Comparison

Cute Mimi vs PaceBuddy

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

Head to head
About

Cute Mimi

This app uses your device's motion system to automatically count your daily steps. A cute character evolves with your activity, encouraging you to meet daily goals and earn achievements. Compete with friends and view detailed progress reports to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Highlights
  • Automatic step counting
  • Evolving character companion
  • Daily step goals
  • Detailed statistics and reports
  • Friend competitions
  • Badges and achievements
  • Home screen widget support
Features
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Cute Mimi - Step Tracker is a fun and motivating app that helps you track your daily step count. Live a healthy lifestyle with your cute character Mimi! Features: Automatic step counting - With iOS's built-in Core Motion system Mimi character - Your cute companion that changes based on your steps Daily goals - Complete your goal every day and make Mimi happy Detailed statistics - Daily, weekly, and monthly reports Compete with friends - Challenge your family and friends to step competitions Badges and achievements - Earn special badges by completing goals Widget support - See your steps quickly from the home screen Every step matters with Mimi! The more you walk, the happier and healthier Mimi becomes. Complete your daily goal and watch Mimi grow. Privacy Policy: https://mimisteps.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

PaceBuddy

This app acts as a personal running coach, allowing you to race against your past performances on familiar routes. It provides real-time feedback on your pace and distance, with advanced features for accurate tracking on varied terrain and integration with smartwatches.

Highlights
  • Race against past runs or personal bests
  • Live ahead/behind pace feedback
  • Falling-behind alerts (vibration, beep, spoken)
  • Accurate distance and elevation tracking
  • Calorie calculation with climbing cost
  • Apple Watch standalone workouts
Features
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Everyone has a route they do over and over — the same loop, the same hill, the same trail. PaceBuddy is built on one idea: on that route, the only pace worth chasing is your own. It replays your last run beside you, second by second, and tells you whether you're ahead or behind and by how far. Race your last attempt, or your best. RACE YOURSELF, NOT A STRANGER • Live ahead/behind against your own past run on the same route • Choose your last run or your personal best as the target • Works even if you start the loop from a different point each day • Falling-behind alerts by vibration, beep, or spoken callout • Distance announcements at every kilometre or mile • Lap splits with distance, time, pace and calories BUILT FOR REAL TERRAIN • Elevation from the barometer, not GPS altitude — far more accurate on hills • Distance from GPS Doppler speed with step-based stride calibration, so it holds up under tree cover and on switchbacks • Calories that account for the metabolic cost of climbing, not just distance • Heart-rate zones when you wear an Apple Watch APPLE WATCH, WITH OR WITHOUT YOUR IPHONE • Standalone workouts — leave the phone at home • Create routes on your wrist; they sync back automatically • Live heart rate and heart-rate zones • Lap splits and alerts on the watch too PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No ads — ever • No subscription. One purchase, yours forever • No account, no sign-up, no tracking, no analytics • No third-party SDKs PaceBuddy has no servers and makes no network connections. Your workouts, routes and settings stay on your devices — aside from heart-rate and workout data you choose to sync through Apple Health. TRY IT FIRST PaceBuddy is free for 14 days, with everything unlocked. After that, a single one-time purchase keeps it. No subscription, no renewal, and the workouts you recorded stay readable either way. A NOTE ON HOW IT WORKS Pace coaching compares you to your own history on a given route, so it appears from your second workout on that route onward — a first run has nothing to race yet. Workouts under 100 m are treated as accidental starts and discarded.

Screenshots

Cute Mimi4 screens
PaceBuddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

Cute Mimi and PaceBuddy are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Cute Mimi sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and PaceBuddy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 Cute Mimi against 5.0 for PaceBuddy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Cute Mimi versus PaceBuddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCute MimiPaceBuddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.016.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size188 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVeysel Karani KOPARALShahab Karimi

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Cute Mimi

Subscriptions2
  • Cute Mimi - Premium Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Cute Mimi - Step Tracker3 Days trial$49.991 Year
1 purchases

PaceBuddy

One-time1
  • Unlock PaceBuddy$6.99

Questions

Is Cute Mimi free?
Cute Mimi is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PaceBuddy free?
PaceBuddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cute Mimi or PaceBuddy?
Cute Mimi and PaceBuddy are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Cute Mimi or PaceBuddy have ads?
Neither Cute Mimi nor PaceBuddy shows ads.

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