Comparison

Steady State vs Möta

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

Head to head
About

Steady State

This app helps runners and endurance athletes achieve consistency and peak performance through data-driven training insights and recovery tracking. It offers personalized plans, coach-athlete communication, and tools to monitor workload and injury risk for sustainable progress.

Highlights
  • Recovery insights
  • Coach-athlete communication
  • Sustainable progress tracking
  • Personalized training plans
  • Acute on Chronic Workload monitoring
  • Injury risk assessment
Features
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Steady State is your ultimate training and coaching companion, designed for runners and endurance athletes striving for consistency, longevity, and peak performance. Whether you're training for your first race or fine-tuning your competitive edge, Steady State helps you stay balanced, injury-free, and at your best. Recovery Insights: Integrate with Garmin, Coros, and more devices to gain unique recovery insights and make smarter training decisions. Coach-Athlete Communication: Seamlessly connect with your coach or team through intuitive messaging and shared progress tracking. Sustainable Progress: Achieve long-term success with data-driven recommendations for smarter, more consistent training. Dynamic Tools for Coaches: Empower coaches with tools to manage multiple athletes, review performance, and deliver expert guidance effortlessly. Personalized Training Plans: Optimize your workouts with science-backed programs tailored to your goals, fitness level, and performance data. What we offer: - Recovery scores - find out how your recovery is today and how its been trending - Acute on Chronic Workload - track how you're progressing and the training load you have - Injury Risk - track your injury risk so you can make the right decision to train smart and stay injury free - Analytics - get all the data about your activities and how it stacks up over time You can subscribe and pay on the Apple App Store using your Apple ID. We offer a monthly subscription that will be auto-renewing unless cancelled before the end of the current billing period. You can turn off your payment by going to Manage Subscriptions in your devices subscription settings. Athlete: Free Athlete Premium: $9.99 End user agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://steadystate.fit/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://steadystate.fit/terms-of-service

About

Möta

Find compatible fitness partners based on your activity level, schedule, and goals. Connect with others for various sports and workouts, from trail running to pickleball, and build your fitness community.

Highlights
  • Partner matching by level, schedule, and goals
  • Supports 15+ activities
  • Connects with Apple Health
  • User-hosted activity groups
  • In-app messaging
  • Profile setup for fitness preferences
Features
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Möta (Swedish for "to meet") matches you with compatible fitness partners based on your level, schedule, and goals - not just who you already know. Whether you're looking for a Sunday trail run, a pickleball match, someone to finally make those 6am workouts happen, or to complete your pickup sport crew, Möta finds your people. How it works: Set up your profile with your sports, fitness level, intensity of training, availability, and location. Our new account onboarding makes the easy and complete. Möta surfaces compatible partners and activities hosted by other users nearby. Find a workout partner or join an activity group, use our messaging to get to know each other, then agree on a time, and move together. Möta supports 15+ activities including running, hiking, cycling, pickleball, yoga, volleyball, lifting, and more. We do not believe in gatekeeping, whether you're a rookie or advanced, there's a Mötamate for you. Möta connects with Apple Health to match people based on their actual activity - not just what they say they do. Möta will begin its release to the waitlist members in Portland, ME and Boston, MA. Join now and help shape what it becomes. Connect. Move. Repeat. Terms of Use: https://motafit.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://motafit.app/privacy

Screenshots

Steady State3 screens
Möta2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Möta at 5.0 against Steady State's 4.1. Möta also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Steady State sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Möta sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Möta holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Steady State's written reviews are positive against 100% of Möta's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Steady State ships an update every 4 days, Möta every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 5, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Steady State versus Möta: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSteady StateMöta
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (7 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size114 MB72 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperFind Your Steady StateMota LLC

Customer experience

Steady State

All ratings7 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Möta

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Steady State

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Athlete Premium$9.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$39.991 Year
2 purchases

Möta

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium1 Month trial$9.991 Month
  • Annual Premium7 Days trial$69.991 Year

Questions

Is Steady State free?
Steady State is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Möta free?
Möta is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Steady State or Möta?
Möta is rated higher. Steady State averages 4.1 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Möta averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Steady State or Möta have ads?
Neither Steady State nor Möta shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Steady State or Möta?
Steady State ships an update every 4 days, and Möta every 3 days. Most recently, Steady State was updated on October 5, 2026 and Möta on October 5, 2026.

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