Comparison

Pace vs Sidebop

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

Head to head
About

Pace

This app connects active individuals for dating, friendship, and events based on shared interests and real-world activities. It encourages users to move beyond endless scrolling and meet people through organized events and shared hobbies.

Highlights
  • Smart matching based on active interests
  • Event creation and discovery
  • Live map exploration for nearby events
  • Rich profiles with social media integration
  • 1:1 and group chat for planning
  • Verified community profiles
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Find your people. Match your energy. Pace is the dating and social app for people who live active lifestyles, are done with the grind of swipe-all-day dating apps, and want to meet real people at real events. The best connections happen when you’re doing what you love. A hiking buddy, a weekend brunch crew, or a romantic spark. Pace matches you on real activities and shared interests, not just photos. From a Saturday trail run to a Friday cocktail class, you meet people where you already want to be. Stop scrolling. Start living. Most dating apps are built to keep you behind a screen. Pace is built to get you off it. With 50+ activity types, it connects what you find online to what you actually do offline. Everything you need to find your people: Smart Matching: Tinder-style swiping built around active interests. Match for dating, friendship, or events, all in one place. Event Discovery: Create and join events by activity, location, and date. Find what’s happening near you, or host your own. Map Exploration: See nearby events on a live map and drop in to meet up. Rich Profiles: Show how you actually move. Link your Instagram, Strava, and Spotify. Messaging: Go from match to meetup fast with 1:1 and group chats to plan routes and coordinate details. Verified Community: Every profile goes through admin approval and moderation, so the people you meet are real. Find your pace, choose your move. High-energy fitness or a laid-back social vibe, there’s something for you: Fitness & Adventure: Running, Cycling, Hiking, Rock Climbing, Surfing Sport & Flow: Pickleball, Tennis, Yoga, Pilates Lead your own thing or drop into something that catches your eye. Pace turns your city into a place to move and meet people on purpose. Ready to set the pace? Join numerous active users already meeting up in the real world. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Sidebop

Discover Los Angeles events mapped out for easy access. Plan your outings by setting a starting point, travel mode, and time, then explore what's within reach. Save events and get directions to make spontaneous plans or find planned activities.

Highlights
  • Map-based event discovery
  • Customizable travel radius
  • Event filtering by time and category
  • Venue information and directions
  • Event bookmarking and updates
  • Ticket link integration
Features
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LA has a lot going on. Find something you can actually get to. A show nearby. A movie across town. A happy hour after work. sidebop puts Los Angeles events on a map, so you can spend less time figuring out where to go and more time being there. START WHERE YOU ARE. OR WHERE YOU'LL BE. Choose a starting point, a travel mode and how much time you want to spend getting there. Your ring shows what's in range. Starting somewhere else? Search for a place or move your pin. LOOK AHEAD Open Find to choose when, pick a category, or type an event, venue or what you're looking for. Browse upcoming days across Los Angeles, then use From where? to compare travel from a starting point. Return to Now to see what's within reach. KNOW BEFORE YOU GO See a map of the venue, its address, event time and available price and entry details. Open the source listing for more information or get directions when you're ready to head out. KEEP YOUR MAYBES Bookmark an event and find it again in Saved. See listed updates to your saved events and new listings from venues you follow. When an event has a ticket link, Check tickets opens its ticket page so you can see what's available. Browse without creating an account. Use your location if you want, or choose an address instead. Built for Los Angeles. For the little gap in your afternoon, the spontaneous detour and the night you haven't figured out yet.

Screenshots

Pace4 screens
Sidebop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pace at 100% against Sidebop's 0%. Pace also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). Sidebop's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Pace sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month. Sidebop asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sidebop holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Pace's written reviews are positive against 0% of Sidebop's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pace ships an update weekly, Sidebop daily. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Pace versus Sidebop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaceSidebop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size240 MB56 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperEyeswideKevin Showkat

Customer experience

Pace

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sidebop

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pace

Subscriptions1
  • Pace Plus$9.991 Month
None

Sidebop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pace free?
Pace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sidebop free?
Sidebop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pace or Sidebop?
Sidebop is rated higher. Pace averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Sidebop averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pace or Sidebop have ads?
Neither Pace nor Sidebop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pace or Sidebop?
Pace ships an update weekly, and Sidebop daily. Most recently, Pace was updated on November 4, 2026 and Sidebop on November 10, 2026.

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