Comparison

Marathon Training Plans vs TrainPilot

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

TrainPilot

Features
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TrainPilot is a running coach and a gym logbook in one app. FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME. Every feature below is unlocked, with no subscription and no ads. RUNNING A training plan built around your goal race, your current times and the days you can actually train. Live GPS tracking with pace, distance, splits and heart rate. Spoken cues tell you when you are drifting off target pace, so your phone can stay in your pocket. Structured interval sessions time each block for you. Treadmill mode for when you are indoors. GYM Build a session from a library of more than 700 exercises, or follow a plan. Log sets, reps and weight as you lift, with a rest timer that starts itself. Weight progression that reads what you actually lifted. TrainPilot works forward through your logged sessions and tells you what to load today, and why: "+2.5 kg, you hit 3x5 last time". Miss your reps and it will not add weight. Stall and it deloads. Warm-up ramps, supersets, dropsets and per-side rep tracking. Straight sets, circuits, HIIT, HYROX, AMRAP and EMOM, and you can change the format mid-session without losing a set. Repeat any past workout in one tap. Personal records, a muscle map of what you have worked, and progress over time. APPLE WATCH Start, pause and finish a run from your wrist. Live heart rate, running power and running-form metrics. Log gym sets from the watch between rounds. APPLE HEALTH Import runs recorded by Garmin, Strava, Nike or anything else that writes to Apple Health, with their GPS routes. Your TrainPilot runs are written back to Health. TRAIN TOGETHER Invite a friend to the same session and follow each other live, or train the same workout independently and compare afterwards. ALSO intervals.icu sync. Bluetooth heart-rate strap support. Kilometres or miles, kilograms or pounds, throughout. Available in English and Spanish.

Screenshots

Marathon Training Plans4 screens
TrainPilot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TrainPilot at none against Marathon Training Plans's 6. TrainPilot also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Marathon Training Plans sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. TrainPilot asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Marathon Training Plans ships an update every 10 days, TrainPilot weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Marathon Training Plans versus TrainPilot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarathon Training PlansTrainPilot
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (11 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCarlo MaryskaPablo Garces

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Marathon Training Plans

Subscriptions6
  • 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
None

TrainPilot

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Marathon Training Plans free?
Marathon Training Plans is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TrainPilot free?
TrainPilot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Marathon Training Plans or TrainPilot have ads?
Neither Marathon Training Plans nor TrainPilot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Marathon Training Plans or TrainPilot?
Marathon Training Plans ships an update every 10 days, and TrainPilot weekly. Most recently, Marathon Training Plans was updated on November 5, 2026 and TrainPilot on November 10, 2026.

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