Cadence vs Peak
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Cadence ships an update fortnightly, Peak weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cadence | Peak |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Vlad Gankin | Anthony Harvey |
In-app purchases
Cadence
- Small Coffee$0.99
- Medium Coffee$1.99
- Large Coffee$2.99
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- Coffee & Muffin$3.99
- You're too kind$4.99
Peak
- Peak Access Monthly14 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Peak Access Yearly14 Days trial$39.991 Year









