Comparison

My First 5K vs Weighback

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

Head to head
About

My First 5K

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My First 5K is an 8-week running plan for absolute beginners — and anyone who’s tried running before and wants to try again. The plan is simple: three runs a week, starting with short intervals of running and walking, building up until you’re running non-stop. No experience needed. ◎ Built for Apple Watch Your workouts are scheduled directly to the Workout app on your Apple Watch. Just open Workout, find today’s run (listed as “My 5K”), and go. No phone required on the road. Same first-class workout experience as before! ◎ Track your progress, indoors or outdoors See exactly where you are in the 8-week plan, what’s coming up next, and how many runs you’ve completed. You can finish a workout as an indoor or outdoor run — it’s entirely up to you! ◎ Start anytime Begin from Week 1 or jump in from any point in the plan. Reschedule anytime if life gets in the way. ◎ Good design, good citizen My First 5K boasts a modern app design. It supports Dark Mode, Dynamic Text Size, and VoiceOver.

About

Weighback

This app helps you track your weight by analyzing your history from Apple Health. It identifies meaningful goals based on past readings and presents them as achievable milestones. The app focuses on privacy, keeping all your data on your device.

Highlights
  • Reads weight from Apple Health
  • Identifies historical weight goals
  • Presents goals as a milestone staircase
  • Shows all-time low and peak weight
  • Displays date of current weight history
  • Zoomable historical weight chart
Features
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Weighback is a quiet companion for your weight tracking. It reads your existing weight readings from Apple Health, finds the meaningful goals based on your history, and presents them as a progressing staircase of milestones you can target. Treat weight loss like a rewind in time, for you to find your "weigh" back! WHAT YOU'LL SEE • Your all-time low. Every weighback goal you've crossed, in descending order. • Today's "weighback" — the most recent date you previously weighed what you weigh right now. (If the number on the scale feels familiar, it probably is.) • Your peak weight and how far you've come from it. • A chart that zooms cleanly from a single month out to your full history, with momentum panning when you grab the timeline. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT • Your data stays on your iPhone. Weighback never sends it anywhere, never logs in, and has no account. • It doesn't ask you to weigh in. It reads what's already in Apple Health, including readings from any scale or third-party app that writes there. • The full chart goes back as far as your data does. Weighback is free with no ads. A small in-app tip supports continued development; the feature set is the same either way.

Screenshots

My First 5K3 screens
Weighback4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: My First 5K at none against Weighback's 1. My First 5K also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Weighback sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. My First 5K asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My First 5K ships an update every 5 days, Weighback every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
My First 5K versus Weighback: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy First 5KWeighback
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSasquatch Studio Inc.Brian Jackson

In-app purchases

None

My First 5K

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Weighback

One-time1
  • Tip$0.99

Questions

Is My First 5K free?
My First 5K is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Weighback free?
Weighback is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do My First 5K or Weighback have ads?
Neither My First 5K nor Weighback shows ads.
Which is updated more often, My First 5K or Weighback?
My First 5K ships an update every 5 days, and Weighback every 3 weeks. Most recently, My First 5K was updated on September 30, 2026 and Weighback on October 8, 2026.

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