Comparison

Cadence vs Peak

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

Head to head
About

Cadence

Track your daily steps, distance, floors climbed, and calories burned with a focus on simplicity and privacy. Set custom weekday and weekend goals and visualize your activity patterns with interactive heatmaps. Integrates seamlessly with Apple Watch.

Highlights
  • Daily step, distance, floors, and calorie tracking
  • Customizable weekday and weekend goals
  • Interactive hour-by-hour heatmaps
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • Private by design, no account required
  • Automatic iCloud history restore
Features
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Step tracking that stays out of your way Cadence helps you build a consistent walking habit without the usual noise. No social feed. No gamification. No upsells. Just an honest, clear picture of how you move every day. Weekday and Weekend Goals Most days aren't the same, so your goals shouldn't be either. Set separate targets for weekdays and weekends. Cadence automatically applies the right goal each day, and your history always reflects the target that was active on that specific day. Past records are never rewritten. Changed your mind about a goal? You can apply any update retroactively across your entire history with a single tap. Heatmaps You Can Actually Explore See your walking rhythm hour by hour. Scrub through today's heatmap to pinpoint exactly when you were most active, or zoom out to spot long-term patterns across weeks, months, and years. Beautifully color-coded and easy to understand. No chart reading required. Steps, Distance, Floors, and Calories Every day shows your full activity picture — steps, walking distance, flights climbed, and active calories. See how your week is shaping up with a projected end-of-week step total based on your current daily pace. Apple Watch and Complications A native three-page Apple Watch app gives you today's steps and progress, your full week chart, and goal settings directly on your wrist. Eight thoughtfully designed complications work beautifully on any watch face. Goals sync instantly between iPhone and Watch in both directions. Private by Design No account. No sign-up. No ads. Your health data stays on your device and syncs privately through your own iCloud. No analytics. No tracking. Your History, Restored Install Cadence on a new device signed into the same iCloud account and your complete history restores automatically — goals included. No exports or manual backups needed. Core step tracking, the Apple Watch app, and all complications are completely free and will always remain free. There's an optional tip jar if you'd like to support ongoing development.

About

Peak

This comprehensive fitness app helps users plan and log workouts, track nutrition and recovery, build habits, and monitor progress. It offers engaging live workout enhancers, detailed tracking for various activities, and personalized plans to help users reach their fitness goals.

Highlights
  • Live workout enhancers (HIIT timer, pace coach)
  • Comprehensive workout tracking (running, strength, etc.)
  • Detailed strength training logging
  • Personalized weekly workout plans
  • AI-powered food logging
  • Daily goal and habit tracking
  • Health and recovery dashboard
Features
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Peak is a full fitness app for people who want one place to plan workouts, train, log strength sets, track nutrition and recovery, build habits, and reach their peak. Most fitness apps track. Peak trains with you. WORKOUT ENHANCERS 
Make live workouts more engaging with built-in enhancers: HIIT timer, pace coach, cadence beeps, box breathing, motivational callouts, random challenges, workout dice, video player, and boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, and MMA-style strike callouts and combos. Great for running, boxing, cardio, HIIT, breathwork, and home workouts. WORKOUT TRACKING
 Start live sessions for running, cycling, walking, HIIT, boxing, strength training, yoga, rowing, hiking, jump rope, sports, recovery, and more — with heart rate, heart rate zones, distance, and live stats. Review history with duration, calories, heart rate summaries, and strength logs. Full HealthKit workout saving. APPLE WATCH
 Live workout tracking, heart rate, distance, and phone/watch syncing. Start on one device and stay connected. STRENGTH TRAINING 
Log exercises, sets, reps, weight, notes, form ratings, and training-to-failure details. Follow strength plans with rep targets, RIR, supersets, and warmups — push/pull/legs, upper/lower, full body, or your own structure. TOTAL WORKOUT PLANS 
Let Peak structure your week across cardio, strength, recovery, and rest days. Know what kind of workout to do today, and let logged workouts count toward progress. MICRO HIIT
 Short, guided bodyweight interval workouts that take only minutes. Use presets or build custom routines with reminders that launch straight into the session. NUTRITION
 Log food, calories, protein, carbs, fat, water, caffeine, and supplements. Search foods, scan barcodes, snap photos, save favorites, and track daily macro targets with meal history and calorie balance. AI FOOD LOGGING 
Describe what you ate in plain language or take a picture and get calories and macros instantly. Runs privately on your device — no waiting on a server. DAILY GOALS & HABITS 
Create daily checks for workouts, hydration, mobility, sleep routines, and more. Attach proof photos and review your daily check calendar. ACTION SCORE & STREAKS 
Your recent activity, recovery, and Health data — steps, active calories, workout minutes, HRV, resting heart rate, VO2 Max — distilled into one simple number compared against your personal baseline. HEALTH & RECOVERY DASHBOARD
 HRV trends, resting heart rate, workout minutes, sleep stages, training progress, daily goals, and plan guidance in one view. REACTION TIME TESTING 
Train and measure your reflexes: visual, haptic, audio, direction choice, anticipation, dual task, and more. Track speed, accuracy, and consistency over time. QUICK SPEECH
 Use voice commands to start workouts and log food, water, or supplements from the main action button. PERSONALIZED PROFILE
 Build a profile around your goals, experience, equipment, schedule, injuries, and HealthKit data so Peak feels built around your actual training. For runners who lift. For lifters who care about cardio. For boxing, HIIT, and home workout fans. Track your workouts, build your plan, log your meals, and reach your peak. ABOUT HEALTH DATA: On supported devices, Peak can access the Health app to write data with your permission. All data is written in full accordance with the iOS app review rules set by Apple. You can read our privacy policy at https://anthonyharveyapps.com/privacy-policy-peak for more information on our use of data, but here is a summary: We do not collect or access any of your health data off of your device. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://anthonyharveyapps.com/privacy-policy-peak

Screenshots

Cadence4 screens
Peak4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Cadence at free against Peak's freemium. Cadence also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). Peak's advantage is update cadence (weekly 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. Cadence sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Peak sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Cadence against 5.0 for Peak. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cadence ships an update fortnightly, Peak weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Cadence versus Peak: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCadencePeak
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB96 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperVlad GankinAnthony Harvey

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Cadence

One-time5
  • Small Coffee$0.99
  • Medium Coffee$1.99
  • Large Coffee$2.99
Show 2 more
  • Coffee & Muffin$3.99
  • You're too kind$4.99
2 purchases

Peak

Subscriptions2
  • Peak Access Monthly14 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Peak Access Yearly14 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Cadence free?
Cadence is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Peak free?
Peak is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cadence or Peak?
Cadence and Peak are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Cadence or Peak have ads?
Neither Cadence nor Peak shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cadence or Peak?
Cadence ships an update fortnightly, and Peak weekly. Most recently, Cadence was updated on October 24, 2026 and Peak on October 25, 2026.

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