OutPace vs BarePace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OutPace
Engage in friendly fitness competitions with friends, family, or colleagues. Create custom challenges for various activities and track progress on live leaderboards. Syncs automatically with popular fitness trackers and health apps.
- Create custom fitness challenges
- Live leaderboards for real-time tracking
- Support for multiple activity metrics
- Team challenges for coworkers
- Syncs with Apple Health, Garmin, Oura, WHOOP, Polar
- Home screen widget and Apple Watch integration
- In-app chat for communication
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Challenge your friends, family or coworkers to fitness competitions and track your progress in real time. OutPace makes staying active fun and social. Create step, walking, running, cycling or swimming challenges, invite your group with one link, and compete on live leaderboards. Your phone or watch syncs your activity automatically. KEY FEATURES: - Create Challenges: Set up step, walking, running, cycling or swimming challenges with custom dates and goals - Live Leaderboards: See who's leading in real time with automatic syncing - Multiple Metrics: Track by distance, duration, steps, activity count or heart rate zones - Challenges for Coworkers: Split a challenge into teams so departments or offices compete - The Weekly Relay: A free team challenge every week, Monday through Sunday. Join a team of up to 5 and chase Bronze, Silver and Gold goals together - Connect Your Tracker: Sync with Apple Health, Garmin, Oura, WHOOP or Polar - Works With Your Apps: Anything that writes to Apple Health comes through automatically, including Peloton - Home Screen Widget: Keep your challenge standing in front of you without opening the app - Apple Watch: Add the leaderboard to a watch face or the Smart Stack and check your rank at a glance - Work Out Together: Tag a pacer when you train together and you both earn points - Share Progress: Share challenge cards and results with friends - Activity Feed: See what your friends are logging - Challenge Chat: Talk strategy and trash talk in real time - Trophies: Earn trophies for milestones and achievements - Follow Pacers: Follow friends and see their activity Free: creating and joining challenges costs nothing, with no credit card. Whether you're training for a marathon or just trying to hit 10,000 steps, OutPace keeps you motivated with friendly competition.
BarePace
This app provides a customizable interval and Tabata timer for various training needs. It offers voice announcements and countdown beeps to guide users through workouts, even when the screen is locked. The timer is designed for simplicity and reliability, with no ads or subscriptions required.
- Customizable interval sequences
- Tabata quick start
- Voice announcements for phase transitions
- Countdown beeps
- Works while screen is locked
- Progress updates
- Stopwatch functionality
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BarePace is a free interval timer for runners, HIIT athletes, and anyone training with timed phases. No account. No subscription. No ads. Ever. — BUILD ANY WORKOUT — Create interval sequences in seconds. Run 5 minutes, walk 2 minutes, repeat 4 times — or any combination you need. Combine single phases and repeat groups in any order. — TABATA QUICK START — Jump straight into a Tabata session from the home screen. Set your Work time, Rest time, and Rounds, then go. — VOICE ANNOUNCEMENTS — Hear each phase spoken aloud at every transition. "Run." "Walk." "Rest." Your phone stays in your pocket. — COUNTDOWN BEEPS — 3-2-1 beeps count down before every phase transition so you're never caught off guard. — WORKS WHILE LOCKED — Audio cues fire reliably even when your iPhone screen is off. Your battery and your focus both thank you. — PROGRESS UPDATES — Optional time-remaining announcements every 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes, or 5 minutes — so you always know where you are in a long phase. — STOPWATCH — A clean count-up timer for open-ended sessions. Optional voice announcements at your chosen interval. — LANDSCAPE TIMER — Rotate to landscape for a larger countdown display during your workout. — START AGAIN INSTANTLY — Recent workouts are one tap away on the home screen. No searching, no rebuilding. FREE. FOREVER. No premium tier. No ads. No account required. Everything works offline. BarePace is built on the belief that a timer should be simple, reliable, and free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OutPace at none against BarePace's 5. OutPace also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. BarePace sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. OutPace asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for OutPace against 5.0 for BarePace. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OutPace has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | OutPace | BarePace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OutPace Fit, Inc. | Tim Smith |
In-app purchases
OutPace
No in-app purchases
BarePace
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$2.99
- Large Tip$4.99
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- XL Tip$9.99
- XXL Tip$19.99









