Dash vs Run Along
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dash
Visualize your fitness data from Strava, Apple Health, or Garmin directly on your Home and Lock Screens. Track various activities and key metrics with customizable widgets. Offers a privacy-first approach, keeping your data on your device.
- Customizable widgets for Home and Lock Screen
- Connects to Strava, Apple Health, and Garmin
- Tracks running, cycling, swimming, skiing, and more
- Displays weekly, monthly, and yearly stats
- Monitors mileage, pace, elevation, and heart rate
- Privacy-first data handling
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Turn your Strava, Apple Health, or Garmin workouts into widgets you can read at a glance. Track running, cycling, swimming, skiing, multi-sport, and steps right from your Home Screen and Lock Screen. - Pick your data source Connect Strava, Apple Health, or Garmin and switch whenever you want. - See your progress instantly Choose small, medium, and large widgets with weekly, monthly, and yearly stats and metric trends. - Track the metrics that matter Follow mileage, pace, elevation, heart rate zones, goals, heatmaps across time periods, Training Load (TRIMP), Metric Trends, Cycling Power and Achievements. - Great for Apple Health too Use Steps Mode, goal widgets, and trend views even without Strava. - Privacy-first Your workout data stays on your device. We do not track users. Whether you're training for a race or just want a better workout dashboard, Dash keeps your progress visible all day. More widgets and metrics are coming soon. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://dashworkouts.app/privacy/
Run Along
Track your runs with automatic start/stop, monitor pace, distance, and time. Set personalized distance goals and visualize your progress with simple graphs and home screen widgets. Share achievements with friends and receive weekly summaries.
- Automatic start and stop detection
- Pace, distance, and time monitoring
- Apple Health sync
- Personalized distance goals
- Home screen widgets
- Weekly, monthly, yearly stats
- Social sharing with friends
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▶ Full Featured Run Tracker - Automatic start and stop detection - Monitor your pace, distance, and time - Seamless sync with Apple Health - Share your achievements right to Instagram - Use the Live Activity for real-time updates ▶ Simple Progress Tracking - Weekly, monthly, and yearly stats - Visualize your consistency with the weekly grid ▶ Distance Goals - Personalize your running targets: weekly, monthly, yearly - Convenient in-app and widget tracking for simple goal management ▶ Simple but better graphs - Insights from your historical progress - Effortlessly align your efforts with your goals ▶ Home Screen Widgets - Monitor your progress with the activity grid - Display weekly, monthly, and yearly distances - Track all your distance goals on the home screen ▶ On-the-Run with Friends - Share your latest runs and achievements with friends - Motivate each other with emoji reactions ▶ Notifications - Receive comprehensive weekly summaries - Explore detailed monthly statistics - Celebrate your year in review - Get timely goal reminders to stay on track --- Terms of Use: https://runalong.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Run Along at 100% against Dash's 65%. Run Along also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Dash sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Run Along sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Dash ships an update every 9 days, Run Along every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dash | Run Along |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (13 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rui Peres | Appiculous UG (haftungsbeschraenkt) |
Customer experience
Dash
Run Along
In-app purchases
Dash
- Dash Pro7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Dash Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Dash Pro - Lifetime$49.99
Run Along
- Athlete (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- Athlete (Yearly)3 Days trial$8.991 Year









