Comparison

Kilo vs Plod

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

Head to head
About

Kilo

Features
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Track your weight simply and stay consistent with Kilo-Log — a clean, intuitive weight tracking app designed to help you reach your goals. ●Log your daily weight quickly with a numeric keypad ●Visualize your progress with beautiful charts and graphs ●Set a target weight and track your achievement rate ●Record your daily mood and condition (Great / Good / Normal / Poor) ●Auto-sync with Apple Health ●Protect your data with Face ID or passcode lock ●Automatic BMI calculation and body fat tracking ●Customize the app with multiple color themes ●Log your meals to monitor your lifestyle habits ●Switch between kg and lbs (pounds) weight units

About

Plod

Features
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Plod is a running app that stays out of the way. No account. No login. No subscription. No feed, no followers, no streak guilt. You open it, you run, it tells you how it went. RUN WITH A VOICE IN YOUR EAR Plod speaks at the start and finish, at every completed kilometre, and when your pace drifts away from what the session asked for. Every number it says — your split, your elapsed time, your pace — is worked out on your phone or watch. It is correct, and it works with no signal and no account. Speech ducks your music instead of stopping it, and keeps going with the screen locked. SESSIONS THAT FIT YOUR PACES Tell Plod what you're training for and what you can run it in today. It works out your easy, long, tempo, interval and recovery paces from there, then builds named sessions around them — controlled pick-ups, steady tempo blocks, run/walk, long easy finishes. The coach walks you through each block, counts you into the end of one, and tells you when you're pushing an easy day too hard. APPLE WATCH THAT DOESN'T NEED YOUR PHONE Start a run on the watch and leave the phone at home. Route, distance, pace, heart rate and calories are recorded on your wrist, and the same voice coach speaks through it — including full interval and tempo sessions. Runs save to the watch first and transfer to your iPhone whenever the two are next near each other. Nothing is lost if you run out of range. THE DETAIL AFTERWARDS Kilometre splits with a relative-speed bar, elevation per split, your route on a map, moving time, cadence, steps, and average and maximum heart rate. Each figure appears only when it genuinely exists — Plod leaves a number out rather than inventing one. Runs save to Apple Health when you allow it, and export as JSON whenever you want them elsewhere. OPTIONAL: BRING YOUR OWN AI If you have an OpenAI API key, Plod can add one short line of encouragement to what the coach already says, and answer training questions in plain language. The key is yours, stored in your device Keychain, and never leaves it except to talk to OpenAI. Everything above works fully without it. Plod gives general fitness guidance, not medical advice. It is not a substitute for a doctor or a qualified coach. Stop and seek medical care if you feel unwell.

Screenshots

Kilo4 screens
Plod4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Plod at none against Kilo's shown. Plod also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kilo ships an update every 2 weeks, Plod every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Kilo versus Plod: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKiloPlod
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTOSHIYUKI HIRATAManuel Rinaldi

In-app purchases

None

Kilo

No in-app purchases

None

Plod

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kilo free?
Kilo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Plod free?
Plod is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Kilo or Plod have ads?
Kilo shows ads; Plod does not.
Which is updated more often, Kilo or Plod?
Kilo ships an update every 2 weeks, and Plod every 9 days. Most recently, Kilo was updated on October 31, 2026 and Plod on October 29, 2026.

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