ShoeCycle vs Workout Shoes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShoeCycle
This app helps runners track the mileage and purchase date of their running shoes to prevent injury from worn-out footwear. It allows for simple distance entry, offline use, and integration with popular fitness platforms. Easily manage multiple pairs and visualize wear progress.
- Track running shoe mileage and purchase date
- Simple distance entry
- Offline functionality
- Strava and Apple Health integration
- Manage multiple shoes
- Visual progress indicators
- Convert between miles and kilometers
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Avoid bad form and injury from running in worn sneakers. ShoeCycle is a totally FREE app that you use to keep track of the wear on your running shoes! Use ShoeCycle to track the miles and purchase date of your running shoes. No other app makes it easier to enter your run distance and switch between shoes. Do you really need GPS to tell you how far you’ve run? There’s no need to take your phone on the run with you. Just enter your distance anytime after your run. This app can be used entirely offline, or enable Strava and log your runs to this popular online service. Do you switch between many different running shoes? Just swipe up or down on the shoe photo area to move from one shoe to the next! Features: • Totally FREE! No ads! • Post your runs onto Strava. • Integration with Apple's Health App. • Dead simple distance entry. • Swipe up or down on the photo to quickly switch between shoes. • Visual progress indicators. Know your shoe wear at a glance! • Graph to show your weekly distance. • Store up to four favorite distances! • Easy shoe setup. • Include the distance that is already on your shoes. • Track multiple shoes. • YTD and yearly distance history. • Email CSV file of your shoe data. • Hall of Fame to stash those shoes that you just can't bring yourself to delete. • Convert easily between miles and kilometers! Install Shoecycle today, and know when it’s time to get that new pair of shoes!
Workout Shoes
Monitor the total mileage of your sports shoes. Seamlessly link them to your workouts tracked via Apple Health. This application prioritizes your privacy by not writing to or collecting any data.
- Track sports shoe mileage
- Pair shoes with Apple Health workouts
- Privacy-focused: no data writing to Health
- Privacy-focused: no data collection
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Keep an eye on your sports shoes’ total mileage. Pair them up with workouts from Apple Health. This app does not write any data to Health. This app does not collect any data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Workout Shoes at 4.6 against ShoeCycle's 4.3. Workout Shoes also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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.
Workout Shoes holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 31 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of ShoeCycle's written reviews are positive against 92% of Workout Shoes's.
ShoeCycle ships an update every 2 months, Workout Shoes every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShoeCycle | Workout Shoes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (19 ratings) | 4.6 (31 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | 92.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 | 31 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ernie Zappacosta | UX First d.o.o. |
Customer experience
ShoeCycle
Workout Shoes
In-app purchases
ShoeCycle
No in-app purchases
Workout Shoes
No in-app purchases
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