Comparison

Cando vs PaceBuddy

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

Head to head
About

Cando

This app gamifies daily activity by challenging users to reach 10,000 steps. Participants invest a small amount, and those who meet the goal share a prize pool. It aims to build healthier habits through financial motivation and accountability.

Highlights
  • Daily 10,000-step challenge
  • Financial investment to participate
  • Share prize pool with other winners
  • Build healthier habits
  • Gamified fitness motivation
  • Global daily challenge
Features
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Cando helps you stay active every day with a simple challenge: reach 10,000 steps and get rewarded. Build healthier habits, stay motivated, and turn your daily walk into a game. Cando combines movement, accountability, and financial motivation in one simple daily challenge. How Cando works • Join the daily 10,000-step challenge • Each game runs for 24 hours and starts at 00:00 UTC • Make a small investment to participate • Reach 10,000 steps before the day ends • If you reach the goal, you win and share the prize pool with the other winners What winners get • Their original investment back • A share of the remaining prize pool based on their contribution • The satisfaction of reaching 10,000 steps and doing something good for your health Every day is a new opportunity to do something good for yourself. Whether you want more consistency, extra motivation, or simply a fun reason to move, Cando helps you reach 10,000 steps and turn a daily walk or run into a natural part of your routine. Why people use Cando • Daily motivation to stay active • A simple 10,000-step goal • A global daily challenge with the same 24-hour window for everyone • A fun way to build healthier habits • A reward linked to completing your goal Download Cando and get started today. Make 10,000 steps part of your daily routine and get rewarded along the way. Apple is not involved in the challenge in any way.

About

PaceBuddy

This app acts as a personal running coach, allowing you to race against your past performances on familiar routes. It provides real-time feedback on your pace and distance, with advanced features for accurate tracking on varied terrain and integration with smartwatches.

Highlights
  • Race against past runs or personal bests
  • Live ahead/behind pace feedback
  • Falling-behind alerts (vibration, beep, spoken)
  • Accurate distance and elevation tracking
  • Calorie calculation with climbing cost
  • Apple Watch standalone workouts
Features
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Everyone has a route they do over and over — the same loop, the same hill, the same trail. PaceBuddy is built on one idea: on that route, the only pace worth chasing is your own. It replays your last run beside you, second by second, and tells you whether you're ahead or behind and by how far. Race your last attempt, or your best. RACE YOURSELF, NOT A STRANGER • Live ahead/behind against your own past run on the same route • Choose your last run or your personal best as the target • Works even if you start the loop from a different point each day • Falling-behind alerts by vibration, beep, or spoken callout • Distance announcements at every kilometre or mile • Lap splits with distance, time, pace and calories BUILT FOR REAL TERRAIN • Elevation from the barometer, not GPS altitude — far more accurate on hills • Distance from GPS Doppler speed with step-based stride calibration, so it holds up under tree cover and on switchbacks • Calories that account for the metabolic cost of climbing, not just distance • Heart-rate zones when you wear an Apple Watch APPLE WATCH, WITH OR WITHOUT YOUR IPHONE • Standalone workouts — leave the phone at home • Create routes on your wrist; they sync back automatically • Live heart rate and heart-rate zones • Lap splits and alerts on the watch too PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No ads — ever • No subscription. One purchase, yours forever • No account, no sign-up, no tracking, no analytics • No third-party SDKs PaceBuddy has no servers and makes no network connections. Your workouts, routes and settings stay on your devices — aside from heart-rate and workout data you choose to sync through Apple Health. TRY IT FIRST PaceBuddy is free for 14 days, with everything unlocked. After that, a single one-time purchase keeps it. No subscription, no renewal, and the workouts you recorded stay readable either way. A NOTE ON HOW IT WORKS Pace coaching compares you to your own history on a given route, so it appears from your second workout on that route onward — a first run has nothing to race yet. Workouts under 100 m are treated as accidental starts and discarded.

Screenshots

Cando4 screens
PaceBuddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PaceBuddy at 5.0 against Cando's 2.0. Cando's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. PaceBuddy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cando asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PaceBuddy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Cando versus PaceBuddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCandoPaceBuddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0.0 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB35 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLASSE JOHANSENShahab Karimi

In-app purchases

None

Cando

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PaceBuddy

One-time1
  • Unlock PaceBuddy$6.99

Questions

Is Cando free?
Cando is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PaceBuddy free?
PaceBuddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cando or PaceBuddy?
PaceBuddy is rated higher. Cando averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while PaceBuddy averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Cando or PaceBuddy have ads?
Neither Cando nor PaceBuddy shows ads.

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