Comparison

Runner's Shadow vs Stride Rank

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

Stride Rank

This app tracks your daily activity, including steps, distance, calories, active time, and flights climbed. Compete with friends in challenges to see who can achieve the best results. It offers a motivating interface to help you reach your fitness goals.

Highlights
  • Real-time activity tracking
  • Daily and weekly progress summaries
  • Time active and flights climbed
  • Friendly competitions and challenges
  • Intuitive and motivating interface
Features
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Crush your fitness goals and climb the leaderboard with Stride Rank! Track your daily steps, distance, calories burned, active time, and flights climbed—all in one clean, motivating app. Go beyond solo stats and challenge your friends to see who’s truly leading the pack. Whether you're walking the dog or running a marathon, every stride counts. Features: • Real-time tracking of steps, distance, and calories • Daily and weekly progress summaries • Time active and flights climbed tracking • Friendly competitions and head-to-head challenges • Sleek, intuitive interface designed for motivation Get moving. Get ranked. Get Stride Rank.

Screenshots

Runner's Shadow4 screens
Stride Rank4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Stride Rank at 16.6 against Runner's Shadow's 26.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Runner's Shadow against 5.0 for Stride Rank. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Runner's Shadow versus Stride Rank: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRunner's ShadowStride Rank
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlumra LtdLee Clayberg

Customer experience

Runner's Shadow

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Stride Rank

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Runner's Shadow

No in-app purchases

None

Stride Rank

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Runner's Shadow free?
Runner's Shadow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stride Rank free?
Stride Rank is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Runner's Shadow or Stride Rank?
Runner's Shadow and Stride Rank are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Runner's Shadow or Stride Rank have ads?
Neither Runner's Shadow nor Stride Rank shows ads.

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