Comparison

CyklaNow vs Touchpad

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

Head to head
About

CyklaNow

Track your cycling performance with real-time metrics, custom segments, and privacy controls. Analyze your rides and challenge yourself to improve on your favorite routes. Designed for simplicity and control for all cycling enthusiasts.

Highlights
  • Real-time speed and altitude tracking
  • Metric and imperial unit switching
  • Custom segment creation and personal best challenges
  • Automatic segment detection
  • Privacy-focused data handling
  • Lightweight and intuitive interface
Features
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Take your bike rides to the next level with CyklaNow, the all-in-one app designed for cyclists who want performance, simplicity, and control. Whether you're a casual rider or a dedicated cyclist, CyklaNow equips you with everything you need to track, analyze, and enhance your rides—all from your phone. Key Features: Real-Time Tracking: Monitor your speed, altitude, and average speed with precision. Stay informed during every pedal stroke. Metric or Imperial, Your Choice: Seamlessly switch between metric and imperial units to match your preference. Custom Segments: Create segments from your intervals and compete against your personal bests. Challenge yourself to improve on your favorite routes. Automatic segment detection. Privacy First: Your data stays with you. No sharing unless you opt for iCloud to sync your rides securely. Lightweight & Intuitive: Just you, your bike, and your phone. No complicated setups or extra gear needed. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.anderssonconsultingllc.biz/products/cyklanow/privacy-policy-cyklanow

About

Touchpad

This app is a swim stopwatch designed for coaches to time multiple lanes simultaneously, capture individual splits, and compare performance against ideal pacing. It also offers workout management, video replay, and detailed note-taking for each swimmer.

Highlights
  • Multi-lane stopwatch
  • Individual split timing
  • Pacing comparison
  • Workout management
  • Video replay
  • Quick-add notes
  • Team roster management
Features
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Touchpad is your best, on-deck coaching companion. Touchpad is a swim stopwatch that does what a regular stopwatch (or even multiple stopwatches) can't: time multiple lanes in a heat at the same time, capture individual splits length by length, and tell you how each swim actually compared to where it should have been — all from one place. Touchpad runs your whole session, practice or meet, and organizes your insights when you're done. For free, always, you get the following features: Time the race - Set the course (SCY, SCM, LCM), pick the event, choose how many lanes. Or create your own custom swim. - Tap an individual lane button for each split. The app captures every split, the total time, and the deltas between the captured time and elite times, automatically. - Up to 7 lanes per heat, with a layout that keeps the timing buttons vibrant and within reach, organized in a line so you can match the pool. See the swim, not just the time - Every split is compared to an ideal pacing profile for that event and course built from aggregations of multiple elite swims for that race. - A signed delta next to each ideal time tells you exactly how much faster or slower the swimmer was on that length. - A built-in Tempo Counter on the home page helps you capture stroke rate by tap. Manage your workouts - Write workouts in plain text and watch them get parsed live - Save specific sets and reference them in future workouts for easy copy-paste - With Touchpad Team, share workouts with other coaches and edit collaboratively Better Practice Tools - Replay: set up your iPhone or iPad and capture video with a 5-60 second delay. Loop a reference video next to it. Tag what mattered - Every lane card opens a notes sheet with quick-add notes for each lane: Start, Underwater & Breakout, Stroke, Turns, Tempo & Pacing, Breathing, Finish, Context, etc. Tap what happened, add free text if you want, save. Notes are editable weeks later from History — so you can review a meet swim against what you saw in the moment. With a Touchpad Team subscription, Insights will aggregate notes across a meet so you can see what your team is doing well or needs to work on. And sync data across devices with a free Touchpad account. --- Touchpad Team (paid subscription) — for coaches running real meets and real rosters With a Touchpad Team subscription, you get access to: Organize your team - Roster & progress. Keep your team's swimmers in the app. Tag who swam in which lane after the race. Stats like best times update automatically, with a trend chart per event on each swimmer's profile. - Invite assistant coaches to your team by email. Everyone sees the same roster, the same meet, the same meet queue. Switch between teams without losing where you were — each team keeps its own queue and history. Run the meet - Heat sheet scanner. Photograph the printed heat sheet, or upload the meet PDF. The app reads it, filters to your club, and builds you a queue of heats with your swimmers in event order. Each lane shows the parsed seed time next to that swimmer's personal best. Names are fuzzy-matched against your roster — exact matches, fuzzy candidates, and unmatched names are flagged so you can fix them before you build the queue. Multi-page PDFs go in as a single scan. - Work the queue heat by heat — Start → time → results → next heat queued and waiting. Skip or insert a manual heat. A post-session summary shows every result with seed comparison. You can manually time with the split stopwatch, or enter splits off the board. See a preview of the time your swimmer is on track for, assuming an ideal race. Insights - See what your team is doing well and what needs to be improved. Takes swims from meets and aggregates performances into actionable metrics. Always improving! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

CyklaNow4 screens
Touchpad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Touchpad at every 5 days against CyklaNow's every 3 weeks. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. CyklaNow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Touchpad sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CyklaNow against 5.0 for Touchpad. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CyklaNow ships an update every 3 weeks, Touchpad every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
CyklaNow versus Touchpad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCyklaNowTouchpad
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB112 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndersson Consulting LLCBryson Alef LLC

Customer experience

CyklaNow

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Touchpad

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

In-app purchases

3 purchases

CyklaNow

Subscriptions2
  • CyklaNow Monthly Unlimited14 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • CyklaNow Yearly Unlimited14 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Unlimited CyklaNow Rides$4.99
2 purchases

Touchpad

Subscriptions2
  • Touchpad Team - Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Touchpad Team - Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is CyklaNow free?
CyklaNow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Touchpad free?
Touchpad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CyklaNow or Touchpad?
CyklaNow and Touchpad are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do CyklaNow or Touchpad have ads?
Neither CyklaNow nor Touchpad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CyklaNow or Touchpad?
CyklaNow ships an update every 3 weeks, and Touchpad every 5 days. Most recently, CyklaNow was updated on October 24, 2026 and Touchpad on October 31, 2026.

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