Comparison

running.COACH vs Lifelong

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

Head to head
About

running.COACH

Generate a personalized, dynamic running training plan for any runner, from beginner to pro. Adapt your workouts based on progress and choose your training goals. Connect with coaches and sync data from popular fitness trackers.

Highlights
  • Individualized training plans
  • Dynamic plan adaptation
  • Training by pace, heart rate, or power
  • Chat with a personal coach
  • Data sync with Garmin, Strava, Fitbit
  • GPS tracking and voice feedback
Features
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Individual and dynamic running training plan for runners of any level. The individual and dynamic training plan running app from running.COACH is your personal coach! No matter if you are a running beginner or a running pro, if you run a marathon, half marathon or any distance from 5000m to an ultra marathon. Do it like 150'000 other runners all over the world and join the running.COACH running community. "running.COACH" is the first running app that generates a personal running training plan that is tailored to you and your needs and dynamically adapts accordingly. You benefit from the experience of European champion Viktor Röthlin and world-class endurance athlete Mathias Kyburz. FEATURES OF YOUR RUNNING TRAINING PLAN - Individual training plan tailored to you. Workouts are analyzed by the system and adapted to reflect your progress as needed. - Choose your training days, your training goal (start running, general fitness or a target race) and your preparation races, if applicable. The plan is then personalized to you around your specifications. - Training according to pace, heart rate or power specifications (watts) - If needed: Special mountain running plans - Chat with your personal coach - Synchronization of training data from Garmin, Polar, Suunto, Strava, Fitbit etc. - Videos on strengthening, stabilization and fitness exercises COMPATIBLE DEVICES FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF WORKOUTS - Connect your account to other running platforms to automatically submit your workouts to running.COACH - Compatible with Garmin, Polar, Suunto, Strava, runkeeper, Fitbit, etc. SPORT & FITNESS TRACKER - Record your runs with the app - VoiceOver: Voice inputs from a coach during your workout with information about pace, duration, distance and lap times - and a few light-hearted sayings - Your smartphone becomes a GPS device This app integrates with the Health app. Running.COACH terms of use: https://runningcoach.me/en/pages/terms

About

Lifelong

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Lifelong – lifetime wellbeing planner. Lifelong is not your usual food tracker, it is your lifespan management tool. It calculates your potential lifespan based on your relatives' lifespans and your body mass index, and then you are able to log not just food, but your daily routines, life events, vacations, happy moments and sicknesses. New events, food, drinks and other things that affect your lifespan are added to our database every day. You don't need to update your app for that as it fetches new data automatically. During onboarding, you will be asked about your personal data, including your date of birth and your relatives' lifespans. This information is essential for the app as we use it to calculate your potential lifespan and potential date of passing away. Please note, that all data you log into the app during onboarding and on a daily bases is stored only on your app, it does not require any authentication. It means that if you remove the app, all your data is gone permanently and we are not able to recover it. We at Lifelong care about your privacy, we don't even use any kind of third party analytics to track app usage.

Screenshots

running.COACH4 screens
Lifelong3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lifelong at none against running.COACH's 2. Lifelong also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.1). On price, update cadence, ads 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. running.COACH sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $16.99 per month. Lifelong asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

running.COACH ships an update every 2 weeks, Lifelong weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
running.COACH versus Lifelong: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterrunning.COACHLifelong
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (29 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings29 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.110.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size166 MB82 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperQuevita AGDanil Chernyshev

In-app purchases

2 purchases

running.COACH

Subscriptions2
  • running.COACH Bronze$16.991 Month
  • running.COACH Bronze Yearly$179.991 Year
None

Lifelong

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is running.COACH free?
running.COACH is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lifelong free?
Lifelong is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do running.COACH or Lifelong have ads?
Neither running.COACH nor Lifelong shows ads.
Which is updated more often, running.COACH or Lifelong?
running.COACH ships an update every 2 weeks, and Lifelong weekly. Most recently, running.COACH was updated on October 15, 2026 and Lifelong on October 8, 2026.

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