Dead Watch Runz vs Runnerd
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dead Watch Runz
Log outdoor activities like running, walking, or biking manually with GPS routes when your fitness tracker is unavailable. Recreate your path on a map and save your workouts to health platforms. Ensure your exercise is accurately recorded even without a device.
- Manual workout logging
- GPS route recreation
- Save to Apple Health
- Connect to Strava
- Supports various outdoor activities
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Dead Watch Runz is the ultimate solution for athletes who forget their watch or experience a dead battery before a workout. This app allows you to manually log your activity with GPS data, ensuring your efforts are accurately recorded. Whether you're running, walking, hiking, biking, or engaging in other outdoor workouts, Dead Watch Runz keeps track of your miles—even when your watch can't. Just add your manual activity and re-create your route on the map. Save the workout to Apple Health, then have other services like Strava connected to Apple Health to see your workouts.
Runnerd
This app analyzes your running data from Apple Health to provide insights into your training, readiness, and performance. It offers detailed run breakdowns, season timelines, and coaching advice without requiring an account or subscription.
- Readiness Score calculation
- Detailed run analysis
- Performance Management Chart
- Season timeline view
- Three coaching tones
- Shoe mileage tracking
- Personal bests tracking
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Runnerd is a running coach and a serious analytics app in one. It builds a plan around your goal, explains every recommendation and works with the runs you've already logged. No subscription. No account. No compromises. HOW IT WORKS Connect Apple Health and Runnerd reads your past runs, whether they came from your Apple Watch, your iPhone or another running app. No blank slate: Runnerd knows where you stand from day one. Keep tracking with whatever you use today. Set a goal, like your next half marathon, and pick a coach. The Patient One builds up carefully, The Ambitious One pushes harder, and The Balanced One sits in between. The difference shows up in your plan, not just in the tone. Runnerd maps out every week until race day and schedules more of the run types you enjoy. You can add your own runs whenever you like. Each morning, your coach checks the plan against your readiness. After each run, it reviews how it went. Ahead of your goal? It'll tell you. Goal asking for more than your coach allows? It'll tell you that too. FOR NERDS WHO RUN Fitness, fatigue and form, running economy, intensity, training load: Runnerd shows whether your training is working and explains every term along the way. It's all built on proven sports science, not AI: Banister for fitness and form, Daniels VDOT for training paces and predictions, Karvonen for heart rate zones. IPHONE AND MAC Check in on your iPhone, dig deeper on your Mac with a native Mac app. Your data syncs through your private iCloud. Runnerd collects nothing and runs no servers. AND THE DETAILS Shoe mileage with a heads-up before a pair wears out. Personal bests, spotted automatically. Running partners. Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Share runs, weeks and personal bests as images. FREE, WITH A ONE-TIME PRO UPGRADE Runnerd is free to use. Pro adds race predictions, running technique analysis, GPX export and The Ambitious One. One purchase covers iPhone and Mac.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Runnerd at Free against Dead Watch Runz's $0.99. Dead Watch Runz's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On rating, ratings volume, 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
Runnerd is free to download; Dead Watch Runz costs $0.99 up front. Runnerd sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Dead Watch Runz asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Dead Watch Runz against 5.0 for Runnerd. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Dead Watch Runz ships an update every 5 days, Runnerd every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dead Watch Runz | Runnerd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tim Wood | Norma Steller |
Customer experience
Dead Watch Runz
Runnerd
In-app purchases
Dead Watch Runz
No in-app purchases
Runnerd
- Runnerd Pro$7.99
- Support a Nerd$17.99









