Stacking vs Runner Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stacking
This app helps you understand your long-term running progress and consistency. Visualize your workouts with trend charts and activity grids, set personalized goals, and gain insights into your performance. It integrates with Apple Health to track various metrics and offers customization options for your training preferences.
- Trend charts for long-term progress
- Activity grids for workout history
- Heart rate zone analysis
- Personalized fitness goal setting
- Progress tracking for multiple activities
- Insights and comparisons
- Apple Health integration
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Your Apple Watch tracks every run. But are you actually getting better? Stacking is your running companion for the long run. Understand your long-term progress, set goals that match how you train, and master the consistency that makes you a better runner. Your Workouts, Visualized - Trend Charts - Track your running progress over weeks, months, and years with clear visual comparisons - Activity Grids - See your workout history at a glance with intuitive calendar views for the week, month, and year - Heart Rate Zone Analysis - Understand the intensity of every workout with detailed 5-zone breakdowns using the proven Heart Rate Reserve method - Explore detailed run data & charts - Filter your past workouts and view detailed data for your runs, which includes effort insights, heart rate data, pace, grade adjusted pace, splits and more. Set Goals That Stick Create personalized fitness goals that match how you actually train: - Frequency - "Run 3 times a week" - Duration - "Exercise for 150 minutes a week" - Distance - "Cycle 100 km a month" - Elevation - "Gain 5,000 m this year" Track progress for any activity: running, cycling, swimming, strength training, yoga, HIIT, and more. Set weekly, monthly, or yearly targets and watch your progress build. Insights That Matter - Compare this week to last week, this month to last month, this year to last year - Filter by activity type to focus on what matters to you - Track total time, distance, and elevation gained across all your workouts - Track Resting Heart Rate, HRV, VO2 Max, Active Energy, and Cardio Recovery with clear 3-year trends from Apple Health Upgrade to Stacking Pro - Monitor your heart rate zones over time - Compare your easy pace week-to-week improvements - View your Yearly Activity progress - and more! Built for Your Preferences - Customize heart rate zones to match your training - Choose your units: kilometers or miles, meters or feet - Set your week to start on Monday or Sunday Privacy First Stacking reads directly from Apple Health. Your data stays on your device where it belongs. --- Stack your runs. Track your trends. See your progress. For terms of service: https://stackingapp.net/terms
Runner Lab
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Runner Lab reads your runs from Apple Health and turns them into a clear picture: how much you've done, where you're heading and what you can reach by the end of the year. Everything happens ON YOUR IPHONE. Runner Lab reads Health read-only, never writes to it, has no account and uses no tracking. THE YEAR AS A LAP OF THE TRACK • Set a goal in miles or kilometers: the checkered finish is the goal, the lap run is your distance to date. • Below the track, one line at a time: the finish at this pace, the gap to the plan, the year end, the markers passed, the years at the same hour. • The current week as bars, day by day, against the plan, last week or your typical week; and every run with the thing to notice. MY YEAR • Free: your year page by page — the distance, the day you run most, your biggest month, the weeks, the climbing, the year's best time. • The goal gets its page only if you reached it, with the day. FORM & TRAINING LOAD • Today's form with its curve, and recovery: HRV, resting heart rate, VO₂max. • With Runner Pro: acute/chronic load week by week, time in zone and efficiency. RECORDS & PREDICTIONS • Personal records on standard distances, outdoors and indoors, and how much each one beat the previous. • The race of the years: each year's best on the same track. • With Runner Pro: the race prediction with its range, and the years on the distance. RECURRING ROUTES • Runner Lab recognizes the loops you repeat by comparing the shape of the GPS tracks: the runs, the best time, every repeat. • Rename, merge or split routes. • With Runner Pro: the latest repeats compared, and the best and the latest split by split. HABITS • Your running days with the calendar, the longest break, your typical week, the time you set off, how often you run, long runs, the months and the years. • With Runner Pro: every month and every year against the year before. EVERY RUN • Time, pace, track, elevation and zones; the splits with their climb and heart rate; power, cadence, stride, energy and cardiac drift. • With Runner Pro: comparisons with your record and the same route, split by split, load and the two halves. WIDGET, SHORTCUTS & NOTIFICATIONS • The "Year" widget on your Home Screen and Lock Screen: the year's oval, the goal share and the distance left. When the data gets old, it says so. • Three actions for the Shortcuts app. • Optional, local notifications: Sunday, the first of the month, after every run, records, goal reached. SHARE & EXPORT • A card for a run, a record, the goal or the year, with no coordinates and no maps. • Every run as GPX and the archive as CSV. THE RUNNER LAB EDGE Apple only computes form and load for natively recorded workouts. Runner Lab computes them ALSO for runs imported into Health from other apps or devices. RUNNER PRO The numbers are free: goal and projection, the week, the archive, every run, today's form, records, routes, habits. Runner Pro opens the analyses: load and time in zone, efficiency, predictions, the comparisons of every run and every route, months and years against the year before. Monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time purchase. The yearly subscription starts with a seven-day free trial. ACCESSIBILITY Larger Text up to accessibility sizes, charts with VoiceOver's Audio Graph, contrast measured in both themes, 44-point tap targets, Reduce Motion respected. PRIVACY No server, no account, no tracking. Run maps come from Apple Maps. Two optional features, off by default: "Names from places" sends a route's halfway point once to Apple's geocoding to obtain its name; "Your choices in iCloud" keeps a copy of your goals and preferences in your iCloud, with no health data. Requires runs recorded in Apple Health. No data yet? You can explore the app with sample data. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://privacy.coden.cloud/runner
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Runner Lab at every 5 days against Stacking's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Stacking sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Runner Lab sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Stacking ships an update every 2 weeks, Runner Lab every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stacking | Runner Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeremiah Daneil de la Rouviere | Luigi Coden |
In-app purchases
Stacking
- Stacking Pro - Monthly$4.991 Month
- Stacking Pro - 14-day accessFree
- Stacking Pro - Lifetime Access$19.99
Runner Lab
- Runner Pro - Monthly$4.991 Month
- Runner Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Runner Pro - Lifetime$59.99









