TrackTunes vs PaceVault
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TrackTunes | PaceVault |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TrackTunes | ZACHARY THOMAS MULLEN |
Customer experience
TrackTunes
PaceVault
In-app purchases
TrackTunes
- Premium Annual$19.991 Year
PaceVault
- Small Tip$1.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99









