Comparison

Marathon Training Plans vs Longrun

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

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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

Longrun

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You have never run a marathon. You have a date, a start line, and a number that looks impossible from where you are standing today. Longrun turns that into tomorrow morning. Tell it three things: what a good race looks like to you, how far you run right now, and which race you are training for. Longrun counts back from the real date and builds the twelve to twenty weeks in front of it. Three runs a week to start, every one of them easy. One long run every Sunday, growing about a mile at a time. A taper that arrives before you think you need it. Then it hands you one day at a time. A PLAN THAT MOVES WHEN YOU DO Every training plan meets real life somewhere around week three. Yours will too. Tell Longrun you missed a run and the week reshuffles itself. Miss a hard session and the next one becomes an easy run while the long run holds its distance. Miss a long run and next Sunday holds at this Sunday's number, and the growth waits a week. Miss two in a week and the following week eases about 10 percent, then rebuilds. Every change is shown to you, in a sentence, with the reason. Nothing disappears quietly. EVERY DAY, ON ONE SCREEN Today opens on the session you have, the pace range to hold it at, and roughly how long it will take. Underneath: your water, your food, last night's sleep and HRV, and this week's seven bars filling in. - Live run with GPS distance, pace, mile splits and cues that arrive when you need them - Fuel: a calorie and carb target that changes with the kind of day it is, and a meal plan you log with one tap - Body: sleep, HRV and resting heart rate from Apple Health, an acute-to-chronic training load ratio with the 0.8 to 1.3 sweet spot marked, and shoe mileage so you retire a pair before it retires you - Progress: total distance since week one, planned against done, longest run, easy pace, and a finish-time estimate built from the runs you have actually done RACE DAY, ALREADY REHEARSED Choose from 377 races, all seven World Marathon Majors among them, or type in your own name and date. From that moment the Race tab counts down. Your finish time, your pace per mile, how many gels to carry and roughly where to take them. A race-week checklist that opens seven days out: cut the volume, carb-load, pin the bib, oats and a banana three hours before, arrive 75 minutes early. Course profile, typical weather, your bib number and your wave. By race morning you will have practiced all of it. THIRTY-FOUR LANGUAGES, MILES OR KILOMETERS Longrun is fully translated into 34 languages and lays out right to left in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu. Switch between miles and kilometers whenever you like. WHAT LONGRUN LEAVES OUT No chatbot. No AI writing your training. No feed to scroll, no kudos, no follower count. A plan, the day in front of you, and a coach's voice saying the things a good coach says: go slower, eat something, get some sleep. LONGRUN PRO Longrun Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Start with 7 days free, then $39.99 per year. Or pay $2.99 for your first month and $39.99 per year after that. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. Manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew in your App Store account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Prices are in US dollars and vary by region. Terms of use: https://b2b83827-legal.app.amba.host/terms.html Privacy policy: https://b2b83827-legal.app.amba.host/privacy.html

Screenshots

Marathon Training Plans4 screens
Longrun4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Longrun at 16.4 against Marathon Training Plans's 26.0. 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

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 and Longrun sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $39.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Marathon Training Plans versus Longrun: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarathon Training PlansLongrun
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (10 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB62 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperCarlo MaryskaApp Machina LLC

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
1 purchases

Longrun

Subscriptions1
  • Longrun Pro1 Month trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Marathon Training Plans free?
Marathon Training Plans is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Longrun free?
Longrun is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Marathon Training Plans or Longrun have ads?
Neither Marathon Training Plans nor Longrun shows ads.

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