Cycle Diary vs PedalPace
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.
PedalPace
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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/
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
| Parameter | Cycle Diary | PedalPace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 27.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | InnovaLabWorks |
In-app purchases
Cycle Diary
- Remove ads$0.99
- Map$1.99
PedalPace
- PedalPace Pro$5.991 Month
- PedalPace Pro$34.991 Year
- PedalPace Lifetime$79.99









