Training Today vs Runance
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Runance
Easily track your runs with this privacy-focused app designed exclusively for Apple Watch. Monitor live metrics, view workout history on your iPhone, and store your data securely in Apple Health. No account or ads required.
- Live workout metrics (heart rate, distance, tempo)
- Always-On display support
- Auto-pause and resume workouts
- Music control via media player
- Workout history browsing
- Workout route mapping
- Privacy-focused data storage in Apple Health
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EXCLUSIVE FOR APPLE WATCH Looking for an easy and privacy-focused way to track your runs? Look no further than Runance for Apple Watch. This simple app lets you record your runs through your watch and gets detailed information about your workouts through the iOS app. Runance is free and requires no account registration. With its easy-to-use interface and privacy-focused design, Runance is the perfect app to help you record and monitor your progress. And best of all, it's free! So why not give it a try today? WHY YOU WILL LOVE RUNANCE - Runance is completely free. No hidden in-app purchases. - No Ads. No annoyances. - No Membership. No registration. - Privacy Focused: Your data will be stored in securely in Health. RUNANCE FOR APPLE WATCH: FEATURES - View live metrics during your workout, such as: heart rate, training zone, distance, tempo, and elapsed time. - Never miss out on relevant information using the Always-On display on newer watch models. - Switch between rolling and average tempos by tapping on the metric. - Pause and resume workouts. Runance also supports auto-pause. - Control your music with the media player. - Browse the most recent workouts FEATURES OF THE IOS APP - Browse your workout history. - Get information about your workouts, such as heart-rate, pace-splits, and energy burned. - Take a look back at your workout route through the map. NO LOGIN REQUIRED Tired of creating an account for everything? You can use Runance right away without having to create a membership. PRIVACY FIRST Runance is designed for privacy. Your data will only be stored in Apple Health, which securely stores all your health and fitness data you already have on your device. No data will be shared with 3rd party services. So, what are you waiting for? Put your shoes on and start your journey to a healthier you! SUPPORT Any questions or feature requests? Contact me at josh@runanceapp.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Runance at 100% against Training Today's 53%. Runance also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Training Today's advantage is ratings volume (2.6K vs 2) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Training Today sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.95 per month. Runance asks for nothing beyond the download.
Runance holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Training Today has 2.6K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Training Today's written reviews are positive against 100% of Runance's.
Training Today ships an update every 6 weeks, Runance every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Training Today | Runance |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.6K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.6K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Betoli Ltd | Joshua Brunhuber |
Customer experience
Training Today
Runance
Bugs and 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
Runance
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Training Today
- Monthly subscription$2.951 Month
- Yearly subscription$29.991 Year
- Additional charts$5.99
- Lifetime$59.99
Runance
No in-app purchases









