Comparison

Activated Athletes vs Run Well

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

Head to head
About

Activated Athletes

Track your macronutrients and food intake with a comprehensive database and built-in recipes. Access instructional videos for health education and use a weekly tracker to stay on course with your goals.

Highlights
  • Macronutrient tracking
  • Food tracking
  • Built-in recipes
  • Instructional health videos
  • Extensive food database
  • Weekly progress tracker
Features
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Your one stop shop for macronutrient tracking and food tracking. Built in recipes, instructional videos for learning and educating yourself on hot topics in health, huge food database and a weekly tracker to keep you on point when life happens. It all here for you!

About

Run Well

This app provides adaptive training plans for runners, adjusting to your life's schedule and physical condition. It offers personalized coaching, route building, and detailed performance tracking. Enjoy a comprehensive running experience tailored to your needs.

Highlights
  • Adaptive training plans
  • Personalized coaching
  • Route building and live tracking
  • Performance analytics
  • Race planning
  • Watch app integration
Features
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Most training plans are a PDF that's wrong by week two. Run Well's plan moves when your life does. Tell it your race and what you run now. It builds the whole block: easy days, tempo, intervals, long runs, strength. Every session is written out in full, from warm-up to paces to recovery. Then the week happens. IT ADAPTS Bad night, heavy legs: it offers a shorter session. Away on Tuesday: it moves the run and protects the long one. Ill or injured: pause. Missed days stop counting, and it works out where to restart you. Too much, or not enough: scale the block, or change your days. Nothing changes until you say so. A COACH THAT HAS SEEN THE RUN Ask it anything. Talk me through today. Was that too fast? Move Thursday to Saturday. Find me a half in March. It reads your splits, laps and heart rate against what the session asked for, so you get an answer, not a pep talk. And it speaks up when something is worth saying: a long run stuck for three weeks, easy days creeping hard, the niggle you mentioned last Tuesday. ON YOUR WRIST A proper watch app. GPS with your route on a moving map. A tap and a spoken split every mile. Structured workouts that lap themselves and buzz when the interval changes. Today's session on your watch face. ROUTES Tap out a loop and it snaps to real roads and paths. Build it to the exact distance today calls for, send it to your watch, and follow it live. Export as GPX. RACES Search real races near you by distance and date. Pick one, and the plan builds backwards from the start line. THE NUMBERS Training load. Readiness from sleep, HRV, resting heart rate and breathing. Paces and zones from a recent result. What you could run at other distances. Every figure comes from the same calculation every time, so Run Well can always tell you why. ALSO Run/walk plans. Strava upload. A review every Sunday. Your own saved workouts. A gear shop that waits to be asked. YOURS No account, no login. Your training lives on your iPhone and in your private iCloud, which we can't read. Nothing about you is sold. ONE PRICE Pay once. No subscription. 60 coach messages are included; add a pack of 30 whenever you need more. Race data from RunSignup. Weather by Apple Weather. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://runwell.training/privacy Run Well Terms of Service: https://runwell.training/terms

Screenshots

Activated Athletes3 screens
Run Well4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Activated Athletes at Free against Run Well's $4.99. Activated Athletes also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (7 vs 2). Run Well's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On rating, review sentiment, 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

Activated Athletes is free to download; Run Well costs $4.99 up front. Run Well sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Activated Athletes 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 Activated Athletes against 5.0 for Run Well. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Activated Athletes ships an update every 2 weeks, Run Well every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Activated Athletes versus Run Well: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActivated AthletesRun Well
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB10 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperErika DaleTHOMAS REINMAN

Customer experience

Activated Athletes

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Run Well

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Activated Athletes

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Run Well

Subscriptions2
  • Run Well Pro Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Run Well Pro Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • 30 Coach Messages$0.99

Questions

Is Activated Athletes free?
Activated Athletes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Run Well free?
Run Well costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Activated Athletes or Run Well?
Activated Athletes and Run Well are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Activated Athletes or Run Well have ads?
Neither Activated Athletes nor Run Well shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Activated Athletes or Run Well?
Activated Athletes ships an update every 2 weeks, and Run Well every 3 days. Most recently, Activated Athletes was updated on October 19, 2026 and Run Well on October 29, 2026.

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