RunForm AI vs Loadwave
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RunForm AI
This AI-powered running analysis app helps improve efficiency and reduce injury risk. Upload a video for detailed form analysis and personalized feedback on key running metrics. Supports various recording environments and tracks your progress over time.
- AI-powered form analysis
- Personalized feedback
- 10 key running metrics
- Optimized shooting guide
- Track and treadmill support
- Session history
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RunForm AI is an AI-powered running form analysis app designed to help you understand your running posture, improve movement efficiency, and build better running mechanics. Upload a short running video and RunForm AI will analyze your form from two camera angles: side angle and back angle. Get insights from biomechanical running metrics, estimated motion metrics, summary scores, and coaching feedback to understand your strengths and areas for improvement. Analysis Views: • Side Angle: Running economy, landing mechanics, and gait-phase movement • Back Angle: Frontal-plane stability, left-right alignment, and symmetry Side Angle Metrics: • Cadence (SPM) • Vertical Oscillation • Foot-Strike Angle • Shank Angle • Knee Angle • Hip Flexion • Hip Extension • Swing Knee Angle • Trunk Lean • Head Angle • Elbow Angle • Opposite Knee Angle Estimated Motion Metrics: • Estimated Speed • Estimated Pace • Estimated Stride Length • Estimated Step Length Back Angle Metrics: • Hip Alignment Angle • Left/Right Knee Alignment • Left/Right Ankle Alignment • Left/Right Swing Foot Angle • Left/Right Step Separation Ratio • Hip Asymmetry Ratio Scores: • Running Economy Score • Landing Mechanics Score • Back Stability Score • Symmetry Score Key Features: • Automated coaching summary with practical running cues • Recommended ranges, visual references, and pace-sensitive explanations for each metric • Shooting guide for treadmill and outdoor running • Analysis history with annotated video playback • Shareable analysis links with optional password protection Credits are required for each analysis and can be purchased in-app.
Loadwave
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One more set? Have I done enough? Am I overdoing it? You've been answering by feel. Loadwave answers with a light. Log a set — weight and reps — and you immediately see green, yellow or red. Green: keep going. Yellow: you're at the top edge. Red: that's enough for today. That's it. The maths runs underneath; you never have to learn it. WHY IT WORKS Every weight has an ideal number of reps. Fewer, and the stimulus is too small. More, and you accumulate fatigue and risk. Just right, and you get the most out of the session. A. S. Prilepin worked this out from the training logs of thousands of elite lifters, and it still underpins strength programming today. Loadwave measures every set against it — and on a mixed-zone day it switches to Hristov's INOL formula, so a textbook multi-zone session never triggers a false alarm. WHAT YOU GET • A live light after every set — at the bar, not in hindsight • Working-weight calculator: pick a percentage, get the kilos and the recommended sets and reps • Four lifts: squat, bench, deadlift, curl — with variations (paused, close grip, speed, tempo, pin, deficit, block) • Per-variation references you never have to test for: derived from your competition max • Weekly load chart across 8 weeks, with thresholds — see when you're drifting into too much • RPE drift detection: if the same weight feels heavier week after week, you hear about it early • INOL · NL · AWL for the curious — one tap away, never in the way • Export and restore — your data is yours, and opens in any spreadsheet HOW IT BEHAVES No account. No sign-up. No ads. No internet needed — reception in a gym is bad anyway. Everything stays on your phone. WHAT'S FREE Everything for the first 30 days, with no card required. Nothing starts charging; the trial simply ends. After that these stay yours with no time limit: logging, the light, the working-weight calculator, all four competition lifts, 30 days of history, and full export. Pro is a one-time purchase — no subscription. It opens the complete history, the weekly chart, RPE drift detection and the variations. Your sessions are never deleted. Older ones aren't shown without Pro, but they stay on your phone and in every export — and reappear the moment you unlock. WHO IT'S FOR Powerlifters and strength trainees who work with numbers but don't want to keep a spreadsheet. Competing or just getting stronger, the question is the same: was today enough? IMPORTANT Loadwave gives guidelines, not medical advice. Prilepin's numbers assume explosive sets taken short of failure. You know your body — the app is just a better pair of glasses.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Loadwave at none against RunForm AI's shown. Loadwave also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.2). On price, 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
Both are free to download. RunForm AI sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Loadwave sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | RunForm AI | Loadwave |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PacoStudio | Bitagent Kft. |
In-app purchases
RunForm AI
- 5 Running Form Analyses$0.99
- 15 Running Form Analyses$1.99
- 10 Credits$2.99
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- 50 Credits$9.99
- 100 Credits$14.99
Loadwave
- Loadwave Pro$8.99









