Comparison

Stride vs AI Calorie Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Stride

This app provides versatile interval timers for various training routines like HIIT, Tabata, and EMOM. It offers customizable settings, music integration, and voice cues to enhance your fitness sessions. Upgrade for advanced features like background functionality and unlimited preset saving.

Highlights
  • HIIT, Tabata, EMOM timer modes
  • Customizable interval settings
  • Music integration
  • Voice and sound countdowns
  • Save custom workout presets
  • Background functionality (Pro)
  • User-friendly interface
Features
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Stride is an interval timer for HIIT, Tabata and EMOM on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Big gym-board clock: orange for work, green for rest, haptic cues on your wrist. Use it for CrossFit-style workouts, Hyrox stations, home HIIT or any interval countdown. Key Features: • Gym-board clock: the active interval fills the screen from the center until it ends. Orange for work, green for rest, blue while you get ready. Readable from the floor. • Apple Watch: pick a workout on your wrist and go. Haptic taps at every interval change and a 3-2-1 countdown, heart rate on the timer, and the clock keeps counting when your wrist drops. Finished sessions are saved to Health as HIIT workouts. • Saved presets sync from iPhone to Apple Watch automatically. • Live Activity and widgets: follow the countdown on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, start your last workout from a widget, Control Center or Siri, and keep your training streak going. • Light or dark: choose Light, Dark or follow the system in Settings. • Tabata countdown: work and rest rounds with a preparation countdown. EMOM, Timer and Custom blocks are on the Pro Plan. • Music keeps playing. Beeps, vibration or a spoken countdown mark each interval. • Block builder (Pro): stack Work and Rest blocks into a timeline, tap EDIT on a block to move, duplicate or delete it, set rounds and prep. • Preset editor with cards in a full-height sheet. Full page on iPad. • Built for gym and home: running, cycling, lifting, bodyweight, boxing and CrossFit-style training. Why Choose Stride? Set the workout once, start the timer, keep your music on. Run Tabata as it is, or use Pro for EMOM, Timer and Custom block sequences. Take it to the gym floor on Apple Watch and leave the phone in the bag. Upgrade to the Pro Plan: A monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase, unlocks: • EMOM, Timer and Custom blocks. • Custom workouts: add Work and Rest blocks to a timeline (up to 40), reorder or duplicate them, set each duration, rounds and a preparation countdown. Saved Custom presets show a colored timeline strip. • Unlimited saved presets, synced to Apple Watch. • Speaking countdown. • Timer continues in the background when you switch apps. • No ads. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. The lifetime purchase is a one-time payment. Privacy: Stride does not sell your data. Heart rate and workouts stay in Apple Health on your devices. Download Now An interval timer, countdown timer and workout companion for Tabata, HIIT, EMOM and CrossFit-style training on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Terms of Service: https://www.skylarks.io/apps/stride/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://www.skylarks.io/apps/stride/privacy-policy

About

AI Calorie Tracker

This AI-powered app creates personalized nutrition plans to help you achieve your health goals, whether it's weight loss, muscle gain, or maintenance. It analyzes your food with a photo or manual entry, tracks your daily intake, and provides smart insights and customizable feedback to keep you motivated and informed.

Highlights
  • AI-powered personalized meal plans
  • Instant food analysis via photo
  • Daily nutrition tracking
  • Smart AI insights and suggestions
  • Customizable communication tone
  • Progress monitoring
Features
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Snap a photo of your meal — Snacky helps you count calories, protein, fat, and carbs. Keep a food diary, track water and weight, and talk about your nutrition with an AI assistant that takes your entries and goals into account. LOG FOOD YOUR WAY Take a meal photo, choose one from your gallery, or simply describe what you ate. For packaged foods, scan the label or look up the barcode. You can also search the food database — choose the easiest way to log each meal. CREATE AND SAVE YOUR OWN DISHES Build a dish from ingredients or enter calories and macros yourself. AI can help generate an ingredient list from the dish name and create an image. Add your own photo or an emoji, save favorites, and quickly find dishes in your history. UNDERSTAND YOUR NUTRITION See calories and macros for each dish and ingredient. Edit ingredients, portion weight, and nutritional values, or ask AI to update the details. Get a dish rating on a five-point scale, explanations, and suggestions for improving it. KEEP A DIARY WITH LESS EFFORT Organize dishes by meal, choose the entry date, and revisit previous days in the calendar. Daily totals show how much you have eaten and what is left toward your calorie and macro goals. SET GOALS THAT FIT YOU Choose to lose, gain, or maintain weight. Snacky calculates daily targets based on your personal details and activity. Set calorie and macro goals and choose your eating style: balanced, low-carb, keto, vegetarian, vegan, paleo, or Mediterranean. TALK NUTRITION WITH YOUR AI ASSISTANT “What should I have for dinner?” or “How can I get more protein today?” — ask questions with your diary as context. Get meal and swap ideas, save suggested dishes to your diary, and revisit past chats. You decide whether to accept the assistant’s suggested goal changes. Choose a tone that suits you: caring, scientific, ironic, or strict. REFLECT ON YOUR DAY Get an evening nutrition review based on your logged meals: how the day went, what worked, and what to focus on tomorrow. Continue the conversation with your assistant right in the chat. NOTICE YOUR PROGRESS AND HABITS See calories, macros, water, steps, weight, and BMI in one overview. Explore charts across different periods, your weight history, and progress toward your goal. Detailed insights help you compare weeks and months, explore calorie and protein sources, meal timing, and weight changes. Discuss findings with AI directly from insight cards. TRACK WATER AND ACTIVITY Log water by the glass, bottle, or milliliter, and set daily water and step goals. Connect Apple Health to read your step count and sync water entries. KEEP WHAT MATTERS IN SIGHT Add Snacky widgets to your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Check calories, macros, water, and steps in a format that works for you, without opening the app. SAVE AND SHARE YOUR DIARY Export entries for a day, a week, or a selected period as a PDF, image, Markdown, or CSV for Excel. Keep the report for yourself or share it. Start with your next meal — take a photo or add it manually. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.nukimo-app.com/privacy-policy-snack-sense

Screenshots

Stride4 screens
AI Calorie Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: AI Calorie Tracker at 126 against Stride's 9. Stride's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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

Both are free to download. Stride sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and AI Calorie Tracker sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Stride against 4.8 for AI Calorie Tracker. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AI Calorie Tracker has 126 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Stride's written reviews are positive against 94% of AI Calorie Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stride ships an update every 4 days, AI Calorie Tracker every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Stride versus AI Calorie Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrideAI Calorie Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (9 ratings) — better4.8 (126 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better93.9% of reviews
Number of ratings9126 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB131 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPrzemyslaw SkowronekNUKIMO

Customer experience

Stride

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

AI Calorie Tracker

All ratings126 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral1.6%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive93.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.1%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Stride

Subscriptions3
  • Pro - 1 Week$0.997 Days
  • Pro - 1 Month$2.991 Month
  • Pro - 1 Year7 Days trial$7.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro - Lifetime$17.99
6 purchases

AI Calorie Tracker

Subscriptions6
  • Weekly$4.997 Days
  • 7 days. Just try it.7 Days trial$5.997 Days
  • Monthly$9.991 Month
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  • Monthly$12.991 Month
  • Yearly Discount$29.991 Year
  • Yearly$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Stride free?
Stride is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AI Calorie Tracker free?
AI Calorie Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Stride or AI Calorie Tracker?
Stride is rated higher. Stride averages 4.8 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while AI Calorie Tracker averages 4.8 from 126 ratings.
Do Stride or AI Calorie Tracker have ads?
Neither Stride nor AI Calorie Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stride or AI Calorie Tracker?
Stride ships an update every 4 days, and AI Calorie Tracker every 8 days. Most recently, Stride was updated on October 27, 2026 and AI Calorie Tracker on October 24, 2026.

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