Comparison

Runvas vs RunLive

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

Head to head
About

Runvas

Transform words into custom running routes. Explore new areas and share your fitness journeys on social media. Keep your workouts engaging and exciting with unique, word-generated paths.

Highlights
  • Create running routes from words
  • Explore new areas
  • Share routes on social media
  • Engaging fitness journeys
  • Customized running paths
Features
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Your race. Your plan. Your canvas. Runvas builds a week-by-week training plan for your next race, then turns every workout into a route worth running: a heart through your neighborhood, a star around the park, or a word written across the city. — TRAIN FOR YOUR RACE — • PLANS FROM 5K TO ULTRA Pick your race (5K, 10K, half marathon, marathon or ultra), your race day and your experience level. Runvas builds a plan around the days you can actually run. • KNOW TODAY'S WORKOUT Easy runs, tempo, intervals, long runs and rest days, each with a distance, an estimated time and a target pace. Interval days break down into warm-up, main set and cool-down. • A PLAN THAT ADAPTS Skip a day and Runvas rebalances the week. Mark workouts done as you go, and run more than one plan if you're training for more than one race. • OPTIONAL STRENGTH DAYS Add short strength sessions for hips, glutes and core alongside your runs. — RUN SOMETHING WORTH RUNNING — • EVERY WORKOUT, A ROUTE Tap "Find routes" and today's distance becomes a shape snapped to real, runnable streets. • DRAW ANY SHAPE Sketch freehand or pick a heart, circle, star or your own photo, and Runvas turns it into a route sized to your distance. • WRITE WITH YOUR FEET Type a word and Runvas plots each letter across the map. • PREVIEW, THEN RUN Watch your route play out before you head outside, track your run, and export GPX to your watch or favorite running app. — MADE FOR iPHONE DUO — Unfold iPhone Duo and your plan docks right beside the map, with route controls kept clear of the fold. — PRIVACY — Your routes and plans live on your device. We don't sell your location or share your data, and you don't need an account. Runvas is free. Questions or a great route to share? Reach us at hello@runvas.app.

About

RunLive

Share your live workout progress with friends and family, who can track your position, stats, and even send virtual cheers. Relive your activity with automatically generated highlight films and connect with local sports groups.

Highlights
  • Live workout tracking with position and stats
  • Virtual cheering and chat for viewers
  • Real-time map view of all athletes
  • Automatic workout highlight films
  • Social feed for photos, routes, and comments
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Privacy controls and data deletion
Features
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RunLive is race day, live. Go live when you start and the people who care about you ride along: your position on a 3D satellite map, your pace, heart rate, distance and elevation, and the route drawing itself behind you. They cheer with hearts, talk in the chat, and send Sparks that land in your earbuds mid-race. It is not just for running. Rides, hikes, walks and trail runs each wear their own numbers. A ride reads speed. A run reads pace. WATCH THE WHOLE FIELD Every athlete in a race on one map, moving in real time. Pick anyone and drop into their stream. Follow your friends, find the fastest, or watch the pack come through the last mile. GO LIVE FROM YOUR POCKET Tap Go Live, lock your phone, and go. Your position and stats stream to your viewers about once a second, and a checkpoint keeps your pin on the map even when the signal drops. You choose exactly which stats go out. A stat you switch off never leaves your phone. SEND A COWBELL Sparks are how the crowd shows up. Buy a pack, send a water cup, a banana, a cowbell or a winged shoe, and the athlete hears it through their earbuds. Athletes who receive gifts earn a share and cash out through Stripe. EVERY WORKOUT BECOMES A FILM When you finish, RunLive renders a film of your workout: a 3D flight over your route, drawn the way you moved through it, with your splits and the music you were playing. Save it, post it, or send the link. YOUR PEOPLE A feed built for race day: photos, routes, kudos and comments. Run clubs, group rides, hiking crews and track nights near you. Join one, or start your own for any sport. ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app shows your pace, heart rate, distance and elevation, and every cowbell as it lands. Answer your viewers without touching your phone. PRIVACY, PLAINLY Going live shares where you are while you are there, and nothing more. No ads, no analytics SDK, no data brokers. Health data never touches advertising. Delete your account from inside the app any time. RunLive works with Apple Health and uses your location while you are live. Sparks are bought through the App Store and are entertainment credits for cheering; they are not redeemable for cash by the buyer.

Screenshots

Runvas4 screens
RunLive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Runvas at none against RunLive's 6. Runvas also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. RunLive sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Runvas asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Runvas against 5.0 for RunLive. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Runvas ships an update every 2 days, RunLive fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Runvas versus RunLive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRunvasRunLive
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB110 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRyan TempleCameron Asa

Customer experience

Runvas

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%

RunLive

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Runvas

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

RunLive

One-time6
  • 100 Sparks$0.99
  • 525 Sparks$4.99
  • 1000 Sparks$9.99
Show 3 more
  • 2,900 Sparks$24.99
  • 6,250 Sparks$49.99
  • 13,500 Sparks$99.99

Questions

Is Runvas free?
Runvas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RunLive free?
RunLive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Runvas or RunLive?
Runvas and RunLive are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Runvas or RunLive have ads?
Neither Runvas nor RunLive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Runvas or RunLive?
Runvas ships an update every 2 days, and RunLive fortnightly. Most recently, Runvas was updated on November 3, 2026 and RunLive on October 31, 2026.

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