BikeSmart vs Workout Distance
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BikeSmart
View your cycling history and fitness progress with detailed ride data, including route maps and personal bests. Syncs with Garmin Connect and Apple Health for comprehensive tracking.
- View Garmin Connect data on mobile
- Track ride history by year, month, week, day
- Detailed ride information (map, laps, data values)
- Interactive ride charts (elevation, heart rate, speed)
- Personal best ride comparisons
- Share activities via social media and email
- Apple Health App integration
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• BikeSmart lets you keep closer track of your cycling history and fitness progress by giving you access anywhere and anytime. • With BikeSmart you can view your Garmin Connect™ web data on your mobile device. You can track your ride history and show totals per year, month, week, or day. Totals are a unique feature of BikeSmart and provide a great way to track your mileage from year to year. • Ride details available include a route map, lap information, and minimum and maximum points for all collected data values. • With BikeSmart's interactive ride chart you can see elevation, heart rate, speed, and distance at any point along your route. • You can also view your personal best rides including fastest, longest, fastest average speed, highest ascent and most calories burned. • BikeSmart is also a very easy way to share your activities with your friends via Facebook, email, Twitter or text message. • BikeSmart pairs with any Garmin Connect™ account. Upload your ride data from your device to your Garmin Connect™ account and then use BikeSmart to see all your activities on your mobile device. • Since version 1.0.8, BikeSmart supports the Apple Health App. You can sync your BikeSmart activities and track your daily cycling distance with the Health App. This feature is optional and can be turned on in settings. • To display some values in BikeSmart, such as GPS location data, heart rate, elevation, cadence and power values, you will need a data collection device such as the Garmin Edge 500, 510, 810 or a similar device that collects this data. You can collect your data anyway you prefer then view it easily with BikeSmart.
Workout Distance
Visualize your workout distances with clear bar charts. Track your progress daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. Integrates with HealthKit to display running, cycling, and other workout data.
- Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly distance charts
- HealthKit integration
- Selectable workout types
- Progress overview
- Detailed weekly/daily views
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Workout Distance shows you bar charts with the total distance of your workouts per day, week, month and year. Get a quick overview of how far you ran last month compared to the month before, or dive deeper and look at each week or even day. Workout Distance is integrated with the Health app. This means that all data is loaded from the HealthKit database of workouts on your phone. You can select what types of workouts (running, cycling and so on) to include in the charts. This is a free app without any ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Workout Distance at 100% against BikeSmart's 45%. Workout Distance also leads on price (Free vs $1.99). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Workout Distance is free to download; BikeSmart costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BikeSmart ships an update every 2 months, Workout Distance every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BikeSmart | Workout Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Arhelger | Fredrik Widlert |
Customer experience
BikeSmart
Workout Distance
In-app purchases
BikeSmart
No in-app purchases
Workout Distance
No in-app purchases
Questions
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