Comparison

Tooth Buddy vs Smart Runner

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 2-minute brushing timer
  • HealthKit integration
  • Brushing session logging
  • Smart reminders
  • Streak tracking
  • Widgets and complications
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

Screenshots

Smart Runner4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tooth Buddy versus Smart Runner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTooth BuddySmart Runner
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings27 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB24 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperChristian ThompsonDor Tal

Customer experience

Tooth Buddy

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

Smart Runner

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tooth Buddy

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Smart Runner

Subscriptions1
  • Runner Annual Plan7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • Runner Unlock$14.99
  • Runner Lifetime Plan$19.99

Questions

Is Tooth Buddy free?
Tooth Buddy costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Smart Runner free?
Smart Runner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tooth Buddy or Smart Runner?
Tooth Buddy and Smart Runner are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 7 ratings respectively.
Do Tooth Buddy or Smart Runner have ads?
Neither Tooth Buddy nor Smart Runner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tooth Buddy or Smart Runner?
Tooth Buddy ships an update every 2 months, and Smart Runner every 3 days. Most recently, Tooth Buddy was updated on September 19, 2026 and Smart Runner on September 7, 2026.

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