Comparison

VisionMD vs RunBests

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

Head to head
About

VisionMD

This app facilitates data collection for research by recording hand and body movements at high frame rates. It utilizes Apple Vision technology to guide users through specific exercises during video capture.

Highlights
  • High frame rate video recording
  • Hand and body movement capture
  • Apple Vision guidance
  • Research data collection support
  • UF IRB protocol compliance
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VisionMD is an application meant to support data collection under UF IRB202401184. The app is designed to record videos of people performing specific hand and body movements at high frame rate. VisionMD uses Apple Vision to guide the users during the recording.

About

RunBests

Features
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Run Bests shows your personal best running times drawn from your health data. Outside of a race, runners rarely hit the exact same distance twice. Your "5-mile run" might be 5.1 miles today and 5.05 miles tomorrow. Because of that variation, Run Bests brackets runs within a certain range together. Just set a target distance (in miles or kilometers) and choose a "margin of error." For example, if you want to find your fastest 5-mile run, set a 0.25 margin and Run Bests will instantly scan your selected date range and pull every run between 5.0 and 5.25 miles into one clean, sortable list. KEY FEATURES * Distance Bracketing Group your past runs using a custom margin of error (0, 0.25, 0.5, or 1) so no near-miss gets left out. Margin is applied upward only — a 4.99-mile workout won't count toward 5-mile until it crosses the line. * Race Time vs. Workout Time For each qualifying workout, see both the time you crossed the exact target distance (race time, GPS-derived) and the full elapsed workout time. * Best Segment Paces Find your fastest contiguous 1 km, 1 mile (or any distance you pick) found anywhere inside any run — even if your fastest mile happened in the middle of a long marathon. * Major Races + Overall Records Toggle Half Marathon and Marathon. Plus longest distance, longest duration, and fastest average pace. *Custom Date Filters Browse PRs across all time, the last 30 / 90 days, the last year, a single year, or any custom date range. Watch yourself improve across a training cycle. *Tap-to-Sort Leaderboards Inside each category, top 20 by Race time, Race pace, Workout time, or Workout pace. * Privacy by Design Run Bests reads your running workouts from Apple Health and stores a private local cache on your device. Nothing leaves your phone.

Screenshots

VisionMD3 screens
RunBests4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: RunBests at every 4 days against VisionMD's every 11 days. 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

VisionMD ships an update every 11 days, RunBests every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
VisionMD versus RunBests: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisionMDRunBests
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size410 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUF HealthJohn Bergmayer

In-app purchases

None

VisionMD

No in-app purchases

None

RunBests

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is VisionMD free?
VisionMD is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RunBests free?
RunBests is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do VisionMD or RunBests have ads?
Neither VisionMD nor RunBests shows ads.
Which is updated more often, VisionMD or RunBests?
VisionMD ships an update every 11 days, and RunBests every 4 days. Most recently, VisionMD was updated on September 16, 2026 and RunBests on September 9, 2026.

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