Running Station vs Ricky Runs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Running Station
This app transforms your neighborhood into a competitive racecourse. Track your runs, check into local stations, and compete on weekly leaderboards. Discover new stations and share your progress with friends.
- GPS run tracking
- Local station check-ins
- Weekly neighborhood leaderboards
- Route mapping with elevation
- Social feed for runs
- Create new stations
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Your neighborhood is the race. Track runs, claim local stations and climb your neighborhood leaderboard. Check in at "stations" around your city and go for a run. Your distance stacks up on the station, and a fresh ranking starts every week. ■ What makes it different • Station check-in — start your run within 100 m of the start point and you're checked in automatically • Weekly rankings — every station has a leaderboard that resets each week; go for #1 • Your neighborhood map — nearby stations and this week's runners at a glance • Found new stations — if there's none nearby, be the first to create one ■ Tracked in detail • Distance, time, average pace and automatic km splits • Your route drawn along real streets • Accurate GPS tracking with elevation gain and pause handling ■ More fun together • Cheer and comment on runs in the feed • Share "run cards" with your stats over your photo or video • Find friends from your contacts and follow them ■ Your location, protected • Other runners see your route with the start and end sections hidden Start today at the station around the corner.
Ricky Runs
This app provides personalized running insights and analysis to help you understand your training. It tracks distance, workouts, and time, offering smart effort categorization and custom workout planning. Integrate heart rate data for a deeper understanding of your body's response.
- Weekly & long-term running stats
- Smart effort analysis (Easy/Hard)
- Custom workout planning
- Heart rate zone integration
- Weather conditions for runs
- Clean and focused interface
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Take control of your running journey with Ricky Runs — your personalized running dashboard that makes training analysis effortless and insightful. Whether you’re training for your next race or just trying to stay consistent, Ricky Runs helps you understand how you’re running — not just how far. Weekly & Long-Term Stats Track your distance, number of workouts, and total running time over the past 12 weeks — beautifully visualized so you can quickly spot trends and progress. Smart Effort Analysis Balance is key. Ricky Runs automatically categorizes your runs into “Easy” and “Hard” efforts and provides smart suggestions to optimize your training load. For full analysis on Apple Watch, the iOS app must also be installed on iPhone. Custom Workouts and Planning Create custom plans on iOS 26. Get motivational messages for your workout of the day along with the current weather conditions before you head out for the run. Heart Rate Zone Integration Tap into your heart rate data to better understand how your workouts affect your body — and stay in the zone that supports your goals. Simple, Clean Interface Built with clarity and focus in mind, Ricky Runs helps you see what matters most — without the clutter.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Running Station at every 5 days against Ricky Runs's every 2 months. Running Station also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Running Station against 5.0 for Ricky Runs. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Running Station ships an update every 5 days, Ricky Runs every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Running Station | Ricky Runs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 마야크루 | Techno Mermaids LLC |
Customer experience
Running Station
Ricky Runs
In-app purchases
Running Station
No in-app purchases
Ricky Runs
No in-app purchases









