Reign vs PaceBuddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Reign
Transform your daily movement into an engaging, real-life game. Track your progress with GPS, earn trophies, and conquer virtual territory on a live map. Compete with friends and explore your surroundings in a fun, addictive way.
- Real-life territory conquest
- GPS movement tracking
- Earn trophies
- Compete with other players
- Explore your city
- Gamified fitness
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Reign turns your daily movement into a map you can own. Walk, run or cycle anywhere in the real world. Every kilometre you cover earns coins. Spend those coins to claim the actual streets around you, block by block, until the map is yours. DUELS Challenge anyone to 24 hours. Whoever covers more ground wins, and the winner's whole run counts for 1.5x. The loser keeps every coin they earned, so there is nothing to lose by taking one. Send a challenge by link to anybody, or pick a friend. HOW IT WORKS - Move. Walk, run or ride. Your GPS trace is the game. - Earn. Every kilometre pays 25 coins. - Claim. 50 coins buys a block next to ground you already hold. - Keep. Land you claim is yours permanently. THE LAND IS PERMANENT Nobody can take your blocks. There is no invasion and no losing streak that costs you ground — what you claimed last month is still yours today. The map only grows. YOUR BASE Start with a free capital block, wherever you happen to be standing, and grow outward one block at a time. The Base is the map itself, so there is no setup and no empty screen waiting for you to do something first. ALSO IN REIGN - Trophies and levels earned by moving, never by buying - Clans and clan wars - Friends and leaderboards - A weekly recap of everything you took BUILT FOR WALKERS, NOT JUST RUNNERS There is no minimum fitness level and no training plan. A walk around the block counts. Every kilometre moves you toward the next piece of the map, whether you covered it fast or slow. Move. Earn coins. Take the land.
PaceBuddy
This app acts as a personal running coach, allowing you to race against your past performances on familiar routes. It provides real-time feedback on your pace and distance, with advanced features for accurate tracking on varied terrain and integration with smartwatches.
- Race against past runs or personal bests
- Live ahead/behind pace feedback
- Falling-behind alerts (vibration, beep, spoken)
- Accurate distance and elevation tracking
- Calorie calculation with climbing cost
- Apple Watch standalone workouts
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Everyone has a route they do over and over — the same loop, the same hill, the same trail. PaceBuddy is built on one idea: on that route, the only pace worth chasing is your own. It replays your last run beside you, second by second, and tells you whether you're ahead or behind and by how far. Race your last attempt, or your best. RACE YOURSELF, NOT A STRANGER • Live ahead/behind against your own past run on the same route • Choose your last run or your personal best as the target • Works even if you start the loop from a different point each day • Falling-behind alerts by vibration, beep, or spoken callout • Distance announcements at every kilometre or mile • Lap splits with distance, time, pace and calories BUILT FOR REAL TERRAIN • Elevation from the barometer, not GPS altitude — far more accurate on hills • Distance from GPS Doppler speed with step-based stride calibration, so it holds up under tree cover and on switchbacks • Calories that account for the metabolic cost of climbing, not just distance • Heart-rate zones when you wear an Apple Watch APPLE WATCH, WITH OR WITHOUT YOUR IPHONE • Standalone workouts — leave the phone at home • Create routes on your wrist; they sync back automatically • Live heart rate and heart-rate zones • Lap splits and alerts on the watch too PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No ads — ever • No subscription. One purchase, yours forever • No account, no sign-up, no tracking, no analytics • No third-party SDKs PaceBuddy has no servers and makes no network connections. Your workouts, routes and settings stay on your devices — aside from heart-rate and workout data you choose to sync through Apple Health. TRY IT FIRST PaceBuddy is free for 14 days, with everything unlocked. After that, a single one-time purchase keeps it. No subscription, no renewal, and the workouts you recorded stay readable either way. A NOTE ON HOW IT WORKS Pace coaching compares you to your own history on a given route, so it appears from your second workout on that route onward — a first run has nothing to race yet. Workouts under 100 m are treated as accidental starts and discarded.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PaceBuddy at 5.0 against Reign's 1.0. Reign's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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. PaceBuddy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Reign asks for nothing beyond the download.
PaceBuddy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Reign | PaceBuddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arav Krishnan | Shahab Karimi |
In-app purchases
Reign
No in-app purchases
PaceBuddy
- Unlock PaceBuddy$6.99









