Comparison

Grow vs Veloq

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

Head to head
About

Grow

Effortlessly track daily progress and visualize your improvements over time. This app offers clear weekly and yearly insights to help you build better habits with purpose and stay motivated on your journey.

Highlights
  • Daily habit tracking
  • Weekly progress view
  • Yearly insights and charts
  • Goal planning
  • Motivation through visual growth
  • Lifestyle improvement
Features
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GROW. HABIT TRACKER FOR BETTER HABITS. Most habit trackers reward you with streaks, then make you feel like you've failed the moment you miss a day. Grow doesn't. There are no streaks to break and no badges to chase. Instead, Grow shows you the bigger picture: when your habits actually work, and how they quietly compound over weeks, months, and a whole year. Because building a better life isn't about a perfect run of days. It's about understanding yourself, and showing up again and again, without the pressure. NO STREAKS. NO GUILT. JUST PROGRESS. Miss a day? Nothing breaks. Grow is built so a single setback never undoes your momentum or your motivation. You see how far you've come, not where you slipped, so it's easy to simply pick back up tomorrow. SEE WHEN YOUR HABITS ACTUALLY WORK Grow reveals the patterns behind your habits. Discover which days of the week you're strongest, watch your monthly totals build across the year, and see your effort compounding instead of fixating on small dips. Real change is a trend, not a tally. INSIGHTS THAT HELP YOU UNDERSTAND YOURSELF The Insights tab stacks all your habits together in one clear picture, so you can compare them side by side and find the ones that genuinely resonate, the habits that stick for you. No two people are the same, and Grow helps you learn what works for you specifically. SEE YOUR WHOLE YEAR AT A GLANCE Zoom out from today to your entire year. Spot your strongest months, follow your momentum, and keep your long game in view, beautifully mapped and never cluttered. ORGANIZE EVERYTHING BY CATEGORY Group habits into categories and switch between them instantly. Focus on what matters today without losing the bigger picture. DESIGNED TO BE CALM, NOT OVERWHELMING Grow honors sleek, elegant, distraction-free design. No noisy gamification, no manufactured rewards, just a clean, native app that's a quiet pleasure to open every day, in both light and dark mode. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your habits are yours alone. Grow syncs seamlessly across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud, and keeps your data private. PERFECT FOR - Workouts, stretching, and getting your steps in - Reading, studying, and learning a new language or a word a day - Sleeping on time and drinking more water - Meditation, journaling, and a daily moment of gratitude - Practicing an instrument or a creative craft - Cutting back on screen time, caffeine, or other habits you'd like to change - Taking vitamins or keeping up a daily routine - Anyone who's abandoned a habit app after breaking a streak - Students, professionals, parents, and anyone who wants to understand themselves better, without the pressure WHAT GROW DOESN'T DO - No streaks to lose - No badges, points, or gimmicks - No guilt, no clutter, no noise Start small. Stay consistent. Watch yourself grow.

About

Veloq

Features
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Veloq shows your intervals.icu training on your phone and looks for the routes and sections you repeat. The analysis runs on your device. Record Record rides, runs and other sports with GPS, Bluetooth sensors or a planned workout. Insights Short reads on your training, each opening to its numbers and how they were worked out. Maps Interactive maps with 3D terrain, route heatmaps, and light, dark and satellite styles. Routes and sections Compare every attempt on the routes and sections you repeat, then pin, trim or rename them. Charts Heart rate, power, pace, elevation and cadence on one timeline with the map. Fitness Fitness, fatigue and form with the zones drawn in, plus HRV, resting heart rate and sleep. Strength Your strength sets on a body diagram, by muscle group and exercise. Widgets Home-screen widgets for fitness and form, your last activity and your insights. Notifications A notification naming the route and any personal bests when a new activity arrives. Off until you turn it on. Backups Back up your settings and section decisions to a file, a folder, a cloud drive or a WebDAV server. Privacy Your training data stays on your device, with no analytics and no tracking. Optional push notifications store your athlete ID and a device token on our server for 30 days. Open source under Apache 2.0. Supports cycling, running, swimming, and 20+ activity types. Try the built-in demo mode to explore without an account. Requires an intervals.icu account for live data. Requires iOS 16.4 or later. Not affiliated with intervals.icu.

Screenshots

Grow4 screens
Veloq4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Grow at none against Veloq's 3. Grow also leads on price ($0.99 vs $2.99). Veloq's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.2). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Grow costs $0.99 and Veloq $2.99 up front. Veloq sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Grow asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grow ships an update every 2 weeks, Veloq every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Grow versus Veloq: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrowVeloq
Price$0.99 — better$2.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.216.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB111 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperOzlem AKBUDAKEvan Thomas

In-app purchases

None

Grow

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Veloq

One-time3
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Tip$5.99
  • Big Tip$9.99

Questions

Is Grow free?
Grow costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Veloq free?
Veloq costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do Grow or Veloq have ads?
Neither Grow nor Veloq shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grow or Veloq?
Grow ships an update every 2 weeks, and Veloq every 4 weeks. Most recently, Grow was updated on November 8, 2026 and Veloq on November 5, 2026.

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