Comparison

Name Helper vs RunTrace

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

Head to head
About

Name Helper

Features
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Having trouble deciding on a name for a baby? Name Helper will give you hundreds of choices by gender: male, female, or neutral names. Select the gender of the names you want to see. 10 random names will appear for that gender. Background color of the page will change to reflect the gender selected. To save a name, swipe left to right and tap the green box with the plus icon. To view your saved names, tap the Saved Names link at the bottom of the screen. To delete a saved name, swipe right to left and tap the red box with Delete. Tapping on a name will open a browser to lookup the name's meaning. Saved names can be shared by tapping the Share button at the bottom of the screen.

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RunTrace

Features
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Install RunTrace and your running history is already there. Every run in Apple Health — the ones from your Apple Watch, the ones from whatever app you used before — is on the first screen, with its route, splits and heart rate intact. No account to make, no import to wait for, nothing to set up. Then it records new runs too. GPS route, live pace, splits as you pass each kilometre or mile, auto-pause when you stop at a light, and spoken split announcements so you don't have to look. Distance and pace stay on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a pause button you can reach without unlocking. EVERY RUN, FULLY BROKEN DOWN • Route map, plus a profile of pace, elevation or heart rate along the distance • Splits chart showing your fastest and slowest laps • Time in five heart-rate zones • Running form measured by Apple Watch: power, cadence, stride length, ground contact and vertical oscillation • A note for how it felt TRENDS WORTH READING • Weekly volume over a week, a month, three months, a year, or everything • Pace trend, plotted so faster is up • Fitness, Fatigue and Form — training load that tells you whether you're fresh, building, or overreaching • Records: longest run, longest time, best pace, biggest week, week streak • Best efforts at 1 km, 1 mile, 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon, found inside runs you've already done • VO₂ Max, resting heart rate and HRV, each against where it was three months ago ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app records on its own — leave the phone at home. Start, pause, finish; the workout goes into Health and the run turns up on your iPhone. A WEEKLY GOAL, IF YOU WANT ONE Pick a distance for the week and watch the ring fill. Optional reminders on the days you plan to run. SHARE AND EXPORT A share card built for someone else's feed: one big number and the shape of your route, no street map of your neighbourhood. Export any run as GPX with heart rate and cadence, or export all of them at once. HOME SCREEN WIDGET This week's distance and your last run, at a glance. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account, no ads, no analytics, no servers of ours. Runs you record sync through your own private iCloud, so they follow you between devices. What RunTrace reads from Apple Health stays on the device it read it from. One purchase. No subscription, no unlocks, no paywall — everything above is in the app the first time you open it.

Screenshots

Name Helper4 screens
RunTrace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Name Helper at Free against RunTrace's $5.99. Name Helper also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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

Name Helper is free to download; RunTrace costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 3 level
Name Helper versus RunTrace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterName HelperRunTrace
PriceFree — better$5.99
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size0 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames JanelleDajiale

In-app purchases

None

Name Helper

No in-app purchases

None

RunTrace

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Name Helper free?
Name Helper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RunTrace free?
RunTrace costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Name Helper or RunTrace have ads?
Neither Name Helper nor RunTrace shows ads.

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