Comparison

Total Steps vs RunReady

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

Head to head
About

Total Steps

Features
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Turn your daily steps into friendly competition. Total Steps connects to Apple Health and helps you stay active with public and private step leagues, global leaderboards, achievements, streaks, weekly recaps, and clean progress stats. Compete with friends Create a private league, share an invite code, or join public leagues and race up the standings. Track active and finished leagues, check final results, and share your performance. Build a walking habit See your daily, monthly, yearly, and lifetime steps in a clean dashboard. Follow your streaks, personal records, milestones, and activity heatmap. Unlock achievements Earn badges for consistency, big step days, streaks, goals, and long-term progress. Your profile shows what you've unlocked and what is next. Review your week Weekly Recap shows your total steps, best day, trend vs last week, and progress highlights so you can keep momentum going. Share your progress Share step summaries, leaderboard results, weekly recaps, achievements, and league results with friends. Privacy & permissions Total Steps reads your step count from Apple Health to calculate stats, achievements, and rankings. Sign in with Apple keeps your leagues and stats connected across devices while you stay in control. Start walking, join a league, and see how far you can climb.

About

RunReady

Get a daily running readiness score and personalized training recommendations based on your Apple Watch data. Understand your body's recovery and optimize your runs with accurate heart rate zones and training plans.

Highlights
  • Daily readiness score
  • Personalized run recommendations
  • Accurate heart rate zones
  • Automatic run analysis
  • Progress trends dashboard
  • Lock Screen widget
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Should I run hard today, easy, or not at all? RunReady answers every morning with a Readiness Score built from your Apple Watch HRV, resting heart rate, sleep and training load. You also get your run for today: type, duration, pace and heart rate range. YOUR MORNING Open RunReady and see your score in the ring. Tell the app how your legs feel: fresh, normal, tired, or no run today. Your recommendation follows, for example "Easy Steady Run, 40โ€“60 min, pace 6:27โ€“6:47, HR 119โ€“133". One tap sends it to your Apple Watch as a workout with heart rate targets. MEASURED AGAINST YOU RunReady compares every value with your own last 60 days: โ€ข HRV: how well your nervous system recovered overnight โ€ข Resting heart rate during sleep: if it stays well above your average for several nights, RunReady marks it red and, if you like, sends a notification. โ€ข Sleep: duration and stages of last night โ€ข Load: your last 7 days relative to your usual training. Between 0.8 and 1.3 you are in the sweet spot. Tap a value in the ring to see it in detail: the last 30 nights with your normal range, your sleep stages or your training week. ZONES FROM YOUR DATA RunReady calculates your heart rate zones with the Karvonen method: from your highest measured heart rate of the last 12 months and your resting heart rate during sleep. Single measurement spikes don't count. Your Zone 2 fits your body. YOUR WEEKLY PLAN COUNTS Set which days are base, quality, long run or rest, and set your weekly distance goal. RunReady only suggests tempo and intervals when your score allows it. If you like, the app moves a quality session to a later day of the week. EVERY RUN WITH ITS READINESS Your runs arrive from Apple Health automatically, labeled by heart rate pattern: recovery, easy, base, long, tempo, intervals, fartlek and more. RunReady keeps that morning's readiness with every run and shows whether the run matched the recommendation. Plus zone distribution, heart rate with cardiac drift, pace every 200 m, every kilometre with pace, heart rate and cadence, and your effort rating from Apple Fitness. INSIGHTS โ€ข Readiness history over 30 days, 90 days or a year, with a second line to compare โ€ข What moves your score: your mornings after short nights, load jumps and long runs compared with all others โ€ข Pace at the same heart rate: if you run faster at the same pulse, your fitness grows. โ€ข Weekly distance with goal, monthly distance, pace, efficiency and cadence โ€ข Best efforts over 1 km, 5 km, 10 km and half marathon โ€ข Calendar with readiness or kilometres for every day YOUR YEAR FROM DAY ONE With one tap RunReady pulls up to 365 days from Apple Health and calculates their scores. Your history is there right away instead of after weeks of collecting. WIDGETS Readiness, recommendation and weekly plan come in small, medium and Lock Screen sizes, plus a large widget with everything together. See your score before you unlock your iPhone. LIGHT OR DARK RunReady follows your system or stays light or dark. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR IPHONE RunReady reads from Apple Health and calculates on your device. No account, no cloud, no tracking. No subscription, no in-app purchases. RunReady needs an Apple Watch you wear at night. Without older data in Apple Health, the score needs about 7 days for reliable values. RunReady gives training guidance and does not replace medical advice.

Screenshots

Total Steps4 screens
RunReady4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Total Steps at Free against RunReady's $1.99. Total Steps also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). RunReady's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Total Steps is free to download; RunReady costs $1.99 up front. Total Steps sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. RunReady asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Total Steps ships an update weekly, RunReady monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 4 level
Total Steps versus RunReady: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTotal StepsRunReady
PriceFree โ€” better$1.99
Positive reviewsโ€”0.0% of reviews
Update frequencyWeekly โ€” betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
Monetizationโ€”Paid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.018.6 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size5 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAleksandr MurashkinMarvin Blome

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Total Steps

One-time4
  • Custom Nickname$0.99
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
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  • Large Tip$14.99
None

RunReady

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Total Steps free?
Total Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RunReady free?
RunReady costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Total Steps or RunReady have ads?
Neither Total Steps nor RunReady shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Total Steps or RunReady?
Total Steps ships an update weekly, and RunReady monthly. Most recently, Total Steps was updated on October 15, 2026 and RunReady on October 24, 2026.

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