SensePet vs RunBests
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SensePet
Monitor your pet's health with a clip-on device and companion app. Track vital signs like heart rate and blood oxygen, and receive a wellness score to understand your pet's condition. Share data with family or vets.
- Pet vital sign tracking (heart rate, blood oxygen, respiration, HRV)
- AI-powered SensePet Wellness Score
- Local and cloud data storage
- Manage multiple pets
- Share data with family and vets
- Export vital signs as CSV
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SensePet App requires the SensePet Clip for measuring your pet's vitals. The SensePet is a pet health monitoring system consisting of both easy-to-use hardware as well as state-of-the-art, AI-based companion software and an app that allows the pet owner to track their pet’s health over time. The SensePet consists of a SensePet Clip and this App that connects via Bluetooth to the SensePet Clip for measuring your pet’s heart rate, blood oxygen, respiration rate, and heart rate variability (HRV). Oxygen saturation can reflect a human's as well as a pet's health. Low oxygen in the blood can cause anemia and lead to respiratory or cardiac failure. Lack of oxygen in the blood can also cause severe neurological problems and result in the brain shutting down other bodily systems to reroute available oxygen to the brain. SensePet will also compute your pet's Heart Rate Variability (HRV). Many research studies have demonstrated that there is evidence of a correlation between dog and cat anxiety-related behavioral problems and HRV. HRV is also an indicator of a pet’s longevity. HRV varies during the day however low average HRVs for the span of weeks or months could reflect your pet’s stress level and overall health conditions. Till now it has been very expensive or difficult to capture a pet's vital signs such as blood oxygen. Thanks to SensePet it is now easy to measure your pet's daily vital signs. The SensePet Clip is designed to easily snap to a pet’s ear (small or large, dogs, or cats) and to be comfortable for them. Ever wonder how your pet feels? and why? In addition to 4 vital signs measurements. SensePet uses a propriety algorithm that takes these measurements and provides a single risk profile (SensePet Wellness Score) between 0 and 10 as an indicator of your pet's wellness, which can be average, below average, and above average. SensePet Score currently uses references for dogs and cats. · The SensePet App features include the ability to store data on a local device or Cloud. · Managing Multiple Pets · Data can be shared among users such as between family members, Neighbors, or Vets. · Scan and Share · Measure any pet vitals without a profile · Pet owners can be able to keep up with their pet when they are at work/away · App customizations · Quantified Pet Dashboard provides comprehensive information about your pet's vitals and wellness. · Build-in user guide and video tutorials · Reminder to take your pet's vitals. · Export your pet's vitals as CSV. · Customize the app as well as Sensepet device behavior to fit your personalization.
RunBests
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Run Bests finds your personal best running times in Apple Health. Runs rarely end at exactly the same distance. Set the distances you care about and choose a margin to group comparable workouts. A 5-mile target with a 0.25-mile margin includes runs from 5.0 through 5.25 miles. COMPARE TIMES CLEARLY Workout time covers the full run and uses the duration reported by Health. Race time estimates how long it took to reach your target distance from the start. Both exclude pauses. Each has its own pace, and the workout detail explains which time you are viewing. FIND YOUR FASTEST SEGMENTS See your fastest continuous 1 mile, 1 km, or custom distance anywhere within a run. Segment estimates use Health's recorded distance samples when available, with GPS as a labeled fallback. A best segment can start between the fixed split markers shown in Fitness. CUSTOMIZE YOUR RECORDS Choose distances in miles or kilometers, set a distance margin, and enable half marathon, marathon, longest run, longest workout time, and fastest average pace records. FOLLOW YOUR PROGRESS Filter by all time, a recent period, a calendar year, or a custom date range. View the top 20 in each category and sort qualifying runs by race time, race pace, workout time, or workout pace. Workout sorts include runs without usable race timing. EXPLORE EACH RUN Open a workout to see its timing, distance, route map, heart rate, elevation, energy, and weather when those details are available in Health. YOUR DATA STAYS UNDER YOUR CONTROL Run Bests reads running workouts from Apple Health and keeps a local cache on your device. No account, advertising, tracking, or developer-operated server. Run Bests does not write to Health. Requires running workouts in Apple Health. Race and segment estimates depend on the distance and timing data recorded with each workout.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: SensePet at 3 against RunBests's 1. SensePet also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
SensePet ships an update every 3 weeks, RunBests every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SensePet | RunBests |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 171 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bionous LLC | John Bergmayer |
In-app purchases
SensePet
No in-app purchases
RunBests
No in-app purchases









