Comparison

Squadrats vs CycleHUD

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

Head to head
About

Squadrats

Discover and collect virtual items on a map during your outdoor activities. Connect these items to build your virtual empire and experience the thrill of discovery, even in familiar surroundings.

Highlights
  • Collect virtual items on a map
  • Discover hidden locations
  • Connect items to build empires
  • Chase smaller, faster items
  • Build giant, rewarding items
Features
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Have a higher purpose in all your rides, runs, hikes or any other activities. Make them exciting by collecting squadrats everywhere you go. You don't need exotic travels. With Squadrats you'll discover mysterious places close to your home. Squadrats are squarish items on the map. Your mission is to collect them. And connect them to build your empire. If you don't have much time, chase squadratinhos instead. They are much smaller, much faster to get, but just as satisfying. If you like order, you'll love the übersquadrat. It's a giant squadrat that will give you a strong kick when you build one. Fun fact: Squadrats are used by 300+ pro cyclists, runners, triathletes, orienteers. But you don't need to be a pro to enjoy them. Happy squadratting! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdevula/

About

CycleHUD

Features
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CycleHUD turns your rear radar into a clear, glanceable heads-up display — and now a quiet-roads navigator and a racing partner too. Always know what's coming up behind you, where you're going, and how you compare with your best, without taking your eyes off the road. EYES BEHIND YOU Vehicles approaching from behind appear on a clean perspective lane, nearest at the top, and the whole panel glows amber to red as a car closes in. A green "Clear" shows when the road behind is empty. Pair an Apple Watch and you'll feel it too: a tap for each new vehicle, faster as it nears, and a distinct buzz if the radar ever drops out. After the ride, every vehicle that passed you is pinned on your route map with its distance and speed. ROUTES ON QUIET ROADS Plan a ride by tapping a start and waypoints on a map — the path snaps to quiet roads and cycle paths, looping back to the start or finishing wherever you choose. While the road behind is clear, the radar panel becomes a live street map: your route ahead, live traffic and closures, the whole ride's elevation profile with the gradient coming up, and the next junction's real layout counting down — with the turn your route takes glowing green. Spoken turn alerts and wrist taps call each bend. Pick a route from across town and CycleHUD plots a lead-in to the start. The moment a vehicle appears behind you, the radar takes the screen back. Routes share as plain GPX and import from anywhere — Strava, Komoot, RideWithGPS, a friend's export. RACE YOUR GHOST Complete a route once and that run becomes its best. Every ride after is a race: a live ahead/behind readout and a ghost marker riding the map beside you. Beat it and the new run takes over. Ghosts travel inside shared GPX files, so you can race a friend's best — or import any recorded ride and chase it. BUILT FOR THE RIDE - Live metrics on customisable, swipeable tile pages: speed, cadence, heart rate, ascent, live gradient, wind (as headwind or tailwind), compass, rain nowcast and more - Every ride saved as an Apple Health workout, with a post-ride effort rating for Health's training load (iOS 18+) - Ride summaries with graphs you can scrub, laps, and your previous bests over the same stretches of road - Optional crash detection: a hard impact followed by a stop starts an SOS countdown on the phone AND your watch — dismiss it or call your emergency contact straight from the wrist - Heart-rate warning that flashes the display and buzzes your wrist - iCloud sync: rides, routes and ghosts back up to your own iCloud and follow you to a new phone - Light, dark and Cyberpunk themes, a digital-dash font, and a fixed-landscape layout for your handlebars WORKS WITH YOUR SENSORS Built around the Coospo TR70 rear radar, and also works with Garmin Varia-compatible radars, standard Bluetooth speed and cadence sensors and heart-rate straps. Speed falls back to GPS when no sensor is connected. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No servers. No tracking, ads or analytics. Your data lives on your device, in Apple Health and in your own iCloud — all under your control. The optional routing and junction features fetch open road data (OpenStreetMap, BRouter) and say so plainly in Settings. CycleHUD is a focused, no-nonsense tool made by a rider who wanted exactly this, and nothing more.

Screenshots

Squadrats4 screens
CycleHUD4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CycleHUD at none against Squadrats's 2. CycleHUD also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). Squadrats's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Squadrats sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. CycleHUD asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Squadrats ships an update monthly, CycleHUD every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Squadrats versus CycleHUD: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSquadratsCycleHUD
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews92.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSquadrats sp. z o.o.Carly Robinson

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Squadrats

Subscriptions2
  • Squadrats Pro$4.991 Month
  • Squadrats Pro14 Days trial$39.991 Year
None

CycleHUD

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Squadrats free?
Squadrats is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CycleHUD free?
CycleHUD is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Squadrats or CycleHUD have ads?
Neither Squadrats nor CycleHUD shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Squadrats or CycleHUD?
Squadrats ships an update monthly, and CycleHUD every 10 days. Most recently, Squadrats was updated on October 15, 2026 and CycleHUD on September 29, 2026.

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