Heatmapper vs Trainers On Running
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Heatmapper
Visualize your athletic performance with movement heatmaps. Track your positioning and activity across various sports fields to understand your role and improve your game. Integrates with Apple Watch and iPhone for seamless data collection.
- Visual movement heatmaps
- Positioning and movement pattern analysis
- Match and training session logging
- Performance stats with context
- No expensive tracking equipment required
- Supports football, soccer, rugby, and tennis
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Find out where you really play — and how you actually perform. Heatmapper turns your movement into a visual heatmap, showing exactly where you were on the pitch, court, or field during every match. Track your positioning. Understand your role. Improve your performance. Heatmapper works with Apple Watch, iPhone, and any device that syncs with Apple Health — so if your workout tracks movement, Heatmapper can map it. Key features: • See your game visually Turn every match into a heatmap that reveals your positioning, movement patterns, and activity across the field. Instantly spot your hotspots and areas you’ve missed. • Discover your true position Heatmapper analyses your movement and shows the role you actually played — from striker to wing back — based on your real performance. See how you play, not just where you line up. • Track matches and build history Log every game, session, or training run. Build a complete record of your matches with heatmaps, stats, and notes in one place. • Your stats, with context Distance, heart rate, duration — now combined with your movement data to give real meaning to your performance. • No expensive tracking equipment No sensors. No setup. Just your existing device and your game. Heatmapper brings heatmap tracking to everyday players. Supports football, soccer, rugby and tennis, with more to come. Whether you’re playing competitively or just for fun, Heatmapper gives you a simple way to analyse your performance and see your game differently. Most heatmap tools require expensive hardware and complex systems. Heatmapper doesn’t. Start your workout, play your game, and see your heatmap instantly. Stop guessing your position. Start seeing it.
Trainers On Running
This app offers weekly audio and video workouts, nutrition guidance, and meal plans to help users achieve fitness goals. It provides structured programs for beginners and experienced runners, focusing on an engaging and varied fitness journey.
- Weekly audio and video workout updates
- Beginners running program (8 weeks)
- Fat loss and 5k programs
- Fitness, technique, and themed runs
- Video workouts of the week
- Nutrition zone, meal plans, and learning zone
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Become super fit even if you HATE running - A Running and Fitness app with a difference... Weekly Audio and Video workouts updates provide you with everything you need to achieve your next Running or Fitness goal and change your lifestyle! Born from the popular Trainers on Project Podcast! We lead and coach, you follow... No ’back of the group’, no falling behind... your pace, your level, your program! With running audio, workouts acting as the perfect accompaniment to your treadmill or running journey, strength and fitness video workouts, Nutrition zone podcasts, videos and meal plan downloads and so much more, you cant fail on your fitness journey! FEATURES 8 Week BEGINNERS running program Fat Loss running and workout program 5k Program Fitness runs, technique, and themed runs Video workouts of the week Nutrition, Meal plans, Learning Zone So Much more If relentless, boring, pounding of the pavement, the same route every night or staring at the same spot on the treadmill isn’t for you, we are here to take you on an immersive different running and fitness journey every session. Once you try it there’s no way you’ll go back to boring runs! It’s exciting, achievable, intense, adventurous, unpredictable, and addictive, but you'll love it! It’s far from boring and it’ll push you to reach new health and fitness limits. We are here to make you fitter and faster and the end goal is always worth it. You’ll increase your endurance, improve your physique, grow in confidence and work your way through a variety of intensities. Trainers on, headphones in...NEVER RUN ALONE AGAIN! EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Trainers On Running at 5.0 against Heatmapper's 3.5. Trainers On Running also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.4). Heatmapper's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Heatmapper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Trainers On Running sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Trainers On Running holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Heatmapper ships an update every 5 days, Trainers On Running every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Heatmapper | Trainers On Running |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Richard English | Ath elite indoor limited |
Customer experience
Heatmapper
Trainers On Running
In-app purchases
Heatmapper
- RemoveAds$0.99
Trainers On Running
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$59.991 Year
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