Running training vs MATS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Running training
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Great coaching is the easiest way to succeed in sport. The Lauftraining app is an intelligent coaching system for everyone who does not just want to run, but wants to train with purpose. At the center is the assessment run, which the app uses regularly to calculate your optimal training load and align your training with your current performance level. The result is run training that adapts to you โ not the other way around. Whether you are starting to run, improving your fitness, jogging for health, preparing for a 10K, half marathon, marathon, or getting ready for competition, the app helps you complete exactly the sessions that move you forward. With live coaching, pace guidance, GPS tracking, and professional training analysis, it supports you directly during your runs and helps you stay in the right intensity zone. Unlike simple tracking apps, Das Lauftraining does not just record your runs โ it gives you real training intelligence. You learn how intervals, threshold training, and easy endurance runs work together, how training load should be managed, and how professional run training is structured. This means you do not just get fitter โ you also understand why your training works. With Evalu AI, this coaching goes one step further. It is not a generic chatbot, but a highly intelligent sports AI that works in the context of your actual training. It considers your goals, your training history, your development, and the data generated inside the app. That allows it to give you guidance and recommendations that are relevant, precise, and tailored to your personal situation. New is also the ability to train toward a shared goal together. With the team feature, you can work toward a common goal with friends, partners, colleagues, or a training group โ for example a race or a health goal. Unlike traditional social or gamified approaches, the focus is not on comparison, but on meaningful training structure: everyone works toward the same goal, while each person trains at the level that is right for them individually. That makes shared training not only motivating, but also sound from a training theory perspective. App features โข Assessment run to determine your optimal training load โข Intelligent training guidance for beginners and ambitious runners โข Individual live coaching during every run โข Precise pace guidance for the right intensity zone โข GPS tracking and run recording โข Professional training analysis and structured coaching logic โข Evalu AI for contextual, intelligent coaching insights โข Team feature for shared goals with individually appropriate training loads โข Suitable for fitness, jogging, running, and race preparation The Lauftraining app combines training intelligence, expert knowledge, and personal load management into a state-of-the-art training concept. This makes professional run training simple, understandable, and effective. Try it and experience what intelligent coaching feels like. Terms of use: https://www.daslauftraining.com/agb/ The app uses HealthKit to save your runs to your activities and to record heart rate data from your Apple Watch.
MATS
This app simplifies training management for athletes by combining planning, analysis, and communication tools. It offers evidence-based diagnostics, personalized training plans, and a knowledge hub to enhance performance. Designed for ease of use, it integrates multiple functions into one platform.
- Integrated training calendar
- Scientific performance analysis
- Strength & Core workout library
- Remote diagnostic tools
- Professional training plans
- Athlete-coach chat
- Knowledge Hub for sports science
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MATS is your AI coach for running, cycling, and triathlon. It plans your training week by week, checks your training load every day, and rebuilds your plan when your daily life changes. Behind the AI coach are real elite coaches. Their training philosophy is built into every plan it creates for you. Do you train with your own coach? Then you can work together in MATS, with your calendar, chat, and all your data in one place. And if you simply want to record and analyze your training, youโll find everything you need in the same app. ### AI COACH - Tell it what changes: two extra hours on Sunday, a business trip, an illness. It checks your training load and adjusts your week accordingly. - Add your races. It plans your base, build, and peak phases around them, all the way through your taper. - Your readiness, based on HRV, resting heart rate, sleep, and your daily feedback, is factored into every recommendation. SMART TRAINER - Control your smart trainer directly from MATS - on your smartphone, tablet, or in your browser. Your intervals run at the planned power target without the need for a second app. You can even connect your Core sensor. STRENGTH & MOBILITY - Choose from a large exercise library with instructions and videos, or train with ready-made workouts. Your strength sessions are scheduled where they best fit into your endurance training week. CALENDAR & ANALYSIS - All your workouts in one calendar, synced with Garmin, Apple, COROS, Suunto, Zwift, and other platforms. You can also factor weather data and availability into your planning. - Connect MATS to your personal calendar. This lets you see training, work, and family commitments in one place and schedule your workouts around your actual week. - Track your threshold power, training intensity distribution, and training load with the MATS Score. - Determine your performance parameters conveniently from home with the diagnostic protocol. FOR ATHLETES WITH THEIR OWN COACH - Your coach plans directly in your calendar. You can communicate via chat, comment on workouts and events, and receive push notifications whenever something changes. KNOWLEDGE HUB - Articles on training science and MATS features, linked directly to the relevant areas of the app. Try MATS free for 14 days. EULA: https://mats.coach/en/eula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: MATS at 15.6 against Running training's 17.6. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Running training sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and MATS sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $17.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Running training ships an update every 2 weeks, MATS every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Running training | MATS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | โ | 84.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 9 days โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | โ | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.6 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 219 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Seitz Ventures UG (haftungsbeschrankt) | MATS GmbH |
In-app purchases
Running training
- 1 Monat Coaching$2.991 Month
- 8 Wochen Coaching$13.492 Months
- 3 Monate Coaching7 Days trial$17.993 Months
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- 6 Monate Coaching$24.996 Months
- 12 Monate Coaching$44.991 Year
MATS
- Premium monthly subscription$17.001 Month
- AI Coach - Seipp (Month)$39.001 Month
- AI Coach - Tilbury-Davis (Month)$39.001 Month
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- AI Coach - Roesler (Month)$39.001 Month
- AI Coach - Schoemburg-Heuck (Month)$39.001 Month
- Basic yearly subscription$99.991 Year
- Premium yearly subscription$129.991 Year
- AI Coach - Eriksson (Year)$350.001 Year
- AI Coach - Seipp (Year)$350.001 Year
- AI Coach - Tilbury-Davis (Year)$350.001 Year
- AI Coach - Roesler (Year)$350.001 Year
- AI Coach - Schoemburg-Heuck (Year)$350.001 Year
- Diagnostic$79.00









