Comparison

Soft Challenge vs PaceBand

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

Head to head
About

Soft Challenge

This app guides users in building healthy habits through a customizable daily routine. It offers recommended rules for fitness, diet, hydration, and reading, allowing users to adapt the duration and tasks to their personal goals and lifestyle.

Highlights
  • Customizable habit rules
  • Personalized goals and lifestyle adaptation
  • Recommended daily workout routine
  • Healthy diet tracking
  • Hydration goals
  • Reading habit tracking
Features
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The Soft Challenge has its own recommended set of rules and guidelines that are all about creating healthy habits at a steady daily pace.  The Soft Challenge is completely configurable to your personal goals and lifestyle, you can modify the tasks and or the duration as needed! The recommended rules for The Soft Challenge are as follows: - One 45-minute workout per day, with one day for active recovery every week. - Eat a Healthy Diet, of your choosing - Only Drink Alcohol socially, if any at all - Drink 3 liters of water per day - Read 10 pages of any book

About

PaceBand

Features
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PaceBand turns your goal time into a race plan. YOUR SPLITS, ON A BAND - Enter distance and goal time - get every kilometer and mile split, second-precise - Designed like a pace band: big, glanceable, race-day ready - Pace-to-time and time-to-pace, both directions RUN IT YOUR WAY - Even pacing free for 5K and 10K - Half, full and custom distances (Pro) - Negative and positive split strategies with an adjustable first/second-half ratio (Pro) FREE AND FAIR 5K and 10K plans are free forever. One purchase of $2.99 unlocks every distance and strategy. No subscription, no ads, no account. 100% offline. Save your plans and check them at the start line. Privacy Policy: https://goonobu-dot.github.io/batch19-pages/paceband/privacy.html Support: https://goonobu-dot.github.io/batch19-pages/paceband/support.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Soft Challenge4 screens
PaceBand4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: PaceBand at Free against Soft Challenge's $1.99. Soft Challenge's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#94 vs unranked). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

PaceBand is free to download; Soft Challenge costs $1.99 up front. PaceBand sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Soft Challenge asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Soft Challenge versus PaceBand: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSoft ChallengePaceBand
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (283 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews64.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings283 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#94 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWhite Belt Development LLCSHINOBU MIYAHIRA

Bugs and requests

Soft Challenge

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • App stuck on Day 1 congratulation screen
  • Water consumption not saving
  • App won't allow moving forward without checking all tasks
  • Cannot save changes to weight units
  • App stuck on 'great job keep on crushing it' screen
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  • Cannot go back and fix missed tasks

Requested features

4 requests
  • Allow users to share progress with others
  • Option to edit/disable certain features
  • Photo option for tracking
  • Extend the number of days for challenges

PaceBand

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Soft Challenge

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PaceBand

One-time1
  • Unlock Everything$2.99

Questions

Is Soft Challenge free?
Soft Challenge costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is PaceBand free?
PaceBand is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Soft Challenge or PaceBand have ads?
Neither Soft Challenge nor PaceBand shows ads.

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