Comparison

Legacy TriDot vs Runvas

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

Head to head
About

Legacy TriDot

This app uses big data and advanced analytics to optimize your future training and race results. It seamlessly auto-syncs with popular fitness tracking devices.

Highlights
  • Big data analytics
  • Optimized future training
  • Race result prediction
  • Seamless auto-sync
  • Garmin integration
  • Polar integration
Features
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TriDot’s triathlon training app isn’t just another app to track and monitor your past training. Its big data and advanced analytics optimize your future training and race results. It seamlessly auto-syncs with Garmin, Polar and other services. Subject to the Apple License agreement found at the following URL https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Runvas

Transform words into custom running routes. Explore new areas and share your fitness journeys on social media. Keep your workouts engaging and exciting with unique, word-generated paths.

Highlights
  • Create running routes from words
  • Explore new areas
  • Share routes on social media
  • Engaging fitness journeys
  • Customized running paths
Features
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Your run. Your canvas. Runvas turns running into an act of expression. Sketch any shape, trace a word, or let the app compose a route that fits your pace, then go run what you drew. This isn't another tracker that just counts miles. Runvas is the first running app built for people who want their route to mean something. Paint a heart through your neighborhood. Spell your kid's name across the park. Sign the city. — WHAT YOU CAN DO — • DRAW ANY SHAPE Tap, drag, or trace freehand. Runvas snaps your sketch onto real streets using walkable, runnable routes, with no illegal shortcuts through buildings. • WRITE WITH YOUR FEET Type a word and Runvas plots each letter across the map, sized to your target distance. • CHOOSE FROM A LIBRARY OF SHAPES Hearts, dinosaurs, lightning bolts, peace signs. Pick a shape, drop it anywhere, and it auto-sizes to hit your goal mileage. • TRAIN FOR YOUR RACE Pick a race (5K, 10K, half, marathon, or ultra), set your date and experience level, and Runvas builds a week-by-week plan. Each workout is a real route, drawn as the shape you'll trace. Skip a day and it redistributes the mileage across the week. Run two plans at once if you're training for more than one race. • SURPRISE ME Out of ideas? Tap once and Runvas drops a random shape on your city, then turns it into a route. • ADAPTIVE MUSIC Pace-matched soundtracks that follow your cadence as you run. Speed up and the BPM rises with you. • CINEMATIC RUN PREVIEW Watch your planned route animate before you step outside, with a globe-to-street flyover and a few camera modes. You'll know where you're going and how long it'll feel. • GPX EXPORT One tap sends your route to Strava, Garmin Connect, Apple Health, or your watch. Your art, your stats, everywhere you want them. • LAYERS Design a whole session. A warm-up letter, a main-event shape, a cool-down loop, stacked, saved, and runnable in any order. — WHY RUNVAS? — Most running apps ask you to care about splits. Runvas asks you to care about what you leave behind. Every route you run is a brushstroke on a map that nobody else will ever run the same way. You're not logging miles, you're making something. And when you're done, you've got a shareable piece of your city, traced in your own footsteps. — BUILT FOR — • Runners who've plateaued on the same 5K loop and want variety • Strava artists who want the drawing tool as good as the run itself • Anyone who runs for fun more than for finish times • Parents, couples, and friends who want to run meaningful routes for each other • Coaches and trainers looking for a creative way to hit weekly mileage — FREE. ADS BETWEEN GENERATIONS. OPTIONAL ONE-TIME UPGRADE. — Runvas is free to use, forever. A brief ad appears between every few generations. If you love it, a single one-time purchase removes ads for the lifetime of your account. No subscription. No surprises. — PRIVACY — Your routes live on your device and sync to your account, and that's it. We don't sell your location and we don't share your data. You can run Runvas without creating an account at all. — START PAINTING — Your city is waiting to be drawn on. Download Runvas, sketch something, and go run it. It's that simple. Questions, requests, or a cool route to share? Reach us at hello@runvas.app or @runvas on Instagram and TikTok.

Screenshots

Legacy TriDot4 screens
Runvas3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Legacy TriDot at 97% against Runvas's 60%. Legacy TriDot also leads on ratings volume (263 vs 4) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). Runvas's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price and ads 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. Legacy TriDot sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Runvas asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Runvas holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Legacy TriDot has 263 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 97% of Legacy TriDot's written reviews are positive against 60% of Runvas's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Legacy TriDot ships an update fortnightly, Runvas monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Legacy TriDot versus Runvas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLegacy TriDotRunvas
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (263 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews97.0% of reviews — better60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings263 — better4
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size95 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPredictive Fitness, Inc.Ryan Temple

Customer experience

Legacy TriDot

All ratings263 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral1.9%
Negative7.2%
Written reviews234 reviews
Positive97.0%
Neutral0.9%
Negative2.1%

Runvas

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%

Bugs and requests

Legacy TriDot

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Login issues
  • Syncing problems with third-party apps

Requested features

2 requests
  • Perceived effort tracking
  • More flexibility in workout scheduling

Runvas

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Legacy TriDot

Subscriptions5
  • Lifestyle$14.991 Month
  • Essentials$39.991 Month
  • Complete$99.991 Month
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  • Mark Allen Edition$149.991 Month
  • Premium$249.991 Month
None

Runvas

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Legacy TriDot free?
Legacy TriDot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Runvas free?
Runvas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Legacy TriDot or Runvas?
Runvas is rated higher. Legacy TriDot averages 4.7 out of 5 from 263 ratings, while Runvas averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Legacy TriDot or Runvas have ads?
Neither Legacy TriDot nor Runvas shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Legacy TriDot or Runvas?
Legacy TriDot ships an update fortnightly, and Runvas monthly. Most recently, Legacy TriDot was updated on October 23, 2026 and Runvas on October 12, 2026.

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