Comparison

Runnect vs PlayRoute

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

Head to head
About

Runnect

Create and share custom running routes with a community of runners. Track your progress, discover new paths, and achieve your fitness goals with personalized rewards. Connect with others and enhance your daily runs.

Highlights
  • Custom route drawing
  • Route sharing via KakaoTalk
  • Runner profile viewing
  • Live running tracking
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Running record saving
  • Course discovery and search
  • Goal-based rewards
Features
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Runnect๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ „ ์ฝ”์Šค ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ์™€ ์ž์œ ๋กœ์šด ๊ณต์œ ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋Ÿฌ๋„ˆ ๊ฐ„์˜ Connect๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ , ํŽธ๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋Ÿฌ๋‹์„ ๋„์™€์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง์ ‘ ์ฝ”์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ ค ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์„ค์ •ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋Ÿฌ๋„ˆ์™€ ์ฝ”์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ๊พธ์ค€ํ•œ ์„ฑ์ทจ๊ฐ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์–ด๋А์ƒˆ ์ผ์ƒ์— ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก์€ ๋Ÿฌ๋‹์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–ถ ์ฝ”์Šค ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์ „, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋›ฐ๊ฒŒ ๋  ์ฝ”์Šค๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐˆ ๊ธธ์„ ๊ฐœ์ฒ™ํ•˜๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋™์ ์ธ ๋Ÿฌ๋„ˆ๋กœ ๊ฑฐ๋“ญ๋‚  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–ถ ์ฝ”์Šค ์นด์นด์˜คํ†ก ๊ณต์œ  ์ฝ”์Šค๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋น ๋ฅด๊ณ  ๊ฐ„ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜์„ธ์š”! โ–ถ ๋Ÿฌ๋„ˆ ํ”„๋กœํ•„ ์กฐํšŒ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋Ÿฌ๋„ˆ์˜ ๊ณต์œ  ์ฝ”์Šค๋ฅผ ํ•œ๋ˆˆ์— ๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ๋Ÿฌ๋„ˆ์˜ ํ”„๋กœํ•„์„ ๋ˆ„๋ฅด๋ฉด ์กฐํšŒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. โ–ถ ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ ํŠธ๋ž˜ํ‚น ์ง€๊ธˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘! ์ฝ”์Šค๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ž˜ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ํ™•์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. โ–ถ Apple Watch Apple Watch์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋” ํŽธ๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ํ•˜์„ธ์š”! iPhone ์—†์ด๋„ ์†๋ชฉ์—์„œ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ, ํŽ˜์ด์Šค, ์‹ฌ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜, ์นผ๋กœ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–ถ ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ ๊ธฐ๋ก ๋Ÿฌ๋‹์„ ๋๋‚ด์…จ๋‚˜์š”? ํ•œ ์ค„์˜ ๊ฐ์ƒ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‚˜์˜ ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ ๊ธฐ๋ก์„ ์ €์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–ถ ์ฝ”์Šค ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋Ÿฌ๋„ˆ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ์ฝ”์Šค๋กœ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•œ ์ฝ”์Šค๋ฅผ ์Šคํฌ๋žฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค ๋ณด์„ธ์š”. โ–ถ ์ฝ”์Šค ์—…๋กœ๋“œ ๋‚˜์˜ ์ฝ”์Šค๋ฅผ ์ฝ”์Šค ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ์— ์—…๋กœ๋“œํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋Ÿฌ๋„ˆ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”! ๋˜๋Š” ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์—…๋กœ๋“œํ•œ ์ฝ”์Šค๋กœ ๋‚˜์˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. โ–ถ ์ฝ”์Šค ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์ƒ‰๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ฝ”์Šค๋กœ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์žฅ์†Œ ์ด๋ฆ„์ด๋‚˜ ๊ด€์‹ฌ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ‚ค์›Œ๋“œ๋กœ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ•˜์—ฌ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณต์œ  ์ฝ”์Šค๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„๋ณด์„ธ์š”. โ–ถ ์ฝ”์Šค ๋ณด๊ด€ํ•จ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์—ฌํƒœ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ์ฝ”์Šค๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์Šคํฌ๋žฉํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ณต์œ  ์ฝ”์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. โ–ถ ๋ชฉํ‘œ ๋ณด์ƒ ๋‚˜์˜ ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ ํ™œ๋™์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์Šคํƒฌํ”„๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๋ฐ›์€ ์Šคํƒฌํ”„๋Š” ๊ณง ๋‚˜์˜ ํ”„๋กœํ•„์ด ๋˜๋ฉฐ ๋ ˆ๋ฒจ์—๋„ ๋ฐ˜์˜๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ–ถ ๋งˆ์ดํŽ˜์ด์ง€ ๋งˆ์ดํŽ˜์ด์ง€์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ ํ”„๋กœํ•„๊ณผ ๋ ˆ๋ฒจ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ ๊ธฐ๋ก๊ณผ ์—…๋กœ๋“œํ•œ ์ฝ”์Šค ๋ฐ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์„ค์ • ์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. [ํ•„์ˆ˜ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๊ถŒํ•œ] ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ์œ„์น˜ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๊ถŒํ•œ : ํ˜„ ์œ„์น˜ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ์ถœ๋ฐœ์ง€๋ฅผ ์„ค์ •ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ ํŠธ๋ž˜ํ‚น์„ ํ•  ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์˜ GPS ์ •๋ณด๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [์„ ํƒ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๊ถŒํ•œ] ์ถ”์  ๊ถŒํ•œ (ATT) : ๋งž์ถค ๊ด‘๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์˜ ํ™œ๋™ ์ถ”์  ๊ถŒํ•œ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ•˜์…”๋„ ์•ฑ ์ด์šฉ์— ์ œํ•œ์€ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ฌธ์˜ ์•ˆ๋‚ด] Runnect์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•œ ์ ์€ ์–ธ์ œ๋“ ์ง€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ฌธ์˜ ๋ฐ ์ด์šฉ์ž ์‹ ๊ณ : https://forms.gle/12avac1Uof1W3PWr5 ๊ด‘๊ณ  ๋ฐ ์ œํœด ๋ฌธ์˜: dlaudwls1203@naver.com

About

PlayRoute

Features
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Where does your mileage rank this week? PlayRoute is a running app that adds up the distance you run and shows where you rank among runners in your country. Rack up your mileage for the day, week, month, and year with your iPhone and Apple Watch. No sign-up needed, so you can start running right away. โ–  Mileage rankings โ€ข Compete with runners in your country on the distance you run, with daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and all-time rankings โ€ข Seven tiers, from Legend for the top 1% down through Diamond, Emerald, Gold, Silver, and Bronze to Starter โ€ข See how much farther you need to run to reach the next tier โ–  Running courses โ€ข Tap the points you want to run through on the map to build your own course โ€ข Find courses other runners have shared near you and run them yourself โ€ข Save a route you've run as a course and run it again anytime โ€ข Follow a course with voice directions, and get an alert if you go off course โ€ข Each time you pass a checkpoint, hear how your pace compares with your average โ–  Accurate tracking โ€ข Auto pause kicks in when you stop, and recording resumes when you start running again โ€ข Track distance, pace, cadence, stride length, elevation, and heart rate, broken down by split โ€ข See your running at a glance with weekly, monthly, and yearly charts โ–  Voice guidance โ€ข Hear your time and pace at every mile or kilometer โ€ข Get a Sprint alert as you near your goal distance or the end of a course โ€ข Keep announcements off the speaker when no headphones are connected โ–  Apple Watch โ€ข Record runs with just your Apple Watch, no iPhone needed โ€ข Running with your iPhone? See your heart rate and stats on your watch too โ€ข Runs recorded on your watch are saved to the Health app as workouts โ–  And more โ€ข Check your live stats on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island โ€ข Save your run as a map image and share it โ€ข Share courses as GPX files

Screenshots

Runnect4 screens
PlayRoute4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: PlayRoute at none against Runnect's shown. PlayRoute also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Runnect ships an update fortnightly, PlayRoute every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 6 level
Runnect versus PlayRoute: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRunnectPlayRoute
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews77.8% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedโ€”
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size43 MB27 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperMyeongJin LeeILKYUM KIM

In-app purchases

None

Runnect

No in-app purchases

None

PlayRoute

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Runnect free?
Runnect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PlayRoute free?
PlayRoute is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Runnect or PlayRoute have ads?
Runnect shows ads; PlayRoute does not.
Which is updated more often, Runnect or PlayRoute?
Runnect ships an update fortnightly, and PlayRoute every 2 days. Most recently, Runnect was updated on November 3, 2026 and PlayRoute on November 6, 2026.

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