Sundee Ruck Tracker vs Heavy Stride
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sundee Ruck Tracker
Track your weighted walks with GPS, monitor distance, pace, and elevation. Build weekly goals, compete with friends on leaderboards, and earn achievement badges. Syncs with Apple Health and offers a companion watch app.
- GPS weighted walk tracking
- Route and distance monitoring
- Weekly goal setting
- Watch companion app
- Club creation and joining
- Leaderboard competition
- Achievement badges
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Sundee Ruck Tracker is your all-in-one rucking companion. Track weighted walks with GPS, follow routes, build weekly goals, use the watch companion, join clubs with friends, compete on leaderboards, and earn badges as you hit new milestones. TRACK YOUR RUCKS Start a ruck with one tap. The app tracks your route, distance, pace, elapsed time, and elevation using GPS. Set your ruck weight before each session and get a Ruck Score that factors in distance, weight, and pace. Every ruck is saved to your history and synced across your devices via iCloud. WRIST COMPANION Track rucks right from your wrist. The companion watch app provides live stats including heart rate, active calories, distance, and pace. Your completed rucks sync automatically to your iPhone for the full save pipeline. JOIN & CREATE CLUBS Find and join rucking clubs in your area, or create your own. Invite friends with a share link. Clubs are the social hub for organizing group rucks and building your community. COMPETE ON LEADERBOARDS See how you stack up against your club members. Filter leaderboards by all time, this month, or this week. Track total miles, total rucks, and ruck scores. EARN BADGES Unlock 8 achievement badges as you reach milestones: First Step, Ten Miles In, Fifty Strong, Century March, Iron Rucker, Event Finisher, Week Warrior, and Iron Streak. Badges are displayed on your profile for your club to see. ORGANIZE EVENTS Create and manage rucking events for your club. Set the date, location, and details. Members can RSVP and link their rucks directly to events. PERSONAL STATS & RECORDS View your personal records including longest ruck, heaviest weight, best score, fastest pace, and longest streak. Advanced charts show distance over time and weekly comparisons. APPLE HEALTH INTEGRATION Completed rucks are saved as hiking workouts to Apple Health. Your fitness data stays private and on-device. ALL FEATURES INCLUDED Everything is free — GPS tracking, clubs, leaderboards, badges, events, advanced stats, CSV export, custom app icons, and watch companion support. No paywalls, no subscriptions. Built for ruckers. Lace up, load up, and get moving.
Heavy Stride
This app is designed for ruckers, offering detailed tracking for weighted walks. It records metrics like distance, pace, heart rate, and pack weight, providing advanced analytics and route maps for comprehensive workout review.
- Live tracking of distance, pace, calories, heart rate, elevation
- Pack weight impact analysis
- Route maps and workout splits
- Break detection and recalculation
- Training load and tonnage comparison
- Cross-device synchronization (iPhone/Apple Watch)
- Shareable workout recaps
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Heavy Stride is built for ruckers who want more than a generic walking workout. Track rucks on iPhone or Apple Watch with live distance, pace, calories, steps, heart rate, elevation, and pack weight. Review finished workouts with route maps, splits, break detection, load-aware recovery metrics, and analytics designed around load-bearing training instead of generic walking summaries. Heavy Stride helps you: • start workouts from phone or watch • set exact distance targets, including long events like 26.2 • track long rucks accurately on Apple Watch and iPhone • review maps, splits, and break-adjusted pace • infer stops after the workout, then edit or remove breaks and recalculate split pacing • compare training load, weekly tonnage, and same-weight pace improvement across workouts • understand how pack weight affects effort, calories, ruck work, and training stress • keep a live ruck visible across phone and watch, then transfer to iPhone if the watch battery gets low • share a polished route-and-stats recap image through Messages, Mail, and other share targets The companion experience keeps workouts visible across devices so you can train with the device that best fits the moment, hand off from watch to phone when needed, and still review the same workout afterward on iPhone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Heavy Stride at 3 against Sundee Ruck Tracker's —. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 1.0 for Sundee Ruck Tracker against 1.0 for Heavy Stride. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Sundee Ruck Tracker ships an update monthly, Heavy Stride every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sundee Ruck Tracker | Heavy Stride |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | — | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dustin Ober | Plarix |
In-app purchases
Sundee Ruck Tracker
No in-app purchases
Heavy Stride
No in-app purchases
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