Comparison

Kinetopia vs Riptide

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

Head to head
About

Kinetopia

This fitness tracker offers comprehensive workout logging for 35 sports, including court games and outdoor activities. It emphasizes data privacy with no accounts, servers, or ads, and provides robust export options. Syncs with Apple Health and offers optional private iCloud synchronization.

Highlights
  • 35 sports tracking
  • Apple Watch app
  • Two-way Apple Health sync
  • Optional private iCloud sync
  • Excel and GPX export
  • Gear tracking
  • Personal records and goals
Features
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The fitness tracker without the subscription. $14.99 once. No accounts. No third-party cloud. No ads. No analytics. Kinetopia is built for athletes who want their training data to be theirs. A real Apple Watch workout app. 35 sports. Two-way Apple Health sync. Optional private iCloud sync — never our servers. Excel export and import. Everything on-device, by design. • GPS-tracked workouts — live pace, distance, elevation, heart rate. Auto-pause, manual laps, splits, route map. • Apple Watch app — a real HKWorkoutSession on your wrist with live HR, distance, calories. Pause, resume, finish from the watch. Works even when your phone isn't with you. • 35 sports — including tennis and pickleball with match-by-match win/loss tracking, skateboarding, scooter, motorcycle, sailing, kitesurf, water ski, wakeboard, scuba, plus all the usual run/ride/hike/swim/lift sports. • Court sports done right — log matches won and lost, sets, set scores, and the opponent. Personal records include most matches in a session, longest session, best win rate, and a win-streak counter. • Personal records — fastest 1K, mile, 5K, 10K, half, marathon per sport, computed from your GPS trace with rolling-window analysis. Plus longest distance, longest time, most elevation. • Goals — weekly, monthly, yearly distance, time, elevation, or workout-count goals. Scoped to any sport or all sports. Ring progress that fills as you train. • Gear tracking — shoes, bikes, skis, boards. Auto-mileage. Retire-at alerts so you know when it's time. • Achievements — 16 unlockable badges: First Run, Marathon, Century, Vertical Mile, Court Regular, Sweep, and more. • Apple Health (two-way) — workouts you record write to Health with full GPS route as HKWorkoutRoute. Existing Health workouts (from any source) import into Kinetopia, deduped by UUID. • Optional iCloud sync — off by default. When on, your activities sync across your devices through your own private CloudKit database. Never our servers. Never a third party. • Excel export & import — one-tap .xlsx with 8 sheets covering activities, splits, routes, gear, goals, records, achievements, and profile. Re-import on a new device — duplicates skipped automatically. No vendor lock-in. • GPX export — per-activity, standards-compliant GPX 1.1 with Garmin HR extension. • Editorial typography — cream background, forest green accent, serif headlines. Built to be calm to look at, every day. Kinetopia has no servers. Not because we promise we don't, but because none exist. • No accounts. There is nothing to sign up for. • No analytics SDKs. No Facebook, Google • No advertising identifiers. No tracking pixels. No third-party cloud. • Apple Health stays on your device. CloudKit syncs only to your own iCloud account, only if you turn it on. • The compiled app does not contain any networking code that calls a server we operate, because we do not operate any servers. Read the full privacy policy at kinetopia.org/privacy. = ONE-TIME PRICE = $14.99, once. There is no monthly tier, no annual upgrade, no Premium version. The version you buy is the version with every feature, forever. Use it for a year, ten years, never pay again. Family Sharing supported. = FROM THE MAKER OF CALTOPIA = Kinetopia is the sibling app to Caltopia, the calorie tracker without the subscription. Both apps are built by Cole Williams. Both are one-time purchases. Both speak to Apple Health, so they work together without ever sharing a server, an account, or a single byte of your data with anyone. = SUPPORT = One human reads every email. Write to support@kinetopia.org and you'll get a real reply, usually within a day. = REQUIREMENTS = • iPhone with iOS 17 or later • Apple Watch with watchOS 10 or later (optional; required for the wrist-recorded workouts) • Location, Motion, and HealthKit permissions are optional — the app works without them but gives you more accurate data with them on

About

Riptide

This app helps you track your daily health protocols, including medications, supplements, and their effects on your energy, mood, and focus. It offers a private journal with customizable schedules and integrates with Apple Health for a comprehensive view of your well-being.

Highlights
  • Protocol design with schedules
  • Daily administration logging
  • Mood and energy check-ins
  • Visualize trends with Apple Health
  • Progress photo tracking
  • Data export functionality
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Riptide is a clean, focused journal for what you take and how your body responds. Build protocols, log every administration, and check in daily across energy, mood, focus, performance, and libido. Whether you're tracking a multivitamin stack, a peptide cycle, a GLP-1 protocol, or TRT, Riptide gives you a private record you actually own — and connects to Apple Health for sleep and resting heart rate so you can see the full picture. KEY FEATURES • Protocols — design recurring schedules with dose, route, and timing • Daily Log — see what's scheduled, taken, and skipped at a glance • Daily Check-In — rate energy, mood, focus, performance, and libido in seconds • Trends — visualize how your stack maps to sleep, HR, and how you feel • Apple Health — opt-in HealthKit integration (sleep, resting HR) • Reminders — gentle notifications for administrations and check-ins • Progress Photos — track visible changes alongside the data • Weight & Body Trends • Export — keep a copy of your data anytime PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your data lives on your device. No accounts, no servers, no ads. Apple Health permissions are entirely opt-in and can be changed or revoked in iPhone Settings at any time. NOT A MEDICAL APP Riptide is a journal and self-tracking tool. It does not diagnose, treat, or recommend any substance. Always work with a qualified healthcare provider for medical guidance, prescriptions, and dosing. Designed for athletes, biohackers, longevity researchers, and anyone serious about understanding how their protocols translate into daily outcomes.

Screenshots

Kinetopia4 screens
Riptide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Riptide at none against Kinetopia's 1. Kinetopia's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Kinetopia sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Riptide asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Kinetopia against 5.0 for Riptide. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kinetopia ships an update daily, Riptide weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Kinetopia versus Riptide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKinetopiaRiptide
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings33
Update frequencyDaily — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.617.6
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB3 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperCOLE SHANE WILLIAMSWYATT RAIFORD DILLON

Customer experience

Kinetopia

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Riptide

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Kinetopia

One-time1
  • Unlock Kinetopia$14.99
None

Riptide

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kinetopia free?
Kinetopia is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Riptide free?
Riptide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Kinetopia or Riptide?
Kinetopia and Riptide are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Kinetopia or Riptide have ads?
Neither Kinetopia nor Riptide shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kinetopia or Riptide?
Kinetopia ships an update daily, and Riptide weekly. Most recently, Kinetopia was updated on October 24, 2026 and Riptide on October 22, 2026.

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