Comparison

True Pace vs Trig Point

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

Head to head
About

True Pace

Calculate your race finishing time with dynamic pacing strategies. Visualize your pace changes and plan your race with mile-by-mile notes. Share your race plans with friends or coaches.

Highlights
  • Calculate finishing times with variable paces
  • Compare different pacing strategies
  • Graphically visualize pace changes
  • Add mile-by-mile race notes
  • Share race plans via PDF or app-to-app
  • Supports 5K to marathon distances
Features
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Most pace calculators assume you’ll run the same pace for the entire race. Real races rarely work that way. True Pace helps you build a race plan with paces that can vary by mile or kilometer, so you can see how hills, fueling, fatigue, strategy, and late-race surges affect your finish time. With True Pace 4.5, race planning can also include the course itself. Choose from an included library of selected major race courses, see the course outline and elevation profile, and build a Course-aware pacing plan that adjusts your target splits for climbs and descents. For your own races, you can attach a GPX file to add a course outline, elevation details, and, when usable elevation data is available, Course-aware pacing. With True Pace you can: • Plan even, positive, negative, step-based, or Course-aware pacing strategies • Choose an included race course and start planning faster • Import GPX files for custom race courses • See course outlines, elevation profiles, total gain/loss, and per-split elevation • Adjust individual miles or kilometers • Send your race or training-run pace targets to the Workout app on Apple Watch • Compare different race plans without starting over • Account for hills, water stops, fueling, and key course landmarks • See your pacing plan visually with an interactive Paceline graph • Add notes to any split • Export or print race plans as PDFs • Share saved races with friends, coaches, or other True Pace users • Plan common race distances including 5K, 10K, 10 mile, half marathon, marathon, and custom distances Course-Aware Pacing Course-aware pacing starts with your flat-equivalent pace, then adjusts your split targets based on the course profile. Use it to understand where a hilly course may naturally slow you down, where descents may help, and how those changes affect your estimated finish time. Course Profiles Included race courses can show the shape of the course, elevation gain and loss, and elevation details for each split. If you are planning a local race, trail race, or any event that is not in the included library, you can attach a GPX file from Files. Pacing Strategies True Pace makes it easy to test different ways to run the same race. Want to know what happens if you run steady through mile 20, then pick up the pace for the final 10K? Want to compare that against starting more conservatively and getting faster every few miles? True Pace lets you build, duplicate, and adjust those plans with very little data entry. Paceline The Paceline graph gives you a quick visual view of how your pace changes over the course of the race. For races with course data, you can also show elevation on the graph, then swipe across it to inspect individual splits and understand exactly where your plan gets faster, slower, climbs, or descends. Race Notes Add notes to any mile or kilometer so your plan includes more than numbers. Mark climbs, turns, water stops, gels, landmarks, or reminders for the moments you know will matter. Sharing and Printing Saved races can be shared with other True Pace users, sent to friends or coaches, exported as PDFs, or printed for race day. True Pace was built by an independent runner who wanted a better way to plan races than spreadsheets and generic calculators. You can use the app for free, with a one-time purchase available if you want to save unlimited races.

About

Trig Point

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Trig plans your running and your lifting together, in one of four modes: Runner, Bodybuilder, Powerlifter or Hybrid. I'm a heavier runner who came back to lifting, and the apps I tried planned one or the other and were built for someone chasing a PR. So I built Trig. FREE, NO SUBSCRIPTION Heat Pace: Trig reads the temperature and the dew point where you are. Pick easy or intervals, put in the pace you're aiming for, and it tells you what pace to run today, unless it's too hot to give one. Intervals get half the adjustment, since the reps are short. Logging, history, charts and records for every workout. Export My Data as CSV files you keep. TRIG COACH - SUBSCRIPTION OR LIFETIME Everything in this part needs Trig Coach. Four modes Runner: a week-by-week plan to race day, from a 5K up to a marathon, built from the running you've actually done in Apple Health. Your Season adds goal races and tune-ups. Run-Walk is there for getting back into running. Bodybuilder and Powerlifter: training built around the days you pick and the equipment you have, with a How To for every lift. Hybrid: running and lifting in the same week, starting with Ease-In weeks. Today Open the app and today's workout is right there. When Trig changes something, Today says what changed and why. Smarter weights Each set comes filled in, with what you did last time right next to it. The rest timer starts itself. Trig checks your warm-up and how the effort felt. When a lift stalls, it offers the next step. Nothing changes until you say yes. Paste a Workout Paste text or a screenshot from anywhere. Trig shows what it read in plain words and marks anything it couldn't tell, so you pick the weight. Meet Day Powerlifters pick an opener, second and third attempt from their own logged lifts, then print the attempt card. Hot days When it's too hot for Heat Pace to give a pace, Trig turns a hard run into an easy run at the same distance and tells you why. Missed a week Trig eases you back in and never adds the missed work on top. Any change it makes shows the reason and an Undo. Runs from Apple Health Runs recorded elsewhere come in from Apple Health once, never twice, and count toward your plan. Also Print or share a workout sheet. Find a race: when RunSignup has it, Trig fills in the date and distance. Race predictor: from a recent race you enter, or from 8 weeks of your runs. PRIVACY No account No ads No tracking Your Health data is never sent to me Pasted screenshots are read on your phone Workouts go to Health only if you allow it PRICING Heat Pace, logging, history, charts and export are free. Trig Coach is $7.99 a month or $49.99 a year, and both start with 14 days free. Lifetime is $99.99 one time, and you have Trig Coach for good. Prices are in US dollars and may vary by country. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, or when the free trial ends. Subscriptions renew automatically at the same price and length unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the current period ends. You can manage or cancel your subscription any time in your Apple Account settings. If you start a subscription during a free trial, any unused part of the trial ends. Lifetime is a one-time purchase and does not renew. Trig is a training tool, not medical advice. Check with your doctor before you start a new training plan. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hoosier-goose-co.github.io/trig/privacy-policy.html Support: https://hoosier-goose-co.github.io/trig/support.html Weather data provided by Apple Weather.

Screenshots

True Pace4 screens
Trig Point4 screens

Verdict

The call

True Pace and Trig Point are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. True Pace sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Trig Point sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

True Pace ships an update every 3 weeks, Trig Point every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
True Pace versus Trig Point: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrue PaceTrig Point
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJosh AdamsAugustas Johnson

In-app purchases

1 purchases

True Pace

One-time1
  • Unlock the full app$3.99
3 purchases

Trig Point

Subscriptions2
  • Trig Coach Monthly14 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Trig Coach Yearly14 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Trig Coach Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is True Pace free?
True Pace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Trig Point free?
Trig Point is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do True Pace or Trig Point have ads?
Neither True Pace nor Trig Point shows ads.
Which is updated more often, True Pace or Trig Point?
True Pace ships an update every 3 weeks, and Trig Point every 2 weeks. Most recently, True Pace was updated on October 24, 2026 and Trig Point on October 24, 2026.

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