Comparison

Fawnly vs PaceBuddy

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

Head to head
About

Fawnly

Track your daily steps, distance, and calories with a beautiful, pressure-free interface. Understand your progress over time with detailed insights and customize your experience with unique themes. Share your achievements with friends.

Highlights
  • Daily step, distance, and calorie tracking
  • Progress review and historical insights
  • Customizable themes and fonts
  • Shareable activity cards
  • Apple Health integration
  • No account or cloud sync required
Features
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Fawnly is a calm and beautiful way to understand your daily movement and build a walking habit without pressure. YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE See your steps, walking distance, active calories, floors, and daily goal progress in one simple screen. With Fawnly Plus, you can also make distance your main Home metric. WIDGETS FOR YOUR HOME SCREEN AND LOCK SCREEN Keep today's steps and goal progress in view with small and medium Home Screen widgets and round, rectangular, and inline Lock Screen widgets. They refresh from Apple Health on their own throughout the day. With Fawnly Plus, widgets can wear your illustrated theme. UNDERSTAND YOUR PROGRESS Review your recent activity and weekly progress. Fawnly Plus unlocks Month and Year views, older history, daily averages, best days, and longer-term insights. MAKE FAWNLY YOURS Choose from thoughtfully designed themes. Fawnly Plus includes premium illustrated themes and custom fonts for your main activity number. SHARE YOUR MOVEMENT Create a beautiful card from any day and share it with friends. Fawnly Plus unlocks Week and Month cards, along with additional sharing options. APPLE HEALTH, WITH YOUR PERMISSION On iPhone, Fawnly can read your step count, walking and running distance, active energy, and flights climbed from Apple Health. Access is read-only. Your activity history and preferences stay on your device. Fawnly has: • No account requirement • No ads • No advertising tracking • No Fawnly cloud sync FAWNLY PLUS An optional Fawnly Plus subscription unlocks: • Premium and illustrated themes • Month and Year history • Access to older weeks and months • Distance as your main Home metric • Week and Month sharing cards • Custom hero fonts • A weekly step-card recap PLEASE NOTE Fawnly is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice. Activity values are displayed as provided by Apple Health. When a value is unavailable, Fawnly shows it as unavailable rather than estimating it. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Fawnly Plus is available as an auto-renewable monthly or yearly subscription. Pricing is shown before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm your purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your device Settings. Terms of Use: https://getfawnly.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://getfawnly.com/privacy/

About

PaceBuddy

This app acts as a personal running coach, allowing you to race against your past performances on familiar routes. It provides real-time feedback on your pace and distance, with advanced features for accurate tracking on varied terrain and integration with smartwatches.

Highlights
  • Race against past runs or personal bests
  • Live ahead/behind pace feedback
  • Falling-behind alerts (vibration, beep, spoken)
  • Accurate distance and elevation tracking
  • Calorie calculation with climbing cost
  • Apple Watch standalone workouts
Features
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Everyone has a route they do over and over — the same loop, the same hill, the same trail. PaceBuddy is built on one idea: on that route, the only pace worth chasing is your own. It replays your last run beside you, second by second, and tells you whether you're ahead or behind and by how far. Race your last attempt, or your best. RACE YOURSELF, NOT A STRANGER • Live ahead/behind against your own past run on the same route • Choose your last run or your personal best as the target • Works even if you start the loop from a different point each day • Falling-behind alerts by vibration, beep, or spoken callout • Distance announcements at every kilometre or mile • Lap splits with distance, time, pace and calories BUILT FOR REAL TERRAIN • Elevation from the barometer, not GPS altitude — far more accurate on hills • Distance from GPS Doppler speed with step-based stride calibration, so it holds up under tree cover and on switchbacks • Calories that account for the metabolic cost of climbing, not just distance • Heart-rate zones when you wear an Apple Watch APPLE WATCH, WITH OR WITHOUT YOUR IPHONE • Standalone workouts — leave the phone at home • Create routes on your wrist; they sync back automatically • Live heart rate and heart-rate zones • Lap splits and alerts on the watch too PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No ads — ever • No subscription. One purchase, yours forever • No account, no sign-up, no tracking, no analytics • No third-party SDKs PaceBuddy has no servers and makes no network connections. Your workouts, routes and settings stay on your devices — aside from heart-rate and workout data you choose to sync through Apple Health. TRY IT FIRST PaceBuddy is free for 14 days, with everything unlocked. After that, a single one-time purchase keeps it. No subscription, no renewal, and the workouts you recorded stay readable either way. A NOTE ON HOW IT WORKS Pace coaching compares you to your own history on a given route, so it appears from your second workout on that route onward — a first run has nothing to race yet. Workouts under 100 m are treated as accidental starts and discarded.

Screenshots

Fawnly4 screens
PaceBuddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

Fawnly and PaceBuddy are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Fawnly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and PaceBuddy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fawnly against 5.0 for PaceBuddy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Fawnly versus PaceBuddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFawnlyPaceBuddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 8 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.416.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKaustubh KajaveShahab Karimi

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Fawnly

Subscriptions2
  • Fawnly Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Fawnly Plus Yearly$9.991 Year
1 purchases

PaceBuddy

One-time1
  • Unlock PaceBuddy$6.99

Questions

Is Fawnly free?
Fawnly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PaceBuddy free?
PaceBuddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Fawnly or PaceBuddy?
Fawnly and PaceBuddy are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Fawnly or PaceBuddy have ads?
Neither Fawnly nor PaceBuddy shows ads.

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