The Program by Bandit Running vs Laktic Pace Calculator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Program by Bandit Running
This app offers a free guided training experience for marathon and half marathon runners. It generates personalized training plans based on your race, goal time, and weekly mileage. Get instant answers to training questions with the integrated coach feature.
- Free guided training plans
- Marathon and half marathon focus
- Personalized plan generation
- Interactive training schedule
- Instant coach answers
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The Program is a 100% free guided training experience for marathons and half marathons powered by Bandit Running. Select your race, goal finish time, and weekly mileage, and an interactive training plan will be automatically generated for you. Plus, access Coach for instant answers to all your fundamental training questions.
Laktic Pace Calculator
Calculate heat-adjusted running paces for training and racing. Input your personal records and current weather conditions to receive adjusted threshold zones and per-mile ranges. Coaches can manage athlete rosters and share workout boards.
- Heat-adjusted threshold paces
- Race PR and track/road pace calculation
- Temperature and dew point adjustment
- Rep length scaling for heat penalty
- Athlete roster management for coaches
- Workout board sharing
- Session logging and performance comparison
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Today's threshold paces, adjusted for the heat. Enter a race PR, track or road, and get LT1, Sub-T and LT2 ranges slowed for the temperature and dew point at your track, now or at practice time. Coaches: add your roster, write a note, and share the board as a card. Enter a 5000m, 3200m, 3000m, 1600m, mile or 1500m PR, or a 5 mile, 10K, half marathon or marathon PR, and the app computes the Track and Road Performance training zones: Easy, Long Run, Steady, and the three threshold zones LT1, Sub-T and LT2, with race-pace rows for road distances. Miles or kilometres, your choice. Get today's temperature and dew point for your location, pick a practice time for that hour's forecast, search a city or ZIP, or type the numbers yourself, and every pace is slowed by the heat penalty. The adjustment is scaled by rep length. Short threshold reps with recovery build less heat load than continuous running, so 1–3 minute reps take half the penalty, 4–6 minute reps three-quarters, and 7–10 minute reps and continuous runs the full amount. Within each threshold zone, short reps sit at the fast end of the range, medium reps in the middle, and long reps at the slow end. Every pace shows the per-mile range and the seconds-per-400 m split, so it goes straight to the track. For coaches: keep a roster of athletes on your phone and build a workout board for today's conditions. Pick a zone and rep length and see every athlete's heat-adjusted range, fastest first, filtered by group. Write a note on the board and share it as a card, along with today's paces, the heat, a new PR or a finished session. Log a session: type your reps and see hit, hot or cold against today's band. Export the roster as a file, import one from an assistant coach, or copy a share link that opens the same roster in the web version. How the heat model works: heat score = temperature °F + dew point °F. At 100 or below there is no adjustment. The penalty rises to 10% at 180. Above 180 the app tells you running is not recommended and shows paces at the cap for reference only. Privacy: your location is used only to fetch the weather and the town name. Athlete names and PRs stay on your device unless you export or share them; share cards are drawn by our server from the numbers on screen and are not stored. Sign-in is optional. No tracking, no ads. Training guidance, not medical advice. Use judgment in extreme conditions. Pace engine: Track and Road Performance. Weather data by Open-Meteo.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Laktic Pace Calculator at 5.0 against The Program by Bandit Running's 3.9. The Program by Bandit Running's advantage is ratings volume (115 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Laktic Pace Calculator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Program by Bandit Running has 115 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
The Program by Bandit Running ships an update every 2 weeks, Laktic Pace Calculator every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Program by Bandit Running | Laktic Pace Calculator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (115 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 115 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bandit Running | Travis Mahoney |
Customer experience
The Program by Bandit Running
Laktic Pace Calculator
Bugs and requests
The Program by Bandit Running
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
- Account creation problems
Requested features
2 requests- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
Laktic Pace Calculator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
The Program by Bandit Running
No in-app purchases
Laktic Pace Calculator
No in-app purchases
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