Comparison

Cycle Diary vs Biking Distance Tracker

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

Biking Distance Tracker

This app helps cyclists track their rides with GPS, providing real-time stats like speed, distance, and altitude. It offers detailed post-ride analysis, including color-coded maps and split times, and integrates with Apple Watch and HealthKit.

Highlights
  • GPS ride tracking
  • Real-time speed, distance, altitude
  • Color-coded route maps
  • Voice progress updates
  • Split time analysis
  • Calorie tracking
  • Apple Watch integration
Features
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Vima is a GPS based tracking app for people who want to keep track of their biking fitness goals. It is an app aimed at simplicity that allows bikers to keep track of their runs easily without a lot of unnecessary stuff getting in the way. APPLE WATCH Easily start, pause, resume, and save a ride without ever getting your phone out of your pocket. Check your distance, speed, time, and altitude from your Apple Watch in realtime. STATS AND MAPS Vima tracks speed, distance, altitude, and time. It also gives you a map showing where you have been while you are saving a ride. COLOR CODED When viewing saved rides your route shows up on the map color coded by speed. It shows where you went the fastest (green) and where you were slowest (red). VOICE SUMMARY Don't want to look at the screen every few minutes? You can have the app tell you updates on your progress in set distance and/or time intervals. SPLIT TIMES Added splits to the history review page. Choose from 9 different distances and see how each section of your workout went. CALORIES See calories burned. Set your weight in settings and get your calories burned in real time and on the history page after your run. BIKE TRACKING Track the distance on your bike so you know when it's time to do maintenance or replace it before problems happen. PAUSE AND RESUME Pause the workout to catch your breath or chat with a friend and then resume when you get back to it. FACEBOOK & TWITTER Share your workout with your friends on Facebook or Twitter with our easy to use integration. UNITS The supports both standard and metric units. HEALTH KIT Apple Health permissions allow us to enhance your data as well as saving your workout information to Apple Health. If you've read this far, you should definitely give Vima a shot. We think you'll love it, and if there is anything you'd like to see for the app in the future just let us know. We love hearing from our users. Note: Continued use of the GPS will reduce battery life. If you upgrade to a premium subscription, payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. The monthly subscription costs USD 4.99 per month, while the yearly subscription costs USD 29.99 per year. Your subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. There is no increase in cost when renewing. Subscriptions can be managed and auto-renewal turned off in Account Settings in iTunes after purchase. Once purchased, the current period cannot be canceled. Find the full terms and conditions and our privacy policy at http://www.30-south.com/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Cycle Diary4 screens
Biking Distance Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Biking Distance Tracker at 70% against Cycle Diary's 27%. Biking Distance Tracker also leads on rating (4.6 vs 1.5) and ads (none vs shown). Cycle Diary's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cycle Diary sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Biking Distance Tracker sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Biking Distance Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Biking Distance Tracker has 1.1K 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 70% of Biking Distance Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cycle Diary ships an update every 12 months, Biking Distance Tracker every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Cycle Diary versus Biking Distance Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCycle DiaryBiking Distance Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.5 (6 ratings)4.6 (1.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews27.3% of reviews69.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings61.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵30 South LLC

Customer experience

Cycle Diary

All ratings6 ratings
Positive16.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative83.3%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive27.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative72.7%

Biking Distance Tracker

All ratings1,072 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral2.8%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews73 reviews
Positive69.9%
Neutral4.1%
Negative26.0%

Bugs and requests

Cycle Diary

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Biking Distance Tracker

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inconsistent distance and speed tracking
  • Auto-pause feature not working reliably
  • Inability to restore previously purchased lifetime access

Requested features

4 requests
  • Integration with health/fitness apps
  • More detailed statistics and analytics
  • Ability to add notes or comments to rides
  • Weather information integration

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Cycle Diary

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

Biking Distance Tracker

Subscriptions9
  • Vima Premium$4.997 Days
  • Vima Bike Premium$9.991 Month
  • Vima Bike Monthly Premium$9.991 Month
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  • Vima Bike Premium$14.993 Months
  • Vima Yearly Premium$29.991 Year
  • Vima Bike Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Vima Premium1 Year trial$29.991 Year
  • Vima Bike Premium7 Days trial2 variants$29.991 Year
  • Vima Premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Cycle Diary free?
Cycle Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Biking Distance Tracker free?
Biking Distance Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cycle Diary or Biking Distance Tracker?
Biking Distance Tracker is rated higher. Cycle Diary averages 1.5 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Biking Distance Tracker averages 4.6 from 1.1K ratings.
Do Cycle Diary or Biking Distance Tracker have ads?
Cycle Diary shows ads; Biking Distance Tracker does not.
Which is updated more often, Cycle Diary or Biking Distance Tracker?
Cycle Diary ships an update every 12 months, and Biking Distance Tracker every 3 weeks. Most recently, Cycle Diary was updated on October 4, 2026 and Biking Distance Tracker on October 14, 2026.

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