Pacing Quest vs Pacebase
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pacing Quest
This tool helps individuals managing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) or Long COVID track daily symptoms, activities, and mood. It provides a clear dashboard to identify patterns and understand how lifestyle choices affect well-being, promoting a sustainable recovery pace.
- Daily symptom and activity tracking
- Boolean logging for crashes and sleep
- Mood tracking with simple icons
- Personal journal entries
- CSV file import
- Clear data dashboard
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Pacing Quest is a simple, calming tool designed to support people living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) or Long COVID in their recovery journey. Each day, you can track your fatigue levels, physical, mental, and emotional activities, digestive symptoms, pain, cognitive symptoms, and more. You can also log your sleep quality, emotional crashes, and daily mood through a weather-style indicator — plus write personal notes in a journal. All your data is presented in a clear, accessible dashboard that helps you notice patterns, understand how activities impact your symptoms, and find a pace that supports healing. Key features: - Daily symptom and activity tracking. - Boolean logging for crashes and sleep quality. - Mood tracking through simple icons. - Personal journal entries. - CSV file import support. Clean, accessible design — made with gentle colors and easy-to-read typography for fatigued users. Pacing has been life-changing for many with CFS and Long COVID. Pacing Quest is here to support you, one step at a time.
Pacebase
This app helps manage energy-limiting chronic conditions by leveraging your Apple Watch data. It provides a Body Score to assess recovery and a Body Budget to guide safe activity levels, preventing crashes.
- Body Score for recovery assessment
- Body Budget for safe activity guidance
- Apple Watch integration
- Continuous widget updates
- Management of energy-limiting conditions
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Pacebase is an all-in-one toolkit for managing your energy-limiting chronic condition, like POTS and ME/CFS. We turn your Apple Watch into a powerful tool for measuring and understanding your body, and its limits. Our Body Score uses several of your bodies biomarkers to give you a simple, accurate measure of how your body recovered from the day before, through a straightforward 50-100-point scale. Our Body Budget suggests the amount of time you can expect to safely go above your anaerobic threshold for the day to minimize crashing. It also comes with an helpful Apple Watch widget, which updates continuously throughout the day. A subscription is required to use Pacebase, but we offer a 14-day risk-free trial period within the app. No commitment is required. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pacing Quest at none against Pacebase's 3. Pacing Quest also leads on ads (none vs shown). Pacebase's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating and ratings volume 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. Pacebase sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Pacing Quest asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pacing Quest against 5.0 for Pacebase. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Pacing Quest ships an update every 5 months, Pacebase every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on June 2, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pacing Quest | Pacebase |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anthony Da Cruz | Pacebase Health, LLC |
In-app purchases
Pacing Quest
No in-app purchases
Pacebase
- Pacebase$6.991 Month
- Pacebase7 Days trial$8.991 Month
- Pacebase$86.001 Year









