Steady State vs The Usual Suspects
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Steady State
This app helps runners and endurance athletes achieve consistency and peak performance through data-driven training insights and recovery tracking. It offers personalized plans, coach-athlete communication, and tools to monitor workload and injury risk for sustainable progress.
- Recovery insights
- Coach-athlete communication
- Sustainable progress tracking
- Personalized training plans
- Acute on Chronic Workload monitoring
- Injury risk assessment
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Steady State is your ultimate training and coaching companion, designed for runners and endurance athletes striving for consistency, longevity, and peak performance. Whether you're training for your first race or fine-tuning your competitive edge, Steady State helps you stay balanced, injury-free, and at your best. Recovery Insights: Integrate with Garmin, Coros, and more devices to gain unique recovery insights and make smarter training decisions. Coach-Athlete Communication: Seamlessly connect with your coach or team through intuitive messaging and shared progress tracking. Sustainable Progress: Achieve long-term success with data-driven recommendations for smarter, more consistent training. Dynamic Tools for Coaches: Empower coaches with tools to manage multiple athletes, review performance, and deliver expert guidance effortlessly. Personalized Training Plans: Optimize your workouts with science-backed programs tailored to your goals, fitness level, and performance data. What we offer: - Recovery scores - find out how your recovery is today and how its been trending - Acute on Chronic Workload - track how you're progressing and the training load you have - Injury Risk - track your injury risk so you can make the right decision to train smart and stay injury free - Analytics - get all the data about your activities and how it stacks up over time You can subscribe and pay on the Apple App Store using your Apple ID. We offer a monthly subscription that will be auto-renewing unless cancelled before the end of the current billing period. You can turn off your payment by going to Manage Subscriptions in your devices subscription settings. Athlete: Free Athlete Premium: $9.99 End user agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://steadystate.fit/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://steadystate.fit/terms-of-service
The Usual Suspects
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The Usual Suspects is the app for your crew — the people you actually run (or ride) with. THE BOARD Every run is a card, not a message that scrolls away. Who's in, who's considering, one tap to RSVP. The next run is always at the top. CREW CHAT THAT KEEPS THE PLOT GIFs, photos, @mentions, reactions — and when someone posts a run or a race, it lands in the conversation as a card the whole crew can join with one tap. RACE CARDS ON REAL PAPER Trail races come as topo postcards, road races as bibs, local 5Ks as ticket stubs. Paste a race link or describe it and the assistant fills in the details. Finish one and it gets the stamp. YOUR SPOTS, ON A MAP Save the crew's regular meeting spots — tap the map, paste a maps link, or use your location — and get directions from every run. FIND YOUR CREW Public crews get a webpage anyone can find. Private crews stay invite-only. Owners choose. Also: direct messages, push notifications that respect your mutes, live typing and presence, and one link that handles invites whether or not someone has the app yet. Free. No ads. Your data stays yours — delete your account any time from Profile.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: The Usual Suspects at none against Steady State's 3. On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Steady State sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. The Usual Suspects asks for nothing beyond the download.
Steady State ships an update every 5 days, The Usual Suspects every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Steady State | The Usual Suspects |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 115 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Find Your Steady State | Eric Brown |
In-app purchases
Steady State
- Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- Athlete Premium$9.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$39.991 Year
The Usual Suspects
No in-app purchases
Questions
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