Comparison

Ride Hermes vs KiT

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

Head to head
About

Ride Hermes

Discover and create trails for your personal electric vehicle (PEV). Compete with friends and professionals by timing your rides and climbing leaderboards. Become the best rider in your community.

Highlights
  • Find local PEV trails
  • Create custom trails
  • Race against friends
  • Compete with professional times
  • Track ride times
  • Leaderboard rankings
Features
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Riding is better together. Ride Hermes is home for the PEV community: the people who light up when they see a good trail, who wait at the bottom of the hill for a friend, and who keep showing up to get a little better every time. Whether you ride a onewheel, an electric unicycle, a board or a scooter, there's a crew here waiting for you. FIND YOUR PEOPLE AND YOUR TRAILS Discover the trails riders are loving near you, or map a favorite of your own and share it with everyone. Follow your friends' rides in the feed, cheer them on, and see where your community is riding this week. RIDE WITH YOUR CREW Start a squad with the people you ride with and build something together, from your first group ride to a wall of podiums and relics. Join a league to meet riders in your region, or jump into a season and ride a set of trails alongside everyone else taking on the same challenge. BECOME YOUR BEST RIDER Every ride on a trail is saved, so you can watch yourself grow. The Trail Comparer shows you how your line stacks up against other riders, so you can learn from them. Snapshots show how you've progressed over time. And when you have a breakthrough ride and land in the top three, you earn your wings. JOIN THE PANTHEON Members unlock deeper tools for tracking their progress, visit the Altar, and collect items and bundles from the store. New to Hermes? A quick tutorial and setup checklist get you riding in minutes. Come ride with us. Your crew is out there. PANTHEON MEMBERSHIP Pantheon is available as an auto-renewing monthly or annual subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://ridehermes.app/terms Subscription Terms: https://ridehermes.app/subscription-terms Privacy Policy: https://ridehermes.app/privacy

About

KiT

A minimalist interval timer designed for efficient workouts. It allows users to build custom routines with warmups, work, rest, and cooldown periods, offering voice cues and lock screen integration. This app focuses on simplicity and immediate use without ads or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Customizable workout builder
  • Voice and sound cues
  • Lock screen and Dynamic Island integration
  • Apple Watch mirroring and health tracking
  • Minimalist, distraction-free interface
  • Offline functionality
Features
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My daughter wanted an interval timer. Simple, right? Except every one she tried was junk - ads between rounds, accounts to create, bugs, subscriptions… for a stopwatch that counts backwards. She just wanted to work out. So I built her one. KiT: Kara's interval Trainer. No ads. No subscription. No account. No tracking. Buy it once, own it forever. BUILD YOUR WORKOUT Dial in warmup, work, rest, and cooldown, pick your rounds, and see the total time as you edit. Name your workouts and keep them ready on the home screen. KiT is opinionated: no pause button, every round the same length, four saved workouts and no more. You've used the timers that take twenty minutes to configure - this one takes twenty seconds. If you need per-round custom splits, this isn't your app. If you want to press start and work out, it is. CUES Voice announcements for every phase and round. Clean 3-2-1 countdown beeps that mix with your music instead of interrupting it. Toggle voice, beeps, and haptics per workout. WORKS WITH YOUR PHONE LOCKED Your current phase, round, and a live countdown stay on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Lock your phone, drop it on the mat, and trust the timer. MADE FOR APPLE WATCH Your watch joins in automatically: a live mirror of phase, countdown, and round, with haptic taps on your wrist. It records a real HIIT session too - heart rate and calories go to Health, and every workout counts toward your rings. DESIGNED TO DISAPPEAR A focused, dark, monospaced interface with one job: showing you the time. Big countdown, progress ring, your round — nothing else. Full VoiceOver support. Kara uses it. Now you can too.

Screenshots

Ride Hermes4 screens
KiT4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Ride Hermes at Free against KiT's $2.99. Ride Hermes also leads on ratings volume (16 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.2 vs 26.5). KiT's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Ride Hermes is free to download; KiT costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

KiT holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ride Hermes has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Ride Hermes versus KiT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRide HermesKiT
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.7 (16 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.2 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBurs Labs, LLCKarl Mcclendon

In-app purchases

None

Ride Hermes

No in-app purchases

None

KiT

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ride Hermes free?
Ride Hermes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is KiT free?
KiT costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ride Hermes or KiT?
KiT is rated higher. Ride Hermes averages 4.7 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while KiT averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Ride Hermes or KiT have ads?
Neither Ride Hermes nor KiT shows ads.

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