Comparison

Runner's Shadow vs StepSpark

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

StepSpark

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StepSpark is a simple and easy-to-use step-counting app that helps you automatically track daily steps, distance, and active time. It also allows you to set personal goals and monitor periodic trends, making your daily activity clear at a glance. Auto-Sync, Complete Tracking Connect with your health data to automatically summarize daily steps, walking distance, active duration, and calories burned, so you can easily grasp your complete stats. Custom Goals, Step by Step Freely set daily or periodic step goals and check your progress anytime. StepSpark stays quietly by your side, offering encouragement for your consistency. Periodic View, Clear Trends View intuitive daily, weekly, and monthly charts to understand your activity trends and patterns, helping you adjust habits with insight. Milestone Badges, Celebrate Your Streaks Unlock unique badges by reaching different walking milestones and maintaining consecutive goals, commemorating every moment of your progress. Jot Down Daily Moments You can also easily record your daily mood and activity notes, keeping a clear log of each day’s journey and experiences. Start Tracking Every Step Download StepSpark today — a lightweight assistant focused on steps and daily activity, here to accompany you in easy tracking and embracing an active everyday life.

Screenshots

Runner's Shadow4 screens
StepSpark4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: StepSpark at 13 against Runner's Shadow's 26.0. On price, 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

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

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Runner's Shadow versus StepSpark: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRunner's ShadowStepSpark
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.013 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlumra Ltd怡婷 蒋

In-app purchases

None

Runner's Shadow

No in-app purchases

None

StepSpark

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Runner's Shadow free?
Runner's Shadow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is StepSpark free?
StepSpark is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Runner's Shadow or StepSpark have ads?
Neither Runner's Shadow nor StepSpark shows ads.

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