Pado vs Quantified Map
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pado
This app allows you to record and analyze your outdoor activities like hikes and bike tours on a map. It also features a step counter, time tracking, and location-based actions that can automate tasks or integrate with smart home systems. Data can be synced via iCloud, Dropbox, or WebDAV.
- Record and analyze tracks/routes
- Automatic background recording
- Heart rate data integration
- Step counter and floor tracking
- Location-based actions
- GPX/KML export/import
- Apple Watch support
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Pado is all about geo-tracking. RECORD TRACKS Record the routes/tracks of your hikes, bike tours, excursions, trips or sporting activities and evaluate them on a map, via diagrams and statistics. You can do this manually and spontaneously, but also fully automatically in the background. The latter can be helpful on vacations if you want to automatically record your local activities so that you can retrace them later ("Where was that café again?"). To do this, you tell the app once that the recording should be started when you leave the hotel and stopped when you enter it again. From then on, you no longer have to worry about it, but you still have all the routes of all the activities saved in the app when you get home. Pado can display the heart rate data from Health-Kit together with the recorded tracks/routes. The photos from the album that were taken during the recording of the track can also be accessed via pins on the map. This makes it very easy to have all the data and photos directly available on the map if you want to retrace a hike. The exported/imported options as GPX or KML files allow data exchange with other apps. Especially for sporting activities, the app offers a voice output that provides status messages about the distance already covered, current speed, duration, altitude, direction, etc. during a track recording. This keeps you informed about your progress without having to look at your iPhone. STEP COUNTER The app offers a pedometer that can also count the floors climbed and shows how far you are from your daily steps goal. TIME TRACKING The "Time tracking" feature allows to automatically log when you are at which location and for how long. You simply define the locations to be monitored and the app does the rest. ACTIONS The heart of Pado are the location-based actions. You can define locations and what the app should do when you enter or leave these (the App will do this automatically in the background, it does not need to be active). The action can control track recording, the pedometer, the music player, notifications. The "WebHook" feature can be even used to carry out actions outside the iPhone. WebHook sends data to your own server, which can be used to link Pado to your own home automation system. APPLE WATCH Pado supports the Apple Watch and can record tracks/routes and steps autonomously (without having the iPhone with you). The Watch app can also remotele-control the iPhone app so that the iPhone can stay in your pocket. SYNCING OPTIONS - iCloud - Dropbox - WebDAV HARDWARE SUPPORT - Bluetooth Beacons, NFC Tags, AirTags (as trigger for actions) - WLAN positioning (in areas with good WLAN coverage) for devices without GPS hardware (some iPad models). NOTE Long-term use of GPS in the background can shorten the battery life. PAYMENT MODEL With Pado 3, the payment model has changed. The previously paid app is now offered free of charge. There are now three app levels: - Free: A maximum of 3 locations, 3 actions and 3 entries for time tracking can be created - Standard (one-time purchase): A maximum of 25 locations, 25 actions and 25 entries for time tracking can be created. - Pro (one-time purchase): Any number of locations, actions and entries for time tracking can be created. Everything else is available in all three levels without restrictions Users who have already purchased earlier versions of the app will automatically receive the Standard level free of charge. If restrictions have already been reached, existing actions/locations are not restricted. New users can now react more flexibly to their own needs and use one of the three options as required. An inexpensive update from the Standard to the Pro version is also available at any time, in case you need more than you initially thought. There is now also a tipping option for all those who value the app more than the small one-time payments and want to do something good for the developer.
Quantified Map
This app helps you track your activities and travels over time, creating personalized maps from your data. Visualize your daily timeline, compare workouts, and annotate photos for easy retrieval. It automatically recognizes places and activities, allowing you to create detailed records of your life's journey.
- Automatic activity tracking
- Personalized travel maps
- Daily timeline visualization
- Workout comparison
- Photo annotation with geolocation
- Daily note-taking
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Keep track of your activity and travel through the years. Create high quality personalized maps using your data, visualize your day to day timeline, take notes, compare your workouts, and annotate your photos to find them easily. ACTIVITY TRACKER Track your activity automatically in the background with only your phone (Enable or disable in the Settings). It will automatically recognize the places you go to and your walks, runs, etc. TRAVEL MAPS Generate a map of your day, week, month or your last vacation using HealthKit or Strava workouts, Moves App or Quantified activity, Swarm/Foursquare checkins, and/or Photos geolocations. Then export it as an image that you can share on social media. TIMELINE View all your activities, places and photos aggregated on a timeline presented day by day. You can edit your activity to set custom activity type like yoga and tag places. NOTES Take daily notes to summarize your days or add notes to your activity or places individualy. A note have a short title that will be displayed on your timeline and a longer description to detail everithing. WORKOUTS Keep your workout going by comparing your activity between weeks and months. Make sure you stay on top of your best weeks/months. PHOTOS Save your geolocation metadata to your photos (From the available location data you imported from other services, or by selecting it on the map). To use this App, you can enable or disable the tracking when needed, import your GPX or Moves App data, or connect with at least one of the available services (If you do not have Swarm or Strava, you can download them on the AppStore for free). Moves is now discontinued, but if you have a backup of your data, you can import it in Quantified Map. Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions, issues or feature requests. I plan to add more features soon. Your privacy matters, my goal with Quantified Map is to allow you to track and visualize all your data in one place. I do not collect personal info, every map is generated on your device. The data you load or import from different services (like HealthKit, Moves app, Photos, Strava, Swarm, etc.) is yours and stays secure on your device at all times. At any moment you can delete all the data loaded by QuantifiedMap on your device. With Quantified Tracking, your activity and places you visit will automatically be recorded locally on your device. Foursquare is used to name places on your timeline, some coordinates of visited places can be sent to Foursquare to name those places initially.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pado at 4.9 against Quantified Map's 4.2. Pado also leads on review sentiment (76% vs 60%). Quantified Map's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Pado sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Quantified Map asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pado holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 66 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Pado's written reviews are positive against 60% of Quantified Map's.
Pado ships an update every 2 months, Quantified Map every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pado | Quantified Map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (18 ratings) — better | 4.2 (66 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.2% of reviews — better | 59.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 | 66 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Clauss | Ludovic Landry |
Customer experience
Pado
Quantified Map
In-app purchases
Pado
- Small Tip$0.99
- Update to Pro Version$2.99
- Medium Tip$2.99
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- Standard Version$3.99
- Large Tip$4.99
- Full Version$6.99
- Very Large Tip$6.99
Quantified Map
No in-app purchases









