Run Tracker vs RunBests
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Run Tracker
Easily compare your running workouts side-by-side to track performance over time. Analyze trends with flexible intervals and view key metrics like pace, distance, and heart rate at a glance. Interactive charts help visualize your progress.
- Side-by-side workout comparison
- Flexible time interval analysis
- At-a-glance key metrics
- Interactive progress charts
- Long-term trend observation
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Compare Runs helps you quickly and clearly compare running workouts and track your performance over weeks, months, or years. Choose different time intervals, view individual runs side by side, and see your progress at a glance, for example with improvements in pace, distance, or heart rate. Key features - Direct workout comparison: Side-by-side comparison of individual runs and averages. - Flexible time intervals: Analyze freely selectable periods (weeks, months, years) to observe long-term trends. - At-a-glance metrics: Pace, distance, duration, heart rate, and other key stats. - Interactive visualizations: Charts for examining splits and time intervals.
RunBests
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Run Bests finds your personal best running times in Apple Health. Runs rarely end at exactly the same distance. Set the distances you care about and choose a margin to group comparable workouts. A 5-mile target with a 0.25-mile margin includes runs from 5.0 through 5.25 miles. COMPARE TIMES CLEARLY Workout time covers the full run and uses the duration reported by Health. Race time estimates how long it took to reach your target distance from the start. Both exclude pauses. Each has its own pace, and the workout detail explains which time you are viewing. FIND YOUR FASTEST SEGMENTS See your fastest continuous 1 mile, 1 km, or custom distance anywhere within a run. Segment estimates use Health's recorded distance samples when available, with GPS as a labeled fallback. A best segment can start between the fixed split markers shown in Fitness. CUSTOMIZE YOUR RECORDS Choose distances in miles or kilometers, set a distance margin, and enable half marathon, marathon, longest run, longest workout time, and fastest average pace records. FOLLOW YOUR PROGRESS Filter by all time, a recent period, a calendar year, or a custom date range. View the top 20 in each category and sort qualifying runs by race time, race pace, workout time, or workout pace. Workout sorts include runs without usable race timing. EXPLORE EACH RUN Open a workout to see its timing, distance, route map, heart rate, elevation, energy, and weather when those details are available in Health. YOUR DATA STAYS UNDER YOUR CONTROL Run Bests reads running workouts from Apple Health and keeps a local cache on your device. No account, advertising, tracking, or developer-operated server. Run Bests does not write to Health. Requires running workouts in Apple Health. Race and segment estimates depend on the distance and timing data recorded with each workout.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: RunBests at 17.0 against Run Tracker's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Run Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, RunBests every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Run Tracker | RunBests |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BENJAMIN WAIBEL | John Bergmayer |
In-app purchases
Run Tracker
No in-app purchases
RunBests
No in-app purchases









