PaceBoard vs Footfall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
PaceBoard
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Your couch called. It says it'll be fine without you. PaceBoard turns Apple Health into a dashboard that shows exactly how much you ran, walked and stepped today. Or didn't. We'll both know. On your Home Screen, Lock Screen and Apple Watch. No account, no feed, nobody watching except your shoes and the friends you pick. Set goals, keep your streak alive, and let the progress bar judge you quietly. Lovingly. FRIENDS Race your friends every week, without a feed. Turn on Friends and your Activity screen shows your Game Center friends next to you: this week, the last 30 days, longest run and all-time distance, plus run streak and best 1K, 5K and 10K times. Tap a friend for a head-to-head, see exactly how far it is to the next place, or challenge them to a distance duel or a faster 5K. No PaceBoard account, no public leaderboard, and only your friends can see you. Only scores are shared, never routes, workouts or Health data, and it stays off until you turn it on. Quiet mode hides the ranks if you'd rather not know. With Plus you can rearrange your home screen around the cards you care about. WIDGETS & APPLE WATCH Check your progress without opening the app, because opening apps is cardio you didn't sign up for. A foam-track bar shows how much is left to your goal. A Friends widget shows your rank this week. The Apple Watch app has a full dashboard and workout recording that logs workouts to your default pair (pick any pair on the watch with Plus). SHOE CLOSET Every pair gets a photo and a mileage counter. A Retire soon warning in the app tells you when they're worn out, before your knees file a complaint. Every Apple Watch workout counts toward your default pair. DISCOVERY MAP Your whole city is covered in fog, and clearing it is your problem now. Every street you run or walk gets revealed, with a coverage percentage and explored area in kmยฒ or miยฒ. Yes, it's addictive. No, we're not sorry. DASHBOARD Running, walking or steps, by day, week, month or year. Recent workouts, goals and today's training plan workout on one screen. Zero scrolling for excuses. WORKOUT RECORDING Start a run or walk from your iPhone or Apple Watch. Live distance, pace, heart rate zones, elevation and calories on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Your GPS route is saved to Apple Health, so the evidence is safe. TRAINING PLANS Beginner 5K all the way to Marathon, with week-by-week schedules, coach notes, tempo runs, intervals and long runs. Your couch will take it personally. STREAKS & ACHIEVEMENTS Streaks reward showing up, and they remember when you don't. Compare year over year, collect medals for records, step milestones and lifetime distance, and follow your Road to Marathon from 1K to 42.2K. SHARING Workout cards, weekly summaries, Year Wrapped visuals and medals, for when you want to brag. Never required. IPHONE DUO Unfold it and PaceBoard unfolds with you: dashboard, map, plans, shoes and medals get two-pane layouts that use both halves of the screen. Twice the screen, same number of excuses. KM OR MILES Pick one and it applies everywhere: app, widgets, Apple Watch. We don't take sides. PACEBOARD PLUS Free to use. Plus unlocks home screen customization, the run streak and best 1K/5K/10K friend boards, monthly widget timeframes, dynamic widget backgrounds, the unlimited discovery map, extra training plans, unlimited shoes, the Apple Watch shoe picker, and the month view on Apple Watch and its complications. Subscribe monthly or yearly, or pay once with Lifetime: one payment, not a subscription, and no guilt-trip notifications. That's the streak's job. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://thundering-ketchup-fee.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-PaceBoard-3f3ed39e6413819ab096f79a4e617d96
Footfall
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Footfall shows the steps your iPhone already counted, and almost nothing else. It has no step counting algorithm of its own, and that is the point. It reads the daily totals from Health, the one place on iOS where an iPhone and an Apple Watch are added up without the same walk being counted twice. The number here is the number there. No second opinion, no arguing with your watch about this morning. The rest of the app puts that number in front of you. A widget on the Home Screen. A circle or a rectangle on the Lock Screen. A medium widget for the week. They refresh through the day, and say so rather than pass off yesterday's total as today's. ON YOUR WRIST Ten years after the first Apple Watch, no built-in complication shows a step count as a number. Footfall does, in four shapes, on any face with room for one. The watch reads Health on the watch, so the count is right even when the iPhone stayed at home, and there is nothing to fall out of sync. The complications are free, like every other widget here. ONE SCREEN, TOP TO BOTTOM A ring that warms from clay to amber and turns gold at your goal, with the count rolling in the middle. The shape of the day: twenty four hourly bars that show when you walked, not only how much. The week in seven bars you can tap, and tapping one moves the top of the screen to that day. The month as dots, each one sized by its steps, and a swipe back through the months before it. Then four numbers: your seven day average, your thirty day average, your best day, and the days you met your goal. NOTHING YOU DID NOT ASK FOR No account. No ads. No analytics. No notifications, no badges, no levels. The streak stays off until you turn it on, because a streak nobody asked for turns into a debt. The app opens no network connection at all, so nothing can leave the phone. Nothing is written back into Health either. FOOTFALL PLUS Counting, the widgets, the watch complications, the goal, kilometers or miles, the day, the week and the month are free and stay free. Footfall Plus is one payment, once, and it adds every past month one by one, the full year day by day, your rhythm by day of the week, records and totals from the first day Health holds, and a CSV export. No subscription. Nothing renews. WHAT IT NEEDS Permission to read steps and walking distance from Health, and nothing else. iOS has been recording those since you got the phone, so your history is usually there the first time you open the app. If you have never walked with the iPhone on you, Footfall will show you an honest empty day. Available in 45 languages. iPhone, iOS 18 and later. Apple Watch, watchOS 11 and later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Footfall at 18.0 against PaceBoard's 27.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. PaceBoard sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Footfall sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PaceBoard ships an update every 6 days, Footfall weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PaceBoard | Footfall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days โ better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 27.0 | 18.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Raul Carlos Petru Petruta | THEO MARTIN |
In-app purchases
PaceBoard
- PaceBoard: Run & Walk Tracker7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Plus Year7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- PaceBoard: Run & Walk Tracker$24.99
Footfall
- Footfall Plus$4.99









