AIM Virtual vs Emily's Running App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AIM Virtual
This app helps users achieve their running, fitness, and life goals with personalized programs. It offers workouts, habit tracking, meal ideas, and community support to keep you motivated.
- Running and strength workouts
- Goal setting and habit tracking
- Milestone badges
- Recipe and meal library
- Virtual communities and chats
- Wearable device integration
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The AIM app was designed to help you reach your goals in running, fitness, and life. The AIM programs each provide a variety of features that best fit your unique needs and goals - so you can AIM for more no matter which season you're in. FEATURES: - Running and strength workouts - Challenges and weekly giveaways - Goal setting and habit tracking for steps, workouts, sleep, and more - Milestone badges for achieving new personal bests and maintaining habit streaks - Recipe and meal library - Virtual communities and chats to meet people with similar health goals and stay motivated - Ability to connect to other wearable devices including Apple Watch (synced to HealthKit), Apple Health App, Garmin, Fitbit, MyFitnessPal, and Withings devices Download the app today!
Emily's Running App
Plan your race strategy with mile-by-mile splits, pace calculations, and finish time predictions. This tool helps visualize course elevation and offers a cadence metronome and fueling planner for optimized training and race day execution.
- Mile-by-mile race split calculator
- Pace, time, and distance converter
- Finish-time prediction
- Elevation-aware pacing insights
- Cadence metronome
- Fueling planner
- Route PNG export and sharing
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Emily’s Running App is a tool I built for my wife, Emily, to make race planning feel a lot less complicated. Use it to build smarter pacing plans for marathons, half marathons, 10Ks, and custom race distances. Map out mile-by-mile splits, convert pace, time, and distance, predict finish times from recent results, and see how hills, elevation changes, and course profile may affect your pacing. Version 1.6.0 adds a dedicated cadence metronome, a fueling planner with strategy presets and carb guidance, route PNG export for shareable course previews, and saved plan sharing so you can restore, scan, or share race plans with a short code or QR code. Whether you are training for a personal best, preparing for your first marathon, or just want a clearer plan for race day, Emily’s Running App keeps the important numbers easy to read and ready when you need them. Features include: - Mile-by-mile race split calculator - Pace, time, and distance converter - Finish-time prediction from recent race results - Route-specific race planning - Elevation-aware pacing insights - Course profile visualization - Race-day checkpoint planning - Cadence metronome with steady, interval, and progressive modes - Fueling planner with strategy presets - Route PNG export and map sharing - Saved plan sharing, restore, and QR code support - Support for marathon and shorter-distance strategy - Clean light and dark mode interface
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Emily's Running App at every 4 days against AIM Virtual's every 6 weeks. AIM Virtual's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 5). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for AIM Virtual against 5.0 for Emily's Running App. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
AIM Virtual ships an update every 6 weeks, Emily's Running App every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AIM Virtual | Emily's Running App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 164 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Run with Aim, LLC | David Williams |
Customer experience
AIM Virtual
Emily's Running App
In-app purchases
AIM Virtual
No in-app purchases
Emily's Running App
No in-app purchases
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