Comparison

NatureDose vs DynamicCycleTrainer

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

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About

NatureDose

This app helps you improve your mental and physical health by tracking your time spent outdoors and in nature. It provides personalized nature prescriptions and insights into the benefits of nature exposure, acting as an antidote to screen addiction.

Highlights
  • Track weekly outdoor nature exposure
  • Daily nature dose breakdown
  • Set customized weekly targets
  • Optimize outdoor time with tips
  • Determine neighborhood NatureScore
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NatureDose® is the leading personalized nature prescription app. Totally free. NatureDose can monitor your time inside, outside, and exposed to natural environments to help you leverage the proven benefits of nature exposure for better mental and physical health. In the current world of never-ending technostress and screen addiction, NatureDose is the antidote to help you unplug for just a few minutes a day. Better health and wellness is right outside. On par with diet, exercise, or adequate sleep, making nature exposure an essential part of your lifestyle is one of the best choices you can make for your health and wellness. Backed by over 500 peer-reviewed scientific studies, increasing your time exposed to natural elements can have profound impacts, from a stronger immune system and reduced anxiety in adults to better eyesight and brain development in kids. In short, these studies prove that nature exposure can result in a longer, healthier, and even happier life. It's no surprise that "Nature Prescriptions" were named one of the top global wellness trends at The Global Wellness Summit and thousands of health care professionals, public health organizations, and governments around the world are employing nature as a health tool. NATUREDOSE FEATURES: - Using a patent-pending technology, NatureDose® can track your weekly outdoor nature prescription in minutes (a “NatureDose”) - Daily NatureDose breakdown - Determine longest nature session by week - Compare week-to-week nature exposure - Determine approximate indoor versus outdoor time by week - Set customized weekly NatureDose targets (for example 120 minutes a week) - Helpful tips, suggestions, and facts to optimize your time outdoors - Determine the relative amount of beneficial nature for any neighborhood (a “NatureScore®”) - Determine the highest NatureScore location by week PARTNER WITH US TO GET OUTSIDE! In addition to personalized health management, NatureDose can be an integral part of: - Corporate health and wellness programs - reduce burnout and keep productivity high - Health insurance - lower medical costs through a safe, scalable, and accessible intervention - Research - Doctor guided prescriptions for preventative care or treatment - Therapy, meditation, and mental health platforms - Physical health or activity/fitness apps - Community/organizational challenges and promotions - Nature based augmented reality and the “gamification” of time outside - White-label nature prescriptions - Any corporation, non-profit, or government agency who is interested in creating a healthier future through time outdoors! Learn more about the connections between nature and health, NatureDose, and NatureScore on our web site. NATURE IS NOT A LUXURY. IT IS A NECESSITY.

About

DynamicCycleTrainer

Features
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DynamicCycleTrainer is the AI training platform that give you meaningful information about getting faster, going longer, and achieving your goals. - Though themed for Cycling, it works with any endurance sport or multisport! Sync your Strava Account, fill in your profile and current stats, tell it your goals and limitations, and it;'ll build a training plan that works for you life. Sync your workouts (or manually enter) after each one for coaching commentary in the coach's personality that works for you! Get feedback on progress on your goals. What you input: - Athlete Profile: Sex, Age, Weight, and optionally: VO2Max, FTP, Resting Heart Rate - Coaching Voice: The personality you want your plan and feedback in. - Strava Account. - Training Focus (and Limitations): What you want to achieve, the reasons for your goals, your limitations (schedule, health, other considerations), anything you want. - Training Intensity. - Upcoming Events - Date, type, URL, etc. What you get: - Goal Realism Assessment: Tells you how difficult your goals are so you can set expectations for yourself. - Overview of current abilities (from your Profile and Strava history) - Detailed Directive of your training plan. - 4 Week training Plan - Workouts to get you to where you want to be. (Plan is based on a 4-week mesocycle structure, but adapts to your event dates and actual workouts.) More of what you get: - Detailed Fitness and Fatigue graphs and monitoring. - Calendar of Training Plan, Actual Performed workouts (from Strava or manually entered). - Activity Log: - See all your workouts with: - Detailed work out stats - Upload .FIT files for even more information. - Add your RPE and workout notes (say anything you want about it) - Get detailed commentary in your custom coach's personality that works for your style. Share your workouts with others. This is the AI Training engine that picks up where all the others fall short. - No meaningless generic comments that just rephrase a stat or two. - Worthwhile plans and information. As for the Training Plan: - Refresh as many times as you'd like: - Miss a workout: Refresh it to adjust. - Come down with the flu? Refresh to adjust. - Life event happen and derail you for a couple week? Start over and it knows what you did with your goals in mind. Human Support on the backend - Just send in the feedback form to get a real person's answers within a day or two! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

NatureDose4 screens
DynamicCycleTrainer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NatureDose at none against DynamicCycleTrainer's 2. NatureDose also leads on ratings volume (670 vs 1). DynamicCycleTrainer's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. DynamicCycleTrainer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. NatureDose asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DynamicCycleTrainer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NatureDose has 670 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
NatureDose versus DynamicCycleTrainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNatureDoseDynamicCycleTrainer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (670 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings670 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB49 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperNatureQuantJared Stangl

Bugs and requests

NatureDose

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Fails to recognize outdoor time spent
  • Incorrectly logs indoor time as outdoor
  • Doesn't work in certain areas/locations

Requested features

4 requests
  • More transparency in NatureScore calculation
  • Ability to manually log/edit outdoor time
  • Interactive map feature to find high-scoring areas
  • Daily/weekly summaries and insights

DynamicCycleTrainer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

NatureDose

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

DynamicCycleTrainer

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$8.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$59.991 Year

Questions

Is NatureDose free?
NatureDose is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DynamicCycleTrainer free?
DynamicCycleTrainer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, NatureDose or DynamicCycleTrainer?
DynamicCycleTrainer is rated higher. NatureDose averages 4.6 out of 5 from 670 ratings, while DynamicCycleTrainer averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do NatureDose or DynamicCycleTrainer have ads?
NatureDose shows ads; DynamicCycleTrainer does not.

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