Pacer vs Strive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pacer
Track your runs with detailed metrics like time, pace, and distance. Keep a record of your past workouts for future review and progress monitoring.
- Calculate time, pace, and distance
- Save run history
- Track progress
- Workout reference
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Calculate time, pace and distance. Save a history of your runs for future reference.
Strive
Compete in fitness challenges with friends using various metrics like weight loss, steps, and body fat. Track your progress with integrated health data and visualize your journey with insightful charts and graphs.
- Interactive leaderboards
- 7 competition types
- Health App integration
- Smart Scale integration
- Charts and graphs
- Weight loss challenges
- Step tracking
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Strive has built an interactive Leaderboard so you can compete in step challenges, chat, and encourage each other to Strive! Strive Individual plans: * Monthly Premium: $5.99 * Yearly Premium: $24.99 Strive Group plans: * 5 Users Yearly Premium: $99.99 * 10 Users Yearly Premium: $199.99 * 25 Users Yearly Premium: $499.99 * 50 Users Yearly Premium: $999.99 More information on how to host an Employee Step Challenge: https://www.strivecompetitions.com/employee-step-challenge Payments and Renewal: * Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. * Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. * You can manage or turn off auto-renew in your Account settings at any time after purchase * No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active period. Terms of use: https://www.strivecompetitions.com/terms Privacy policy: https://www.strivecompetitions.com/privacypolicy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Strive at 4.8 against Pacer's 3.8. Strive also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (3K vs 4). Pacer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 14) and review sentiment (100% vs 71%). On price, ads 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. Strive sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Pacer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Strive holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Strive has 3K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Pacer's written reviews are positive against 71% of Strive's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pacer ships an update every 2 months, Strive every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pacer | Strive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (4 ratings) | 4.8 (3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 71.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jason Whelan | Strive Competitions LLC |
Customer experience
Pacer
Strive
Bugs and requests
Pacer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Strive
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when trying to read chat
- Frustrating loss of steps
- Waste of Money
Requested features
2 requests- Relative goals for challenges like apple fitness
- Weekend challenges
In-app purchases
Pacer
No in-app purchases
Strive
- Monthly$0.991 Month
- Strive Monthly$1.491 Month
- Strive Monthly$2.991 Month
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- 6 Months$3.996 Months
- Strive Yearly$4.991 Year
- Annual$5.991 Year
- Monthly with FREE 7-Day Trial7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Strive Yearly$9.991 Year
- Yearly with FREE 7-Day Trial7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- 10 Users7 Days trial$39.991 Month
- 10 Users$50.001 Year
- 25 Users$100.001 Year
- 100 Users$300.001 Year
- Public Challenges$5.00
