ViaFit vs Preva Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ViaFit
Track your cardio workouts with compatible equipment from major brands. Link your favorite fitness apps and wearables, set personal goals, and participate in challenges. Seamlessly integrate with HealthKit to monitor your progress.
- Track cardio workouts
- Compatible with Matrix, Vision, Horizon Fitness equipment
- Link fitness apps and wearables
- Set workout goals
- Join fitness challenges
- HealthKit integration
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ViaFit is compatible with connected cardio equipment from Matrix Fitness, Vision Fitness, and Horizon Fitness. Use ViaFit to track your workouts, link popular fitness apps and wearables, set goals and join challenges – all in the palm of your hand. It uses HealthKit to save your workouts, so they can contribute to your fitness goals and challenges progress.
Preva Mobile
Track fitness activities both inside and outside the gym, from group classes to outdoor runs. Access a library of exercise suggestions with video instructions and capture cardio summaries from any equipment. Seamlessly sync your data with popular fitness apps.
- Sync gym and outdoor activities
- Exercise library with video
- Cardio workout capture (X-Capture)
- Connect with popular fitness apps
- Track achievements and progress
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Preva® Mobile is brought to you by Precor®, global maker and supplier of premium fitness equipment and originator of networked fitness. Preva Mobile, available in 22 languages, is best used to sync up your fitness activities from inside and outside the gym. Whether you’re attending group fitness classes or lifting weights at your gym, doing runs through your neighborhood, or simply enjoying a bike ride with the family, Preva Mobile is the place to track those fitness activities and view your success in one place. Need some fresh ideas for a new workout? Preva Mobile has thousands of exercise suggestions with video instruction in an easy-to-access library. Want to capture your cardio workout summary from a piece of equipment that’s not connected to the internet or isn’t Precor? No problem. Just use the new X-Capture feature. Best of all, you can make easy connections between your Preva Mobile account and popular fitness apps you may already be using like Advagym by Sony, Apple Health®, Fitbit®, Garmin®, MapMyFitness®, Misfit®, MyFitnessPal®, Polar®, Runkeeper®, Strava®, TomTom®, and Withings®. If you’re an existing Preva account holder all your data and earned achievement badges will port from the old app to the new.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ViaFit at 2.2 against Preva Mobile's 1.5. On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ViaFit holds the better App Store score, 2.2 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 89 and 70 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 12% of ViaFit's written reviews are positive against 6% of Preva Mobile's.
ViaFit ships an update every 4 months, Preva Mobile every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | ViaFit | Preva Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (89 ratings) — better | 1.5 (70 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 12.1% of reviews — better | 6.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 89 — better | 70 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 149 MB | 141 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Johnson Health Tech North America, Inc. | Precor, Inc. |
Customer experience
ViaFit
Preva Mobile
User reviews
ViaFit
From 89 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Keeps workout history
- 👍 Can be helpful for tracking
- 👍 Connects to some apps
- 👍 Basic functions work sometimes
Room to improve
- 🐛 Workout history disappearing
- 🐛 Workouts logged on wrong day
- 🐛 Sync issues with Apple Health
- 🐛 Doesn't connect to equipment
- 🐛 Poor customer service
Preva Mobile
From 70 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✅ App works now (recent improvement)
- ✅ Collects data from other apps
- ✅ Motivates with goals/challenges
Room to improve
- ❌ Sync issues with Apple Health
- ❌ Login problems (frequent)
- ❌ Poor Bluetooth connectivity
- ❌ Outdated UI/design
- ❌ No data export to other apps
Bugs and requests
ViaFit
Reported bugs
49 issues- Workout history has disappeared after update
- Over 300 workouts logged on the same day
- Sync with Apple Health not working
- App loses ability to link with Apple Health
- Viafit data not appearing in Apple Health
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- Workouts not syncing to Apple Health
- Workouts stop transferring from console
- Workouts show up in app but don't sync to Apple Health
- App works occasionally, requires delete/reinstall to update workouts
- Workouts not syncing to Strava
- Tracking feature no longer works
- App nor website tracks workouts
- Cannot consistently record manually
- Never finds other apps
- Attempts to capture/manually record workouts unsuccessful
- Does not show workout history
- Never uploads to tracking system
- Doesn't sync reliably with Matrix bike
- Four digit code user ID limits users
- Pairing with fitness apps is pull only, not push
- Not all workouts show up, most don't
- Fails to track all workouts
- Puts same data for multiple workouts same day
- Connection to Apple Health app lost after a day
- Sometimes doesn't record workouts
- Shows two identical workouts in the app
- Workouts don't show resistance or heart rate
- Integration with Withings watch pulls wrong data
- No way to contact support
- App not available in Asian app store
- Cannot login to app with website credentials
- Lost all workout stats and goals with an update
- Cannot manually enter a workout on the same day completed
- Time stamp is wrong
- Doesn't connect to Apple's Health app
- Last update ruined data export
- Has stopped communicating with new treadmill
- Hasn't communicated with TomTom
- Only communicated with treadmill once
- Account linking to Strava or Garmin doesn't work
- Doesn't sync to other apps as advertised
- Workouts upload without data (distance, cals, speed)
- No longer syncs workout with website or app to phone
- Useless without HealthKit integration
- App doesn't register as activity in Activity app
- ViaFit does not sync to other apps like Strava
- Initial setup difficult
- App needs work
- Doesn't sync with HealthKit
Requested features
6 requests- Fix sync with Apple Health
- Improve app integration with third-party apps
- Add workout graph support
- Consolidate exercise data to iOS Health App
- Add support for Apple Health
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- Improve data export functionality
Preva Mobile
Reported bugs
30 issues- App crashes on load
- Stuck on login screen
- Won't login
- App constantly logs out
- Error when submitting workouts
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- Bluetooth login issues
- Data not syncing to Apple Health
- Can't connect to gym equipment
- X-capture doesn't work
- Submissions unsuccessful
- App crashes on account setup
- Password not recognized after reset
- App opens and force closes
- Workout data recorded in UTC
- App doesn't sync to Apple Watch
- Password reset fails
- No way to delete saved workouts
- Bluetooth connection issues
- NFC triggers Apple Pay instead of login
- Stats mismatch between weekly totals and achievements
- Workouts logged a day ahead
- Doesn't sync automatically to Apple Health
- No way to record exercise on machines
- Account creation takes too long
- Can't link to machines (Bluetooth/QR)
- Previous app version was better
- No longer syncs from home models
- Lost sessions
- Sync with other apps no longer works
- Previous app allowed manual entry of distance/calories
Requested features
14 requests- Add cable-based workouts
- Improve Bluetooth login practicality
- Allow deletion of saved workouts
- Sync data to Apple Health
- Sync data to Strava
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- Add Apple Watch app
- Improve UI/design
- Allow users to set incline/speed before running
- Add API for third-party development
- Allow manual entry of distance and calories
- Option to change units (miles/km)
- Landscape layout for iPad
- Add incline/decline data capture
- Return to older app version
In-app purchases
ViaFit
No in-app purchases
Preva Mobile
No in-app purchases
