Comparison

Sundee Ruck Tracker vs Heavy Stride

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Sundee Ruck Tracker versus Heavy Stride: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSundee Ruck TrackerHeavy Stride
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)1.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 6 weeks
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Devices—iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDustin OberPlarix

In-app purchases

None

Sundee Ruck Tracker

No in-app purchases

None

Heavy Stride

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sundee Ruck Tracker free?
Sundee Ruck Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Heavy Stride free?
Heavy Stride is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sundee Ruck Tracker or Heavy Stride?
Sundee Ruck Tracker and Heavy Stride are both rated 1.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Which is updated more often, Sundee Ruck Tracker or Heavy Stride?
Sundee Ruck Tracker ships an update monthly, and Heavy Stride every 6 weeks. Most recently, Sundee Ruck Tracker was updated on October 11, 2026 and Heavy Stride on October 28, 2026.

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