Junior Giants vs Running Stars
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Junior Giants
This app provides access to league-specific practice schedules, coaching videos, and educational content focused on health and character development. It offers fun enrichment activities and mental health resources for young athletes.
- League-specific Digital Dugout
- At Home Practice schedules
- Coaching Corner Videos
- Interactive Reading Scorecard
- Healthy Habits Bingo Card
- Character Development content
- Mindfulness resources
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Junior Giants App Features: · Access to your league-specific Digital Dugout · Junior Giants at Home Practice schedules & links · San Francisco Giants Coaching Corner Videos · All Star Activities, including an interactive Round the Bases Reading Scorecard and Healthy Habits Bingo Card · Education, Health Strike Out Bullying and Character Development content and activities · Fun enrichment, such as arts and crafts, music and more · Mindfulness and mental health resources
Running Stars
This app facilitates the management of running events, allowing organizers to manage participants and provide instant results. It features a Tap & Go system for efficient course management and immediate finish times.
- Tap & Go participant tracking
- Instant runner results
- Event course management
- Location-specific events (Sydney, Australia)
- All-in-one event solution
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Running Stars App is an all in one app to run a Running Stars event features to allow you to Tap & Go to spread the runners out on the course and give the runners instant results when they tap to finish. At this stage Running Stars events are only located in Sydney Australia, but this won't be for long.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Junior Giants at none against Running Stars's shown. Junior Giants also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). Running Stars's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (33% vs 9%). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Junior Giants ships an update every 3 months, Running Stars weekly. The most recent releases landed on July 22, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Junior Giants | Running Stars |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.1 (55 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 8.7% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | New Start Mobile, LLC | Running Stars Healthy Living Ltd |
Customer experience
Junior Giants
Running Stars
In-app purchases
Junior Giants
No in-app purchases
Running Stars
No in-app purchases
