Runtrip vs GrooveRun
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
GrooveRun
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GrooveRun matches the tempo of your music to your running cadence. CHANGE THE SPEED OF ANY SONG Play songs from your device's Music library, or files you import. The pitch stays where it was — only the tempo moves. The app also ships with 60 tracks prepared for running. (The bundled tracks are AI-generated, and are labeled as such in the app.) FOUR SCENES, ONE TAP Set a target cadence for warm-up, hard, jog and cool-down. Switch between them while you run, and the music follows. INTERVAL TRAINING Tabata, Norwegian 4x4, 30/30 and more are built in. Step length, target cadence and the track that plays there can all be edited on the screen you start from — and each phase plays at its own tempo. BEAT GUIDE Lay a metronome or drum on top of the beat. It gets louder the further you drift, so you can correct by ear alone. The Lock Screen shows your measured cadence and whether you are fast or slow, with a button to turn the beat on and off. GPS ROUTE Your route is recorded with GPS, even with the screen off, until you finish the run. Where GPS is weak, steps fill in the distance. History shows the route colored by how well you stayed on the beat. Routes are stored only on your iPhone and are never uploaded. SHARE CARDS Right after a run, take a photo or a 5-second video and turn it into a share card: distance, time, pace, cadence, sync and your route colored by sync, with stamps and text. Share it to X, Instagram, TikTok, Threads and more. You can hide the area around your start and finish to keep places like your home private. YOUR TRAINING PARTNER A voice keeps you going while you run. There are 100 missions to work through; finishing them earns badges and unlocks new coaching styles — including a Spartan mode that does not go easy on you. APPLE HEALTH Time, distance, cadence and route stay in the app, and runs can be written to Health as workouts. ---- FREE Bundled tracks, tempo sync, scene switching, intervals, the beat guide, GPS routes, share cards, missions and Health export are all free. Importing your own songs is limited to 5 tracks. GROOVERUN PREMIUM (one-time purchase) - Import as many of your own songs as you like - No ads A single payment, not a subscription. NOTES - Songs from a streaming subscription (Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Spotify and the like) are protected and cannot be imported. The one-time purchase does not change that. What you can import is music you own: ripped from CD, bought outright, or your own audio files. - Cadence measurement needs Motion & Fitness permission. - Route recording needs location access (While Using the App). Without it, distance is measured from your steps.
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Verdict
Runtrip and GrooveRun 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 GrooveRun sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Runtrip ships an update every 10 days, GrooveRun every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Runtrip | GrooveRun |
|---|---|---|
| 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 9 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 | 224 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Runtrip.inc. | Takahito Umehara |
In-app purchases
Runtrip
- Runtrip Premium$2.991 Month
GrooveRun
- GrooveRun Premium$4.99









