RunGap vs ConnectStats
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RunGap
Consolidate your fitness data from over 40 popular services into one app. Access your complete training history, view detailed statistics, and manage your gear usage. Easily share, backup, and export your workouts for comprehensive control over your fitness journey.
- Connects 40+ fitness services
- Consolidates training history
- View statistics and charts
- Track gear usage
- Share, backup, and export workouts
- Geotag photos and videos
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The most well-connected Workout Data manager on the App Store with support for 50 of the most popular apps and services. Get your complete training history and take control of your workout data. Keep all your workout details from popular services including Apple Watch, Polar, Garmin, Coros, Peloton, Strava, Runtastic, Suunto, adidas, SportsTracker, Apple Health, Zwift, Rouvy and many others on your iPhone or iPad for instant access anytime. Easily share, backup and export your workouts as you like (requires "Swag Bag" subscription available as in-app purchase). Unattended background operation. RunGap can both read and write workouts from and to Health including route maps, heart rate and distance. View statistics and interactive charts, maps and details for individual workouts. Browse your favorite tracks and compare past results. Easily track your shoe, bike and other gear usage. Geotag photos and videos related to an activity. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ PLEASE NOTE: If you have any issues, consider contacting support instead of giving a negative rating - most times your issues can be solved or answered. A rating will not get your app back to work, but the support can help - simply use the integrated "Online Support" function.
ConnectStats
Analyze your fitness activities from Garmin Connect and Strava with detailed reports, graphs, and statistics. Visualize your performance with gradient maps and track historical trends. Supports multiple accounts and various activity types.
- Detailed activity reports with lap breakdowns
- Gradient color mapping for performance metrics
- Calendar view of activities
- Activity search functionality
- Monthly/Weekly summary statistics
- Historical reports and graphs
- Scatter plots and trend lines
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WARNING: The current version due to an API change will currently not see any existing history of your activities for Garmin, but only download activities done after your first install. We are working on a fix, meanwhile you can use strava in addition to Garmin to see some history DESCRIPTION Connect Stats is an activity viewer for Garmin Connect or Strava. It provides in-depth review of your activities, search, analysis, plot and see basic statistics on all your data collected in garmin connect or strava from your iphone or ipad. You can read some of the motivation behind the app in the blog NOTES - Data from activity trackers like vivofit or vivosmart are not supported by this app. - In case of initial connection trouble or issue, please check the support web site, the help or send me a bug report. If you write a negative review I can't reply to you and help you. - This app is updated incrementally regularly, so the latest reviews constantly drop. Feel free to look at all reviews or leave a new one if you like the app. - This app is now open source. See the support web page for details. FEATURES - Detailled report on your activities, with laps break down, map gradient, graphs and statistics - Use gradient color to visually see on the map your heart rate, speed, power or cadence - Calendar view of your activities - Activity search - Monthly/Weekly summary statistics of your activities - Monthly/Weekly/Detailled Historical report and graphs on any collected data - Display scatter plots, trend lines for both historical and track data. - Best Rolling Plots, histograms. - Support multiple garmin connect account simultaneously with multiple profiles. - Support most activity types, including support for lap swimming, ski, run bike, ... - Display the location name for your activities. - Derived metrics (stride length, Power kJ,...), - Calculated and auto laps for arbitrary distances or time. Let's you see you split time or distance, fastest km, etc - Display time in zone for power and heart rate. Zones are downloaded from garmin connect. - Best Rolling plots and lap for HR, pace and power (Critical Power Plot) - This app can import information from your HealthKit Data like the weight to add it to the analysis of your fitness FIRST USE - when you start the program you will be have to choose and enable download for the service of your choice. * Garmin: you can choose the connectstats service, which will pop up a login message or to download from the website in which case you will have to enter your user name and password. * Strava: upon first refresh, the strava login page will popup. - you can then download activities by pulling down on the activity list. - Note that the initial download process can be slow if you have a lot of activities. Also for Garmin activities from Garmin there will be an initial synchronisation that can take some time before the activities are ready. - If you have issue connecting check the trouble shooting section on the web page. - There is also a help section in the setting tab. HOW TO USE IT - You can refresh by pulling down the activity list - You can navigate the different tabs and touching most data will let you drill down on that number. - You can touch a graph or the gear button to rotate through the different graphs options or bring in the graph full screen. - You can reload an activity to update changes in garmin connect by pulling down on the detail tab - You can see full history of any field by selecting the field name in the stats page Check the web site and the blog for a lot more details on how to use it and what the different screen and graph mean.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ConnectStats at none against RunGap's 4. RunGap's advantage is ratings volume (5.9K vs 391) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. RunGap sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 3 months. ConnectStats asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for RunGap against 4.7 for ConnectStats. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RunGap has 5.9K ratings behind it against 391, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of RunGap's written reviews are positive against 83% of ConnectStats's.
RunGap ships an update every 2 weeks, ConnectStats every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RunGap | ConnectStats |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5.9K ratings) — better | 4.7 (391 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.2% of reviews | 83.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.9K — better | 391 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CTRL-N | Brice Rosenzweig |
Customer experience
RunGap
ConnectStats
User reviews
RunGap
From 5.9K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Syncs data seamlessly
- 👍 Comprehensive data management
- 💡 Consolidates data from multiple sources
- 🚀 Efficient data transfer
- 👍 Great customer support
Room to improve
- 🔒 Security concerns with login credentials
- 💰 Subscription required for full functionality
- 🐛 Inconsistent syncing and data transfer
- 🔒 Privacy concerns with data storage
ConnectStats
From 391 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Detailed data analysis
- 👍 Comprehensive stats and graphs
- 🔍 Excellent for tracking progress
- 💡 Valuable complement to Garmin Connect
- 🤖 Automatic data sync from Garmin/Strava
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes or bugs
- 👨💻 Outdated or confusing user interface
- 🔍 Difficulty finding certain features
- 🔌 Connectivity issues with Garmin/Strava
Bugs and requests
RunGap
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes or freezes
- Syncing issues with certain platforms
- Incorrect data transfer or formatting
Requested features
4 requests- Improved user interface and navigation
- Automatic background syncing
- Integration with more fitness platforms
- Offline data access and editing
ConnectStats
Reported bugs
3 issues- Syncing issues with recent Garmin updates
- Crashes when trying to open the app
- Inability to delete or edit erroneous data points
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to overlay and compare activities
- Integration with more fitness platforms
- Customizable dashboards and data views
- Improved mobile optimization and UI
In-app purchases
RunGap
- Quarterly Swag Bag$4.993 Months
- Annual Swag Bag$14.991 Year
- Swag Bag (3 months)$4.99
- Swag Bag (one year)$14.99
ConnectStats
No in-app purchases
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