Comparison

Cycle Diary vs PedalPace

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

PedalPace

Features
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PedalPace is a manual training log for cyclists. Log a ride in seconds, and PedalPace turns distance, time, and effort into the numbers that actually guide your training: session load, weekly load, power zones, and a clean season summary. No account, no ads, no tracking. Your rides live on your device and in your private iCloud, and sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. What you can do: - Log rides with distance, time, perceived effort, climbing, and optional average power. - See your weekly training load and an acute-to-chronic workload ratio, the safe-ramp signal that flags when you are building base or spiking too fast. - Track FTP tests over the season and read your seven power zones in watts, computed from your latest FTP. - Keep a route library with distance, climbing, surface, and difficulty. - Watch a per-bike odometer accrue from your rides and get chain, tire, and brake reminders before parts wear out. - Export a one-page season report as a PDF, plus ride and FTP CSV files, from the share sheet. - Turn on a weekly recap and an FTP retest reminder, all local, all private. Free and Pro: - Free: log up to 15 rides, view your power zones table, this week's training load, routes, and the garage odometer. - Pro: unlimited rides, the 12-week training load history and ramp, the FTP progression chart, and the season export. Syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud. Pro subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions; cancellation applies at the end of the current period. Monthly $3.99 USD, yearly $24.99 USD, or a one-time $59.99 USD lifetime unlock. Terms: Apple Standard EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Cycle Diary4 screens
PedalPace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: PedalPace at none against Cycle Diary's shown. PedalPace also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 12 months). Cycle Diary's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cycle Diary sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and PedalPace sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cycle Diary ships an update every 12 months, PedalPace every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Cycle Diary versus PedalPace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCycle DiaryPedalPace
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.5 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews27.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵InnovaLabWorks

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Cycle Diary

One-time2
  • Remove ads$0.99
  • Map$1.99
3 purchases

PedalPace

Subscriptions2
  • PedalPace Pro$5.991 Month
  • PedalPace Pro$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • PedalPace Lifetime$79.99

Questions

Is Cycle Diary free?
Cycle Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PedalPace free?
PedalPace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cycle Diary or PedalPace have ads?
Cycle Diary shows ads; PedalPace does not.
Which is updated more often, Cycle Diary or PedalPace?
Cycle Diary ships an update every 12 months, and PedalPace every 3 weeks. Most recently, Cycle Diary was updated on October 24, 2026 and PedalPace on October 12, 2026.

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