Compound App Mobile vs Oarsum
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Compound App Mobile
Manage your fitness and nutrition plans with this comprehensive application. Track your progress and organize your health journey for personal use or client management.
- Training management
- Nutrition planning
- Client management
- Progress tracking
- All-inclusive health management
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An all inclusive app to manage training and nutrition for yourself or for your clients.
Oarsum
This app helps kayakers, canoeists, and rowers track their time on the water. Record live sessions, view distance and pace on Apple Watch, and get detailed trip summaries. It offers on-device analytics, water body identification, and integrates with Apple Health.
- Live paddle session recording
- Apple Watch companion display
- Detailed trip summaries
- HealthKit workout support
- On-device analytics
- Water body identification
- Private route logging
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Oarsum is a GPS paddle tracker and logbook for kayaking, canoeing, stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) and rowing. You did the paddling. Give yourself something to show for it: routes to replay, records to beat, and a whole year of water worth revisiting. RECORDING — Wrist or phone. Your call. Record on iPhone or independently on Apple Watch. Track your route, distance, duration, speed and pace. See heart rate, calories and stroke rate when available. Pause, resume, check weather conditions, and follow your Watch session on iPhone when connected. HISTORY — Run that paddle back Replay a saved route and see where you picked up speed. Browse trips in your logbook or on the map, show past routes together, and choose their colors. Pin favorite paddles and waters. Less digging. More finding. WATERS — Put a name to the place That lake has a name. So does the river you keep going back to. Search lakes and rivers worldwide, explore water shapes and available facts, and connect trips to named waters. Confirm where you paddled, check repeat visits, and find your regular spots. CALENDAR — Your year. Accounted for. See your year on the water, open a month, and revisit its paddles. Follow streaks, compare activity across days, months and years, and see your most active days and favorite times to paddle. INSIGHTS — Settle it with the numbers Your fastest paddle? Your longest? Open your personal records and the trips behind them. Explore pace trends, heart-rate zones and stroke efficiency from your recorded data. Deep Detail compares individual paddles with your history, so you can see how they stack up. INTELLIGENCE — Go ahead. Ask. "How far did I paddle this month?" "Which water do I visit most?" Paddle Intelligence turns questions about your paddling into answers from your saved trips and available Insights. It uses Apple Intelligence on supported devices. IMPORT, EXPORT & SYNC — Your old paddles count, too Import paddle workouts from Apple Health and trips from GPX files. Save Oarsum workouts to Apple Health, export routes as GPX, and sync your logbook across devices with iCloud. IPAD & MAC — Spread out a little Explore Oarsum Atlas on iPad: your map, water search and logbook in one workspace, with adjustable panels. Bring the same iPad experience to compatible Apple silicon Macs. WIDGETS & SHORTCUTS — Keep it handy Follow a session on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island with Live Activities. Reach Oarsum through widgets, Siri and Shortcuts, or find a saved paddle with Spotlight. Designed and built by an independent developer who paddles. Oarsum is for recreational tracking, not navigation or emergency use. Support: https://oarsum.com/contact Terms of Use: https://oarsum.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://oarsum.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Oarsum at 100% against Compound App Mobile's 0%. Oarsum also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2). Compound App Mobile's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On price, ads 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. Oarsum sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 3 months. Compound App Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.
Oarsum holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Compound App Mobile has 42 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Compound App Mobile's written reviews are positive against 100% of Oarsum's.
Compound App Mobile ships an update every 2 weeks, Oarsum monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Compound App Mobile | Oarsum |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (42 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 42 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Turner | Oddsplash LLC |
Customer experience
Compound App Mobile
Oarsum
In-app purchases
Compound App Mobile
No in-app purchases
Oarsum
- Seasonal Pass$2.993 Months
- Annual Pass$9.991 Year
Questions
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