Comparison

Runner's Shadow vs SleepHabit

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

SleepHabit

Features
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SleepHabit helps you develop and maintain healthy sleep patterns through simple check-ins and detailed sleep tracking. Key Features: • Easy Sleep Tracking Simple check-ins for bedtime and wake-up time. No complicated setup or wearables required. • Sleep Duration Rating Get instant feedback on your sleep duration based on scientific recommendations for optimal rest. • Visual Calendar Track your sleep patterns with an intuitive calendar view, complete with color-coded ratings and detailed statistics. • Progress Tracking Monitor your sleep consistency with detailed statistics and achievement tracking. • Sleep Notes Add personal notes to each night's sleep record to track factors affecting your rest. • Achievement System Stay motivated with achievements for maintaining consistent sleep schedules.

Screenshots

Runner's Shadow4 screens
SleepHabit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Runner's Shadow at Free against SleepHabit's $2.99. SleepHabit's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Runner's Shadow is free to download; SleepHabit costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Runner's Shadow ships an update every 6 weeks, SleepHabit every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Runner's Shadow versus SleepHabit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRunner's ShadowSleepHabit
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlumra Ltd选 张

In-app purchases

None

Runner's Shadow

No in-app purchases

None

SleepHabit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Runner's Shadow free?
Runner's Shadow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SleepHabit free?
SleepHabit costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Runner's Shadow or SleepHabit have ads?
Neither Runner's Shadow nor SleepHabit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Runner's Shadow or SleepHabit?
Runner's Shadow ships an update every 6 weeks, and SleepHabit every 5 days. Most recently, Runner's Shadow was updated on October 30, 2026 and SleepHabit on October 30, 2026.

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