Commute ETA Widget vs OnPace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Commute ETA Widget
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Every other commute app shows you a travel time and leaves you to do the arithmetic. This one does the arithmetic and shows you the answer: the exact minute to walk out of the door. Tell it where you are going and when you have to be there. It asks Apple Maps for a live, traffic aware travel time, subtracts a buffer you control, and puts one number on your Home Screen. KNOW WHEN TO LEAVE, NOT JUST HOW LONG IT TAKES Set an arrival time once. The app solves for the departure minute and keeps re-solving as traffic moves. The large number on screen is the time to go, not a duration you have to count backwards from. ALWAYS SHOWS HOW OLD THE ESTIMATE IS iOS decides when a widget may refresh, and no app can change that. So every travel time here, in the app and on the widget, carries the minute it was computed and a live, aging or stale badge. When a widget has gone stale it says so and asks for a tap, instead of showing an old number as though it were current. This is the whole reason the app exists. FOUR WAYS TO TRAVEL, HONESTLY REPORTED Drive, transit, walk and bike, straight from Apple Maps. Transit and cycling coverage varies by city, so when Apple Maps has no answer for a route the mode is greyed out with the reason. You never get a number from the wrong kind of journey. A BUFFER YOU CONTROL Choose how many minutes you want in hand. It is applied openly and shown on screen next to a second time: the last possible minute you could leave with no buffer at all. A DEPARTURE COUNTDOWN THAT SURVIVES A BACKGROUND Tap Start departure for a full screen countdown with a live ring. Close the app, find your keys, come back, and the same countdown is still running. YOUR OWN TYPICAL RANGE Finished departures build a range from your trips on your route. Thirty four minutes becomes thirty four minutes, usually twenty nine to forty one. It is your history, not a claim about traffic in general. COMMUTES FROM YOUR CALENDAR Turn it on and events that have a real location become commutes you can accept. Parsing happens on your device. Video call links and empty room names are skipped rather than guessed at. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account. No sign in. No server of ours anywhere in the app. Travel times come from Apple Maps on your device, and nothing about you, your places or your trips is ever sent to us. Location is optional and only used while the app is open; you can use the whole app by typing two addresses instead. WHAT IS FREE One saved commute, two saved places, all four travel modes, unlimited refreshes, the full staleness display and a Home Screen widget. Free forever, with no daily limit and no timer. COMMUTE ETA WIDGET PRO Pro adds unlimited commutes and places, leave by alerts, calendar detection, the Lock Screen countdown, your typical range and a widget for every commute. Pro is a single purchase, not a subscription. Nothing renews and nothing is charged again. It includes Family Sharing, and Restore Purchases lives in Settings. This app is a departure planning aid. It shows Apple Maps estimates and hands off to your chosen maps app for navigation; it does not promise an arrival time. Privacy policy: https://app.innovaapps.ai/privacy Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
OnPace
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Know at every checkpoint whether you are ahead of your plan or behind it. Set the times you usually pass a few points on the way: leaving home, the corner, the bus stop, the office. While you move, OnPace compares where you are with where the plan says you should be and shows the gap in minutes and seconds. It does not give directions. It tells you whether to hurry. ā Making a route ⢠Walking and driving routes from Apple Maps ⢠Checkpoints filled in along the way ⢠A route built from a trip you take ⢠A window of its own at each checkpoint ⢠Bus and subway legs ā Before you leave ⢠A departure reminder for each route ⢠The route for the time of day, picked on its own ā On the move ⢠Minutes and seconds ahead of or behind plan ⢠The next checkpoint and the time to pass it ⢠Estimated arrival ⢠Lock Screen card and Dynamic Island ⢠An alert when you drift out of the window ⢠Map pins where you mark boarding, getting off and more ⢠Start from Control Center, Siri or Shortcuts ā OnPace Pro ⢠More routes: two to begin with, no limit with Pro ⢠Tune from trips: checkpoint times set to the median of your recent trips, with the suggestions visible without Pro ⢠Days for each route: departure reminders and the automatic pick follow them ā Privacy ⢠No personal data collected ⢠No account and no sign-in ⢠No ads and no outside analytics Set your usual route once, and the next time you head out you will know whether to run.
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Verdict
Commute ETA Widget and OnPace are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters ā price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them ā neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Commute ETA Widget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and OnPace sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Commute ETA Widget | OnPace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | ā | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 ā better | 18.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alex Gameli Heyman | Dohyun Kim |
In-app purchases
Commute ETA Widget
- Commute ETA Widget Pro$7.99
OnPace
- OnPace Pro$1.99








