Custom Rings vs Tact
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Custom Rings
Create and track custom daily goals beyond standard activity metrics. Organize them into sets, sync with Apple Health, and compete with friends. Offers reminders, history, and streaks for motivation.
- Customizable goal rings
- Auto-tracking from Apple Health
- Session clusters for manual counters
- Scheduled rings for specific days
- Social sharing and challenges
- Apple Watch support
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
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Make progress on what matters to you. Custom Rings turns your habits and goals into personal rings: reading, water, movement, focus, practice, and more. Choose a name, unit, target, schedule, and color, then check in with a simple +. A SIMPLE DAILY CHECK-IN See your rings together on Today. Use your preferred quick amount, open a ring to enter a custom amount, and undo an accidental entry. Starter templates make it easy to begin. A CLEARER VIEW OF YOUR PROGRESS Your free seven-day overview shows completed goals and a daily tracker. Explore deeper comparisons, thirty-day summaries, full calendar history, and CSV export with Pro. CONNECTED TO APPLE HEALTH Connect compatible data for steps, active calories, exercise minutes, stand hours, walking distance, flights climbed, sleep, water, and time in daylight. Available data depends on your devices and permissions. Raw Health samples are processed on your device. IPHONE, WIDGETS & APPLE WATCH Keep goals visible with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. Use Quick Track to log progress, or check in from Apple Watch. The Three Rings complication lets you choose a different daily ring for each position in a large rectangular Watch face slot, with totals, percentages, or progress remaining. MORE WAYS TO MAKE IT YOURS Create session counters for goals that should not reset at midnight, such as workout sets or game scores. Use scheduled rings and reminders to fit your routine. Export a local backup of your rings and history, preview a backup before importing, and keep a recovery copy when restoring. OPTIONAL SHARING Sign in with Apple to add friends and share only the rings you choose. Pro adds more social features, including challenges, recurring seasons, and nudges. No account is required to track your own rings. START FREE • One group with up to five rings • Seven-day Progress overview and daily tracker • Up to three friends • Apple Health auto-tracking types • Scheduled rings and session counters • Reminders, widgets, Siri, and Watch complications PRO — ONE-TIME PURCHASE • Unlimited groups • Deeper insights and thirty-day summaries • Full calendar history and CSV export • Unlimited friends • Challenges, recurring seasons, and nudges No subscription. No ads. Your rings, your goals, your pace. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Tact
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Ever had to stop running because of your knees? That's not giving up — it's changing direction. Brisk walking lets you train seriously without wearing down your joints, but Apple Watch has never given outdoor walking a real pace target. Intervals were built for running only, and even that wasn't great. Tact fills that gap. We designed it to stay quiet during your workout. If you're holding your target pace, your screen and your wrist stay silent. Only when you drift does your wrist tap out a 10-second rhythm to bring you back — then it goes quiet again. Not a trainer that keeps talking, but one that signals only when you need it. That signal is vibration, not sound. Built so you can feel your pace through your wrist alone, no earbuds needed, even in noisy surroundings. Pace itself is calculated from your walking rhythm, not GPS, so it holds steady even when the signal wavers. And when conditions are genuinely too uncertain to judge, it waits quietly instead of forcing a guess. Key features: • Pace-target intervals for outdoor walking — something Apple Watch has never offered • Silent by default, a 10-second vibration only when you drift — coaching without the nagging • Joint-friendly brisk-walking interval programs in 3 levels — Easy, Balanced, Challenge • Personalized stride learning that gets more accurate the more you walk • Set up once on iPhone, start with a single tap on your Watch • Heart rate, steps, and distance logged automatically to Apple Health • One-time purchase, no subscription — pay once, use forever Built for people who want to walk seriously, without straining their knees.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Custom Rings at every 4 days against Tact's fortnightly. Custom Rings also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Custom Rings sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Tact sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Custom Rings ships an update every 4 days, Tact fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Custom Rings | Tact |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christopher DAdamo | Sungjun Lim |
In-app purchases
Custom Rings
- Custom Rings Pro$2.99
Tact
- Tact Tier1$4.99









