Comparison

Orbit Running vs ATHRON

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

Head to head
About

Orbit Running

Track your running performance and view historical data. Easily share your runs, including photos with performance overlays, with friends and family.

Highlights
  • View and share runs
  • Check running stats
  • Overlay performance on photos
  • Track historical runs
  • Share with friends and family
Features
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View and share your runs with Orbit! Quickly check your stats, look at any photos you captured during your run and overlay your performance and running route on the image. Easily track your performance and historical runs, in an app that offers the easiest way to share your runs with friends and family.

About

ATHRON

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The next best decision. Always. Your coach decides with you every day: what is right today, and why. ATHRON is your decision coach for triathlon, running and cycling. Instead of just displaying plans, ATHRON decides with you every day: What is the right session today? Why? And what changes when recovery, sleep or life demand it? An adaptive plan, not a rigid cycle Your training plan is not a document. It is an ongoing decision. ATHRON adapts day by day based on HRV, body battery, sleep, life stress and your race goals. TODAY: one decision, three modes - Quick: What now? One sentence, one action. - Coach: Decision + reasoning + next step. - Analysis: Context, data, trade-offs. Nutrition that matches the training Calorie and macro targets that move with your training week — hard days differ from rest days. Log meals by photo or barcode. Recipes that respect your taste, your diet and your allergies. Understand your blood work (Premium) Upload your lab report and see what it means for your training: trends over time, the link to load and recovery, concrete conclusions for nutrition and regeneration. Not a diagnosis — context. Integrations, never mandatory ATHRON works completely without any integration. Garmin, TrainingPeaks, Intervals.icu, Oura, WHOOP and Withings are additive data layers, not requirements. You decide which source leads. Data sovereignty Your health data stays in the EU (Hetzner Frankfurt). No sharing with training-data brokers. No ad tracking. Honest empty states No fake coaching, no invented numbers. When data is missing, ATHRON says so — and tells you the next step. Who it is for Triathletes, runners and cyclists who want to plan like a coach, not like a calendar. Intermediate to advanced. Subscription After registration, Pro and Nutrition are free for 30 days — no payment details, no automatic renewal. After that: - ATHRON Pro: €5.99/month or €59.99/year (two months free) - ATHRON Nutrition: €5.99/month or €59.99/year (two months free) - ATHRON Premium: €12.99/month or €139.99/year — includes Pro, Nutrition and blood-work analysis Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel. Renewal is charged 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel any time in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://athron.app/legal/privacy ATHRON is your decision layer. Not another data dashboard.

Screenshots

Orbit Running4 screens
ATHRON4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Orbit Running at every 5 days against ATHRON's every 3 weeks. ATHRON's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Orbit Running ships an update every 5 days, ATHRON every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Orbit Running versus ATHRON: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrbit RunningATHRON
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.315.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB104 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAvinash JainCarsten Urbanski

In-app purchases

None

Orbit Running

No in-app purchases

None

ATHRON

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Orbit Running free?
Orbit Running is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ATHRON free?
ATHRON is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Orbit Running or ATHRON have ads?
Neither Orbit Running nor ATHRON shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Orbit Running or ATHRON?
Orbit Running ships an update every 5 days, and ATHRON every 3 weeks. Most recently, Orbit Running was updated on October 11, 2026 and ATHRON on October 24, 2026.

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