Miles vs Dayshine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Miles
Track your running progress with a simple interface that displays distance, time, and maps. Set weekly goals and view your progress with live activities and widgets. Syncs with Apple Health and Apple Watch.
- Live Activities for real-time run data
- Widgets for weekly progress tracking
- Set weekly or monthly running goals
- View run history with maps
- Syncs with Apple Health
- Apple Watch integration
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Miles is the simplest but most effective way to track your running progress. Start and end runs with ease and sync seamlessly with Apple Watch. No ads or subscriptions. **Live Activities and Widgets** Miles uses Live Activities to show your current run so you don't need to unlock your phone to check your distance and time. Widgets show your weekly progress to help you stay motivated and focused. **Weekly Goals** Set a weekly or monthly goal to stay motivated on your running journey. **Simple Stats and Map** Stay on top of your progress with a weekly distance chart, and see your running routes with maps for each run. **Health Syncing** Miles can connect with Apple Health to save runs from the app and display runs from Apple Watch and other fitness apps. **Minimalist Design** Stay focused on your runs with a simple design that highlights only the data you need. **No ads or subscriptions** When you get the app, you get the full app and all future updates. There will never be ads, subscriptions, or in-app purchases..
Dayshine
Plan your daily activities and cultivate enduring habits with this intuitive routine planner. It leverages proven habit-building research, allowing you to schedule, track progress, and create sequential routines. Unlock unlimited habits and advanced features with an optional Pro subscription.
- Schedule and track habits
- Build sequential routines
- Progress tracking
- Streak tracking
- Home screen widgets
- Apple Watch app
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Dayshine makes it easy to plan your routine and build lasting habits. It's designed around the latest research on habit-building: - doing habits in a sequence (routines) - starting with a small goal - being specific and other useful, proven concepts. The process: 1. Schedule the habits you want to build. 2. Complete them on the scheduled days. 3. Track your progress. 4. Start completing habits in a sequence, which we call a routine 'playlist'. 5. (Optional) Track your streak for each habit. See the number go up each time you do it. Dayshine Pro With the free plan, you can track up to 5 daily, weekly, or monthly habits. For unlimited habits and more features, you can purchase Dayshine Pro, an auto-renewing monthly or annual subscription. Pro features: - Unlimited habits - Home screen and Lock Screen widgets - Apple Watch app - Stats for all previous months Dayshine is always improving, and I'd love to hear your feedback anytime at hellodayshine@gmail.com. Privacy Policy: https://dayshine-privacy.carrd.co Terms of Use: https://dayshine-terms.carrd.co
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Miles at 4.9 against Dayshine's 4.4. Miles also leads on ratings volume (157 vs 8). Dayshine's advantage is monetization model (freemium vs paid) and review sentiment (100% vs 89%). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Miles sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Dayshine sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Miles holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Miles has 157 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of Miles's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dayshine's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Miles ships an update fortnightly, Dayshine weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Miles | Dayshine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (157 ratings) — better | 4.4 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 157 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Miles Vinson | Tushar Chhabra |
Customer experience
Miles
Dayshine
Bugs and requests
Miles
Reported bugs
4 issues- App deleted run data while paused
- Mile counter/pace counter not working
- Entire runs not logged
- App did not work at all (swipe down issue)
Requested features
9 requests- Send to Strava feature
- Siri commands for start/stop
- Black dark theme option
- Mile ran yearly goal
- Calories burned and elevation tracking
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- Ability to change time or auto-stop
- Add notes to a run
- Direct Apple Watch support
- Companion Apple Watch app
Dayshine
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Miles
- Miles Pro$1.99
- Tip 12 variants$2.99
- Tip 2$4.99
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- Tip 2$5.99
- Tip 3$8.99
- Tip 3$9.99
Dayshine
- Pro Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Pro Annual7 Days trial$12.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$29.99
