Comparison

Trail Router vs Training Today

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

Head to head
About

Trail Router

Discover new running paths with an intelligent routing algorithm that prioritizes parks, forests, and water features while avoiding busy roads. Create custom routes or let the app automatically plot round trips based on your preferences for nature, lighting, or terrain.

Highlights
  • Automatic round-trip route plotting
  • Manual point-to-point route creation
  • Preference for nature and water
  • Avoids busy roads
  • Route export to GPX/KML
  • Customizable route preferences (nature, lighting, hills)
Features
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Trail Router helps you discover new running routes. Our routing algorithm prefers paths that go through parks, forests or by water, and avoids busy roads wherever possible. Here's a few things you can do with Trail Router: * Automatically plot a round-trip route of a desired distance. * Manually create your own point-to-point route that prefers greenery and water. * Choose whether you'd prefer routes that involve nature, well-lit streets or a lack of hills. * Export your routes to GPX or KML, suitable for use on GPS watches

About

Training Today

This app analyzes your Apple Watch health data to provide a daily readiness to train score. It helps prevent overtraining injuries and guides your training intensity, offering insights into your body's recovery and performance potential.

Highlights
  • Calculates daily readiness to train (RTT) score
  • Multi-day RTT score chart
  • Independent Apple Watch app
  • Uses HRV, workout detection, and custom algorithm
  • Automatic data outlier filtering
  • iPhone companion app with tutorial
  • Complication support for quick RTT glance
Features
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Take Readiness to Results. Understand your readiness. Choose training that fits today. Follow your progress over time. Training Today brings readiness and training together for triathletes, runners, cyclists and swimmers. Your Readiness to Train (RTT) score uses HRV readings from Apple Health and your personal baseline to help you decide when to push, keep steady or take it easy. FROM READINESS TO YOUR NEXT SESSION With Premium, explore structured swim, bike and run workouts that adapt to your RTT. Review the session, choose your options and send supported workouts to Apple Watch. Review readiness-based changes on iPhone before updating a workout on your Watch. BUILD YOUR TRAINING WEEK Shape Your Week around your training preferences. Choose sessions, move workouts and review suggestions as your week unfolds. Schedule strength and conditioning alongside your endurance training. CONNECT YOUR TRAINING Share readiness and health metrics with TrainingPeaks, with optional daily sync. Upload completed workouts separately from Workout Analytics after granting workout-upload access. Send supported cycling workouts to ROUVY. Choose power targets when configured, or free ride with heart-rate cues. Connected accounts and the relevant permissions are required. SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE Review recorded activities, readiness and HRV history. Use sleep context, Activity Intensity Score and Overall Fitness Index (OFI) trends to better understand your training. OFI is a personal HRV-based trend indicator, not a direct measurement of performance or VO2 max. START FREE. EXPLORE PREMIUM. Start with your readiness score, recent readiness chart, current sleep and resting heart rate, and recent OFI trends. Premium adds workout planning and the library, recorded activity review, deeper history, customization and integrations. Monthly, annual and lifetime purchase options unlock Premium; available options and local prices appear in the app. Training Today needs suitable Apple Health data to calculate readiness. Wear a compatible Apple Watch regularly, including overnight, and allow access to the health data you want to use. Watch workouts and other features depend on compatible devices and software. Your score supports training decisions: consider it alongside how you feel. Training Today does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy: https://trainingtodayapp.com/privacy

Screenshots

Trail Router4 screens
Training Today4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trail Router at none against Training Today's 4. Trail Router also leads on review sentiment (73% vs 53%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). Training Today's advantage is ratings volume (2.6K vs 33). 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. Training Today sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.95 per month. Trail Router asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Trail Router against 4.6 for Training Today. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Training Today has 2.6K ratings behind it against 33, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of Trail Router's written reviews are positive against 53% of Training Today's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Trail Router ships an update every 2 weeks, Training Today every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 7, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Trail Router versus Training Today: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrail RouterTraining Today
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (33 ratings) — better4.6 (2.6K ratings)
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews — better52.5% of reviews
Number of ratings332.6K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSam CrawfordBetoli Ltd

Customer experience

Trail Router

All ratings33 ratings
Positive87.9%
Neutral6.1%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative10.0%

Training Today

All ratings2,638 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral4.5%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews314 reviews
Positive52.5%
Neutral11.5%
Negative36.0%

Bugs and requests

Trail Router

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Training Today

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes on launch after purchasing subscription
  • Widgets not working after recent updates
  • Discrepancies between data shown on iPhone and Apple Watch
  • Inability to get HRV readings without using the Breathe app

Requested features

6 requests
  • Extend the number of days shown on the chart
  • Add more data points like sleep and oxygen levels
  • Provide more detailed explanations of the metrics and how they are calculated
  • Improve the Apple Watch complication to update more frequently
  • Integrate with other fitness platforms like Garmin and Polar
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  • Add training plans that adapt to HRV data

In-app purchases

None

Trail Router

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Training Today

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly subscription$2.951 Month
  • Yearly subscription$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Additional charts$5.99
  • Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Trail Router free?
Trail Router is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Training Today free?
Training Today is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Trail Router or Training Today?
Trail Router is rated higher. Trail Router averages 4.6 out of 5 from 33 ratings, while Training Today averages 4.6 from 2.6K ratings.
Do Trail Router or Training Today have ads?
Neither Trail Router nor Training Today shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Trail Router or Training Today?
Trail Router ships an update every 2 weeks, and Training Today every 6 weeks. Most recently, Trail Router was updated on November 7, 2026 and Training Today on November 7, 2026.

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