Trackuility vs Instead Of
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trackuility
This app helps individuals manage ME/CFS, POTS, and long COVID by tracking activity levels and providing insights into personal limits. It offers detailed reports on crashes and symptoms, aiding in understanding health patterns and identifying triggers.
- Activity level tracking
- Customizable limit notifications
- Symptom and note registration
- PEM (Post-Exertional Malaise) reports
- Integration with Apple Health
- 17+ tracked metrics
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Trackuility is an app for those who use pacing to manage their ME/CFS, POTS and long covid. The app provides a clear overview of various activity metrics and helps users understand their limits and how activity affects their health. Track · See your daily energy budget and set a suitable pacing profile for the day based on your daily energy · Get an overview of your activity level and how close you are to reaching your limits for different time intervals. · Set your own limits and choose if you want notifications when these are exceeded. · Experiment with different threshold values and see what works best for you. Calendar · See how many times you went over your limits on any previous day. · Get a clear view of which thresholds are most appropriate for your current energy levels and identify activities to moderate. · Register symptoms and personal notes for any day, allowing you to document and reflect on your health and activities over time. PEM Reports · Get an overview of your crashes and see connections to your health data by generating PEM reports. · See detailed health information about the days before your PEM and try to find what caused it. Trackuility measures 17 different metrics within several different time intervals. Metrics · Heart Rate · Heart Rate Variability · Resting Heart Rate · Walking Heart Rate · Active Energy · Exercise Minutes · Stand Time · Steps · Walking Distance · Walking Speed · Wheelchair Distance · Wheelchair Pushes · Stair Speed Down · Stair Speed Up · Stairs Climbed · Environmental Audio · Headphone Audio · Blood Oxygen · Systolic Blood Pressure · Diastolic Blood Pressure Quests · Mindful Minutes · Time In Daylight · Alcohol · Caffeine · Fiber · Protein · Sugar · Water Intervals · Last measured (most recently recorded heart rate and walking speed) · Last 15 minutes · Last hour · Last 4 hours · Today · Last 3 days This application is integrated with the Apple Health app via HealthKit.
Instead Of
This app helps you reduce unhealthy habits by swapping them for positive actions, tracking your financial savings and health improvements in real-time. It offers a forgiving streak system, support from accountability partners, and private data handling.
- Habit swapping for financial savings
- Real-time money and health tracking
- Forgiving streak system
- Accountability partner support
- Home screen widget for progress
- Private and ad-free experience
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You don't have to quit. Just swap — and watch what you get back. Instead helps you trade the habit that's costing you (drinks, smokes, takeout, impulse buys) for something better, then shows you exactly what you're getting back: real money and a healthier body. THE MONEY IS REAL Tell Instead what your habit costs, and watch your savings grow in real time — cents ticking up while you work, sleep, and live your life. No spreadsheet, no manual math. An honest yearly projection shows where this is going. YOUR BODY KEEPS SCORE Connect Apple Health and see your resting heart rate, sleep, and energy respond as the swaps add up. Not someday — on a timeline that starts the hour you do. STREAKS THAT FORGIVE Life happens. Forget to log a day? Your streak survives. Slip up? It pauses, it doesn't reset to zero. Instead is built on momentum, not perfection — and slips are met with a plan, never a guilt trip. FOR THE HARD MOMENTS One tap on the temptation button brings up the reason you started — in your own words — plus a breathing exercise and your numbers. The decision you're about to make gets a lot easier. ONE PERSON IN YOUR CORNER Invite a friend as your accountability partner with one link. Send encouragement, see each other's streaks, and have someone to tap when it's hard. No crowds, no feeds you don't want — just backup. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN A widget keeps your day count and money saved in sight, so the progress you're protecting is the first thing you see. Start with drinking less — it's where the money and health gains show up fastest — or swap smoking, vaping, fast food, gambling, impulse shopping, and more. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads. No selling your data. Your health data syncs securely to your account, and you can delete everything, permanently, in two taps. The next decision is yours. Make it one you'll thank yourself for.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Trackuility at 4.2 against Instead Of's 3.0. Trackuility also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1). Instead Of's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Trackuility holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Trackuility has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Trackuility ships an update every 5 months, Instead Of every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trackuility | Instead Of |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | adrian tyrevall | Betz Software LLC |
In-app purchases
Trackuility
No in-app purchases
Instead Of
No in-app purchases









