Pace vs Pathlings
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pace
This app automatically tracks your daily steps, helping you achieve your fitness goals. It features streak tracking and weekly progress history, all within a simple, distraction-free interface. Enjoy a one-time purchase for lifetime use without subscriptions or accounts.
- One-time purchase
- Automatic step tracking
- Daily step goals
- Streak tracking
- Weekly progress history
- Widgets (Lock Screen & Home Screen)
- Apple Watch support
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Pace Set it. Walk. Repeat. Pace is a simple step tracker designed around one idea: Buy it once. Use it forever. No subscriptions. No accounts. No complicated fitness plans. Just automatic step tracking, daily goals, streaks, and progress that stays visible throughout your day. Set your goal. Keep moving. Pace handles the rest. Features • One-time purchase • Automatic step tracking • Daily step goals • Streak tracking • Weekly progress history • Apple Watch support • Lock Screen widgets • Home Screen widgets • Simple and distraction-free
Pathlings
This app transforms your daily steps into a gentle adventure with a virtual companion. Nurture your unique buddy, unlock new stages of growth, and complete daily quests to build a consistent routine. Goals are customizable to fit your lifestyle, making fitness fun and private.
- Virtual companion with unique personalities
- Daily step-based adventures and quests
- Unlockable growth stages and rewards
- Customizable step goals
- Collect in-game items
- Private and ad-free experience
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Walk more with a little buddy who grows alongside you. Pathlings turns your real daily steps into a cozy game. Choose a tiny creature, give them a name, and help them grow through five forms as you reach milestones and finish quests. There are snacks to share, Rubies to collect and a home to make your own. • Find your walking buddy. Start with a leaf-eared forest mouse, a lava frog or a water panda, each with their own personality and five forms to discover. Feed them snacks, play with toys, and watch them grow. • Make room for more friends. Save your Rubies to adopt other Pathlings, including a storm owl and Pebblehorn, the sandstone rhino. Decorate their home with plants, lanterns and treasures, unlock new habitats, and watch your little crew wander around together. • See who walks the most. PathLeague turns your weekly steps into a friendly race with your Game Center friends. See their Pathlings, chase a place on the podium, and win weekly Ruby prizes. Earn 100 Rubies for each new friend you add who plays Pathlings. • Turn your steps into playtime. Earn a Trail Run pass halfway to your daily goal and another when you reach it. Then dash down forest, volcanic, underwater, mountain or canyon trails: switch lanes, jump over obstacles and collect Rubies to bring home. • Take your Pathling for a stroll. Follow your walk live on your iPhone’s Lock Screen and look back on your outings in Walk History. Walk half your daily goal in one stroll, with a minimum of 2,000 steps, to earn 50 bonus Rubies once a day. • Find a pace that fits. Choose your own daily step goal and change it whenever you need to. Complete daily and weekly quests, collect badges, and look back on your progress with a weekly recap. When you need a day off, a Rest Day Shield can protect your streak. • Keep your buddy close. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets let you check in at a glance, with Feed and Play shortcuts on the Home Screen widget. See your synced progress and PathLeague race on Apple Watch, start and end walks from your wrist, or ask Siri to start a stroll. Pathlings counts your steps using Apple Health and your iPhone’s motion sensor. Free to play with optional Ruby packs. No ads, no subscriptions, and no Pathlings account needed. PathLeague is optional and uses Game Center. Choose your buddy and take your first walk together.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pathlings at Free against Pace's $0.99. Pathlings also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.3) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.5). Pace's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads 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
Pathlings is free to download; Pace costs $0.99 up front. Pathlings sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Pace asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pathlings holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 8 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Pace's written reviews are positive against 83% of Pathlings's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pace ships an update every 4 days, Pathlings weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Pace | Pathlings |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 4.5 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #198 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 26.5 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 247 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Torez Mitchell | Dave Mohan |
Customer experience
Pace
Pathlings
In-app purchases
Pace
No in-app purchases
Pathlings
- 500 Rubies$0.99
- 1,200 Rubies$1.99
- 3,000 Rubies$4.99
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- 6,500 Rubies$9.99









