Comparison

footing vs Chronic Trace

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

Head to head
About

footing

This app uses your phone's motion sensors to create a unique signature of your movement and cognitive patterns. It passively collects data on how you walk and process information, making your personal trajectory visible over time without any extra hardware.

Highlights
  • Passive motion sensor data collection
  • Movement Signature analysis (pace, symmetry, stride)
  • Cognitive Signature analysis (reaction, fluency, precision)
  • Longitudinal data tracking
  • Monthly guided walk and cognitive check-in
  • Grounded in published research
Features
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Footing measures how you walk and how you think, using the phone you already carry. No wearable required. No blood draw. No clinic visit. A 30-second walk and four short tests build your Gait Signature: one picture of your mobility and your thinking, tracked over time. Free to use. No subscription required to start. Find your footing. WHAT IT MEASURES Your Gait Signature combines two signatures, each with six dimensions. Mobility Signature, from your walk: Pace: your walking speed, normalized Stride: your step length relative to your height Steadiness: how consistent your strides are Symmetry: the balance between left and right steps Turn: how quickly you turn around Efficiency: how regular your vertical movement is while you walk Cognitive Signature, from four short tests (symbol match, typing burst, sequence recall, tap rhythm): Reaction: how quickly you respond Precision: how accurately you respond Attention: how consistent your response time is Memory: how long a sequence you can recall Timing: how steady your tap rhythm is Fluency: how quickly you type in a short burst The two signatures produce two scores, Mobility IQ and Cognitive IQ, each from 0 to 100. Once enough people of your age band and sex have joined, you also see a percentile against that group. Every score comes with an error range, so small changes are not overstated. HOW IT WORKS Guided walk. Put your phone in your pocket and walk for about 30 seconds. Start it in the app whenever you want. There is no fixed schedule. Cognitive tests. Four short tasks, also on demand. Your first three attempts at each test count as warm-up and are not scored. Daily walking. If you allow health access, footing reads one daily walking summary from Apple Health: walking speed, step length, asymmetry, double support, steps, and distance. Apple Health derives these from your iPhone. Collection starts when you join and covers the previous 24 hours each day. Apple Watch. The optional Apple Watch app captures arm swing during the guided walk. Results arrive within seconds of each upload. See them in the app or on the web at app.footinghealth.com, and invite a family member or clinician to see them. Sign in with Apple, Google, a passkey, or a code sent to your email. RESEARCH You can choose to contribute your measurements to research. It is opt-in only. You grant consent in Settings and can withdraw it there at any time. Without that consent, nothing goes to research. If you opt in, the data is de-identified. No name, email, or device. Dates are shifted. You are described only by age in years, sex, and broad height and weight bands. Only computed measurements are shared, never recordings. WHY IT MATTERS Walking speed has been called the sixth vital sign. Mobility and thinking tend to change gradually, which makes the changes easy to miss. A short, repeatable measurement shows where you stand today and how that compares with your own history. YOUR DATA Your walk recordings are stored on our servers, encrypted, so your results can be rescored as our scoring improves. To request deletion of your data, email hello@footinghealth.com. You must be 18 or older to use footing. Footing is a general wellness app. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, cure, or predict any disease. Footing is made by Carova Labs, LLC. footinghealth.com

About

Chronic Trace

This app uses your phone's camera to measure involuntary signals like eye movement, balance, focus, and reaction time. It combines these into a personal wellness index, tracking subtle changes against your own baseline over time. No extra hardware is needed, just your smartphone.

Highlights
  • Camera-based wellness checks
  • Measures eye movement, balance, focus, reaction
  • Personalized baseline scoring
  • Tracks subtle changes over time
  • No extra hardware required
  • Anonymized tracking option
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We track our steps, our sleep, and our heart rate. How sharp we feel day to day has had nothing. Chronic Trace changes that. Chronic Trace turns the camera already in your pocket into a personal wellness check for how you are performing day to day. In a single capture it reads involuntary signals that are hard to fake on purpose: eye movement, balance, focus, and reaction. It combines them into one simple index, scored against your own baseline rather than a population average. That is what makes subtle change over time visible. WHAT IT MEASURES Eyes: how steadily your eyes track and shift Balance: body sway, captured by the camera Focus: attention and processing speed Reaction: response speed HOW IT WORKS Add yourself or anyone you track. Capture a baseline when you feel well. Re-check any time, and see your result against that baseline. No extra hardware. No specialist. Just your phone. SUBSCRIPTION Chronic Trace requires a paid subscription to run check-ins and view results. Plans are $14.99 per month or $149.99 per year. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. BUILT FOR Athletes, veterans, families, and anyone who wants to keep an eye on how they are doing over time. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Sessions can be tracked fully anonymized. Your data is yours. IMPORTANT Chronic Trace is a wellness self-tracking tool, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition, and its output reflects change versus your own baseline, not a diagnosis. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider before making any medical decision or with any questions you may have about a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay seeking it because of something you measured in this app. Privacy Policy: https://www.chronictraceapp.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

footing4 screens
Chronic Trace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: footing at none against Chronic Trace's 2. Chronic Trace's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Chronic Trace sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. footing 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 footing against 5.0 for Chronic Trace. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

footing ships an update fortnightly, Chronic Trace every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
footing versus Chronic Trace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterfootingChronic Trace
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB71 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperCarova Labs, LLCChronic Trace, Inc.

Customer experience

footing

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Chronic Trace

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

footing

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Chronic Trace

Subscriptions2
  • Chronic Trace Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Chronic Trace Yearly$149.991 Year

Questions

Is footing free?
footing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chronic Trace free?
Chronic Trace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, footing or Chronic Trace?
footing and Chronic Trace are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do footing or Chronic Trace have ads?
Neither footing nor Chronic Trace shows ads.
Which is updated more often, footing or Chronic Trace?
footing ships an update fortnightly, and Chronic Trace every 3 days. Most recently, footing was updated on October 21, 2026 and Chronic Trace on October 24, 2026.

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