Runaway Marathon Series vs MapRun
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Runaway Marathon Series
Access comprehensive event details for major marathons, including schedules, maps, and athlete tracking. Stay updated with live event feeds and essential information for participants and spectators.
- Event information
- Maps
- Athlete tracking
- Event schedule
- Event feed
- Multiple marathon support
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The Runaway Marathon Series App provides event information, maps, athlete tracking and up to date event schedule, event feed for the following events. Queenstown International Marathon Hawkes Bay Marathon Runaway Noosa Marathon Runaway Sydney Half Auckland Marathon
MapRun
Experience orienteering with a smartphone app that handles timing and punching, eliminating the need for physical course setup. Enjoy instant feedback on your performance, including your track, personal results, and leaderboard rankings.
- Smartphone timing and punching
- No physical course setup needed
- Instant performance feedback
- Track your route
- Personal results and leaderboards
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MapRun enables a form of Orienteering that uses a SmartPhone App for punching and timing, avoiding the need to put out flags and units on the course. This saves time and effort for organisers, courses can be left open for extended periods of time, and instant feedback is provided with track, personal result and leaderboard results in the App.
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Verdict
Runaway Marathon Series and MapRun both sit at 3.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 57% of MapRun's written reviews are positive against 16% of Runaway Marathon Series's. MapRun also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.7 for Runaway Marathon Series against 3.7 for MapRun. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 16% of Runaway Marathon Series's written reviews are positive against 57% of MapRun's.
Runaway Marathon Series ships an update every 5 months, MapRun every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 7, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Runaway Marathon Series | MapRun |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.8% of reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.5.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Net Project Ltd | PETER EFFENEY |
Customer experience
Runaway Marathon Series
MapRun
In-app purchases
Runaway Marathon Series
No in-app purchases
MapRun
No in-app purchases
Questions
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