Comparison

Project Summit vs orma run

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

Head to head
About

Project Summit

Features
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Training, recovery and race nutrition in one app. Summit plans your season, reads every morning how you've recovered, and adjusts today's training to your body and to the time you actually have. WHY DOES IT EXIST? I prepared for La Traka 360 (360 km of gravel in a single day) with four apps (recovery, workouts, load and food), almost all of them paid, that didn't share data with each other. I was the one connecting the dots, by hand, every week. I reached the finish in good shape, convinced a better product was needed. That product is Summit. A DETERMINISTIC ENGINE No AI model decides anything in Summit. A rules engine built on sports science calculates the plan, the load and the daily adaptation: periodization and training load. Same data, same decision: every number traces back to a rule and to your data. YOUR SEASON Set your race β€”a single day or several stagesβ€” or your challenge, and Summit builds the season backwards: base, build, peak and taper, with recovery weeks. If you have no race, you get a continuous block based on your goal: maintain or build fitness. IT ADAPTS TO YOUR BODY While you sleep, your wearable records HRV, overnight heart rate and sleep: the Apple Watch through Apple Health; Garmin, Whoop and others through intervals.icu. Summit calculates your readiness on your iPhone against your own baseline, not an average. If you've recovered poorly, today's session is softened or switches type; if you've recovered well and you're in a phase that allows it, it can go up. Going down is easy: to go up, Summit requires more evidence. IT ADAPTS TO YOUR LIFE Tell it how many minutes you have each day and flag the days that change. If you skip a session, Summit spreads its load across the remaining days, within your availability, and moves the key session. WITH POWER OR BY HEART RATE Tell Summit how you train on the bike: power, heart rate, or it depends. With heart rate, long steady work is set in % of your LTHR and short, hard efforts go by feel, because heart rate lags; a 30-minute LTHR test replaces the FTP test. Your plan and its load don't change. With power, Summit calculates eFTP, critical power (CP), W' and your power curve from your rides, and keeps indoor eFTP separate from outdoor. Either way, it calculates your fitness, fatigue and form (CTL, ATL and TSB), using the load model you already know. RACE DAY Summit calculates carbohydrates, fluids and sodium per hour from the duration, the intensity, your weight and the forecast temperature, using the products you normally use. CONNECTED Strava and Hammerhead Karoo bring in your rides; Apple Health and intervals.icu, your recovery data. Connecting them is free on every plan. With Elite, ZWO/FIT files and sending sessions to the Karoo and, through intervals.icu, to Garmin, Zwift and MyWhoosh. FREE AND PREMIUM Free, forever: the daily recovery score, the sleep score with its stages, sleep debt and rhythm, the recovery trend, the widgets and the outline of today's session. Pro adds analysis: load, power, detailed analysis of every ride and the race weather forecast. Elite adds prescription: the adaptive plan, sending to your device and race nutrition. Premium includes a 14-day trial. IS IT FOR YOU? For the amateur cyclist who wants to improve, whether or not they race, with a power meter or a heart-rate strap. For those who live cycling, even if they don't live off it. CITED SCIENCE Bibliographic references inside the app: peer-reviewed papers, with DOIs. Summit guides your training; it does not replace the advice of a healthcare professional or a certified coach. I prepared the Gran Diagonal β€”999 km across Portugal, north to south, in 6 daysβ€” 100% with Summit. Now you can prepare your own challenge with the same app. Privacy policy: https://projectsummit.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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orma run

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orma is a private diary for running and walking, for iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad. it records your run or your walk, hides the numbers while you move, and turns the data into color and shape afterwards. three principles, in this order: experience first, memory after, data last. DURING THE RUN choose run or walk, then start. the Apple Watch stays silent. no pace, no distance, no heart rate, no time. you see only a line drawing itself kilometer by kilometer, and a color slowly forming. everything is measured and saved. nothing is shown. the run stays a run, the walk stays a walk. WHEN YOU STOP fifteen seconds, two questions: how good it was, and one word that stayed with you. that is all orma asks while you catch your breath. a longer note is written later, on iPhone. COLOR FROM THE BODY every run and every walk becomes a colored tile. the color is not chosen, it is computed from three measured signals: elevation, heart rate, distance. a flat, calm, short outing and a steep, hard, long one come out as different colors. runs and walks share the same scale for distance and elevation, while a walk's heart keeps its own quieter band: a walk never looks like a run. orma learns your personal range and keeps tuning it, so the color is yours from the first day. THE TRACE each run and each walk is rendered as an orma: a generative line built from your own data. one loop per kilometer, its size set by your heart rate, its drift shaped by how your heart rises and falls and by the gradient under your feet. no two are alike. even the tile carries meaning: its width is the distance, its height the time. YOUR YEAR, AS ONE IMAGE your days fill a grid of the whole year, one cell per day. the days you moved become colored tiles. the days you did not stay blank. when you run and walk on the same day, they merge into a single tile: the grid shows days, not workouts. the empty days count as much as the full ones: a quiet week, a holiday, a season of life. the grid becomes a portrait of your year, lived on foot. MADE TO BE PRINTED orma is built for paper. export your year as a high-resolution poster, export a single orma as a clean image of one outing, or turn a whole year into a print-ready book. orma never sells or ships anything: the files are yours, and you choose where, and whether, to print them. A DIARY FOR EVERY STEP you do not have to record with orma to use orma. it reads your runs and walks from Apple Health automatically, whatever recorded them. import a full year at once, add outings done without a device by hand, or import a .gpx file for the full route and heart rate, then mark each one as a run or a walk. add a word, a rating and a note to any past outing, and build your diary backwards as well as forwards. export any outing as a .gpx for Strava or anywhere else. FREE AND PRIVATE orma is free and complete. every feature is open. no subscription, no in-app purchase, no ads, no account. nothing is tracked, nothing is sold. your runs and walks live on your device and in your own private iCloud, and nowhere else. ON EVERY DEVICE record on Apple Watch, read on iPhone and iPad. an Apple Watch is needed to record with orma; without one, you can still use orma as a diary by importing from Apple Health. orma is an independent app, made in Umbria, Italy.

Screenshots

Project Summit4 screens
orma run4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: orma run at none against Project Summit's 4. orma run also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). Project Summit's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 6 weeks). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Project Summit sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. orma run asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Project Summit ships an update every 6 days, orma run every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences Β· 2 level
Project Summit versus orma run: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProject Summitorma run
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 days β€” betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch β€” better
Requires iOS26.017.6 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size34 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJordi EspanyolFilippo Parroni

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Project Summit

Subscriptions4
  • Project Summit Pro14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Project Summit Elite14 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • Project Summit Pro14 Days trial$22.991 Year
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  • Project Summit Elite14 Days trial$59.991 Year
None

orma run

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Project Summit free?
Project Summit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is orma run free?
orma run is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Project Summit or orma run have ads?
Neither Project Summit nor orma run shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Project Summit or orma run?
Project Summit ships an update every 6 days, and orma run every 6 weeks. Most recently, Project Summit was updated on October 30, 2026 and orma run on October 28, 2026.

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