Pacebase vs CoPace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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/
CoPace
This app provides smart pacing and daily energy estimates for individuals managing energy-limiting conditions. It uses your wearable data to alert you when to slow down and offers insights into your recovery and daily capacity, without requiring an armband or account.
- Real-time heart rate pacing
- Motion Filter for activity detection
- Daily energy estimate based on sleep
- Overnight strain insights
- On-device data processing
- Wearable integration (Apple Watch, Oura, Garmin, Whoop)
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Your energy doesn't come with a gauge. CoPace turns the watch or ring you own into one you can read. What today holds. What you have spent. What is left, right now. The hard part is that the bill arrives a day or two late. By the time you feel it, the spending already happened. So CoPace counts as you go. A day with CoPace Morning. You open it once, and you know. Overnight, CoPace looks at how you slept and how your heart settled. That becomes one line: a good day, a careful day, or an honest "not enough data yet". Under it is the number of minutes you have to spend. Through the day. It counts while you get on with things. CoPace works out the heart rate that counts as pushing it, for you. Every minute above that number comes out of your day. With an Apple Watch your wrist buzzes when you cross it, so you can ease off before you spend more than you meant to. Evening. Ten seconds before bed. One slider for how your body feels. One optional note. Somewhere to write down symptoms. Skip it and nothing scolds you. Tomorrow. And it remembers. If the last two days are catching up with you, tomorrow morning says so, and tells you why in plain words. It knows standing up is not a workout Most pacing tools buzz every time your heart rate rises, including when you have only stood up. That is noise, and it is why people give up. CoPace also looks at whether your wrist is moving, so walking to the kitchen and standing at the sink are treated differently. You are told when it matters and left alone when it is not. Free • Wrist alerts on Apple Watch when you go above your number • Telling the difference between moving and standing still • Your energy for the day, from how you slept and recovered • Your minutes counting down as you use them • A morning heads-up when the last two days are catching up, with the reasons • Evening check-in and somewhere to note symptoms • A fairer starting number if you take medication that slows your heart rate • All of your data back out, whenever you want it Pacing your day is free. Pro is for looking back, to see how your days add up. Pro, if you want the longer view • What happened the last few times your day looked like this one • Your number learns from your own history instead of staying fixed • Symptoms tracked over months, so patterns have a chance to show • How steady your pacing has been, week to week • Your full history, not only the recent days • A summary you can save or send to your doctor Works with what you already own Wrist alerts need an Apple Watch Series 4 or newer (watchOS 10.6+). Daily energy works with an Oura Ring, Garmin, or anything that sends health data to your iPhone. Nothing extra to buy. Your data stays on your phone There is no account to make. Your heart rate, sleep and steps are read from Apple Health on your phone, and the working out happens there. The part that learns your patterns never sends anything anywhere. Two things are your choice and do leave your phone: connecting Oura or Garmin, and anonymous reports that tell me when the app crashes. You can say no to both. Nothing hidden The number CoPace watches is built from your own resting heart rate, and how it is worked out is published for anyone to read. Every heads-up tells you what it is based on. No AI writes you advice. General wellness notice CoPace is a general wellness app, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, or prevent any condition, and is not medical advice. Consult your healthcare provider before changing your activity routine. Support support@copace.app | copace.app/support | @CoPaceApp Legal Privacy Policy: copace.app/privacy Terms of Service: copace.app/terms EU Digital Services Act Notice: copace.app/dsa Apple Standard EULA: apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula EU, UK, EEA and Swiss users Exercise any GDPR right via our Data Protection Representative, DataRep: datarequest@datarep.com (include "CoPace" in the subject line).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pacebase at 5.0 against CoPace's 4.0. Pacebase also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). CoPace's advantage is monetization model (freemium vs subscription) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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 and CoPace sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pacebase holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
Pacebase ships an update every 9 days, CoPace weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pacebase | CoPace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Pacebase Health, LLC | Vivifyze LLC |
In-app purchases
Pacebase
- Pacebase$6.991 Month
- Pacebase7 Days trial$8.991 Month
- Pacebase$86.001 Year
CoPace
- Monthly Pro1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- Premium Yearly1 Month trial$44.991 Year







