Healthy Cities vs Exercise Pal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Healthy Cities
This app facilitates step and activity challenges for organizations and individuals, encouraging healthier lifestyles. Participants' movements contribute to donations for local and global green charities and sustainability causes.
- Step and activity challenges
- Connects with activity trackers
- Converts activities to steps
- Supports green charity donations
- Organizational challenges
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Healthy Cities is the Bupa step and activity challenge app for organisations and people, which we use to run step and non-step based challenges to make you and your city healthier. The Bupa Foundation will be donating to green charities and sustainability causes locally and globally to say thanks to you for taking part. Healthy Cities is compatible with most activity trackers (smart watches, sports apps, or your phone's pedometer). So, connect a wearable device to automatically count your steps, or convert your activities to steps and compete in the Healthy Cities challenges to join our movement. Join in activities to feel healthier and turn your movement into funding for green causes near you.
Exercise Pal
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TrainState helps you log workouts fast and stay consistent. Track strength, cardio, and daily training in one clean app. See your history, monitor progress, and build better habits over time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://brettduplessis.vercel.app/apps/pulse/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Healthy Cities at none against Exercise Pal's 3. Healthy Cities also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Exercise Pal's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price 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
Both are free to download. Exercise Pal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Healthy Cities asks for nothing beyond the download.
Healthy Cities ships an update every 2 weeks, Exercise Pal every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Healthy Cities | Exercise Pal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 46.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 91 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bupa | Brett du Plessis |
In-app purchases
Healthy Cities
No in-app purchases
Exercise Pal
- Premium 1 Month$1.991 Month
- Premium 1 Year$19.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime$49.99
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