Comparison

Activity Rec vs Health Import Tool

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

Head to head
About

Activity Rec

Features
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Recreation + Recap Activity Rec lets you preserve your activities as a beautiful collection of visualizations. Capture the memories along with the stats. Share them if you want. What can it do? โ€ข Import GPX & FIT files โ€ข Select background photo or color โ€ข Share activity as an image โ€ข Check basic activity stats โ€ข View activity route on map

About

Health Import Tool

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You have years of workouts in Strava, or Garmin, or a folder of files from a watch you no longer own. Apple Health has some of them. Working out which is the job nobody wants to do by hand. Health Import Tool reads a zip of exported workouts and writes what is missing into Apple Health. It checks every activity against what you already have, so it never creates a second copy of a run you already recorded. IT READS WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE Strava bulk exports, Garmin exports, or just a zip of FIT, GPX and TCX files. No account, no sign-in, no server. IT NEVER DUPLICATES Every workout is matched against Health before anything is written. Run the same export twice and the second run writes nothing. IT TELLS YOU WHAT IT CANNOT DO Apple only lets an app delete data it wrote itself, so a workout already in Health from your watch stays. HIT adds the heart rate, cadence and power that are missing, and leaves energy and distance alone, because adding those would double-count your Move ring. You decide, one workout at a time. IT PICKS UP WHERE IT LEFT OFF A long import that gets interrupted carries on from where it stopped. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR PHONE There is no account and no server. Nothing about your workouts leaves the device. The first 100 workouts are free. A single purchase removes the limit, and it is not a subscription.

Screenshots

Activity Rec4 screens
Health Import Tool4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Activity Rec at none against Health Import Tool's 1. Health Import Tool's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Health Import Tool sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Activity Rec asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Activity Rec versus Health Import Tool: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActivity RecHealth Import Tool
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.018.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size25 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSpore LabEnrique Alabort

In-app purchases

None

Activity Rec

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Health Import Tool

One-time1
  • Unlimited imports$4.99

Questions

Is Activity Rec free?
Activity Rec is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Health Import Tool free?
Health Import Tool is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Activity Rec or Health Import Tool have ads?
Neither Activity Rec nor Health Import Tool shows ads.

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