RunningBeat vs Genius Plus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RunningBeat
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• Play the music at any BPM you want while working out • Add music to playlist and analyze the BPM • Manually find the BPM by tapping on the beat
Genius Plus
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Genius Plus brings smart music discovery to your local library. It analyzes tempo (BPM), key & chroma, spectral centroid, and energy to create a compact feature vector for each track. Using a high‑performance approximate nearest neighbor index (HNSW), it finds sonically similar songs and builds seamless playlists and radio stations; on your device, privately. Tune the “feel” of your playlists in Settings. Emphasize chroma/key, tempo, or energy; enable dimensionality reduction (PCA) and optional quantization to reduce storage. Batch‑process your library, browse song details, and start a radio stream from any seed track.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RunningBeat at none against Genius Plus's 2. Genius Plus's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Genius Plus sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. RunningBeat asks for nothing beyond the download.
RunningBeat ships an update every 3 months, Genius Plus every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RunningBeat | Genius Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daebyeog Noh | Darryl Reed |
In-app purchases
RunningBeat
No in-app purchases
Genius Plus
- Genius Plus Annual$1.991 Year
- Lifetime Purchase$4.99
