Comparison

Earned vs RunTrace

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

Head to head
About

Earned

This intelligent workout companion helps users of all levels create effective exercise routines. It offers customizable workouts, science-based recovery tracking, and progress monitoring to guide users toward their fitness goals.

Highlights
  • Interactive body diagram for muscle group selection
  • Extensive exercise library
  • Customizable workout creation
  • AI-powered workout recommendations
  • Scientific muscle recovery tracking
  • Progress tracking with calendar view
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Earned is an adaptive strength-training companion for lifters at every experience level. It turns your goals, schedule, available equipment, movement limits, recovery, and recent performance into a clear weekly plan—then helps you execute every set. PERSONALIZED FROM DAY ONE • Complete a structured training intake in minutes • Add lift baselines so your first working weights make sense • Choose your goal, training days, session length, equipment, and movement constraints • Get a balanced weekly split built around what you can actually do A COACH THAT EXPLAINS THE PLAN • See why each session was selected • Understand target reps in reserve, recovery, and weekly volume • Review load decisions instead of following a black box • Progress only after repeat successful exposures • Hold or reduce load when set quality says recovery should lead EVERY SET COUNTS • Log weight, reps, and reps in reserve for every working set • Use built-in rest timers, haptics, and Live Activities • Track training load, muscle recovery, streaks, workout history, and personal records • Customize exercises while keeping the program practical and balanced BUILT FOR APPLE • Follow your plan and log sets from Apple Watch • Record strength workouts to Apple Health when you choose • Keep an active session visible on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Sync Watch-started sessions back to iPhone without duplicate Health workouts LOCAL BY DESIGN No account is required. Your plan, set logs, and coaching signals are created on device. Apple Health access is optional, and Earned works without it. Stop guessing what to train. Build the week, log the work, and earn the next progression.

About

RunTrace

Features
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Install RunTrace and your running history is already there. Every run in Apple Health — the ones from your Apple Watch, the ones from whatever app you used before — is on the first screen, with its route, splits and heart rate intact. No account to make, no import to wait for, nothing to set up. Then it records new runs too. GPS route, live pace, splits as you pass each kilometre or mile, auto-pause when you stop at a light, and spoken split announcements so you don't have to look. Distance and pace stay on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a pause button you can reach without unlocking. EVERY RUN, FULLY BROKEN DOWN • Route map, plus a profile of pace, elevation or heart rate along the distance • Splits chart showing your fastest and slowest laps • Time in five heart-rate zones • Running form measured by Apple Watch: power, cadence, stride length, ground contact and vertical oscillation • A note for how it felt TRENDS WORTH READING • Weekly volume over a week, a month, three months, a year, or everything • Pace trend, plotted so faster is up • Fitness, Fatigue and Form — training load that tells you whether you're fresh, building, or overreaching • Records: longest run, longest time, best pace, biggest week, week streak • Best efforts at 1 km, 1 mile, 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon, found inside runs you've already done • VO₂ Max, resting heart rate and HRV, each against where it was three months ago ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app records on its own — leave the phone at home. Start, pause, finish; the workout goes into Health and the run turns up on your iPhone. A WEEKLY GOAL, IF YOU WANT ONE Pick a distance for the week and watch the ring fill. Optional reminders on the days you plan to run. SHARE AND EXPORT A share card built for someone else's feed: one big number and the shape of your route, no street map of your neighbourhood. Export any run as GPX with heart rate and cadence, or export all of them at once. HOME SCREEN WIDGET This week's distance and your last run, at a glance. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account, no ads, no analytics, no servers of ours. Runs you record sync through your own private iCloud, so they follow you between devices. What RunTrace reads from Apple Health stays on the device it read it from. One purchase. No subscription, no unlocks, no paywall — everything above is in the app the first time you open it.

Screenshots

Earned4 screens
RunTrace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Earned at Free against RunTrace's $5.99. On ads, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Earned is free to download; RunTrace costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Earned versus RunTrace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEarnedRunTrace
PriceFree — better$5.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 16 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB6 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJacob BerkoDajiale

In-app purchases

None

Earned

No in-app purchases

None

RunTrace

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Earned free?
Earned is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RunTrace free?
RunTrace costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Earned or RunTrace have ads?
Neither Earned nor RunTrace shows ads.

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