Wandrer vs PaceVault
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wandrer
An exploration game that rewards you for discovering new places. Track your journeys on a live map and earn points for every road you travel for the first time. Sync with other fitness apps to record your progress.
- Explore new roads and trails
- Live map of traveled and untraveled routes
- Record activities and track distance
- View completion percentages for areas
- Discover achievement areas for bonus points
- Sync with Strava, Garmin, and RideWithGPS
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Wandrer is an exploration game you win by going places you've never been. You get credit for every road you travel—but only once. The more you meander, the more points you earn. • See traveled and untraveled roads on a live map • Record activities and watch new distance count up as you go • Tap the map to see how much of any neighborhood, city, county, state, or country you've completed • Spot achievement areas on the map so you know where bonus points are waiting • Browse everything you've recorded, plus activities synced from Strava, Garmin, and RideWithGPS
PaceVault
Analyze your running history with best efforts, route matching, and lifetime trends. This private app provides insights into your personal records and wellness signals, all processed on your device.
- Best efforts and PR detection
- Route matching and ranking
- Year-over-year trend analysis
- Wellness signal tracking
- 100% on-device processing
- No account or cloud required
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Best-efforts records, matched routes, and lifetime trends — all on your iPhone, all private. PaceVault turns your fitness activity history into the analytics you've been missing. • Best efforts — every PR across every distance, auto-detected • Route matching — see every run of your favorite loop, ranked • Widgets! - Users have the option of six different widgets to show their activities on their iPhone homepage • Gear tracking — add your bikes and shoes and track their mileage automatically from your rides. Bikes support consumable parts with replacement reminders by distance or time. • Year-over-year trends across your whole history • Wellness signals gathered in one place — how you feel is yours to read • 100% on-device. No account, no cloud, nothing leaves your phone Free, forever. Every feature, for every user.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wandrer at none against PaceVault's 3. Wandrer also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. PaceVault sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Wandrer asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Wandrer against 5.0 for PaceVault. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Wandrer | PaceVault |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wandrer | ZACHARY THOMAS MULLEN |
In-app purchases
Wandrer
No in-app purchases
PaceVault
- Small Tip$1.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99









