Comparison

ViaFit vs Thrivify Connect

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Track cardio workouts
  • Compatible with Matrix, Vision, Horizon Fitness equipment
  • Link fitness apps and wearables
  • Set workout goals
  • Join fitness challenges
  • HealthKit integration
Features
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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.

About

Thrivify Connect

Connect your Bluetooth FTMS cardio equipment to your digital fitness tracking. Automatically log workouts, monitor performance in real-time, and sync data to Apple Health. Get AI-powered insights to improve your fitness habits and results.

Highlights
  • Real-time workout tracking
  • Automatic workout logging
  • Apple Health integration
  • Multi-equipment support
  • AI-powered workout tips
  • Progress visualization
Features
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Your Gym. Your Outdoors. Your Data. Connected. Turn your cardio equipment into a powerful fitness tracker, or take your training outside. Thrivify Connect effortlessly links your Bluetooth FTMS gym equipment and your outdoor workouts to your Apple Watch and iPhone, offering real-time tracking, automatic logging, and seamless Apple Health syncing so every sweat session counts. Indoor treadmill, bike, rower, elliptical, or an outdoor run: monitor performance, visualize progress, and build lasting fitness habits. No more manual entry. Just seamless data. Beyond the Console: • Momentum Quest: Hit live targets for speed, power, cadence or heart rate to drain the boss's health bar. Targets are set from your own baseline, so every boss is a fair fight. Beat one and the next steps up, while your XP keeps building all session. Works on any connected machine. • Virtual Journey: Pick a real-world route and ride it on a live 3D map that moves as you move. Watch the miles tick by instead of staring at a console. • Live Diagram: Turn speed, power, cadence, heart rate and calories into rolling live charts you can read at a glance. Switch between modes anytime, mid-workout. • Machine Control: On supported FTMS machines, set target power (ERG), resistance, incline or simulated grade straight from your phone, and hold it there for the whole session. • Workout Goals: Set a duration goal before you start and watch it count down while you train — on any connected machine, whether or not its console accepts targets. Key Features: • Sync Tracked Workouts with Apple Watch: Leave your phone behind and log every session from your wrist. Start the Apple Watch workout app and your heart rate, distance, pace, and time sync straight into ours. • Real-Time Workout Tracking: Live speed, distance, time, calories and heart rate, with support for Bluetooth chest straps and armbands. • Multi-Equipment Support: Connect to treadmills, rowers, exercise bikes, stair climbers, ellipticals, and steppers. • Apple Health Integration: Automatically sync your indoor and outdoor workout data, calories burned, and active minutes directly to Apple Health. • Deep Workout Reports: Review splits, pace, cadence, heart rate zones, and your GPS route with its elevation profile, then export any report as a PDF or image. • Coach Thrivify: AI-powered workout tips, training insights, and personalized meal and workout plans. • Thrive Index: Balances your Recovery and Strain scores so you know exactly how hard to train without burning out, and tracks the Thrive Age your health trends add up to. • Workout Weather: Hourly, weather-optimized windows that tell you the best time today to head outside. • Thrivify Stream: Say goodbye to boring cardio. Stream your favorite YouTube videos inside the app while you train, with your live metrics displayed right alongside the video. Send it to the TV with AirPlay, and come back to a freshly curated playlist every day. Built for Better Fitness Results: • Track both indoor cardio and outdoor training in one complete history • Monitor calories burned and workout performance • Stay motivated with measurable progress • Make smarter, data-driven fitness decisions Compatibility: • Optimized for Bluetooth FTMS machines. Check your equipment manual for Bluetooth FTMS support to start tracking your workouts. • Machine control (ERG, resistance, incline, simulation) requires a machine that advertises those FTMS capabilities. • MyCloudFitness support is no longer available for newly registered users. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Disclaimer: • This app is a third-party client utilizing the YouTube APIs. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC. This application is not affiliated with, endorsed, or sponsored by YouTube or Google. • Thrivify scores and insights are wellness estimates, not medical advice.

Screenshots

ViaFit4 screens
Thrivify Connect4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Thrivify Connect at 5.0 against ViaFit's 2.2. Thrivify Connect also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (33% vs 12%). ViaFit's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Thrivify Connect sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. ViaFit asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Thrivify Connect holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ViaFit has 89 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 12% of ViaFit's written reviews are positive against 33% of Thrivify Connect's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ViaFit ships an update every 4 months, Thrivify Connect weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
ViaFit versus Thrivify Connect: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterViaFitThrivify Connect
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.2 (89 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews12.1% of reviews33.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings89 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size149 MB101 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperJohnson Health Tech North America, Inc.LifeSmart LLC

Customer experience

ViaFit

All ratings89 ratings
Positive24.7%
Neutral9.0%
Negative66.3%
Written reviews58 reviews
Positive12.1%
Neutral6.9%
Negative81.0%

Thrivify Connect

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

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

Thrivify Connect

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

ViaFit

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

Thrivify Connect

Subscriptions8
  • Basic$1.991 Month
  • Plus3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Premium3 Days trial$4.991 Month
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  • Ultimate7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Basic$14.991 Year
  • Plus3 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Premium3 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Ultimate7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is ViaFit free?
ViaFit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Thrivify Connect free?
Thrivify Connect is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ViaFit or Thrivify Connect?
Thrivify Connect is rated higher. ViaFit averages 2.2 out of 5 from 89 ratings, while Thrivify Connect averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do ViaFit or Thrivify Connect have ads?
Thrivify Connect shows ads; ViaFit does not.
Which is updated more often, ViaFit or Thrivify Connect?
ViaFit ships an update every 4 months, and Thrivify Connect weekly. Most recently, ViaFit was updated on October 24, 2026 and Thrivify Connect on October 24, 2026.

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