Comparison

RunMotion Coach vs Run Roulette Marathon Training

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

Head to head
About

RunMotion Coach

Get a personalized, adaptive training plan to achieve your running goals, whether you're a beginner or advanced. This app acts as your pocket running coach, offering varied sessions, motivation, and tips for any distance or surface. It syncs with GPS watches and other apps to track your progress.

Highlights
  • Adaptive training plans
  • Personalized to ability and schedule
  • Train for any distance (5k to ultras)
  • Syncs with GPS watches and apps
  • AI coach interaction
  • Running tips and drills
Features
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Your personal running coach, from 5K to ultra trail. RunMotion Coach builds a training plan made for you and adapts it every week to your fitness and your schedule. 88% of our runners reach their goal. A TRAINING PLAN BUILT AROUND YOU • Every goal: 5K, 10K, half marathon, marathon, trail, ultra, triathlon • Every level: start running, get fitter, set a new PR • Your plan takes into account your level, race times, availability and tune-up races • Edit your current week and the next one: your plan reorganizes itself automatically • Adapts to your injuries, vacations and menstrual cycle VARIED WORKOUTS, PRECISE PACES • Intervals, VO2max, threshold, long runs, hills, marathon pace, easy runs • Paces calculated from your race times and target, using a scientific model co-published with MIT • Race time predictions based on your latest races and workouts • Find out your VO2max speed and Endurance Index YOUR WATCH, YOUR COACH ON YOUR WRIST • Send your workouts to Apple Watch, Garmin, Coros, Suunto and Polar, and follow them live • Add your workouts to Google Calendar or Apple Calendar • Automatically sync your activities from Apple Health, Strava, Garmin, Suunto, Polar, Coros, Wahoo, Fitbit, adidas Running, Decathlon and Huawei Health • Track your distance, elevation, pace and training load • Your coach analyzes every workout with AI and adjusts the rest of your plan MORE THAN A PLAN: COMPLETE COACHING • Choose your coach's tone: encouraging, strict or philosophical • Tips on running technique, recovery, nutrition and well-being • Strength training, conditioning and stretching • Mental preparation and mindfulness • Cross-training with cycling and swimming • Weight loss program PREMIUM Try Premium for free during the trial period, then choose a monthly, quarterly or yearly subscription. WHO WE ARE A team of coaches and elite runners based in the French Alps. • Guillaume Adam, certified coach and engineer, 2:23 marathoner and UTMB finisher. As co-author of a scientific paper with MIT on running performance prediction, he created the AI that builds your plan. • Romain Adam, UTMB finisher, 2:32 marathoner. Questions or ideas? Write to us: app@run-motion.com SUBSCRIPTION Premium is an auto-renewable subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://en.run-motion.com/legal/ Privacy Policy: https://en.run-motion.com/privacy-policy/

About

Run Roulette Marathon Training

Discover personalized running workouts tailored to your race goals and current fitness level. Get adaptive training advice from a smart coach and log your progress to stay motivated. Offers over 500 unique workouts with tips and quotes from professionals.

Highlights
  • Personalized run generation
  • Adaptive smart coach
  • Race-specific training plans
  • Workout logging and progress tracking
  • Running streak monitoring
  • Garmin device integration
  • Strava sync
Features
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Find your next run with Run Roulette! Spin to find a run that’s tailor-made for the race you are training for and your current ability, or discover a random workout to keep your running fresh and exciting. Run Roulette has over 500 unique workouts with training tips and quotes from professional runners and coaches to keep you motivated in your running and looking forward to each new run day. With a simple click each workout can be adjusted to be easier or harder in order to curate runs to accommodate every runners’ ability and desired effort. If you aren’t 100% excited about the run you spin for, no worries, you can save it for tomorrow or spin to find a completely new run. Once you do find your run, you can easily send it to your Garmin device for running and pacing instructions in real time. MEET SMART COACH Smart Coach is Run Roulette’s innovative training coach designed to help you get the most out of your training. Like any other coach, Smart Coach helps optimize your training to reach your goals with weekly-mileage suggestions, planning a healthy and gradual long run progression and reviewing your recent training to recommend beneficial next runs. What sets Run Roulette apart from many other fitness and training apps is that while Smart Coach provides adaptive suggestions for your training based on current running metrics, the choice of what to run each day is up to YOU! You are no longer stuck with a static training plan that doesn’t take into account your busy schedule or how you’re feeling on a specific day. Smart Coach is there to help you as you need but you can also take control of how you want to train. TRAINING PLANS Do you have a race on the horizon? Run Roulette can help plan your weekly mileage buildup and specifically suggest runs and workouts to complement training for race distances from the 3K to Marathon. ‘Smart Coach’ will also give race-specific training advice along the way. Running isn’t only about race training. Choose one of the non-race running plans for: beginning runners, runners returning from injury, injury prevention, increasing fitness or speed training. LOG YOUR RUNS After completing a run, proudly record your hard work. Use Run Roulette as a running log to track your completed runs, note how you’re feeling each day and monitor your progress throughout your training plan. Strava users can easily upload a synced workout straight to Run Roulette. RUNNING STREAKS Track your running streak with Run Roulette and easily share your accomplishments to social media and Strava. Taking a day to recover and rest is an important component of any training plan, don’t compromise your training and become injured to keep your streak alive. Run Roulette has short-run options (runs lasting 30 minutes or less) or you can save your streak with Run Roulette’s ‘Day Off’ feature. RUN REMINDER NOTIFICATIONS Find accountability and consistency in your training with Run Roulette’s running reminders. Choose the days for Run Roulette to send you a reminder to find your next run and stay on track with your running plan. All notifications are easily adjustable for day of the week and time of day and can be turned off at any time.

Screenshots

RunMotion Coach4 screens
Run Roulette Marathon Training4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Run Roulette Marathon Training at 5.0 against RunMotion Coach's 4.7. Run Roulette Marathon Training also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). RunMotion Coach's advantage is ratings volume (73 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. RunMotion Coach sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and Run Roulette Marathon Training sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Run Roulette Marathon Training holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RunMotion Coach has 73 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RunMotion Coach ships an update fortnightly, Run Roulette Marathon Training every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
RunMotion Coach versus Run Roulette Marathon Training: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRunMotion CoachRun Roulette Marathon Training
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (73 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings73 — better3
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size274 MB232 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperRun MotionRunning Apps & Fitness Plans LLC

Customer experience

RunMotion Coach

All ratings72 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral2.8%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews82 reviews
Positive78.0%
Neutral9.8%
Negative12.2%

Run Roulette Marathon Training

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

RunMotion Coach

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Monthly7 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Premium Quarterly7 Days trial$49.993 Months
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$119.991 Year
7 purchases

Run Roulette Marathon Training

Subscriptions3
  • Month Subscription$4.991 Month
  • 25% Off 6 Month Subscription3 Days trial$29.996 Months
  • 50% Off Annual Subscription7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time4
  • 2 Premium Spins$1.99
  • 5 Premium Spins$2.99
  • 10 Premium Spins$4.99
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  • 20 Premium Spins$7.99

Questions

Is RunMotion Coach free?
RunMotion Coach is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Run Roulette Marathon Training free?
Run Roulette Marathon Training is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, RunMotion Coach or Run Roulette Marathon Training?
Run Roulette Marathon Training is rated higher. RunMotion Coach averages 4.7 out of 5 from 73 ratings, while Run Roulette Marathon Training averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do RunMotion Coach or Run Roulette Marathon Training have ads?
Neither RunMotion Coach nor Run Roulette Marathon Training shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RunMotion Coach or Run Roulette Marathon Training?
RunMotion Coach ships an update fortnightly, and Run Roulette Marathon Training every 4 days. Most recently, RunMotion Coach was updated on November 6, 2026 and Run Roulette Marathon Training on November 3, 2026.

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