Esri UC Run vs Runner's Shadow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Esri UC Run
Participate in a virtual run, walk, or bike event between July 10 and July 18. Log your activities to contribute to a community goal of circling the globe. This app integrates with your iOS Health data.
- Virtual run, walk, or bike event
- Log activities between July 10-18
- Community goal tracking
- Integrates with iOS Health app
- Suitable for all abilities
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The Esri UC Virtual Run/Walk/Bike is a fun and active way for you to get involved in this year’s conference. Since we can't run together like we normally would, we are hosting a virtual event for participants of all abilities. You can run, walk, or bike as many times as you like between July 10 and July 18. Log your trips and help us reach our community goal to go around the world! This app integrates with the iOS Health app.
Runner's Shadow
This app acts as a comprehensive companion for outdoor runners, consolidating run history from various sources. It helps track personal records, analyze courses, manage laps, and journal run experiences. Additionally, it offers shoe mileage tracking and photo integration for a complete running log.
- Consolidated run history from any supported app
- Course tracking and personal bests
- Interval lap management
- Journaling for run reflections
- Shoe mileage and lifespan tracking
- Integration with Apple Health/Activity
- Apple Watch app for on-the-go tracking
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Follow your runs like your shadow follows you. What Is Runner's Shadow? A runner's companion. A fantastic app for all outdoor runners to augment their kit. Runner's Shadow is an iOS Activity and Health-based app for the purpose of augmenting, tracking, logging, and understanding your outdoor runs, regardless of source; regardless of when the run took place. And it includes an Apple Watch app to get out and run with. Why Try Runner's Shadow? Run History A history of all of your runs, from any supported App. The run history is all your runs, grouped by week, month, year, and all-time. It has graphs, logs, journals, and more (like courses). Courses Which routes you've run. Do you tend to run the same routes repeatedly? Why not keep track of those as courses? This app keeps track of all of your courses; and your personal records for each course. Personal Records What's my personal best? Accurate and complete PRs. What is the best I've done so far at this distance? This course? This week? This month?. Runner's Shadow PR keeps my goals in perspective and my motivation on-point. This app finds and keeps your bests. Laps Keep and Recall interval laps. With a tap of a button in the Shadow Runner's watch app (included), you can set your laps. In the iPhone app, you can see how you did for them. What was the lap distance? Pace? Gain? It's all there. Journaling What are my thoughts after a run? How was the run? What do I find interesting about this course? Who did I run with? What did we laugh about? The journals are for these and/or anything else you want to write there. Labeling Tag runs for later retrieval. Label the people you ran with. Or label which runs were races. Or label which runs were your favorites. Tag runs with labels any way you'd like. Shoe Tracking Keep track of your running shoes. You may have heard that running shoes should be replaced between 300-500 miles or in 3-6 months. But how do you keep track of that? Simply add your shoes to the app, then tap on which ones were worn after a run. We'll keep track of how many run, miles, and days you've put on the pair. Photos Find photos taken near the time of your run. Want to find those shots you get before and after a run a year and a half later? Well, you just go to that run and click the 'camera' button, and there they all are. Graphs? Yes. Numbers? Of course. Maps? You bet. Running app for your Apple Watch? Yeah, that too. Watch Laps? Uh huh. Open to suggestions? We listen. What you'd expect? We try to be more than that. You can run with this or any other app that supports Apple Activity; we'll take it from there. ---- The data comes from Apple Health/Activity. That means that any outdoor running app that works with Apple Health/Activity will work with this one. The data goes nowhere. We don't take it. We don't keep it. We don't track it. We don't track you. We're not interested in all of that. We're just runners who want to enhance all of our running experiences. Contact us: support@alumra.ltd
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Esri UC Run at every 6 days against Runner's Shadow's every 6 weeks. Esri UC Run also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Esri UC Run against 5.0 for Runner's Shadow. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Esri UC Run ships an update every 6 days, Runner's Shadow every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Esri UC Run | Runner's Shadow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ESRI | Alumra Ltd |
Customer experience
Esri UC Run
Runner's Shadow
In-app purchases
Esri UC Run
No in-app purchases
Runner's Shadow
No in-app purchases









