Comparison

Snap Run vs Pacekeeper

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

Head to head
About

Snap Run

This app tracks your runs using GPS, recording your route, pace, and distance. It allows you to take photos during your run, which are saved with location data directly on your device. Review your complete run history with detailed maps and photos.

Highlights
  • Live GPS tracking
  • Record pace and distance
  • In-run photo capture
  • Run history and maps
  • Photos pinned to route
  • No sign-up required
Features
Read full description

A running tracker that respects your privacy. Snap Run is a fast, focused GPS running tracker. No sign-up, no ads, no data harvesting — open the app and start running. Track your run • Live GPS route, pace, distance, and time • Splits and compass heading as you run • Pause, resume, and finish with a clear running screen Capture the moment • Take photos mid-run without leaving the app • Each shot remembers your distance, pace, and time • Photos stay on your device — never uploaded Look back • Full run history • Per-run detail with your route drawn on the map • Your photos pinned right where you took them along the route Made to stay out of your way • Light and dark mode • No account required — ever • No ads, no third-party tracking • Your runs and photos are stored on your device Just you, your route, and your numbers.

About

Pacekeeper

This app tracks your walking and running distance, pace, and speed without requiring an account or internet connection. It offers detailed session history, GPX export, and voice feedback for your workouts. A single payment unlocks advanced features like interval training and performance statistics.

Highlights
  • Offline GPS tracking
  • Distance, pace, and speed monitoring
  • Automatic pause/resume
  • Voice feedback for splits
  • GPX file export
  • Interval training
  • Performance statistics and race predictions
Features
Read full description

Pacekeeper measures how far you walk or run, and keeps every step of it on your phone. No account. No sign-up. No servers. Your routes are yours, and they never leave the device unless you choose to export them. WHAT IT DOES Distance, time, pace and speed, updated every second while you move. Keeps counting with the screen off and the phone in your pocket. Pauses itself when you stop at a crossing, and picks up again when you move. Speaks your time and pace at every mile or kilometre. Shows speed the way you think in it: km/h, mph, metres per second or metres per minute. Estimates the calories and fat you burned, once you give it your weight. Saves each session with its route, its splits and the climb. Exports any session as a GPX file for Strava, Garmin Connect, Komoot or anything else that reads one. Works with no signal at all. A run in a valley with no bars is measured exactly the same as one in town. FREE, AND STAYING FREE Tracking. History. The route map. Splits. Elevation gain. Calories. Speed in any unit. GPX export. The voice at every mile. One profile. Those are the things every other tracker gives away, so Pacekeeper does too. ONE PAYMENT, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION A single payment unlocks the rest, once, forever: Interval workouts. Pick a session such as eight repeats of 400 metres, and Pacekeeper speaks each step and counts you down into the next one. Steps advance on moving time or distance, so waiting at a crossing does not eat your interval. Stats and records. What you covered each week, and your fastest mile, 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon, taken from the best stretch inside any session rather than only whole runs. Race predictions too, worked out from your fastest efforts. Track laps, pace alerts and cadence. Lap times every 400 metres, spoken as each lap ends. Set a target pace and a voice tells you to speed up or ease off when you drift from it. Steps per minute and stride length, live and as a session average. Route pictures. Share the shape of a run with its numbers, drawn on your phone. Everyone on the phone. Profiles for the whole household, each with their own history, all covered by the one payment. There is no subscription, and there will not be one. Pacekeeper has no servers to pay for, so there is nothing to keep charging you for. BUILT TO BE PRIVATE Sessions, routes and settings live in the app on your phone. So does your weight, if you enter one. No analytics. No advertising. No crash reporting. No trackers of any kind. Two things reach the internet, and only when you ask. Opening a route map downloads map images of that area. Switching on the weather sends a position rounded to about a kilometre to MET Norway, and nothing else. Uninstalling removes everything. There is no copy of your runs anywhere else. WHAT YOU NEED Android 10 or newer, and a phone with GPS. Location permission, for the obvious reason. Physical activity permission, which lets Pacekeeper tell walking from running by your step rate. It works without it, using speed alone. Some phones shut apps down the moment the screen locks. If tracking stops on yours, open Settings inside Pacekeeper and let it run without battery limits. Made by iDevOpsLLC. Questions and problems: support@nowidevops.com

Screenshots

Snap Run4 screens
Pacekeeper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Snap Run at none against Pacekeeper's 1. Pacekeeper's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Pacekeeper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Snap Run asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Snap Run against 5.0 for Pacekeeper. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pacekeeper has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Snap Run ships an update every 2 weeks, Pacekeeper every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
Snap Run versus Pacekeeper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnap RunPacekeeper
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSonaumaiDevOps LLC

Customer experience

Snap Run

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pacekeeper

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Snap Run

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Pacekeeper

One-time1
  • Pacekeeper Complete$4.99

Questions

Is Snap Run free?
Snap Run is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pacekeeper free?
Pacekeeper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Snap Run or Pacekeeper?
Snap Run and Pacekeeper are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Snap Run or Pacekeeper have ads?
Neither Snap Run nor Pacekeeper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Snap Run or Pacekeeper?
Snap Run ships an update every 2 weeks, and Pacekeeper every 5 days. Most recently, Snap Run was updated on October 14, 2026 and Pacekeeper on October 29, 2026.

Other comparisons