Traace vs Muscle Maps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Traace
This app transforms your fitness activities into visually stunning, interactive maps. Track your walks, runs, and cycles, then explore your routes with detailed insights and easy organization. It prioritizes privacy and a streamlined user experience.
- Visualize routes on map
- Color-coded by activity
- Search and filter workouts
- Detailed route statistics
- Lightweight and private
- No external uploads
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Traace helps you visualize your fitness journey. Whether you’re walking around town, running through trails, or cycling to new spots, Traace turns your workouts into beautiful, interactive routes you can explore, organize, and reflect on. - See Your Routes on the Map Sync your walking, running, and cycling workouts from HealthKit and view them directly on a map, color-coded by activity. - Search, Filter, and Focus Quickly find past workouts by date, name, or distance. Focus on a single route or toggle between activity types for a clear overview. - Detailed Insights Tap into any route to view key stats like distance, elevation, and start/end locations. - Lightweight, Private, and Instant Traace is designed to be fast, elegant, and respects your privacy. All workouts come directly from your device — nothing is uploaded externally. - No Accounts. No Ads. Just You. Traace keeps it simple: sync and go. Perfect for runners, walkers, hikers, or cyclists who just want to explore.
Muscle Maps
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Muscle Maps is a location-based walking game built around nearby zones, weekly step goals, and a tiny virtual pet. Open the map, find zones around you, walk into range, and capture them for XP. Your steps also care for a pet with a goal that resets each week. What you can do: - Discover nearby zones on the live map - Walk into range and capture zones for XP - View all of your captured zones on the Profile map - Complete daily quests tied to movement and exploration - Feed your steps to a tiny pet and build a weekly care streak - Share your pet progress and set optional reminders - Track optional step-based progress with Apple Health - Use Muscle Maps Plus for rolling 30-day step catch-up and 5 worldwide captures per subscription period Pet Guardian Pass is a separate optional monthly subscription. If a pet passes away after a missed weekly goal, an active subscriber can restore that same pet once for the missed week and preserve its care streak. The pet feature remains free to use, and non-subscribers can adopt a new pet when the next weekly care period begins. Privacy: - Location is used to place nearby zones and measure activity progress - Health and Motion access are optional - Location history, motion data, and Health samples stay on your device for gameplay - Feature requests and optional developer update opt-in are user-initiated by email Subscription Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Traace at none against Muscle Maps's 2. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Muscle Maps sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Traace asks for nothing beyond the download.
Traace ships an update every 8 days, Muscle Maps every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Traace | Muscle Maps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aadi-Shiv Malhotra | Michael Norman |
In-app purchases
Traace
No in-app purchases
Muscle Maps
- Pet Guardian Pass$0.991 Month
- Muscle Maps Plus$1.291 Month









