Comparison

Zolt vs Pace by Athlytic

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

Head to head
About

Zolt

This adaptive body coach uses your personal data to help you lose fat, build muscle, and maintain healthy habits. It intelligently adjusts calorie and macro targets daily based on your progress and goals, offering personalized guidance for cutting, bulking, or maintaining. Seamlessly log meals with AI and barcode scanning, and receive dynamic activity goals that adapt to your energy levels and training load.

Highlights
  • Adaptive TDEE and macro adjustments
  • Personalized calorie goals for cutting, bulking, maintaining
  • Smart food logging with AI and barcode scanning
  • Dynamic activity goals based on energy and training
  • Recovery and sleep insights from Apple Watch
  • Health journeys and habit tracking
Features
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Zolt is an adaptive body coach to help you lose fat, build muscle, and maintain healthy habits. Zolt helps you reach your goal body with intelligent, personalized coaching. Whether you're cutting, bulking, or maintaining, Zolt adapts to your body every day using your own data and not just static formulas. We use an adaptive TDEE algorithm (also known as dynamic TDEE or dynamic expenditure) to help make sure you always are on track to reach your weight goals. Start with your goal. Zolt handles the rest: tracking, adapting, and coaching you toward it. Adaptive TDEE & Macros That Evolve With Your Body - Zolt estimates maintenance calories from your logged calorie intake and body-weight trends, then uses that estimate to adjust targets for your goal. Apple Watch calories do not drive the learned TDEE estimate or its updates. You can use adaptive TDEE without a Watch. - Your macro goals also adjust based on your progress, protein preferences, and dietary focus. Everything is personalized, yet effortless. Personalized Calorie Goals for Every Phase - Zolt supports your current phase — cutting, bulking, or maintaining — and evolves with you over time. Weekly and daily check-ins help you stay consistent while your nutrition plan flexes as your weight, training, and goals shift. - Zolt doesn't just set targets, it guides you through every plateau, push, or reset. Smart Food Logging with Barcode, AI, and Recipes - Log meals with speed using AI-powered food search, barcode scanning, and custom recipe creation. Track full macros and micros, not just calories, and set flexible RDA goals based on your preferences. - Zolt turns food tracking into a seamless, personalized experience that supports your goal — not one more chore to manage. Activity Goals That Adjust to Your Energy & Training Load - No one-size-fits-all goals here. Zolt creates daily movement targets that respond to your actual recovery, energy, and recent workouts. Whether it’s a normal day, a recovery day, or a performance push, your goals adapt accordingly. - Cardio load metrics like TSB, ATL, and CTL help guide intensity over time. You train smarter, not harder. Recovery and Sleep Insights from Apple Watch Data - Zolt pulls from your Apple Watch to deliver real recovery insights — not just pretty graphs. Your sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, and SpO₂ are translated into recovery scores and readiness ratings. - You’ll get actionable tips to improve sleep quality and reduce stress, and a habit journal to help identify what’s boosting or breaking your recovery. Health Journeys and Habit Goals That Align With Your Big Picture - Zolt lets you go beyond weight to build your ideal lifestyle. Group goals into “Journeys” like longevity, performance, or energy and track habits like steps, cardio, sleep, hydration, and more. Zolt is more than a health tracker. It's a body coach that evolves with you. Smarter guidance. Clearer goals. Better results. Powered by fatsecret nutrition API (https://www.fatsecret.com) Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy: https://zolthealth.com/privacy-policy

About

Pace by Athlytic

This app analyzes your Apple Watch health data to provide clear, plain-language insights into your well-being. It monitors over 35 health signals, learns your personal baselines, and alerts you to significant changes, offering explanations and celebrating improvements without overwhelming you with raw numbers.

Highlights
  • Reads Apple Watch health data
  • Plain-language health summaries
  • Monitors 35+ health signals
  • Learns personal baselines
  • Alerts for significant changes
  • Health pattern discovery
  • AI-powered health assistant
Features
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Pace by Athlytic reads your Apple Watch health data and tells you what actually matters -- in plain language, not just charts and numbers. Most health apps overwhelm you with scores, rings, and graphs. Pace takes a different approach. It monitors 35+ health signals, learns what's normal for you, and only speaks up when something is worth your attention. HOW IT WORKS Just wear your Apple Watch. Pace does the rest. No data entry required, no numbers to interpret. Each day, Pace checks your health data and gives you a clear summary of how you're doing. WHAT PACE TRACKS Sleep - Duration, quality, efficiency, and consistency - Deep, REM, and core sleep stages - Breathing disturbance tracking Vitals - Heart rate variability (HRV) and resting heart rate - Blood pressure trends with AHA classification - Blood oxygen, respiratory rate, and wrist temperature Cardio Fitness - VO2 Max tracking with age and sex-adjusted context - Walking heart rate trends Activity - Steps with personalized pacing and goal tracking - Active calories, flights climbed, and standing hours - Time in daylight with weather-aware context Workouts - Automatic detection from Apple Watch - Duration, calories, and heart rate summaries Body Composition - Weight, lean body mass, body fat percentage, and FFMI - Personalized baseline ranges with trend detection Mobility - Walking speed, steadiness, and symmetry - Step length, stair speed, and six-minute walk distance - 8 metrics that research links to long-term health SMART HEALTH INSIGHTS Pace learns your personal baselines over 60 days, then alerts you when something shifts. Instead of showing you a number and hoping you know what it means, Pace explains it: - "Your heart rate variability is lower than usual" - "Your blood pressure trend is elevated -- the AHA considers this Stage 1" - "Your walking speed has declined -- this is one of the strongest predictors of overall health" And when things improve, Pace tells you that too. No open loops -- when a concern resolves, you'll know about it. HEALTH PATTERNS Pace discovers correlations hidden in your data -- like how alcohol affects your HRV, or how daylight impacts your deep sleep. Every pattern is statistically validated and backed by peer-reviewed research. No guessing, no astrology. WHAT MAKES PACE DIFFERENT - Conversational health summaries written in plain English - Alerts you when something needs attention, celebrates when things improve - All monitoring is passive -- just wear your Apple Watch - Personal baselines, not one-size-fits-all thresholds - Weather-aware context for activity and daylight - Every clinical threshold is backed by peer-reviewed research PREMIUM FEATURES - AI-powered health assistant -- ask questions about your data in plain English - Health pattern discovery across 35+ metrics - Smart notifications when something shifts - Step goal celebrations with streak tracking - Weekly health summary notifications - Exportable PDF health reports to share with your doctor - Trend charts for all metrics - Step pacing and detailed concern views - Reads alcohol, caffeine, hydration, and nutrition data from Apple Health YOUR PRIVACY All analysis happens on your iPhone using Apple's on-device AI. No cloud uploads, no accounts, no tracking, no data selling. Your health data never leaves your phone. Pace by Athlytic -- your health, explained.

Screenshots

Zolt4 screens
Pace by Athlytic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Zolt at 5.0 against Pace by Athlytic's 4.6. Zolt also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and review sentiment (63% vs 55%). Pace by Athlytic's advantage is ratings volume (95 vs 7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Zolt sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Pace by Athlytic sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Zolt holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pace by Athlytic has 95 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Zolt's written reviews are positive against 55% of Pace by Athlytic's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zolt ships an update every 4 days, Pace by Athlytic every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Zolt versus Pace by Athlytic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZoltPace by Athlytic
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better4.6 (95 ratings)
Positive reviews63.4% of reviews — better54.5% of reviews
Number of ratings795 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size215 MB14 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperZolt Labs LLCMyndArc, LLC

Customer experience

Zolt

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive63.4%
Neutral9.8%
Negative26.8%

Pace by Athlytic

All ratings76 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive54.5%
Neutral13.6%
Negative31.8%

Bugs and requests

Zolt

Reported bugs

21 issues
  • Sleep and recovery readings not working
  • TDEE history chart is blank
  • Miscalculating TDEE by thousands
  • Not registering weight or food logs
  • Sync failed errors
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  • Nutrition sync is broken
  • App freezes
  • Data appears and disappears at random
  • Things take forever to load
  • App freezes or gets hung up
  • Watch not syncing
  • Photos not loading to upload nutrition label
  • Macros not imported from Apple Health or inaccurate
  • App stops working every few days or multiple times a day
  • Cannot choose correct weight
  • Adaptive TDEE is way off
  • TDEE range won't let me edit
  • Food log is clunky
  • Simple ingredients not in database
  • Subscription price jumps up at checkout
  • App still a bit buggy

Requested features

12 requests
  • Sort out sleep and recovery readings
  • Fix TDEE history and calculations
  • Improve nutrition sync
  • Make food logging easier
  • Improve barcode scanner accuracy
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  • Expand food database
  • Allow editing of TDEE range
  • Make app more intuitive
  • Provide clearer instructions
  • Fix weight input accuracy
  • Improve photo loading for nutrition labels
  • Ensure sync with Apple Health is consistent

Pace by Athlytic

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Zolt

Subscriptions7
  • Zolt Pro - Monthly Membership7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Zolt Pro Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Zolt Pro Plus Monthly$9.991 Month
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  • Zolt Pro Annual (1 year)$19.991 Year
  • Zolt Pro - Annual Membership7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Zolt Pro Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Zolt Pro Plus Annual1 Month trial$79.991 Year
One-time3
  • 100 Zolt Credits$4.99
  • 250 Zolt Credits$9.99
  • 600 Zolt Credits$19.99
2 purchases

Pace by Athlytic

Subscriptions2
  • Pace Premium Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Pace Premium Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Zolt free?
Zolt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pace by Athlytic free?
Pace by Athlytic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Zolt or Pace by Athlytic?
Zolt is rated higher. Zolt averages 5.0 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Pace by Athlytic averages 4.6 from 95 ratings.
Do Zolt or Pace by Athlytic have ads?
Neither Zolt nor Pace by Athlytic shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Zolt or Pace by Athlytic?
Zolt ships an update every 4 days, and Pace by Athlytic every 2 weeks. Most recently, Zolt was updated on November 8, 2026 and Pace by Athlytic on November 9, 2026.

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