Comparison

SensePet vs RunBests

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

RunBests

Features
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Run Bests shows your personal best running times drawn from your health data. Outside of a race, runners rarely hit the exact same distance twice. Your "5-mile run" might be 5.1 miles today and 5.05 miles tomorrow. Because of that variation, Run Bests brackets runs within a certain range together. Just set a target distance (in miles or kilometers) and choose a "margin of error." For example, if you want to find your fastest 5-mile run, set a 0.25 margin and Run Bests will instantly scan your selected date range and pull every run between 5.0 and 5.25 miles into one clean, sortable list. KEY FEATURES * Distance Bracketing Group your past runs using a custom margin of error (0, 0.25, 0.5, or 1) so no near-miss gets left out. Margin is applied upward only — a 4.99-mile workout won't count toward 5-mile until it crosses the line. * Race Time vs. Workout Time For each qualifying workout, see both the time you crossed the exact target distance (race time, GPS-derived) and the full elapsed workout time. * Best Segment Paces Find your fastest contiguous 1 km, 1 mile (or any distance you pick) found anywhere inside any run — even if your fastest mile happened in the middle of a long marathon. * Major Races + Overall Records Toggle Half Marathon and Marathon. Plus longest distance, longest duration, and fastest average pace. *Custom Date Filters Browse PRs across all time, the last 30 / 90 days, the last year, a single year, or any custom date range. Watch yourself improve across a training cycle. *Tap-to-Sort Leaderboards Inside each category, top 20 by Race time, Race pace, Workout time, or Workout pace. * Privacy by Design Run Bests reads your running workouts from Apple Health and stores a private local cache on your device. Nothing leaves your phone.

Screenshots

SensePet4 screens
RunBests4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: RunBests at every 4 days against SensePet's every 3 weeks. SensePet's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SensePet ships an update every 3 weeks, RunBests every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on June 9, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SensePet versus RunBests: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSensePetRunBests
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size171 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBionous LLCJohn Bergmayer

In-app purchases

None

SensePet

No in-app purchases

None

RunBests

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SensePet free?
SensePet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RunBests free?
RunBests is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SensePet or RunBests have ads?
Neither SensePet nor RunBests shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SensePet or RunBests?
SensePet ships an update every 3 weeks, and RunBests every 4 days. Most recently, SensePet was updated on June 9, 2026 and RunBests on September 9, 2026.

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