Comparison

TZ NYC vs Mio

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

Head to head
About

TZ NYC

Track and store your workouts outside the gym with this app. Trainers can review your activities to help you improve performance and maintain a healthy lifestyle. It works with heart rate sensors for accurate cardio tracking and offers real-time monitoring to make workouts engaging.

Highlights
  • Workout tracking and storage
  • Heart rate sensor integration
  • Real-time training monitoring
  • Cloud synchronization of sessions
  • Daily and weekly progress reports
  • Club rankings and leaderboards
  • Activity sign-ups and waiting lists
Features
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TZ NYC App helps its fitness club members track and store their workouts outside the club. Trainers are then able to review all members’ activities so they can help them improve performance, keep their weight under control, and enjoy a healthy and energetic lifestyle. The app works with all chest and arm-based TZ heart rate sensors to provide accurate and engaging cardio frequency-based effort tracking and monitor individual training sessions. Real-time training monitoring makes workouts competitive and engaging and boosts members’ motivation while building a collaborative environment. Monitor your workouts The TZ NYC app provides real-time information on your workout and training session so that you can conveniently adjust your effort to suit your training goals, such as tracking your actual heart rate, HR training zone split, duration, or calories burned. Record and upload your training to the cloud The TZ NYC app automatically synchronizes each new training session with your TZ account to provide a complete overview of your progress with daily and weekly reports as well as an accurate and detailed analysis of all your workouts. Club rankings Are you a competitive individual? Take a look at your Club rankings for sessions, calories, TZ Performance Points, and more! Find your friends and see how they are doing month by month. Club activities You can browse through your Club activities to sign up or to get on the waiting list. Credits and subscriptions to attend to you Club activities can be purchased directly via the TZ NYC. Integrations The TZ app is available for Apple Watch (watchOS 8.7 or greater). The TZ NYC app receives heart rate data through Apple Health when using the Apple Watch. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

About

Mio

This app helps you understand your life's patterns by recording voice memos, thoughts, and photos. It identifies recurring people, places, and feelings, allowing you to ask questions and see connections over time.

Highlights
  • Voice memo recording
  • Text journaling
  • Photo saving
  • Pattern identification (people, places, feelings)
  • Journal querying
  • Life pattern visualization
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It's hard to see the shape of your life while you're living it. Mio is a journal that changes that. Record a voice memo, jot a thought, save a photo. Mio listens for the people, places, and feelings that keep showing up, and connects them across months and years. Ask your journal a question ("When do I think about Mom?") and it pulls together everything you've said, showing you what was too gradual to notice on your own: every mention of her and every shift you lived through too slowly to see. Your life has a shape. It's time your journal helped you see it. Mio is free for 7 days, then $9.99/month or $79.99/year. Privacy Policy: https://www.justmio.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.justmio.com/terms Support: hello@justmio.com

Screenshots

TZ NYC4 screens
Mio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TZ NYC at none against Mio's 2. Mio's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Mio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. TZ NYC asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TZ NYC against 5.0 for Mio. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 16 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TZ NYC ships an update every 2 weeks, Mio weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
TZ NYC versus Mio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTZ NYCMio
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings)5.0 (16 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings916 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size261 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperT.Z. NYCMio Studios, Inc

Customer experience

TZ NYC

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Mio

All ratings16 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

TZ NYC

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Mio

Subscriptions2
  • Mio7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Mio Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year

Questions

Is TZ NYC free?
TZ NYC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mio free?
Mio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TZ NYC or Mio?
TZ NYC and Mio are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 9 and 16 ratings respectively.
Do TZ NYC or Mio have ads?
Neither TZ NYC nor Mio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TZ NYC or Mio?
TZ NYC ships an update every 2 weeks, and Mio weekly. Most recently, TZ NYC was updated on November 3, 2026 and Mio on October 30, 2026.

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