Runner's Shadow vs CakeWalkRun
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Runner's Shadow
This app serves as a comprehensive companion for outdoor runners, allowing them to track, log, and analyze their runs from various sources. It provides detailed run history, course tracking, personal records, lap analysis, and shoe mileage management, all integrated with Apple Health and Activity.
- Run history tracking
- Course and personal record management
- Lap analysis
- Journaling and labeling
- Shoe mileage tracking
- Apple Watch app integration
- Data import from Apple Health
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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
CakeWalkRun
This fitness app helps you track walks, runs, hikes, and rides. It motivates you to achieve personal records with detailed stats and a supportive community. Follow training plans and celebrate every milestone.
- GPS workout tracking
- Apple Health import
- Personal record tracking
- Training plan guidance
- Community leaderboards
- PR badge achievements
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CakeWalkRun: Fitness Made Sweet CakeWalkRun is a fun and friendly fitness app that turns your workouts into a treat! Whether you walk, run, hike, or ride, CakeWalkRun helps you track your progress, crush personal records, and stay motivated with a supportive community cheering you on. Track Your Workouts – Log activities with ease via GPS or import from Apple Health. Keep tabs on your daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly progress with beautiful summaries. Chase Your PRs – Automatically track personal records across distances from 400m to the marathon and beyond. Watch your PR Timeline to see how far you've come and celebrate every breakthrough. Follow a Training Plan – Pick up a training plan and let CakeWalkRun auto-match your workouts to your scheduled sessions, so you always know you're on track. Move Your Way – Whether it's a walk around the block or a weekend long run, all movement counts. Track runs, walks, hikes, rides, and more. Friendly Leaderboards – Compete with friends or challenge yourself on community leaderboards and geo-based rankings. Celebrate Every Step – Get encouragement from others, cheer them on, and earn PR badges along the way. Stay Motivated – Detailed stats, segment records, goal tracking, and positive vibes make it easier to keep going. Because staying active should feel like a piece of cake Download CakeWalkRun and join the sweetest fitness community around!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CakeWalkRun at every 4 days against Runner's Shadow's every 6 weeks. 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
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 Runner's Shadow against 5.0 for CakeWalkRun. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Runner's Shadow ships an update every 6 weeks, CakeWalkRun every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Runner's Shadow | CakeWalkRun |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alumra, Ltd | Tim Wood |
Customer experience
Runner's Shadow
CakeWalkRun
In-app purchases
Runner's Shadow
No in-app purchases
CakeWalkRun
No in-app purchases









