Tiles vs Exerzio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tiles
Visualize your past runs, walks, hikes, and rides on a single map. Explore your activity history, discover new places with exploration fog, and collect achievements. The app offers free basic features with an optional Pro subscription for advanced imports and metrics.
- Workout route history visualization
- Activity calendar and progress tracking
- Exploration fog and new place discovery
- Photo Journeys with geotagged photos
- Advanced map modes and metrics (Pro)
- GPX, FIT, TCX, CSV, and Strava imports (Pro)
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Your workout routes, together on one map. Tiles brings your existing runs, walks, hikes, and rides into a history you can explore. REVISIT A DAY OUT Open an activity for its route, distance, pace, elevation, and terrain where available. Search your archive, see what each outing added, and share the details you choose. GET TO KNOW YOUR PATTERNS Metrics brings together your activity calendar, progress, and exploration across cities and countries. Route Heat shows the paths you return to. Activity Replay lets you revisit how your map grew. FIND YOUR NEXT ADVENTURE Reveal explored tiles, spot gaps with Exploration Fog, and collect stamps and achievements as you discover new places. Add daily Photo Journeys from eligible geotagged photos. Choose Realistic, Mist, or Game fog and Outlined, Smooth, or Contours tiles. On your wrist, use the map and compass to explore nearby tiles, get walking directions to a selected unexplored tile where available, and check daily and weekly progress. START FREE, EXPLORE MORE WITH PRO The initial free import includes the past three calendar months of workout and Photo Journey history. New activities keep adding to your map. Tiles Pro includes GPX, FIT, TCX, supported CSV, and Strava ZIP imports. Preview routes, choose activities, and map CSV columns before importing. Pro also adds advanced map modes, Activity Replay, deeper metrics, and optional Background Tracking on your phone and watch. Offline watch discoveries sync later. A paid Annual subscription or Lifetime purchase permanently unlocks full available history. Annual Pro features require an active subscription; imported history stays yours. Connect Strava with Pro to sync recent route activities. YOUR DATA CHOICES Your history is stored on your devices, with optional private iCloud sync and backup. Both start enabled on fresh installs and can be turned off in Settings. Tiles has no ads or social feed. Tiles imports existing workouts; it does not record workouts. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tiles.sinuk.dev/privacy.html
Exerzio
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Exerzio turns the workouts you already have into a map of your active life. Every run, ride, walk and hike in Apple Health is drawn on one map, so you can see the shape of where you actually go — not a list of numbers, but the territory you have covered. TWO WAYS TO SEE THE MAP Atlas shows your routes on one map, with no grid and no game. Tiles turns the world into a fixed grid of squares: pass through one during a workout and it is yours. The grid is the same everywhere and never moves, so a square you claimed years ago stays claimed. Chase new tiles, your max square, and your max cluster. BUILT TO STAY SMOOTH Workout routes are pre-rendered into a local pyramid of map tiles, so panning and zooming stays fast with thousands of workouts instead of redrawing every path each frame. YOUR DAY, YOUR HISTORY Today gives you steps, energy, distance and workouts at a glance. Activity is the health log — sleep, body measurements, hydration, mindfulness. Workout is your history, with personal records and the detail of every session. RECORD A WORKOUT Start a workout from the map and it records with its route, then saves to Apple Health so every app you use sees the same training. If something goes wrong mid-session, nothing is lost: the recording is preserved and can be finished later. DUPLICATES, HANDLED If two devices both wrote the same workout to Health, Exerzio recognises the duplicate and excludes it from totals, charts and share cards — without deleting anything from Apple Health. MAKE SOMETHING WORTH SHARING Create Studio turns your data into cards: a day, a week, a month, a single workout's route, or your explorer tiles. The workout share editor lets you frame the map by hand, choose a format for where it is going, and pick which stats appear. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Widgets for today's progress, weekly trends, training, recent sleep and the atlas engine. Siri shortcuts for the things you ask often. SEND YOUR WORKOUTS TO YOUR OWN SERVER If you run Dreeve, connect it and Exerzio sends the workout types you choose straight from your iPhone to your own instance. You supply the address and the key. There is no Exerzio relay and no Exerzio account in between. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No account, no Exerzio server, no analytics and no advertising SDK. Your workouts are not published to iPhone-wide search, and Siri answers with distances and directions rather than addresses or coordinates. Map imagery is fetched as you browse, like any map app; your routes are drawn on your device and are never uploaded.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Exerzio at every 2 days against Tiles's fortnightly. Tiles's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Tiles sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year and Exerzio sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tiles ships an update fortnightly, Exerzio every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tiles | Exerzio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 140 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Erik Handeland | Jonas Minke |
In-app purchases
Tiles
- Tiles Pro Annual$9.991 Year
- Tiles Pro Lifetime$19.99
Exerzio
- Small Tip$1.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$7.99









