Comparison

HERO2 vs Bright Miles

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

Head to head
About

HERO2

This app encourages sustainable travel by rewarding users for walking, biking, or taking public transit. Earn points to unlock local deals, track your progress, and compete with friends. Build a travel profile and see your positive impact.

Highlights
  • Earn rewards for walking, biking, and transit
  • Unlock local deals and perks
  • Track miles, savings, and CO2 avoided
  • Build a travel profile
  • Compete on leaderboards with friends
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Turn walks, bike rides, and transit trips into Power, redeemable for perks at local spots near you. From quick errands to longer trips across town, HERO2 turns everyday travel into savings, streaks, and measurable impact. 1. Move. Walk, bike, or ride transit. 2. Earn. Collect Power for eligible trips. Unlock deals and perks from local merchants. 3. Share. Compare your travel breakdown – miles, savings, trip types, and CO₂ avoided. Climb leaderboards with friends and your community. Runs on background location to detect trips automatically. No logging, no check-ins. Move sustainably. Earn Rewards. Move different.

About

Bright Miles

Discover uplifting stories of human kindness, scientific breakthroughs, and community heroes. This app provides a daily dose of genuine, inspiring news curated by AI, free from clickbait and negativity. It also features a gratitude journal for personal reflection.

Highlights
  • Daily positive news feed
  • Stories of kindness and heroes
  • Scientific breakthroughs
  • Community impact stories
  • Private gratitude journal
  • AI-curated content
Features
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Most fitness apps are filing cabinets. You put the data in, and it sits there. Bright Miles has a coach in it. His name is Miles, and he can see everything — your runs, your lifts, what you ate, your weight, your steps, your sleep, your resting heart rate. Not one slice of it. All of it, in one place, which is the thing no other app can do. TALK TO HIM AND IT IS LOGGED Say "two eggs and toast and a coffee" and it is on your plate, with the calories looked up rather than guessed. Say "benched 185 for 5, 5 and 4" and it is in your strength log with your estimated 1RM. Say "starting my fast" and the timer runs. No searching, no tapping through five screens, no giving up in week two. HE KNOWS IF YOU SLEPT Miles reads your sleep, resting heart rate and HRV against your own baseline, not a chart for the average person. Six hours and a heart rate five beats above your normal, and he will tell you today is a walk. That is the whole point of a coach, and it is what a tracker cannot do. HE HOLDS YOU TO A PLAN Agree a plan with a real number in it and he writes it down. Ask how you are doing and he answers target by target, from what you actually did. He will tell you when you missed, plainly, without shame, and give you one thing to change. AND HE SPEAKS FIRST On a Sunday he sends you your week: what you did, one pattern he noticed connecting two things you would not have joined up yourself, and one specific thing for the week ahead. Every number in it is real or he does not send it. EVERYTHING ELSE IS IN HERE TOO • GPS runs, walks and rides, with splits, elevation and your route • A full strength log with personal bests and muscle recovery • Food logging with a barcode scanner, photo scan and USDA data • Intermittent fasting, with your real eating window • Apple Health and an Apple Watch app • Walk-and-talk: invite a friend, one shared session, one audio room • Good news, a community, and people who are glad you showed up PRIVACY Your health data is never sold, never shared, and never used for advertising. Your journal stays on your device unless you choose to back it up. Deleting your account deletes everything, everywhere. No ad network, no analytics SDK, no tracking. BRIGHT MILES SUBSCRIPTION Miles is included free, with a daily allowance. Subscribe for a much larger one, his real voice, and everything else in the app. Built by one person who wanted a fitness app that actually knew him.

Screenshots

HERO24 screens
Bright Miles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HERO2 at none against Bright Miles's 4. Bright Miles's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (10 vs 2). On price, rating, ads 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. Bright Miles sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. HERO2 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for HERO2 against 5.0 for Bright Miles. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bright Miles has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HERO2 ships an update every 3 weeks, Bright Miles every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
HERO2 versus Bright Miles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHERO2Bright Miles
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings210 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB144 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperGenius at Large, IncCharles Hines

Customer experience

HERO2

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bright Miles

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

HERO2

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Bright Miles

Subscriptions2
  • Bright Side Pro$2.991 Month
  • Miles AI Coach14 Days trial$14.991 Month
One-time2
  • Leave a Tip$4.99
  • Super Tip$19.99

Questions

Is HERO2 free?
HERO2 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bright Miles free?
Bright Miles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HERO2 or Bright Miles?
HERO2 and Bright Miles are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 10 ratings respectively.
Do HERO2 or Bright Miles have ads?
Neither HERO2 nor Bright Miles shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HERO2 or Bright Miles?
HERO2 ships an update every 3 weeks, and Bright Miles every 5 days. Most recently, HERO2 was updated on October 7, 2026 and Bright Miles on October 17, 2026.

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