Comparison

RunMaker vs OpenTrailPaper

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

Head to head
About

RunMaker

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Elevate Your Fitness with RunMaker: Your Workout Partner Simplify your fitness routine with RunMaker – a tool that complements your running, indoors or out. Seamlessly connect your iPhone and Apple Watch to effortlessly plan and achieve your fitness goals. Features: - Smart Workouts: Use AI to create Apple Watch workout sessions. Describe preferences or customize within the app. - Effortless Sync: Seamlessly integrate with Apple Watch's default Workouts app. - Scheduled Fitness: Plan workouts ahead with intuitive scheduling. - Personalized Alerts: Define completion conditions and alerts tailored to your style.

About

OpenTrailPaper

Plan routes, create offline maps, and review cycling activities with this open-source companion app. It syncs seamlessly with a DIY e-paper bike computer, offering turn-by-turn navigation and ride data analysis without requiring an account or subscription.

Highlights
  • Route planning with destination search
  • Offline map creation for any area
  • Ride review with detailed metrics
  • Device tuning and sensor pairing
  • Bluetooth syncing with head unit
  • Completely offline functionality
Features
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OpenTrailPaper is the free companion app for the OpenTrailPaper e-paper bike computer — an open-source, sunlight-readable head unit you build yourself. The app handles everything that's awkward on a touch e-paper screen: planning routes, building offline maps, and reviewing your rides. Then it sends it all to your head unit over Bluetooth. No account, no cloud, no subscription. PLAN ROUTES — Search for any destination, preview the route on the map, and send it to your device as a GPX file. Turn-by-turn prompts guide you along the way — and your head unit follows the route even with no SD card and no signal. OFFLINE MAPS — Pick the area you ride and the app bakes offline map tiles straight onto the device's SD card. Roads, water, and parks render on the e-paper display wherever you go — no data connection required, ever. REVIEW YOUR RIDES — Pull your recorded rides off the device and see distance, moving time, speed, elevation gain, power, and heart rate, with your track drawn on the map. Every ride is a standard .fit file you can export and open anywhere. TUNE YOUR DEVICE — Adjust FTP, time zone, units, and backlight, and pair Bluetooth heart-rate and power sensors — all from your phone. Settings are saved to the device's flash so they persist across reboots. When a new firmware build is ready, update over the air with one tap. BUILT TO STAY OUT OF THE WAY - Works completely offline once set up — no phone or signal needed on the bike - No account and no subscription, ever - Nothing is uploaded; your routes and rides stay on your own devices - Fully open source WHY LOCATION AND BLUETOOTH — Bluetooth connects the app to your head unit to sync routes, maps, settings, and rides. Location (only while you're using the app) shows your position on the map, warm-starts the device's GPS so it locks on faster, and acts as a backup fix when the device can't see the sky. OpenTrailPaper pairs with the DIY OpenTrailPaper head unit. Build instructions, firmware, and full source are on GitHub.

Screenshots

RunMaker4 screens
OpenTrailPaper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OpenTrailPaper at none against RunMaker's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. RunMaker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. OpenTrailPaper asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
RunMaker versus OpenTrailPaper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRunMakerOpenTrailPaper
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoakim StienRaemond Bergstrom-Wood

In-app purchases

1 purchases

RunMaker

One-time1
  • 20 AI tokens$0.99
None

OpenTrailPaper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RunMaker free?
RunMaker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is OpenTrailPaper free?
OpenTrailPaper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do RunMaker or OpenTrailPaper have ads?
Neither RunMaker nor OpenTrailPaper shows ads.

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