Comparison

Strides vs Bean Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Strides

This app helps you organize your habits, routines, and goals in a single to-do list. Track progress with reminders and charts, and choose from over 150 templates or create your own. Get organized and build your perfect routine.

Highlights
  • Habit and goal tracking
  • Customizable trackers
  • 150+ templates
  • Progress reports and charts
  • Reminders
  • Daily checklist
Features
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Imagine having all of your most important habits, routines and goals together in one simple to do list. Now you can! With Strides, you can track good or bad habits, SMART goals, and more. Keep up with reminders to hold you accountable and charts to keep you motivated. Explore new ways to manage your life with over 150 templates and the ability to create your own trackers. Get organized with a daily checklist to help create your perfect routine. Keep up with what you’ve accomplished with progress reports that compile your goals, projects and progress all in one place. Set up reminders and add notes to ensure you’re on track and on task. Track anything you want with four types of trackers. Streak calendars let you keep up with your success rate, and milestone calendars help you to keep up with project timelines. Want to keep track of a repeating number? Check out the Average tracker. Looking to hit a goal by a specific date? Give the Target tracker a try. Start keeping track of your habits and goals anywhere you go. Download today to get organized and create the perfect routine with Strides. TRACKERS: - 150+ templates to choose from, or create your own customized tracker - Progress Reports with everything in one place - View charts with history, streak, success rate and more - Unlimited reminders to set yourself up for success ADDITIONAL FEATURES: - Integration with Apple Health - Sync between iPhone, iPad & Mac - Add notes to logs and trackers - Reminders to keep you on track SEE WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING: "I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU! Strides is one of the most useful apps out there. Nowadays, I can't even imagine myself without it :)” ~Leyla "Amazing app. The sheer amount of flexibility with what you can track with Strides is amazing." ~Carlo "My life has become so much more organized and fulfilled since I started using your app. I really appreciate it!” ~Micah "Best tracking app. I love, love, love this app! This is exactly what I've been looking for for two or three years. I can track multiple goals and see them all on one screen. Perfect!" ~Kate – Strides is free forever to track what's most important to you. If you want to get even more out of it and support development, you can upgrade to Strides Plus with a monthly or annual subscription - or with a one-time purchase of the lifetime plan - to unlock all premium features, including Unlimited Trackers, sync between iPhone, iPad & Mac, Tags & Filters, Today List, Export Data, Goal Notes and more. Payment will be charged to the credit card connected to your iTunes Account when you confirm the initial subscription purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and the cost of the renewal will be identified. You may manage your subscription and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after the purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription, where applicable. – Read our full Privacy Policy / Terms of Use: https://www.stridesapp.com/privacy.html https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Keep making strides!

About

Bean Tracker

This app helps home coffee roasters meticulously track their roasting process. It allows users to manage green beans, record detailed roast information, and rate their results to find the best beans. The app offers a simple timer and automatic inventory calculations for a streamlined experience.

Highlights
  • Track green bean details
  • Record detailed roast information
  • Manage green bean inventory
  • Simple in-app timer
  • Automatic inventory calculations
  • Rate roasts and discover best beans
Features
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Improve your coffee roasting with Bean Tracker. Simple, free and easy to use. Made for tracking all the important information about your at home coffee roasting. Bean Tracker is a coffee roasting app that allows you to oversee all your coffee roasting. Manage green beans and roasts, rate your roasts to discover which beans are working best for you. Whether you're a meticulous coffee roaster looking to record every detail of your coffee roasting or a casual roaster looking to record merely your dates, beans and roast numbers. Bean Tracker enables you to record as much or as little information as you please. Bean Tracker records the following Fields: Green Bean: Country, Name, Supplier, Current Stock, Price, Description, Comment. Roast: Overall Roast Number, Green Bean, Bean roast No, Weight of green beans, Weight of roasted beans, Heat Profile, First Crack Start, First Crack End, Second Crack Start, Second Crack End, Total Time, Comment. Features: Simple in App timer for your roasts. Simple calculations done for you. Roast any amount of beans and it will be automatically deducted from your green bean Inventory. If you like to roast your own coffee beans this app is for you.

Screenshots

Strides4 screens
Bean Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Strides at 4.8 against Bean Tracker's 4.0. Strides also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 8 months). Bean Tracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Strides sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Bean Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Strides holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Strides has 19K ratings behind it against 41, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Strides's written reviews are positive against 53% of Bean Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Strides ships an update fortnightly, Bean Tracker every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Strides versus Bean Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStridesBean Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (19K ratings) — better4.0 (41 ratings)
Positive reviews81.1% of reviews — better52.6% of reviews
Number of ratings19K — better41
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size143 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGoals LLCCallum Hill

Customer experience

Strides

All ratings19,162 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral2.3%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews1,164 reviews
Positive81.1%
Neutral5.0%
Negative13.9%

Bean Tracker

All ratings41 ratings
Positive68.3%
Neutral17.1%
Negative14.6%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive52.6%
Neutral31.6%
Negative15.8%

Bugs and requests

Strides

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes after iOS 14.8 update
  • Incorrect data logging and display issues
  • Notification bugs showing outdated information

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow more than 3 habits in free version
  • Add time tracking and time-based goals
  • Improve syncing and notification reliability
  • Introduce more customization and organization options
  • Provide a one-time purchase option instead of subscription

Bean Tracker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Strides

Subscriptions6
  • Strides Plus$4.991 Month
  • Strides Plus$7.991 Month
  • Strides Plus$9.991 Month
Show 3 more
  • Strides Plus7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Strides Plus7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Strides Plus1 Month trial$39.991 Year
One-time3
  • Strides Plus$39.99
  • Strides Plus$99.99
  • Strides Plus$149.99
None

Bean Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Strides free?
Strides is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bean Tracker free?
Bean Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Strides or Bean Tracker?
Strides is rated higher. Strides averages 4.8 out of 5 from 19K ratings, while Bean Tracker averages 4.0 from 41 ratings.
Do Strides or Bean Tracker have ads?
Bean Tracker shows ads; Strides does not.
Which is updated more often, Strides or Bean Tracker?
Strides ships an update fortnightly, and Bean Tracker every 8 months. Most recently, Strides was updated on October 3, 2026 and Bean Tracker on September 30, 2026.

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