Comparison

Ovyso vs RideTracker

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

Head to head
About

Ovyso

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Ovyso turns the steps, sleep, heart rate and vitals already sitting in Apple Health into Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets worth looking at twice. Most health widgets are an afterthought — a stock ring in one flat color. Ovyso is warm and Apple-native, tiles and hero ring glowing with liquid light, every metric in its own semantic color: pick a layout, pick your metrics, pick a finish, and it lives on your Home Screen exactly as designed, staying current on its own. SIX WIDGET LAYOUTS • Metric — one hero number with its goal • Dashboard — a full grid, mirrors your day at a glance • Rings — up to three goals as concentric rings • Trend — seven days of bars next to today • Lock Screen — circular, rectangular or inline • Circle — your circle's current event and latest result SEVEN FINISHES Aurora, Graphite and Paper are free; Coral, Ocean, Forest and Solar unlock with Ovyso Pro — seven colorful, Apple-native grounds, all built on the same system that colors the data itself: steps and activity in orange, heart in red, sleep in indigo, vitals in blue, body in teal, everywhere they appear. Numbers render in Onest, a rounded numeral face built for glancing — a serif option is in the Studio too. THE STUDIO Build your own designs: choose a layout, choose which metrics it shows, choose a finish and a typography style, preview it across every size before you add it — then add it from the Home Screen widget gallery like any other widget. CIRCLES Walk with friends in events of five kinds: a Race for the most steps or distance; Target Days, won by the most days on target; a Team Goal, one big number together; a Team Streak, everyone on target every day; or a Journey along a real route like the Camino de Santiago — a progress map, an illustrated postcard at every stop — or your own route between two places. Most kinds can repeat weekly or monthly. Results come with a podium or the team's outcome, awards, and laurels that lift your rank; the latest winner holds the circle's crown, and a season of contests crowns a champion. Rank and season finishes are earned, never sold. Share a result as a poster. Invite anyone by link or six-character code. Joining is free; hosting a circle is part of Ovyso Pro. Circles needs an account: sign in with Apple or with an email address. Add friends by link, QR code or username — always free. PROFILE AND TRENDS Trends sets this week against last and charts twelve weeks. Your profile holds your rank, awards, journey stamps and records — best day, best week, longest streak — each record a shareable card in your chosen finish. No made-up scores, just what actually happened. WORKS WITH WHATEVER WRITES TO APPLE HEALTH Ovyso reads Apple Health directly, so it works with an Apple Watch, Garmin, Oura, Withings, or your iPhone on its own — including the data your Fitbit syncs to Apple Health through the Google Health app's Apple Health connection. No separate account or sync to configure inside Ovyso itself. ASK SIRI "Hey Siri, what are my steps in Ovyso?" — check a metric without opening the app. PRIVACY, PLAINLY Everything Ovyso reads from Apple Health stays on your iPhone, except the daily steps and distance you share in Circles and with the friends you accept — Circles also sees the goals you set and your name, and the friends you accept also see your username. Ovyso has no analytics, no ads and no tracking of any kind. Delete your account in Settings at any time; your totals, goals, friends and results go with it. Full detail at the privacy policy link on this page. OVYSO PRO The core app is free: two saved designs, three finishes, every widget layout, share cards in any finish, and joining as many circles as you're invited to. Ovyso Pro removes the design limit, unlocks all seven finishes, and lets you host circles of your own — one payment, no subscription. Ovyso will never show Readiness, Cardio Load, or a Sleep Score — Apple Health has no such data, and Ovyso won't invent it.

About

RideTracker

This app automatically tracks your horse riding sessions, analyzing gaits, cadence, heart rate, and distance without manual input. It provides detailed insights into your performance and your horse's rhythm, allowing you to replay rides and track trends over time. All core features are free, with optional premium features available through subscription.

Highlights
  • Automatic gait detection (halt, walk, trot, canter)
  • Cadence and transition tracking
  • GPS route mapping colored by gait
  • Heart rate analysis by gait (Apple Watch)
  • Ride replay and timeline scrubbing
  • Per-horse ride statistics and trends
  • Voice-activated ride queries
Features
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RideTracker turns what your Apple Watch or iPhone feels into a record of how you actually rode. Start the ride on your Watch and put your phone away — or record directly on your iPhone. RideTracker records motion throughout the session, then analyzes it afterward — no timers to start, no gaits to tag, nothing to remember mid-ride. WHAT IT WORKS OUT • Gaits — halt, walk, trot and canter, detected from the horse's rhythm, with the share of the ride spent in each • Transitions — every gait change, counted and placed on the timeline • Cadence — strides per minute at trot and canter • Heart rate — yours, through the ride and broken down by gait (with Apple Watch) • Distance and route — the full GPS track, colored by the gait you were in • Calories — active energy for the session REPLAY THE RIDE Scrub the whole ride on the map, or play it back at up to 32x. Color the track by gait, speed or heart rate, and narrow the window to any stretch of it — the distance, average speed and heart rate update to match what you selected. HEART RATE BY GAIT See your heart rate plotted directly against what your horse was doing. Track average heart rate for walk, trot and canter, check how fast you recover in the first minute of walk after each effort, and view your time in each personalized zone. Mark sections on your Watch (or create sections on your phone after the workout) to isolate and compare specific parts of your ride. PHONE RECORDING (PREVIEW) No Apple Watch? Record directly on your iPhone. Clip your phone to your belt at the back of your hip, and RideTracker detects your gaits, cadence, live speed, distance and route. Save the session as your primary workout in Apple Health, or use it as a backup to your Watch. EVERY HORSE SEPARATELY Assign each ride to a horse. Ride counts, saddle time and trends are kept per horse, so a schoolmaster and a green four-year-old never get averaged into one meaningless line. TRENDS Twelve weeks at a glance, compared six weeks against six: rides, saddle time, average heart rate, trot cadence, canter share and transitions per ride — overall and for each horse. ASK YOUR RIDES Curious who you cantered most this month, or what your hardest session was? Ask in plain English — typed or hands-free with your voice — and get instant answers calculated straight from your ride logs. ACHIEVEMENTS Milestones for hours in the saddle, rides logged, distance covered, time at trot and canter, and riding partners. Earned by riding, not by opening the app. APPLE HEALTH Rides are written to Health as equestrian workouts, with heart rate and active energy. Health is optional — every ride carries its own totals, so duration, heart rate and calories are there whether you grant access or not. RIDETRACKER+ Everything above is free, for every ride, forever. Recording, analysis, gaits, cadence, GPS, Health and achievements are never limited, and no ride is ever deleted or degraded. RideTracker+ unlocks reading your history beyond the last 30 days, Trends across the full window, and Ask Your Rides. Your older rides stay on your device either way — subscribing brings them back into view immediately. REQUIREMENTS Apple Watch recommended for hands-free recording and heart rate. Rides can also be recorded directly on iPhone in preview mode (clip phone to your belt at the back of your hip). iPhone alone can read and analyze all recorded rides. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Ovyso4 screens
RideTracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

Ovyso and RideTracker are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Ovyso sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and RideTracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ovyso ships an update every 6 days, RideTracker every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Ovyso versus RideTracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOvysoRideTracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size160 MB9 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMert Can GozukaraYaniv Kalsky

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ovyso

One-time1
  • Ovyso Pro$9.99
2 purchases

RideTracker

Subscriptions2
  • RideTracker+ Monthly$2.991 Month
  • RideTracker+ Annual$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Ovyso free?
Ovyso is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RideTracker free?
RideTracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ovyso or RideTracker have ads?
Neither Ovyso nor RideTracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ovyso or RideTracker?
Ovyso ships an update every 6 days, and RideTracker every 4 days. Most recently, Ovyso was updated on October 31, 2026 and RideTracker on October 31, 2026.

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