Workout SUM vs Runnerd
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Workout SUM
This app helps you track your fitness progress and achieve your goals with ease. It syncs with Apple Health, offers detailed stats, and visualizes your achievements through graphs and charts, all without requiring a login.
- Progress tracking
- Goal setting and achievement
- Apple Health integration
- Detailed workout statistics
- Visual progress graphs
- Offline functionality
- Home screen widgets
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Your Apple Health workouts, finally making sense. Workout SUM reads the workouts your Apple Watch, iPhone and other apps already save to Apple Health, and turns them into clear stats, streaks, personal records and trends. It doesn't record workouts itself, so there's nothing new to start or stop. Pay once. No subscription. No account. No ads. SEE HOW YOU'RE REALLY DOING • Trends: compare this week, month or year with the last, per activity • Streaks: how many days in a row, and your best run • Records: longest, fastest and biggest, for every activity • Goals: set a target for the week, month or year and watch it fill • Charts for duration, distance, pace, calories and time of day • Running splits and pace YOUR YEAR IN WORKOUTS • Yearly Report with totals, streaks and year-over-year comparison • Beautiful share cards, made for stories and group chats ON YOUR WRIST AND HOME SCREEN • Apple Watch app: Summary, Activities, Trends and Streaks • Widgets for Home Screen and Lock Screen: summary, streak and trend • Siri and Shortcuts: ask for your streak, a summary or your biggest trend BUILT AROUND APPLE HEALTH • Works with any app that saves workouts to Health • Pick which activity types to include, and choose km or miles • Forgot your watch? Add a workout by hand • Works offline SIMPLE AND PRIVATE No sign-up needed. Workout SUM reads your workouts from Apple Health and calculates everything on your device. Available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil) and Chinese (Simplified).
Runnerd
This app analyzes your running data from Apple Health to provide insights into your training, readiness, and performance. It offers detailed run breakdowns, season timelines, and coaching advice without requiring an account or subscription.
- Readiness Score calculation
- Detailed run analysis
- Performance Management Chart
- Season timeline view
- Three coaching tones
- Shoe mileage tracking
- Personal bests tracking
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Runnerd is a running coach and a serious analytics app in one. It builds a plan around your goal, explains every recommendation and works with the runs you've already logged. No subscription. No account. No compromises. HOW IT WORKS Connect Apple Health and Runnerd reads your past runs, whether they came from your Apple Watch, your iPhone or another running app. No blank slate: Runnerd knows where you stand from day one. Keep tracking with whatever you use today. Set a goal, like your next half marathon, and pick a coach. The Patient One builds up carefully, The Ambitious One pushes harder, and The Balanced One sits in between. The difference shows up in your plan, not just in the tone. Runnerd maps out every week until race day and schedules more of the run types you enjoy. You can add your own runs whenever you like. Each morning, your coach checks the plan against your readiness. After each run, it reviews how it went. Ahead of your goal? It'll tell you. Goal asking for more than your coach allows? It'll tell you that too. FOR NERDS WHO RUN Fitness, fatigue and form, running economy, intensity, training load: Runnerd shows whether your training is working and explains every term along the way. It's all built on proven sports science, not AI: Banister for fitness and form, Daniels VDOT for training paces and predictions, Karvonen for heart rate zones. IPHONE AND MAC Check in on your iPhone, dig deeper on your Mac with a native Mac app. Your data syncs through your private iCloud. Runnerd collects nothing and runs no servers. AND THE DETAILS Shoe mileage with a heads-up before a pair wears out. Personal bests, spotted automatically. Running partners. Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Share runs, weeks and personal bests as images. FREE, WITH A ONE-TIME PRO UPGRADE Runnerd is free to use. Pro adds race predictions, running technique analysis, GPX export and The Ambitious One. One purchase covers iPhone and Mac.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Runnerd at 100% against Workout SUM's 0%. Runnerd also leads on price (Free vs $3.99) and rating (5.0 vs 4.4). Workout SUM's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Runnerd is free to download; Workout SUM costs $3.99 up front. Runnerd sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Workout SUM asks for nothing beyond the download.
Runnerd holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Workout SUM has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Workout SUM's written reviews are positive against 100% of Runnerd's.
Workout SUM ships an update every 2 months, Runnerd every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Workout SUM | Runnerd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ziga Porenta | Norma Steller |
Customer experience
Workout SUM
Runnerd
In-app purchases
Workout SUM
No in-app purchases
Runnerd
- Runnerd Pro$7.99
- Support a Nerd$17.99









