EveryStride vs Runner's Shadow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EveryStride
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EveryStride turns your Apple Watch and HealthKit running data into clear, actionable insights — without recording a single run itself. Connect once, and EveryStride automatically imports every run from Apple Watch, Strava, Nike Run Club, Garmin, and any app that saves workouts to Apple Health. Then it gets to work. DASHBOARD AT A GLANCE Your Home tab is a living dashboard — weekly goal progress rings, training load gauge, running streaks, and personalized recommendations all update as you run. See your last run's full stats including distance, pace, elevation, and heart rate right at the top. TRAINING LOAD (ACWR) A sports-science metric used by professional coaches, now in your pocket. EveryStride calculates your Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio — comparing your last 7 days of training to your 28-day average — and tells you if you're in the sweet spot, undertraining, or at risk of overtraining. PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS Based on your training load, streaks, goals, and recent activity, EveryStride generates up to 3 prioritized suggestions each day: target distances for next week, overtraining warnings, goal catch-up nudges, and rest day reminders. WEEKLY & MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS Automatic, detailed summaries generated every week and month. See your run count, total distance, pace trends, personal records, and how you compare to the previous period — all with change indicators. ALL TIME STATS Premium users can view stats across their entire running history with year-by-year filtering. See your all-time records, averages, and trends. RICH CHARTS & STATISTICS Weekly Comparison, Weekly Breakdown, Monthly Distance, Pace Trend, Cardio Trend (pace + HR + elevation + resting HR), and Run Type Split charts give you deep insight into your training. CALENDAR HEATMAP Browse every month with color-coded day cells — green for outdoor, blue for indoor. Tap any day to see full run details. HOME SCREEN WIDGET A medium-size widget shows your weekly progress, goal rings, and streak count. FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE Toggle any card or chart on or off. Set weekly distance and time goals. Choose metric or imperial. Make EveryStride yours. PRIVACY FIRST EveryStride only reads your data — it never writes to HealthKit. Your workouts stay on your device and sync via iCloud. No accounts, no tracking, no ads. --- EveryStride Premium (one-time purchase) unlocks unlimited run history, All Time stats with year filtering, and all charts. Free users get the full feature set with the last month of data. Previously known as Askel. Love cycling? EveryRide — the same great analytics for your rides — is coming soon.
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 in-app purchases: Runner's Shadow at none against EveryStride's 1. EveryStride's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. EveryStride sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Runner's Shadow asks for nothing beyond the download.
EveryStride ships an update every 3 days, Runner's Shadow every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EveryStride | Runner's Shadow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PragmaTec | Alumra Ltd |
In-app purchases
EveryStride
- Premium$4.99
Runner's Shadow
No in-app purchases
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