Comparison

TrackTunes vs PaceVault

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

Head to head
About

TrackTunes

Automatically logs the music you listened to during workouts into your activity descriptions. Discover your "power songs" that boost your pace and build albums of music listened to while moving. Share your music-fueled activities with friends.

Highlights
  • Automatic music logging to Strava
  • Per-track pace analysis
  • Identify "Power Songs" that improve pace
  • Album tracking for music listened to during activities
  • Top tracks and artists ranked by distance
  • Shareable activity cards with music details
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Every activity can have a soundtrack. TrackTunes puts it on the record. Connect Strava and Spotify once, and TrackTunes does the rest. When you finish an activity, it works out what you were listening to while you were moving and writes the track list straight into your Strava description. WHAT YOU GET Every activity gets the songs you actually heard during it, in order, written to Strava within minutes of finishing. Per-track pace. See how fast you were moving during each song, not just your average for the whole activity. Power Songs. Over time, TrackTunes works out which tracks you are reliably faster to. Not just the ones you think pump you up. The ones that measurably do. Albums. Build a collection of the records you have listened to end to end while moving. Top TrackTunes. Your most played tracks and artists, ranked by the distance you covered to them. Share cards. Turn any activity into an image worth posting, with the route, the stats, and the music on it. PREMIUM TrackTunes is free to try. Free accounts get a fixed number of activity updates in total and can open their most recent activity in full. Premium removes the cap and unlocks your whole history, album tracking, and Power Songs. WHAT YOU NEED A Strava account and a Spotify account. TrackTunes reads your recent Spotify listening and your Strava activities, matches them on time, and writes the result back to Strava. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tracktunes.app/privacy

About

PaceVault

Analyze your running history with best efforts, route matching, and lifetime trends. This private app provides insights into your personal records and wellness signals, all processed on your device.

Highlights
  • Best efforts and PR detection
  • Route matching and ranking
  • Year-over-year trend analysis
  • Wellness signal tracking
  • 100% on-device processing
  • No account or cloud required
Features
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Best-efforts records, matched routes, and lifetime trends — all on your iPhone, all private. PaceVault turns your Garmin activity history into the analytics you've been missing. • Best efforts — every PR across every distance, auto-detected • Route matching — see every run of your favorite loop, ranked • Year-over-year trends across your whole history • Wellness signals gathered in one place — how you feel is yours to read • 100% on-device. No account, no cloud, nothing leaves your phone Free, forever. Every feature, for every user.

Screenshots

TrackTunes4 screens
PaceVault4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: PaceVault at free against TrackTunes's freemium. TrackTunes's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. TrackTunes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year and PaceVault sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. 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 TrackTunes against 5.0 for PaceVault. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
TrackTunes versus PaceVault: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrackTunesPaceVault
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTrackTunesZACHARY THOMAS MULLEN

Customer experience

TrackTunes

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PaceVault

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TrackTunes

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Annual$19.991 Year
3 purchases

PaceVault

One-time3
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$9.99

Questions

Is TrackTunes free?
TrackTunes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PaceVault free?
PaceVault is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TrackTunes or PaceVault?
TrackTunes and PaceVault are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do TrackTunes or PaceVault have ads?
Neither TrackTunes nor PaceVault shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TrackTunes or PaceVault?
TrackTunes ships an update every 6 days, and PaceVault every 6 days. Most recently, TrackTunes was updated on October 22, 2026 and PaceVault on October 10, 2026.

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