Simple Bike Tracker vs Townie Sports
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Bike Tracker
Track your bicycle rides with this app, displaying current speed, average speed, and distance. It offers a clean interface and provides detailed ride summaries with maps and graphs. Export your ride data in GPX format for further analysis.
- Real-time speed tracking
- Distance and average speed display
- Clean user interface
- Detailed ride summaries
- Map visualization
- GPX export
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Use your iPhone to track you bicycle rides. View your current speed, average speed and distance with a simplistic and clean user interface. You can also get a detailed summary of you bicycle ride with a map and some graphs. If you want to get more information from your bicycle rides, you can export them in .gpx format and view them with compatible software.
Townie Sports
Get your daily dose of Boston sports news and live scores with a hands-free audio recap. Dig deeper with team-specific tabs, curated local news, and real-time game tickers. Customize your experience with adjustable settings and enjoy an ad-free, calm interface.
- Daily AI-generated audio recaps
- Live scores for Boston teams
- Real-time game ticker
- Curated local sports news
- Team-specific tabs and schedules
- Ad-free and customizable interface
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**The only sports app a Boston fan needs.** Every morning, press play. Your AI-generated audio recap reads out the night before — Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins, Patriots — so you catch up while the coffee brews or the dog gets walked. Then comes The Townie Two: the two biggest stories in sports outside of Boston, so you're covered on everything before you've finished your first cup. Hands-free. Ad-free. Quiet. Pick your length: 3, 5, or 8 minutes. When you actually want to dig in, every team has its own tab: stories pulled from Boston's best sources, live scores with a real-time pulse, the full schedule, and standings updated daily. The live ticker scrolls game updates across the top of every screen — only when there's an active game, never busywork. Following more than just Boston? The Not Boston tab covers national sports — NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, plus Golf, Tennis, and the events you pick. **Built around four ideas:** - **Speed.** Open the app, see what matters in three seconds. - **Calm.** Dark theme, gold accents, zero pop-ups, zero ads. - **Local.** News from NESN, Boston.com, MassLive, NBC Sports Boston. - **Yours.** Toggle which teams, which sources, which voice style. **WHAT'S INSIDE** - Daily AI-generated morning audio recap (3, 5, or 8 min) - The Townie Two — top 2 national sports stories, every morning - Live scores for Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins, Patriots - Real-time score ticker during active games - Curated news from Boston-local outlets - Game schedules and live standings, updated daily - Not Boston tab — national sports plus Golf, Tennis, and more - Three voice styles: Sportscaster, Casual, Headlines - Adjustable text size - No tracking. No ads. **SUBSCRIPTION** Townie Sports requires an auto-renewing subscription (Go Townie VIP) to access the app's features: - Monthly - Yearly Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID Account Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.privacypolicies.com/live/26ca363d-b01d-42c1-9217-538d5f60d563 **Go Sox. Go Celtics. Go B's. Go Pats.**
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Townie Sports at 100% against Simple Bike Tracker's 0%. Townie Sports also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). Simple Bike Tracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price 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. Townie Sports sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Simple Bike Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Townie Sports holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Townie Sports has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Simple Bike Tracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Townie Sports's.
Simple Bike Tracker ships an update every 3 months, Townie Sports every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Bike Tracker | Townie Sports |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Koen Caspers | Timothy Sullivan |
Customer experience
Simple Bike Tracker
Townie Sports
In-app purchases
Simple Bike Tracker
No in-app purchases
Townie Sports
- Pro Monthly Plan$0.991 Month
- Pro Yearly Plan$9.991 Year
Questions
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