Runit Track vs Runner's Shadow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Runit Track
This app offers a straightforward way to track runs and cycling routes without requiring an account. It provides full control and access to your recorded data, storing it in HealthKit for easy fitness monitoring. Continued GPS use may impact battery life.
- Run and cycle tracking
- No account required
- Full data control
- HealthKit integration
- Background tracking
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Runit is a very easy to use, fast run and cycle tracker. And gives you complete control over the data. No need to create an account. No ads. No cost. And you get full access over the data, nothing is hidden from you like every other app. You can see every point recorded. This app will record your running or cycling, once you start tracking, even if you close the app. For the reason, continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. And now, all your runs and rides are stored in HealthKit, to make it even easier to track your fitness.
Runner's Shadow
This app serves as a comprehensive companion for outdoor runners, allowing them to track, log, and analyze their runs from various sources. It provides detailed run history, course tracking, personal records, lap analysis, and shoe mileage management, all integrated with Apple Health and Activity.
- Run history tracking
- Course and personal record management
- Lap analysis
- Journaling and labeling
- Shoe mileage tracking
- Apple Watch app integration
- Data import from Apple Health
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Follow your runs like your shadow follows you. What Is Runner's Shadow? A runner's companion. A fantastic app for all outdoor runners to augment their kit. Runner's Shadow is an iOS Activity and Health-based app for the purpose of augmenting, tracking, logging, and understanding your outdoor runs, regardless of source; regardless of when the run took place. And it includes an Apple Watch app to get out and run with. Why Try Runner's Shadow? Run History A history of all of your runs, from any supported App. The run history is all your runs, grouped by week, month, year, and all-time. It has graphs, logs, journals, and more (like courses). Courses Which routes you've run. Do you tend to run the same routes repeatedly? Why not keep track of those as courses? This app keeps track of all of your courses; and your personal records for each course. Personal Records What's my personal best? Accurate and complete PRs. What is the best I've done so far at this distance? This course? This week? This month?. Runner's Shadow PR keeps my goals in perspective and my motivation on-point. This app finds and keeps your bests. Laps Keep and Recall interval laps. With a tap of a button in the Shadow Runner's watch app (included), you can set your laps. In the iPhone app, you can see how you did for them. What was the lap distance? Pace? Gain? It's all there. Journaling What are my thoughts after a run? How was the run? What do I find interesting about this course? Who did I run with? What did we laugh about? The journals are for these and/or anything else you want to write there. Labeling Tag runs for later retrieval. Label the people you ran with. Or label which runs were races. Or label which runs were your favorites. Tag runs with labels any way you'd like. Shoe Tracking Keep track of your running shoes. You may have heard that running shoes should be replaced between 300-500 miles or in 3-6 months. But how do you keep track of that? Simply add your shoes to the app, then tap on which ones were worn after a run. We'll keep track of how many run, miles, and days you've put on the pair. Photos Find photos taken near the time of your run. Want to find those shots you get before and after a run a year and a half later? Well, you just go to that run and click the 'camera' button, and there they all are. Graphs? Yes. Numbers? Of course. Maps? You bet. Running app for your Apple Watch? Yeah, that too. Watch Laps? Uh huh. Open to suggestions? We listen. What you'd expect? We try to be more than that. You can run with this or any other app that supports Apple Activity; we'll take it from there. ---- The data comes from Apple Health/Activity. That means that any outdoor running app that works with Apple Health/Activity will work with this one. The data goes nowhere. We don't take it. We don't keep it. We don't track it. We don't track you. We're not interested in all of that. We're just runners who want to enhance all of our running experiences. Contact us: support@alumra.ltd
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Runner's Shadow at Free against Runit Track's $0.99. Runner's Shadow also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). Runit Track's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases 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
Runner's Shadow is free to download; Runit Track costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Runner's Shadow holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Runit Track ships an update every 3 months, Runner's Shadow every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 4, 2026 and June 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Runit Track | Runner's Shadow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JOhn Lyons | Alumra, Ltd |
Customer experience
Runit Track
Runner's Shadow
In-app purchases
Runit Track
No in-app purchases
Runner's Shadow
No in-app purchases




