Comrades vs Polaroid Active Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Comrades
Follow the world's greatest Ultra Marathon with real-time updates on participant times, paces, and places. Track multiple runners, view interactive course maps, and receive push notifications for progress. Stay informed with event details and leaderboards.
- Real-time participant tracking
- Interactive course map
- Live map tracking
- Multi-participant tracking
- Push notifications
- Live leaderboards
- Social sharing
Read full descriptionHide full description
This is the official Comrades Marathon App, containing the latest updates on the world’s greatest Ultra Marathon. App Highlights: • Participant times, paces, estimates, and places in real-time; • Interactive Course Map & Live Map Tracking; • Easy tracking of multiple participants at the same time; • Push Notifications as progress is made on course; • Event Info and Messaging; • Live Leaderboards; • Social Sharing;
Polaroid Active Pro
Track your daily activity, including motion and sleep patterns, with real-time data and trend graphs. Personalize settings like call alerts and smart alarms. Sync your steps, calories, and distance with your health application.
- Real-time motion data measurement
- Weekly/monthly motion trend graphs
- Sleep data detection and analysis
- Personalized bracelet settings
- Call and smart alarm alerts
- Sedentary reminders
- Step, calorie, and distance sync
Read full descriptionHide full description
The main function: - Measure and record motion data in real time, and provide weekly or monthly motion trend graphs to make the movement situation clear at a glance; - Detect sleep data, record the length of deep sleep, shallow sleep time, help users understand their sleep in real time; - set the bracelet after connecting the bracelet, you can carry out a number of personalized settings such as call alert, smart alarm, sedentary reminder, step number, etc.; Note: - Support [health] application, you can synchronize the number of steps, calories and distance to the [health] application after authorization. - Continuous running GPS in the background may reduce your battery life
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Comrades at 55 against Polaroid Active Pro's 1. Comrades also leads on update cadence (every 11 months vs every 28 months). Polaroid Active Pro's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Comrades against 5.0 for Polaroid Active Pro. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Comrades has 55 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Comrades ships an update every 11 months, Polaroid Active Pro every 28 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Comrades | Polaroid Active Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (55 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 99.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months — better | Every 28 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 183 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Dilltree Inc | Homemark PTY Ltd |
Customer experience
Comrades
Polaroid Active Pro
Bugs and requests
Comrades
Reported bugs
3 issues- Difficulty seeing elevation on map
- Slight lag in updates
- Can't easily switch between general results and followed friends
Requested features
11 requests- More visuals of athletes
- Improve accuracy of estimated time
- Add km marker splits
- Show kilometres at key route points
- Easier switching between general results and followed friends
Show 6 moreShow fewer
- History of runner's previous times
- Layout of end-stadium with club tents
- Ability to live stream
- Live video cams at major cutoff points
- Automatically show user's location when tracking
- Hybrid satellite view
Polaroid Active Pro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Comrades
No in-app purchases
Polaroid Active Pro
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Comrades free?
Is Polaroid Active Pro free?
Which has better reviews, Comrades or Polaroid Active Pro?
Do Comrades or Polaroid Active Pro have ads?
Which is updated more often, Comrades or Polaroid Active Pro?
Other comparisons
