Sys Info Widget vs Doubling Back
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sys Info Widget
Access real-time device information directly from your notification center or smartwatch. Monitor disk storage, memory usage, and battery levels with clear visual charts and absolute values. Stay informed about your device's status at a glance.
- Notification center widget
- Apple Watch app
- Disk storage monitoring
- Memory usage details
- Battery level display
- Bar chart visualization
- Configurable watch glance
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This App provides a Widget for the notification center which shows the current memory and file storage usage and the battery level. The lightweight widget lets you access this information fast and anytime. Information that is shown in the notification center: - Disk storage (total, used and free capacity) - Memory (total, wired, active, inactive, free memory) - battery level (current percentage) The information is provided as bar chart and in absolute values. Compact, fast and easy to read. The App for the Apple Watch lets you control the memory, battery and disk storage of your iPhone status directly from the watch, very fast and easy. The Watch App includes a "Glance" with one of the three status graphs, which one can be configured in the iPhone App. The Watch App itself can display all information, but you can also configure which of the information will be shown.
Doubling Back
This utility app allows you to precisely measure walking or running distances. You can start and stop tracking at any point, and it calculates the total distance covered only during the measured segments.
- Measure walking/running distance
- Start and stop measurement
- Calculate distance for selected portions
- iPhone and iPad compatible
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Doubling Back is an iPhone application for measuring your walking or running distance. What does Doubling Back offer that other pedometer apps do not? You can start and stop the measurement, and when you are finished, Doubling Back will show you the total distance for just the portions of the walk or run that you chose to measure.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sys Info Widget at 4.2 against Doubling Back's 3.7. Sys Info Widget also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 13 months) and ratings volume (37 vs 3). Doubling Back's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Sys Info Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sys Info Widget has 37 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Sys Info Widget ships an update every 2 months, Doubling Back every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sys Info Widget | Doubling Back |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (37 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 59.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Clauss | Terry NIGHTINGALE |
Customer experience
Sys Info Widget
Doubling Back
In-app purchases
Sys Info Widget
No in-app purchases
Doubling Back
No in-app purchases
