Comparison

Heightmark vs Workout Photos

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

Head to head
About

Heightmark

Record and journal your elevation at specific locations with optional photos and notes. Organize your private collection of highs, lows, and cities on a vertical scale. Export your data and share custom elevation cards.

Highlights
  • Record elevation and coordinates
  • Add optional photos and notes
  • Organize marks by elevation or date
  • View elevation panorama
  • Create custom elevation cards
  • Offline recording and browsing
Features
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Heightmark is a GPS altimeter and private elevation journal for iPhone, made for hiking, travel, and photography. Save the places you visit by elevation, then compare them with Mount Fuji and Everest on one vertical scale. • SAVE WHERE YOU STAND Record the elevation, coordinates, place, and time supplied by iPhone Location Services. Add a photo and a note to remember the moment. See the current vertical-accuracy estimate alongside your reading. • REVISIT HEIGHTS FROM PHOTOS Recreate a mark from an original photo that retains coordinates, elevation, and capture time. Heightmark reads the elevation already stored in the photo; it does not calculate a missing elevation from coordinates. Photos shared through messaging apps or websites may have this information removed. • ORGANIZE YOUR PLACES BY ELEVATION Sort your private Atlas by elevation or date. See your places beside world landmarks on a true-scale Elevation Panorama, and revisit your cities, elevation bands, and earned badges. Choose meters or feet in Settings. • SHARE YOUR ELEVATION STORY Make a card for one mark, a Collection Card with 1 to 10 places, or an Atlas report. Export your panorama as a single tall image. Choose from free layouts or unlock premium sharing templates with Heightmark Pro. • KEEP A PRIVATE JOURNAL Record and browse offline. Place-name lookup uses Apple system services and shares the place's coordinates with them; offline, coordinates may appear instead of a place name. No account, advertising, third-party analytics, or behavioral tracking. Heightmark saves individual places. It does not continuously record routes, calculate elevation gain, or track workouts. Marks, coordinates, photos, and notes are stored locally on your iPhone. The developer does not receive them or provide cross-device cloud sync. Apple device or iCloud backups may include app data according to your system settings. FREE TO START Keep recording marks for free. Up to 10 marks can be in your Atlas; additional marks stay saved in Not in Atlas. Heightmark Pro is an optional one-time purchase with lifetime access: add every mark to the Atlas and Panorama and unlock all premium sharing templates. No subscription. Available in English and Simplified Chinese, with an in-app language switch. Elevation accuracy varies with your device and surroundings. Retake important readings under open sky. Heightmark is not a replacement for professional surveying or safety equipment. Start your elevation journal with a place worth remembering.

About

Workout Photos

Features
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Your effort. Your art. Share. Turn your workouts into photos and videos that tell the whole story. Rekordis pairs your own images with sports results, animated routes and visual effects. Capture the finish of a run, a weekend cycle or a gym session, then create something worth sharing. MAKE YOUR RESULTS PART OF THE PICTURE Take a photo, record a video or choose something from your library. Add a saved activity, an imported route or a workout from Health. Pick a data style, move and resize the sports overlay, and preview the result before saving. Keep your own composition in portrait or landscape. Choose layouts that highlight distance, elevation, calories or average speed. Edit the values and activity details when you need to correct or complete them. Only available measurements are shown: an indoor workout can tell its story without a route, and missing data does not become an invented result. BRING YOUR WORKOUT TO LIFE Combine a sports data style with a body or face effect. Let your results fly around a person and settle into place with Orbit, or explore electricity, glowing eyes and other animated looks. Effects that need a visible face or body explain when the selected image cannot support them. Turn a still photo into an animated clip, or apply a template to your video. Preview styles in motion, adjust the overlay and keep watching while you make changes. Save the finished photo or video to your library, or open the system share sheet to choose where it goes. WORKOUTS FROM HEALTH With your permission, Rekordis uses HealthKit to read selected workout summaries, including available duration, distance and active calories. Route access is requested separately, only when you choose to include a workout route. Running, cycling, walking, swimming and indoor sessions can all provide results for your artwork. Health access is optional. Rekordis does not write to Health. Workout data is processed on your device; saving or sharing artwork includes the measurements you choose to display. Calorie estimates are informational, not medical advice, and recorded energy is used when available. KEEP THE MAP CLOSE Follow an imported route, see your current location and check live speed and distance. Import GPX, KML, GeoJSON or CSV routes, explore supported waypoints, and revisit your activity history. Speed tools and a mirrored HUD help keep key numbers easy to read. Export saved routes to share or save as files. REKORDIS PLUS Plus unlocks activity recording, downloaded maps, watermark removal and video export up to 4K. Export also offers 720p and 1080p. Available resolution depends on your device, source media and chosen effect; output keeps the original proportions without upscaling. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or Lifetime Access. Whether you train outdoors or indoors, make the effort visible with Rekordis. PURCHASE OPTIONS: - Rekordis Plus offers auto-renewable monthly and yearly subscriptions or Lifetime Access, a one-time non-consumable purchase with no subscription. - Eligible new yearly subscribers receive a 3-day introductory trial. Monthly and Lifetime have no trial. - After the trial, the subscription renews at the localized annual price shown before purchase unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - Payment will be charged to your store account at confirmation of purchase. - Your subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. - You can manage or cancel your subscription in your device or store account subscription settings after purchase. - Any unused portion of an introductory trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://rekordis.com/ios/privacy

Screenshots

Heightmark4 screens
Workout Photos4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Workout Photos at weekly against Heightmark's fortnightly. Workout Photos also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Heightmark sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Workout Photos sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Heightmark ships an update fortnightly, Workout Photos weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Heightmark versus Workout Photos: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHeightmarkWorkout Photos
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer帆 杨WOWCODED THINGS LTD

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Heightmark

One-time1
  • Heightmark Pro$4.99
3 purchases

Workout Photos

Subscriptions2
  • Rekordis Plus$4.991 Month
  • Rekordis Plus3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$49.99

Questions

Is Heightmark free?
Heightmark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Workout Photos free?
Workout Photos is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Heightmark or Workout Photos have ads?
Neither Heightmark nor Workout Photos shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Heightmark or Workout Photos?
Heightmark ships an update fortnightly, and Workout Photos weekly. Most recently, Heightmark was updated on October 31, 2026 and Workout Photos on November 6, 2026.

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