugs and requests
Basic
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
ICE smart
Reported bugs
59 issues- Many workouts not syncing
- Step count not syncing
- GPS running mode confusion
- Map marking loops as 'end'
- Notifications not received (WhatsApp, messages, Messenger, Facebook)
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- App interface lacks fluidity
- Battery draining faster
- WhatsApp notifications not working
- App poorly translated
- No connection to watch after update
- Weather settings impossible to adjust
- Activity data not syncing to app
- Display settings reset easily
- Heart rate not showing during jogging
- All text in English
- Sleep tracking inaccurate
- Activity data not saved
- App bugs after update
- Update 2.0.5 causing app to be unusable
- Podometer step count inaccurate
- Screen graphics change automatically
- Pilates activity not recordable
- Yoga activity not recordable ('abnormal duration')
- Sleep tracking shows awake as asleep
- Step count inaccurate
- Automatic time not updating
- Widget not disappearing
- Movement reminders not customizable
- Body type calculation issues
- Calls only working, not messages
- Poor call sound quality
- Step counter as random generator
- Outdoor activity crashing
- Settings resetting
- Unclear ICE function
- Rowing mode not usable
- Unclear honey-comb view
- Music app interface not persistent
- Step synchronization issues
- Timer not customizable
- Message counter missing
- Email notifications not separate
- O2 and tension not measured during exercise
- Countdown vibration not continuous
- No phone GPS integration for traces
- Emergency contact selection
- Automatic contact sync missing
- Losing stats if app not open
- Vibrate intensity not adjustable
- Not able to control music during running mode
- Day of the week in English
- "Do not disturb" mode not working
- All sounds from phone on watch
- Stress function missing
- Continuous heart rate monitoring not customizable
- Oxygen saturation only manual
- Button only for changing watch faces
- No emoji display in notifications
- "Step" instead of "Pas" and "Player" instead of "Music"
Requested features
54 requests- Add a short game to the watch
- More watch face options
- Ability to edit more than one background image
- Add Messenger Facebook notifications
- Ability to write messages
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- Improve weather settings and city selection
- Allow customization of movement reminders (e.g., hourly)
- Add body type selection for more accurate health metrics
- Include Telegram in notifications
- Allow setting continuous heart rate monitoring to under 5 minutes
- Add a stress function
- Allow manual measurement of oxygen saturation
- Improve the rowing mode
- Add ability to control music directly from the main interface
- Improve the fluidity of the honeycomb view
- Add a message counter on the main screen
- Separate email notifications from social media messages
- Improve countdown timer vibration
- Integrate phone GPS for trace direction
- Allow customization of the side button for favorite apps
- Improve emergency contact selection
- Automatic contact synchronization
- Allow timer customization
- More customizable watch faces
- Add Siri activation without call function
- Program a night mode for automatic settings deactivation
- Allow music control during running mode
- Improve translation and app interface clarity
- Add ICE CALL to Bluetooth settings for call management
- Allow editing or deleting existing watch faces
- Improve the functionality of the side wheel
- Add more sport modes or improve existing ones
- Allow setting vibration intensity
- Improve notification display for emojis
- Allow control of music playback directly from the watch
- Improve GPS accuracy for outdoor activities
- Add a feature to send messages
- Improve the display of sleep phases with better color differentiation
- Allow setting the interval for continuous heart rate monitoring
- Add a stress tracking feature
- Enable continuous oxygen saturation monitoring
- Improve the functionality of the side button to assign custom actions
- Add the ability to send messages
- Improve the display of sleep phases with better color differentiation
- Allow setting the interval for continuous heart rate monitoring
- Add a stress tracking feature
- Enable continuous oxygen saturation monitoring
- Improve the functionality of the side button to assign custom actions
- Add the ability to send messages
- Improve the display of sleep phases with better color differentiation
- Allow setting the interval for continuous heart rate monitoring
- Add a stress tracking feature
- Enable continuous oxygen saturation monitoring
- Improve the functionality of the side button to assign custom actions
In-app purchases
Basic
No in-app purchases
ICE smart
No in-app purchases









