Marathon Training Plans vs Stride Marathon Training Plans
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Marathon Training Plans
This app creates personalized marathon and half marathon training plans based on your race date, goal time, and fitness level. It offers flexible schedules, integrates with popular fitness trackers, and provides race day guidance. Achieve your running goals with science-based training tailored to your life.
- Personalized marathon/half marathon plans
- Apple Watch companion
- Garmin & Strava integration
- Pace or heart rate training
- Missed workout recovery
- Race day guide
- Running shoe mileage tracker
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Create Your Own Marathon or Half Marathon Training Plan – Personalized, Flexible and Science-Based Runly creates your complete marathon or half marathon training plan, tailored to your race date, goal time, training schedule and fitness level. Whether you're training for your first marathon, aiming for a personal best or preparing for a half marathon, Runly creates a custom running plan that fits your life. Why Choose Runly? Unlike generic training plans, Runly uses advanced algorithms to create a personalized training schedule based on your specific goals, available training days and target race time. Every plan is unique to you. Key Features: • Apple Watch Companion: Start workouts from your wrist with live pace, distance and heart rate • Garmin & Strava Integration: Automatically sync your runs and keep your training log complete • Widgets & Live Activities: See today's workout and live run stats on your Home Screen and Lock Screen • Pace or Heart Rate Training: Choose whether to train by target pace or heart rate zones • Missed Workout Recovery: Reschedule skipped runs without rebuilding your entire plan • Race Day Guide: Pacing splits, fueling plan, checklists and kilometer-by-kilometer race strategy • Run Atlas: Visualize your race history on a world map with countries, cities and yearly recaps • Running Shoe Tracker: Log mileage per pair and know when it's time for new shoes • Goal Time Calculator: Estimate a realistic marathon or half marathon goal from your recent race times Perfect For: • First-time marathoners looking for a structured, personalized plan • Experienced runners aiming for a personal best • Half marathon runners seeking a tailored training approach • Runners with busy schedules who need flexible training plans How It Works: 1. Enter your race details: race name, date, distance (marathon or half marathon) and goal time 2. Set your training schedule: choose your training days per week and preferred long run day 3. Get your personalized plan: Runly generates your complete training plan instantly 4. Start training: follow your plan, track your runs, and watch your progress Science-Based Training Runly's training plans are built on proven running science principles, including: • Progressive overload and periodization • Appropriate training intensity zones • Strategic tapering before race day • Balanced mix of easy runs, tempo runs, intervals and long runs Start Your Journey Today Whether you're a beginner or an experienced runner, Runly helps you achieve your marathon or half marathon goals with a personalized training plan that adapts to your life. Download Runly, create your training plan and reach your goal time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://getrunly.app/privacy/
Stride Marathon Training Plans
This app helps multi-sport athletes organize their training by planning, tracking, and logging swim, bike, run, and strength workouts in a single weekly view. It allows for custom workout creation and integrates with popular fitness platforms.
- Weekly training planner
- Custom workout builder
- Workout logging
- Integration with Garmin, Apple Health, and calendar
- Designed for triathletes and multi-sport athletes
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You signed up for a marathon. Now the real work starts. Stride is a MARATHON ONLY training app that is built with one goal in mind - getting you ready for race day. A PLAN THAT FITS YOU Tell Stride about your race, recent running, experience, available days, and goal. You will be matched to one of 14 marathon plans built on proven training methods. Training for your first 26.2? Balancing three run days with cross-training? Chasing a faster time with more mileage and race-pace work? There is a custom plan built specifically for how you want to train. KNOW WHAT TO RUN TODAY Your complete build is mapped from today to your start line, including base, build, peak, recovery, and taper weeks. Open Stride and your next workout is ready. No searching through a PDF. No rebuilding a spreadsheet. No wondering whether today should be easy, long, or fast. EVERY WORKOUT HAS A JOB Tap any run to see the complete workout: warmup, intervals, distance, pace, and heart-rate targets. Your Today screen keeps the next run simple. Your Plan screen shows how every workout fits into the bigger build. You always know what you are doing and why it matters. TRAIN WITH YOUR RACE CLUB Marathon training is long. It is easier when you are not doing it alone. Choose from more than 200 supported marathons and Stride puts you in a Race Club with runners headed to the same start line. See their workouts, follow their training, and cheer each other through the long runs. First-timers, PR chasers, and Boston hopefuls all show up on race day together. YOUR PLAN, ON YOUR WATCH Connect Garmin or Apple Health to bring completed workouts into Stride automatically. Push structured workouts directly to Garmin so your pace and targets are ready on your wrist when it is time to run. BUILT ONLY FOR MARATHONS No 5K plans. No half-marathon plans. Stride is focused entirely on helping you prepare for 26.2. That means your plan, calendar, workouts, race countdown, and community all point toward the same start line. PRICING Try Stride free for 7 days. U.S. pricing after your trial: • Monthly: $19.99 per month • Annual: $99.99 per year Subscriptions renew automatically through your Apple account unless canceled before renewal. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store settings. Pick your race. Find your plan. Start training for the day that matters. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.downloadstride.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Stride Marathon Training Plans at 15.1 against Marathon Training Plans's 26.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Marathon Training Plans sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Stride Marathon Training Plans sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Marathon Training Plans against 5.0 for Stride Marathon Training Plans. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 12 respectively.
Marathon Training Plans ships an update every 10 days, Stride Marathon Training Plans weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Marathon Training Plans | Stride Marathon Training Plans |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Carlo Maryska | Stride Labs, LLC |
Customer experience
Marathon Training Plans
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In-app purchases
Marathon Training Plans
- Runly Pro: Weekly$2.997 Days
- Runly Pro: Weekly$3.997 Days
- Runly Pro: Monthly$3.991 Month
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- Runly Pro: Monthly$7.991 Month
- Runly Pro: Yearly7 Days trial$17.991 Year
- Runly Pro: Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
Stride Marathon Training Plans
- Monthly$19.991 Month
- Annual7 Days trial$99.991 Year
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