Runtrip vs BuraGym
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Runtrip
This app helps runners and walkers track their activities, discover new routes, and connect with a community. Log your runs, find over 7,000 courses, join virtual events, and share your progress with others. It's a comprehensive tool for managing all aspects of your running journey.
- Track runs and walks with GPS
- Discover 7,000+ running courses
- Join online running events
- Share runs and get 'NiceRuns'
- Log running activities and progress
- Edit running photos with stickers
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WHAT’S RUNTRIP APP - Nearly 500,000 downloads by runners & walkers - All your running in one place. (Distance, course, community, events, information, recording and tracking management) - Easily track your RUN and WALK (simply tap to start!) - Get motivated with others by liking and sharing your “nice runs”. - Find more than 7,000 running courses - Join an event to earn digital certificates and awards. - Stay up to date with the latest running news, tutorials and advice. - (Keep a Record) Log all your running related activities and progress. --- We're the company who has been providing 5 essentials in order to being fun with running. 1. Community 2. Information 3. Event 4. Location 5. Gear This is the app to archive our mission "Running for a freer and happier world" FOR THE PEOPLE LIKE THIS - Track & record your daily run & walk - Finding a trigger to start run & walk - Could not find any motivation to run - Wants to share daily running activities more casually - Record & memorize any thought of a day of run like journal - Needs more empathy from other runners on daily run - Wants to know a running route to run in a area of local or a place to visit - To share your awesome running route FEATURE #1 EASY TO TRACK YOUR RUN and WALK You can easily measure running and walking records using the GPS function. You can check the measured record as "activity" at any time. #2 PARTICIPATE IN ONLINE EVENTS You can participate in various events including Japan's largest virtual run & walking event "VRWC". #3 RUN & JOURNAL We’re all connect with RUN in every time and anywhere. Let’s share your daily RUN with one peice of photo and your thought of the RUN. You’ll get a “NiceRun” by all the other runners and you also give a “NiceRun” to other runners. #4 EDIT YOUR RUNNING PHOTO Some “Like” or “NiceRun” from other runners might be boosting your motivation for run. If so, you can edit your running photos with awesome running stickers and status. We’re updating brand new stickers as much as we can. #5 FIND EXCITING RUN ROUTE We’ve been running “Runtrip” as a web service which can search and post an exciting running route in everywhere in 2015. Runners has posted over 7,000 running/trailrunning route from the time. You can find an awesome running route of your local or place you’ll visit. Let’s have a chance to trip to run with Runtrip. #6 SHARE YOUR FAVORITE ROUTE Over 7,000 running routes are built by runners. Please build and post your favorite one. Other runners might be giving you a “Love to go” or “Done it” This is an another way to enjoy your run by communicating running route topics with other runners. * The Runtrip app can use the Healthkit to import running data recorded in the Healthcare app. --- Runtrip:[https://runtrip.jp](https://runtrip.jp/) Runtrip Magazine:[https://mg.runtrip.jp](https://mg.runtrip.jp/) Runtrip Channel:[https://www.youtube.com/c/RuntripChannel](https://www.youtube.com/c/RuntripChannel) Runtrip Store:[https://store.runtrip.jp/](https://store.runtrip.jp/) Virtual Run:[https://vrwc.runtrip.jp/](https://vrwc.runtrip.jp/) mail:support@runtrip.jp Term of uses https://static.runtrip.jp/terms Privacy Policy https://static.runtrip.jp/policy
BuraGym
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BuraGym helps you turn everyday walks into a visible record of progress. Start a session with one tap, wherever you are. There are no courses or routes to choose. Acquired elevation is an in-app activity metric that combines your ascent, walking distance, and pace. See your progress in Tokyo Tower (333 m) equivalents. It is not a measurement of geographic elevation difference. Record steps, distance, and climbed floors. Review your activity by day, week, month, and year, and look back at individual sessions. Daily step and acquired-elevation goals help you follow your progress. Weather-aware suggestions are available when you allow location access; you can still record a walk without it. BuraGym does not save your route. HealthKit is used to read steps, walking and running distance, and flights climbed only. BuraGym does not write to Health. Newly recorded activities estimate ascent using the device barometer. Gaps are supplemented using flights climbed and remain marked as partially unavailable. Daily totals adjust overlapping activity data to avoid double counting. Earlier saved records are preserved. The free version lets you start, save, and review walks. It displays a banner ad. BuraGym Pro is a monthly auto-renewing subscription. It adds a breakdown of acquired elevation and average pace, more on-device trainer suggestions, detailed post-walk feedback and a plan for the rest of the day, advice and feedback history, manual export of saved sessions to a dedicated iCloud calendar, and an ad-free experience. Calendar export requires an Apple Account with iCloud Calendar enabled. Your Apple Account is charged when you confirm a purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Check the purchase screen and App Store for the current price and billing period. On iOS 26 and later, an Apple workout session supports continued barometric measurement while the screen is locked. iOS may explain locked-device data access when you first start a session. The App does not save workouts or exercise samples to HealthKit. On earlier iOS versions or when the session is unavailable, recording continues with available sensors; barometer gaps are supplemented and marked partially unavailable. Privacy Policy: https://bus-navi-d41ba.web.app Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Runtrip and BuraGym are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Runtrip sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month and BuraGym sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Runtrip ships an update every 10 days, BuraGym every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Runtrip | BuraGym |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 30.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 155 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Runtrip.inc. | hirofumi kurosaki |
In-app purchases
Runtrip
- Runtrip Premium$2.991 Month
BuraGym
- BuraGym Pro Monthly$0.491 Month









