Cycle Diary vs CheckMyRide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cycle Diary
Track your cycling activities with GPS, including speed, distance, and calories burned. Save your rides, set goals, and share your progress. Offers two map styles and background operation for uninterrupted tracking.
- GPS tracking for speed, distance, and route
- Calorie burn calculation based on user data
- Save and log cycling sessions
- Two map styles: Satellite and Street
- Background operation and lock screen support
- Set cycling goals
- Share ride logs
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Cycle Diary will keep you motivated for your cycling process. This app uses GPS to locate and give the current speed, used time, distance and route in map, also calculates calorie burned when cycling according to your weight, speed and time used. You can save the log directly after cycling or add manually later. Features: ⁃ Show current speed, used time, calorie burned and route in map. ⁃ Two map styles: Satellite and Street. ⁃ Keep cycling logs and also with mood, weather and area icon. ⁃ Calculates total time used, calories burned and average speed for all logs. ⁃ Supports running in background and lock screen. ⁃ Supports pause and resume. ⁃ Share logs info by Facebook, Twitter and Email. ⁃ Create cycling goal with days and distance. ⁃ Supports standard & metric units. This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life. If you have any question or suggestion, please send email to maxwellsoftware@gmail.com.
CheckMyRide
This cycling app offers GPS tracking, real-time performance stats, and Bluetooth sensor connectivity. Share your rides and data with others, and benefit from live location sharing for added safety. Enjoy a clean, ad-free experience designed by cyclists.
- Bluetooth sensor connectivity (power, speed, heart rate)
- GPS ride tracking
- Customizable dashboard
- Data export to Strava, TrainingPeaks
- Live location sharing
- Ad-free and account-free experience
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CheckMyRide is your all-in-one cycling computer app, built for simplicity and performance. Connect your Bluetooth sensors for power, speed, and heart rate, and see real-time stats on your customizable dashboard. Track every ride with GPS, review detailed data, and share effortlessly to Strava, TrainingPeaks, or directly with friends and coaches. Safety meets freedom with live location sharing—so your rides are not just tracked, but also supported. No accounts, no ads, no clutter—just pure cycling data designed by cyclists, for cyclists. Key Features • Connect to Bluetooth sensors: power, speed & heart rate • GPS ride tracking with performance stats • Export to Strava, TrainingPeaks & more • Share files via email, WhatsApp & more • Live location sharing for safety & fun • Clean, ad-free, account-free experience
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CheckMyRide at 4.3 against Cycle Diary's 1.5. CheckMyRide also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 12 months). Cycle Diary's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Cycle Diary sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and CheckMyRide sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CheckMyRide holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CheckMyRide has 45 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of Cycle Diary's written reviews are positive against 31% of CheckMyRide's.
Cycle Diary ships an update every 12 months, CheckMyRide every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cycle Diary | CheckMyRide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (6 ratings) | 4.3 (45 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.3% of reviews | 31.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 45 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | MARS New Creations B.V. |
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Cycle Diary
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In-app purchases
Cycle Diary
- Remove ads$0.99
- Map$1.99
CheckMyRide
- 1 month subscription$0.991 Month
- 3 months subscription$3.993 Months
- 6 months subscription$5.996 Months
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- 1 year subscription1 Month trial$8.991 Year
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