Comparison

RunnerGoal vs Runner's Shadow

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

Head to head
About

RunnerGoal

Consolidates running data from various apps into one place. Set and track personalized monthly running goals with detailed insights and Apple Watch integration. Stay motivated and achieve your fitness aspirations.

Highlights
  • Unified running data tracking
  • Personalized monthly goals
  • Detailed run insights
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Progress visualizations
Features
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RunnerGoal consolidates all your running data into one convenient place, allowing you to set and track personalized monthly running goals. By integrating seamlessly with Apple's Health app, it aggregates data from all your preferred running applications, ensuring every run counts toward your objectives. Key Features: Unified Tracking: Collects and displays running data from various apps, providing a comprehensive view of your progress. Monthly Goals: Set personalized monthly running targets and monitor your advancement with intuitive visualizations. Detailed Insights: Access in-depth information for each run, including heart rate, elevation gain, calories burned, and route maps (when available). Apple Watch Integration: Stay motivated with real-time progress updates, goal status, and run counts directly on your wrist. Customizable complications keep your goals in sight. Whether you're a seasoned runner or just starting out, RunnerGoal provides the tools and insights needed to stay motivated and achieve your fitness aspirations.

About

Runner's Shadow

This app acts as a comprehensive companion for outdoor runners, consolidating run history from various sources. It helps track personal records, analyze courses, manage laps, and journal run experiences. Additionally, it offers shoe mileage tracking and photo integration for a complete running log.

Highlights
  • Consolidated run history from any supported app
  • Course tracking and personal bests
  • Interval lap management
  • Journaling for run reflections
  • Shoe mileage and lifespan tracking
  • Integration with Apple Health/Activity
  • Apple Watch app for on-the-go tracking
Features
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Follow your runs like your shadow follows you. What Is Runner's Shadow? A runner's companion. A fantastic app for all outdoor runners to augment their kit. Runner's Shadow is an iOS Activity and Health-based app for the purpose of augmenting, tracking, logging, and understanding your outdoor runs, regardless of source; regardless of when the run took place. And it includes an Apple Watch app to get out and run with. Why Try Runner's Shadow? Run History A history of all of your runs, from any supported App. The run history is all your runs, grouped by week, month, year, and all-time. It has graphs, logs, journals, and more (like courses). Courses Which routes you've run. Do you tend to run the same routes repeatedly? Why not keep track of those as courses? This app keeps track of all of your courses; and your personal records for each course. Personal Records What's my personal best? Accurate and complete PRs. What is the best I've done so far at this distance? This course? This week? This month?. Runner's Shadow PR keeps my goals in perspective and my motivation on-point. This app finds and keeps your bests. Laps Keep and Recall interval laps. With a tap of a button in the Shadow Runner's watch app (included), you can set your laps. In the iPhone app, you can see how you did for them. What was the lap distance? Pace? Gain? It's all there. Journaling What are my thoughts after a run? How was the run? What do I find interesting about this course? Who did I run with? What did we laugh about? The journals are for these and/or anything else you want to write there. Labeling Tag runs for later retrieval. Label the people you ran with. Or label which runs were races. Or label which runs were your favorites. Tag runs with labels any way you'd like. Shoe Tracking Keep track of your running shoes. You may have heard that running shoes should be replaced between 300-500 miles or in 3-6 months. But how do you keep track of that? Simply add your shoes to the app, then tap on which ones were worn after a run. We'll keep track of how many run, miles, and days you've put on the pair. Photos Find photos taken near the time of your run. Want to find those shots you get before and after a run a year and a half later? Well, you just go to that run and click the 'camera' button, and there they all are. Graphs? Yes. Numbers? Of course. Maps? You bet. Running app for your Apple Watch? Yeah, that too. Watch Laps? Uh huh. Open to suggestions? We listen. What you'd expect? We try to be more than that. You can run with this or any other app that supports Apple Activity; we'll take it from there. ---- The data comes from Apple Health/Activity. That means that any outdoor running app that works with Apple Health/Activity will work with this one. The data goes nowhere. We don't take it. We don't keep it. We don't track it. We don't track you. We're not interested in all of that. We're just runners who want to enhance all of our running experiences. Contact us: support@alumra.ltd

Screenshots

RunnerGoal4 screens
Runner's Shadow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Runner's Shadow at Free against RunnerGoal's $2.99. Runner's Shadow also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). RunnerGoal's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases 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

Runner's Shadow is free to download; RunnerGoal costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Runner's Shadow holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RunnerGoal has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RunnerGoal ships an update every 3 weeks, Runner's Shadow every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
RunnerGoal versus Runner's Shadow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRunnerGoalRunner's Shadow
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (8 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndrew KharchyshynAlumra Ltd

Customer experience

RunnerGoal

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%

Runner's Shadow

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

RunnerGoal

No in-app purchases

None

Runner's Shadow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RunnerGoal free?
RunnerGoal costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Runner's Shadow free?
Runner's Shadow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, RunnerGoal or Runner's Shadow?
Runner's Shadow is rated higher. RunnerGoal averages 4.6 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Runner's Shadow averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do RunnerGoal or Runner's Shadow have ads?
Neither RunnerGoal nor Runner's Shadow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RunnerGoal or Runner's Shadow?
RunnerGoal ships an update every 3 weeks, and Runner's Shadow every 6 weeks. Most recently, RunnerGoal was updated on November 3, 2026 and Runner's Shadow on November 3, 2026.

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