Tooth Buddy vs Smart Runner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tooth Buddy
This app is a 2-minute brushing timer designed for Apple Watch. It helps users maintain a consistent oral hygiene routine by tracking sessions, providing reminders, and offering quick access via widgets and complications.
- 2-minute brushing timer
- HealthKit integration
- Brushing session logging
- Smart reminders
- Streak tracking
- Widgets and complications
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Tooth Buddy is the brushing timer built for Apple Watch. It helps you start faster, stay consistent, and keep your progress visible without turning brushing into a chore. Launch a focused 2-minute timer, save sessions to HealthKit, review recent history, and keep your routine front and center with widgets and complications made for quick wrist checks. With Tooth Buddy, you can: - Start a brushing timer in seconds - Save brushing sessions to HealthKit - Review, edit, and delete recent logs created by the app - Set reminders with smart skip options based on your daily goal - Track AM and PM streaks, weekly totals, perfect days, and recent brushing history - Jump in quickly from widgets and complications - Use the app in English or Japanese Tooth Buddy is designed to feel fast, focused, and natural on Apple Watch.
Smart Runner
This app offers science-backed marathon and half-marathon training plans based on VDOT calculations. It provides adaptive, personalized workouts and detailed performance metrics, with a focus on user privacy and a one-time purchase model.
- Adaptive 2-week training plans
- VDOT-based pacing zones
- ATL/CTL/TSB training load tracking
- HealthKit integration
- Apple Watch live workout guidance
- Strava sync
- Post-run analysis
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Train like a coached athlete. Pay once, train forever. Smart Runner is a science-backed marathon training app built for runners who want real results - without paying every month for the privilege. Every other serious training app charges you monthly. Runna is $120/year. Strava Coach. Garmin Coach. Subscription after subscription - and your data lives on their servers, not yours. Runner costs $29.99. Once. That's it. Pay once, use it forever. YOUR DATA NEVER LEAVES YOUR PHONE No account. No email. No password. No analytics. No cloud sync. Your workouts live in Apple Health and on your device - full stop. Delete the app and your data is gone, because it was never anywhere else. Privacy isn't a setting you toggle. It's the architecture. ADAPTIVE TRAINING THAT ACTUALLY WORKS Runner uses VDOT - the same science behind Jack Daniels' Running Formula, to measure your current fitness from a recent race result and build a personalised rolling plan around it. - Adaptive 2-week plan - regenerates as your fitness improves - VDOT-based pacing - scientifically calibrated easy, tempo, interval, and race-pace zones - ATL / CTL / TSB tracking - the training load metrics used by elite coaches, now on your phone - HealthKit integration - every run auto-imported from Apple Health - Apple Watch - live workout guidance on your wrist - Strava sync - pull in runs you've already logged - Post-run analysis - understand what each session actually built BUILT FOR - Marathon and half-marathon runners chasing a time goal - Athletes returning from a break who need a structured rebuild - Runners who want coaching-grade metrics without paying coaching prices - Anyone tired of apps that charge monthly and hold their data hostage Try it free for 7 days. Unlock once. Train forever. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Smart Runner at Free against Tooth Buddy's $1.99. Smart Runner also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (7 vs 2). Tooth Buddy's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On rating, 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
Smart Runner is free to download; Tooth Buddy costs $1.99 up front. Smart Runner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. Tooth Buddy asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tooth Buddy against 5.0 for Smart Runner. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively.
Tooth Buddy ships an update every 2 months, Smart Runner every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tooth Buddy | Smart Runner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christian Thompson | Dor Tal |
Customer experience
Tooth Buddy
Smart Runner
In-app purchases
Tooth Buddy
No in-app purchases
Smart Runner
- Runner Annual Plan7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Runner Unlock$14.99
- Runner Lifetime Plan$19.99









