Comparison

Saga vs Lactate Training

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

Head to head
About

Saga

This app helps athletes and coaches plan, execute, and analyze blood lactate tests for running and cycling. It streamlines the process of finding an athlete's lactate inflection point, a key metric for endurance performance.

Highlights
  • Lactate testing protocols for running and cycling
  • Determine lactate inflection point (LIP)
  • Analyze endurance performance
  • Streamline testing process
  • Metabolic efficiency indicator
Features
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The application is a comprehensive tool designed to assist athletes and coaches in the meticulous planning, execution, and analysis of blood lactate testing protocols specifically for running and cycling activities. Its core objective is to streamline the process of determining an athlete's lactate inflection point (LIP) or lactate threshold, a critical indicator of endurance performance and metabolic efficiency.

About

Lactate Training

This intelligent training system connects your sessions, recovery, fatigue, and life stress into an AI-driven coaching platform. It helps athletes train smarter, avoid injury, and improve consistently by analyzing data and providing personalized feedback. The app offers a complete dashboard for tracking fitness, fatigue, and performance trends.

Highlights
  • AI-driven personalized coaching
  • Fitness vs. fatigue tracking
  • Daily check-ins for readiness
  • Smart training calendar with life event integration
  • Session comparison for progress analysis
  • Blood lactate integration for training zones
Features
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Less guesswork. More legendary training. Lactate Training is an AI coach for runners, cyclists and triathletes who train around work, family and a changing week. Ask about your training. Add how it felt. Learn what to try next. No blood lactate test needed. Start with the watch data you already have from Garmin or Strava. TRAINING HARD BUT NOT SURE WHAT'S WORKING? • What should I do today? Tell your coach how you feel and get today's session, based on your plan, your sleep and your recent training. • Why did that session feel hard? Your coach reads the recording, compares a similar session and asks what else was going on. • Am I improving? See pace and heart rate trends side by side, explained in plain English. • How do I fit training around life? Move a session or add a work trip and your week adjusts. Nothing changes until you say yes. ONE COACH, LOTS OF WAYS TO ASK • Type a question about any session and get a review in plain English • Talk it through by voice after your run, hands-free • Message your coach on WhatsApp to ask a question, log a session or move a workout • Connect ChatGPT or Claude and plan your week on a bigger screen, using your real numbers • Send workouts straight to your Garmin A COACH THAT REMEMBERS Your coach keeps your goals, preferences and training rules, and saves lessons from one session to use in the next. You can see, edit or delete all of it in Coaching Memory. SEE YOUR PROGRESS • Training dashboard with fitness, fatigue and training load • Sleep, HRV and resting heart rate trends • Compare similar sessions side by side • Weather on every session • Strava Segment Hunter BUILT FOR REAL LIFE • Plans that fit your week: let Auto Coach build one, or pick a ready-made plan • A daily check-in that takes about two minutes • Miles or kilometers, day and night themes, 24 languages • For runners from a first half marathon to a sub-3 marathon, plus cyclists, triathletes and Hyrox athletes. Coaches can manage their athletes on Max. PLANS Every plan starts with 30 days of Pro, free. Then choose: • Free: track and plan your training, with a small monthly AI allowance • Basic: unlimited WhatsApp coaching, Auto Coach, coach memory and 50 in-app AI requests a month • Pro: everything in Basic, plus 150 requests, the dashboard, session compare, Grill Me, weather and Send to Garmin • Max: everything in Pro, plus 1,000 requests and Coach mode Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm your purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within the 24 hours before it ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Any unused part of a free trial ends when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://lactatetraining.ai/policies/privacy-policy Lactate Training gives training guidance, not medical advice. Check with a doctor before starting a new training program.

Screenshots

Saga2 screens
Lactate Training4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Saga at none against Lactate Training's 9. Saga also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%). Lactate Training's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Lactate Training sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Saga asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Saga against 4.0 for Lactate Training. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Saga's written reviews are positive against 75% of Lactate Training's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Saga versus Lactate Training: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSagaLactate Training
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)4.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequency—Every 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB170 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNucleon ASBarney Reed

Customer experience

Saga

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Lactate Training

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Saga

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Lactate Training

Subscriptions9
  • Basic$4.991 Month
  • Full Access (Monthly)$9.491 Month
  • AI Access (Monthly)7 Days trial$9.951 Month
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  • Full Access + Coach (Monthly)$14.991 Month
  • Pro 6 Months$49.996 Months
  • Full Access (Yearly)$99.991 Year
  • AI Access (Yearly)1 Month trial$99.991 Year
  • Max 6 Months$119.996 Months
  • Full + Coach (Yearly)$229.991 Year

Questions

Is Saga free?
Saga is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lactate Training free?
Lactate Training is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Saga or Lactate Training?
Saga and Lactate Training are both rated 4.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Saga or Lactate Training have ads?
Neither Saga nor Lactate Training shows ads.

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