Runner's Shadow vs state distance challenge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
state distance challenge
This app transforms your workouts into a nationwide adventure, encouraging consistency by having you complete 100 miles in each U.S. state. It automatically tracks your progress using Apple Health, making every mile count towards a fun, long-term challenge for all fitness levels.
- Complete 100 miles per U.S. state
- Nationwide guided route across all 50 states
- Automatic workout tracking via Apple Health
- Supports running, walking, hiking, biking, and swimming
- Motivation for consistency over speed
- Progress tracking across the country
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State Distance Challenge turns your everyday workouts into a nationwide adventure. The goal is simple: complete 100 miles in every U.S. state. Whether you run, walk, hike, bike, or swim, every mile counts. There’s no finish-line pressure—just steady motivation to move more and stay consistent. Instead of choosing states freely, everyone follows the same guided route across the country. The journey begins in Florida, travels up the East Coast, winds through every state, returns to Alabama, and finishes with Alaska and Hawaii. Your miles move you forward along the route, state by state. Designed for athletes and casual movers alike, State Distance Challenge transforms your activity data into a fun, long-term challenge that anyone can complete at their own pace. How It Works Earn miles through running, walking, hiking, biking, or swimming Follow a single national route across all 50 states Complete 100 miles per state before advancing Track your progress as you move across the country Seamless Activity Tracking State Distance Challenge uses Apple Health to automatically track your workouts. If you use devices or apps like Garmin or Strava, make sure they sync activities to Apple Health so your miles are counted correctly. Built for Motivation Simple, clear progression Encourages consistency over speed Great for beginners and experienced athletes alike Turn everyday workouts into a meaningful challenge Whether you’re training for races, staying active, or just looking for a fun reason to move more, State Distance Challenge gives every mile a purpose. Start in Florida. Move across America. One mile at a time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Runner's Shadow at every 6 weeks against state distance challenge's every 4 months. state distance challenge's advantage is iOS requirement (18.2 vs 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
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 state distance challenge. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Runner's Shadow ships an update every 6 weeks, state distance challenge every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Runner's Shadow | state distance challenge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alumra Ltd | Tim Wood |
Customer experience
Runner's Shadow
state distance challenge
In-app purchases
Runner's Shadow
No in-app purchases
state distance challenge
No in-app purchases
Questions
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