Personal Bests vs Undercurrent
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Personal Bests
This app analyzes your workout history from Apple Health to find your fastest segments of any distance. It ranks these personal bests across all your activities and timeframes, offering detailed insights and flexible tracking for athletes focused on performance.
- Finds fastest segments of any distance
- Works across running, cycling, swimming, rowing
- Segments can be anywhere within a workout
- Customizable segment lengths
- Rankings across all timeframes
- Detailed segment analysis and export
- Syncs via iCloud
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Personal Bests helps you discover your fastest efforts hidden inside your workouts. Most fitness apps only show totals: total distance, total time, average pace. Personal Bests goes deeper. It analyzes every workout in Apple Health and finds your fastest segments of any length, then ranks them across all your workouts and timeframes. Need to find your fastest 7K segment within the last year? Your fastest 1-mile effort ever, even if it happened in the middle of a longer run? Your best 500m row, 5K ride, or 1K swim? Personal Bests will find it. Segment-Based Personal Bests • Automatically finds your fastest segments for any distance you care about. • Works across running, cycling, walking, swimming, rowing, and more. • Segments don’t need to align with workout start or end — Personal Bests finds the fastest effort anywhere inside a workout. Custom Distances • Track exactly what matters to you. • Add any segment length: 400m, 1K, 7K, 10 miles, marathon, or anything else. • Set favorite segments per activity for quick access. Rankings Across Time • Rank your segments against all your workouts. • Filter rankings by timeframe: • All-time • Past year • Past months or weeks • Custom time windows • Instantly see where a workout ranks — 1st, top 10, or beyond. Detailed Segment Analysis • View segment results, rankings, and medals for each workout. • See which distance source was used (GPS route, Health statistics, or raw samples). • Export segment results or distance data as CSV for deeper analysis. Powerful Rankings View • Browse leaderboards by: • Segment (fastest times) • Duration (longest workouts) • Distance (farthest efforts) • Filter by activity type, timeframe, and segment length. • Quickly jump from rankings into the full workout details. Now on iPhone, iPad & Mac • Your segments and rankings sync securely through your own iCloud. • Widgets keep your latest personal bests on the Home Screen. • Background notifications alert you the moment you set a new best. • Optional, on-device AI summaries (Beta) give a quick recap of a workout. Flexible & Private • Uses your existing Apple Health data. • No third-party accounts — your data syncs privately through your own iCloud. • Analysis runs on-device. • You stay in full control of what’s included. Who Is This For? Personal Bests is built for athletes who care about performance, not just totals: • Runners tracking PRs at multiple distances • Cyclists comparing best efforts over time • Swimmers, rowers, and endurance athletes • Anyone who wants deeper insight into their training history If you’ve ever wondered “When was I actually at my fastest?”, Personal Bests is for you.
Undercurrent
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You know something is off, but what? Headaches that seem random. Energy that crashes for no reason. You suspect a pattern, but every time the doctor asks "have you noticed any patterns?" you draw a blank. Undercurrent is a private notebook for the small things, and the patterns hiding inside them. LOG IN FOUR TAPS OR FEWER Symptoms, food, medications, activities, and observations. Quick chips for what you log most. Or just tell the on-device AI assistant in plain language: "headache after lunch" and it handles the rest. WHAT WE'VE NOTICED Once you've logged a few events, the Insights page surfaces co-occurrences in your own data, phrased in soft language. None of it claims to cause anything. You decide if it's signal or noise. • Pre-window pattern: what tends to show up in the hours before symptoms • Time-of-day cluster: when symptoms tend to gather • Day-of-week peak: which days run hottest • Recurring sequence: a familiar arc, repeated • Co-occurrence: tags that appear alongside symptoms • Seasonality: a year, at a glance (Pro) • Environment: weather, pressure, humidity, air quality (Pro) • Long-term cycles and intervention effectiveness (Pro) A REPORT YOU CAN HAND TO YOUR CLINICIAN (Pro) One tap exports an editorial PDF: auto-numbered observations, frequency tables, time-of-day distributions, and an event log. Black-and-white printable, sized for a five-minute appointment. No portal login on the other end. APPLE HEALTH INTEGRATION (Pro) Pull in workouts and mindful sessions automatically. The data stays on your device and is folded into the same patterns engine. TRACK MULTIPLE PEOPLE (Pro) Separate threads for yourself, your kids, or anyone you care for. Each thread gets its own timeline, observations, and reports. 100% PRIVATE BY DEFAULT • No account required, start logging immediately • All data stored locally on your device • AI runs on-device using Apple Intelligence; nothing is sent to a server to be analysed • Optional iCloud backup, protected by Apple's encryption • No analytics, no tracking, no ads BUILT ON PUBLISHED RESEARCH Self-monitoring is the most effective technique in digital health interventions for chronic conditions, backed by analysis of 85 clinical studies. Smartphone diaries have been shown to identify real triggers; visual diary summaries help patients and providers focus on actionable plans. FREE FOREVER • Unlimited logging of symptoms, food, meds, actions, observations • Today, Timeline, and Calendar views • AI chat assistant for plain-language logging • Basic Insights: pre-window, time-of-day, day-of-week, sequences, co-occurrences • Local-only data, stays on your device UNDERCURRENT PRO · ONE-TIME PURCHASE · $19.99 Pay once, keep everything forever. No subscription, no recurring charges. • Weather, pressure, and humidity correlations • Long-term cycles, seasonality, intervention effectiveness • Editorial PDF report for your clinician with full observation set • Track multiple people, with separate threads for each • Apple Health sync • iCloud backup Whether you're trying to figure out what shows up before your migraines, why your energy crashes after lunch, which foods leave you uncomfortable, or what helps your child sleep better, Undercurrent gives you a quiet place to write it down and the patterns that emerge over time. NOT A MEDICAL DEVICE Undercurrent describes statistical co-occurrences in your self-logged data. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Observations are informational only, not medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional about symptoms, medications, or treatment decisions. In an emergency, call your local emergency number. Notice what's quietly shaping how you feel.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Personal Bests at none against Undercurrent's 1. Undercurrent's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Undercurrent sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Personal Bests asks for nothing beyond the download.
Personal Bests ships an update every 6 months, Undercurrent every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 30, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Personal Bests | Undercurrent |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Markus Kettner | Lloyd Rowat |
In-app purchases
Personal Bests
No in-app purchases
Undercurrent
- Undercurrent Health: Pro$19.99









