Comparison

Polar GoFit vs My Skyhook

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

Head to head
About

Polar GoFit

This app helps educators track student effort and progress in physical education classes using real-time heart rate monitoring. It provides individual guidance, motivational badges, and easy assessment tools to enhance student engagement and fitness development.

Highlights
  • Real-time effort tracking
  • Individual student guidance
  • Motivational reward badges
  • Progress monitoring and assessment
  • Offline data recording with select watches
  • Web service integration for course management
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Looking for PE classes with individual guidance, engaged students, real-time effort tracking, and easy assessment? Meet Polar GoFit, the app specifically designed to help you take your PE lessons to a whole new level. Polar’s science-based sports technology helps millions of people around the globe reach their training goals. Now you can harness the same know-how to elevate your PE classes with the help of your iPad. See how hard your students are exercising during your lesson, view and measure their performance, and evaluate them based on their individual effort. With Polar GoFit and live heart rate tracking, you can encourage every student to make progress on their own fitness level. Polar GoFit Highlights - Real-time effort tracking during class - Individual guidance for each student on their own level - Student engagement with fun and motivating reward badges - Easy progress monitoring and assessment - Offline data recording with select Polar watches – teach without range limitations The Polar GoFit app is designed to be used with the polargofit.com web service to help you manage your course and student evaluation. Plan your course on polargofit.com, then simply bring an iPad and Polar heart rate monitors to your PE class and use the GoFit app to see how each student is performing. During the class, each student wears a Polar heart rate monitor, allowing you to follow their heart rate on the go.* The GoFit app guides your students to stay within set target heart rate zones to achieve the wanted health benefits, so you can teach the whole class and at the same time guide each student personally. Based on their effort, the app rewards them with badges that increase motivation and engagement. After the class, the data from the session is uploaded and saved in the polargofit.com web service, allowing you to monitor the progress of each individual student throughout the academic year. All your students’ workout data can also be recorded and stored on select Polar watches for fast upload to the Polar GoFit service, giving you a perfect view on each student’s training profile. *Compatible devices: https://support.polar.com/en/polar-gofit-compatible-devices?product_id=38642&category=top_answers Features: • Before the lesson: manage your students, assign transmitters to them, and set a target zone for the lesson. • During the lesson: follow your students’ heart rates online (current heart rate, time accumulated in the target zone, badges collected). • After the lesson: analyze summary data from the whole class (average and maximum heart rate, time accumulated in the target zone, time spent in each heart rate zone, badges collected). • Select Polar watches continue recording data offline when your students go outside the range of your iPad! This new feature gives you the freedom to teach your class without worrying about students moving too far from the iPad running Polar GoFit. This way, you capture every moment of every PE class without limitations. Discover more about Polar physical education products at http://www.polar.com/en/b2b_products/physical_education

About

My Skyhook

This app connects to a jump mat via Bluetooth to record detailed athlete jump metrics like height, reactive strength index, and time in air. It allows for custom jump protocols and comprehensive athlete management with historical data analysis and export options.

Highlights
  • Track jump height, RSI, time in air/ground
  • 7 default and custom jump protocols
  • Athlete roster and history management
  • Quantitative charts and time-period filtration
  • Data export to CSV
  • Real-time feedback with custom targets
Features
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TRACK ATHLETE JUMPS: Connect with the Skyhook jump mat via bluetooth to track athlete jump data. Get jump height, reactive strength index, time in air, and time on ground. Includes 7 default jump protocols and custom protocol editor. CUSTOM JUMP PROTOCOLS: Configure jump assessments for athletes including custom jump count, duration, jump type (depth jump, hurdle jump, standard), and advanced jump analysis metrics. ALL-IN-ONE ATHLETE MANAGEMENT: Create rosters and athletes, analyze jump assessment history with quantitative charts, multiple metrics, and time-period filtration. Explore jump height, time in air, time on ground, and reactive-strength-index. Export data in convenient CSV's for compatibility with other athlete management systems. INTERACTIVE JUMP EXPERIENCE: Add custom jump targets for real-time feedback, easy access for deleting jumps, alternating between protocols, and cycling between a large number of athletes. Skyhook is optimized for all jump environments from large athlete combines to personalized training sessions.

Screenshots

My Skyhook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: My Skyhook at 100% against Polar GoFit's 8%. My Skyhook also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.2) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 6 months). Polar GoFit's advantage is iOS requirement (14 vs 17.6). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

My Skyhook holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 8% of Polar GoFit's written reviews are positive against 100% of My Skyhook's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Polar GoFit ships an update every 6 months, My Skyhook every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Polar GoFit versus My Skyhook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPolar GoFitMy Skyhook
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.2 (5 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews7.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS14 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size111 MB32 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPolar ElectroRDM Innovation

Customer experience

Polar GoFit

All ratings5 ratings
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive7.7%
Neutral7.7%
Negative84.6%

My Skyhook

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Polar GoFit

No in-app purchases

None

My Skyhook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Polar GoFit free?
Polar GoFit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is My Skyhook free?
My Skyhook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Polar GoFit or My Skyhook?
My Skyhook is rated higher. Polar GoFit averages 2.2 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while My Skyhook averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Polar GoFit or My Skyhook have ads?
Neither Polar GoFit nor My Skyhook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Polar GoFit or My Skyhook?
Polar GoFit ships an update every 6 months, and My Skyhook every 4 weeks. Most recently, Polar GoFit was updated on November 1, 2026 and My Skyhook on November 3, 2026.

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