Ghostr vs TrackTunes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ghostr
Transform your runs into races against virtual opponents. Compete against your past performances, friends, or global runners in real-time. Track your progress, climb leagues, and improve your Ghostr Score with live feedback.
- Race against virtual ghosts
- Compete with friends and global runners
- League-based competition
- Real-time feedback and visualizations
- Ghostr Score tracking
- Social feed for sharing results
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There are loads of running apps – Ghostr is more than run tracking Experience a completely new way of running where every run becomes a race. Ghostr turns past runs into virtual ghosts you can race in real time. Challenge yourself, battle friends or compete against runners from around the world. SINGLE MODE Race against your own best times or create a custom virtual ghost. BATTLE MODE Record a run and challenge your friends. The fastest runner wins. LEAGUE MODE Join a running league. Race against community ghosts, earn promotion and climb through the divisions. Every run matters. GHOSTR SCORE Every race impacts your Ghostr Score. Compare yourself with friends and the community, track your progress and see your performance over time. SOCIAL FEED Follow friends, share results, celebrate victories and stay up to date with races, league promotions and community activity. REAL-TIME RACE FEEDBACK Live visual and audio updates show whether you're ahead of or behind your ghost and predict whether you're on pace to win. SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED Ghostr is a subscription-based app. Start with a 1 month free trial and cancel anytime during the trial period to avoid being charged. An active subscription is required to continue using Ghostr after the trial ends. Subscription options and pricing are displayed in the app. Stop running – Start racing Terms and Conditions: https://www.ghostr.run/en/terms-and-conditions Privacy Policy: https://www.ghostr.run/en/privacy-policy
TrackTunes
Automatically logs the music you listened to during workouts to your Strava activity descriptions. Track your pace per song, discover your "Power Songs," and create shareable activity cards with your route and music.
- Automatic music logging to Strava
- Per-track pace tracking
- Identify "Power Songs"
- Build music album collections
- Top track and artist rankings
- Shareable activity cards
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Every activity can have a soundtrack. TrackTunes puts it on the record. Connect Strava and your music once, and TrackTunes does the rest. When you finish an activity, it works out what you were listening to while you were moving and writes the track list straight into your Strava description. Use Spotify, or Apple Music℠ on iPhone, where you play your workout music right in TrackTunes. WHAT YOU GET Every activity gets the songs you actually heard during it, in order, written to Strava within minutes of finishing. Per-track pace. See how fast you were moving during each song, not just your average for the whole activity. Power Songs. Over time, TrackTunes works out which tracks you are reliably faster to. Not just the ones you think pump you up. The ones that measurably do. Albums. Build a collection of the records you have listened to end to end while moving. Top TrackTunes. Your most played tracks and artists, ranked by the distance you covered to them. Share cards. Turn any activity into an image worth posting, with the route, the stats, and the music on it. PREMIUM TrackTunes is free to try. Free accounts get a fixed number of activity updates in total and can open their most recent activity in full. Premium removes the cap and unlocks your whole history, album tracking, and Power Songs. WHAT YOU NEED A Strava account, plus Spotify or an Apple Music subscription (iPhone). With Spotify, TrackTunes reads your recent listening. With Apple Music, you start your music in the TrackTunes Play tab. Either way, it matches songs to your Strava activities on time and writes the result back to Strava. Apple and Apple Music are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tracktunes.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TrackTunes at 5.0 against Ghostr's 1.0. TrackTunes also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Ghostr's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. TrackTunes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. Ghostr asks for nothing beyond the download.
TrackTunes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Ghostr ships an update every 5 days, TrackTunes every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ghostr | TrackTunes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hello Nasty | TrackTunes |
Customer experience
Ghostr
TrackTunes
In-app purchases
Ghostr
No in-app purchases
TrackTunes
- Premium Annual$19.991 Year








