Comparison

Beat Stride 2 vs Cadence

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

Head to head
About

Beat Stride 2

This app analyzes your heart rate and steps to provide a Heart Efficiency Index, a unique metric for understanding your fitness level. Track your progress with daily and monthly charts and sync data seamlessly with Apple Health.

Highlights
  • Heart Efficiency Index score
  • Daily and monthly progress charts
  • Track fitness improvement
  • Apple Health integration
  • Color-coded heat maps
Features
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BeatStride: Your Heart & Step Efficiency Tracker Take control of your fitness journey with BeatStride. By analyzing your heart rate and steps, our app gives you a unique metric—the Heart Efficiency Index—to help you understand your fitness level in a new way. Key Features: Heart Efficiency Index: Get a single, easy-to-understand score that reveals your heart's efficiency. Daily & Monthly Charts: View your progress over time with intuitive, color-coded heat maps and charts. Track Your Progress: See how your efficiency improves with every step you take. Seamless Integration: Syncs effortlessly with Apple Health to securely access your data. BeatStride is the simple, powerful way to measure what matters most.

About

Cadence

Track your daily steps, distance, floors climbed, and calories burned with a focus on simplicity and privacy. Set custom weekday and weekend goals and visualize your activity patterns with interactive heatmaps. Integrates seamlessly with Apple Watch.

Highlights
  • Daily step, distance, floors, and calorie tracking
  • Customizable weekday and weekend goals
  • Interactive hour-by-hour heatmaps
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • Private by design, no account required
  • Automatic iCloud history restore
Features
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Step tracking that stays out of your way Cadence helps you build a consistent walking habit without the usual noise. No social feed. No gamification. No upsells. Just an honest, clear picture of how you move every day. Weekday and Weekend Goals Most days aren't the same, so your goals shouldn't be either. Set separate targets for weekdays and weekends. Cadence automatically applies the right goal each day, and your history always reflects the target that was active on that specific day. Past records are never rewritten. Changed your mind about a goal? You can apply any update retroactively across your entire history with a single tap. Heatmaps You Can Actually Explore See your walking rhythm hour by hour. Scrub through today's heatmap to pinpoint exactly when you were most active, or zoom out to spot long-term patterns across weeks, months, and years. Beautifully color-coded and easy to understand. No chart reading required. Steps, Distance, Floors, and Calories Every day shows your full activity picture — steps, walking distance, flights climbed, and active calories. See how your week is shaping up with a projected end-of-week step total based on your current daily pace. Apple Watch and Complications A native three-page Apple Watch app gives you today's steps and progress, your full week chart, and goal settings directly on your wrist. Eight thoughtfully designed complications work beautifully on any watch face. Goals sync instantly between iPhone and Watch in both directions. Private by Design No account. No sign-up. No ads. Your health data stays on your device and syncs privately through your own iCloud. No analytics. No tracking. Your History, Restored Install Cadence on a new device signed into the same iCloud account and your complete history restores automatically — goals included. No exports or manual backups needed. Core step tracking, the Apple Watch app, and all complications are completely free and will always remain free. There's an optional tip jar if you'd like to support ongoing development.

Screenshots

Beat Stride 24 screens
Cadence4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Beat Stride 2 at none against Cadence's 5. Cadence's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Cadence sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Beat Stride 2 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 Beat Stride 2 against 5.0 for Cadence. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beat Stride 2 ships an update every 4 weeks, Cadence fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Beat Stride 2 versus Cadence: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeat Stride 2Cadence
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.617.6
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB5 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMarc L. MelcherVlad Gankin

In-app purchases

None

Beat Stride 2

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Cadence

One-time5
  • Small Coffee$0.99
  • Medium Coffee$1.99
  • Large Coffee$2.99
Show 2 more
  • Coffee & Muffin$3.99
  • You're too kind$4.99

Questions

Is Beat Stride 2 free?
Beat Stride 2 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cadence free?
Cadence is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Beat Stride 2 or Cadence?
Beat Stride 2 and Cadence are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Beat Stride 2 or Cadence have ads?
Beat Stride 2 shows ads; Cadence does not.
Which is updated more often, Beat Stride 2 or Cadence?
Beat Stride 2 ships an update every 4 weeks, and Cadence fortnightly. Most recently, Beat Stride 2 was updated on October 5, 2026 and Cadence on October 3, 2026.

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