Squadrats vs Loom Cycling
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Collect virtual items on a map
- Discover hidden locations
- Connect items to build empires
- Chase smaller, faster items
- Build giant, rewarding items
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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/
Loom Cycling
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Most riders don't forget how to wax. They forget when they last did it. Loom tracks your chain by distance rather than by feel. Every bike carries an odometer, and every wax event saves a snapshot of it. The distance since your last wax, how much of its expected life you have used, and whether you are overdue all come out of those two numbers. IT LEARNS YOUR INTERVAL Loom starts at 186 miles for hot wax and 93 miles for drip lube. After two wax events it switches to a rolling average of your own history, so the number follows your roads and your weather rather than a figure off a bottle. It warns you at 80%, and again at 100%. RIDES WITHOUT THE TYPING Connect Apple Health and your cycling workouts become rides on their own — date and distance, nothing else. Strava is there if that is where your riding lives. Neither is required: type a distance and Loom works exactly as well with no connection at all. MORE THAN THE CHAIN Chains, tires, sealant and service run off the same odometer. Set an interval, log a change, and Loom counts the distance down. TIRE PRESSURE Tell Loom your weight, your tires and your roads, and it gives you a front and a rear pressure, each with a good range either side. It respects hookless rim limits and your tire's printed maximum, says what set the number, and saves setups to each bike. Road, gravel and cyclocross, in psi or bar. ON THE HOME SCREEN A widget carries wax life at a glance, so you find out in the kitchen rather than in the garage. YOUR RIDING HISTORY IS YOURS No account to create, no Loom server, no analytics, no third-party SDKs, and no tracking. What you log stays on your iPhone and, if you use iCloud, in your own private iCloud database — where Loom cannot read it either. Apple Health and Strava are optional and read-only; Loom never writes anything back to either. ALL OF IT, FREE Every part of Loom is free: as many bikes as you own, automatic ride import from Apple Health or Strava, component tracking, the tire pressure calculator, the widget, and the full Statistics tab — averages, the timeline, which product lasted longest, and when the next wax is due. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads. Privacy Policy: https://loomwax.ridetogether.io/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Squadrats at every 4 days against Loom Cycling's every 9 days. Squadrats also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Squadrats sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Loom Cycling sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Squadrats ships an update every 4 days, Loom Cycling every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Squadrats | Loom Cycling |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 92.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Squadrats sp. z o.o. | Tom Haythorn |
In-app purchases
Squadrats
- Squadrats Pro$4.991 Month
- Squadrats Pro14 Days trial$39.991 Year
Loom Cycling
- Loom Pro7 Days trial$6.991 Year









