Picstat vs UltraPlanRun
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Picstat
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Turn your sweat into art. PicStat is the ultimate tool for runners, cyclists, and hikers who want to share more than just a map screenshot. Now supercharged with the all-new Nova rendering engine, PicStat V3 brings your activities to life with full video editing, animated overlays, and dynamic data graphs! Create professional overlays of your sports activities on your photos and videos. Whether it's a 10K PR, a grueling Spartan race, a Sunday ride, or a hiking trip, make your stats look as good as your performance. WORKS WITH YOUR FAVORITE APPS PicStat is Powered by Strava API to ensure accurate data sync. Easily import your activities directly or use GPX files exported from: โข Garmin Connect โข Nike Run Club (NRC) โข Coros โข Apple Watch & Health โข Suunto KEY FEATURES โข Stunning Overlays: Display your route shape (trace), distance, pace, elevation, and time directly on your photos and videos. โข Video Editing & Animation: Edit your videos in-app and animate your route drawing over your media for a dynamic effect. โข Strava Data Graphs: Add beautiful, custom-generated charts of your pace, heart rate, or elevation. โข Visual Trace Editor: We render your GPX path beautifully. Customize the line color, thickness, and style to match your aesthetic. โข Social Ready: Export in portrait (9:16) for Instagram Stories/Reels and TikTok, or square (1:1) for posts. โข Privacy First: You choose exactly what data to show or hide. Why choose PicStat? Unlike basic screenshots, PicStat treats your activity data as a design element. Built natively for content creators and athletes who care about aesthetics. No ads, just clean code, high performance, and beautiful results. Disclaimer: PicStat is a third-party companion app. It is not affiliated with, associated with, authorized by, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with Strava, Inc., Garmin Ltd, or Nike Inc. Terms of Use: https://picstat.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://picstat.app/privacy
UltraPlanRun
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UltraPlan Run is the most complete ultramarathon planning app available. From your first 50K to your tenth 100-miler, everything to plan smarter, race better, and finish prepared, now with a live crew page too. YOUR RACE DASHBOARD All your races in one place, each card shows name, date, distance, and a live countdown. Tap for directions, pin your next race, and keep a full history. INTELLIGENT RACE PLANNING Upload a GPX file and UltraPlan builds your race segments: distances, elevation, ETAs, and daylight. With named waypoints, the plan builds in seconds. Adjust pace, add stops, watch your finish update live. ADAPTIVE PACING FROM YOUR OWN DATA Upload a FIT file from a past race, or record a calibration run, for a personalised pacing profile. Every segment gets its own predicted time and ETA, so your finish reflects how you run the terrain, not flat averages. CREW LIVE LINK & RACE DAY BEACON Send your crew one link by text. It opens in any browser, no app or account needed, and shows your live position, each checkpoint ticking off as you arrive, your splits and pace against plan, and live ETAs for every stop. Flip on the beacon at the start and run. TRAINING LOG & RACE READINESS Track the build-up, not just race day. UltraPlan pulls runs from Apple Health and merges FIT and GPX imports: weekly volume, heart-rate and sleep trends, max-HR. A readiness read from your HRV and resting heart rate, against your baseline, flags when you're recovering, steady, or fatigued, with taper, recovery, and illness alerts. APPLE WATCH & WIDGETS Readiness on your wrist, plus Smart Stack complications and a live countdown. On iPhone, pin a race to your Home Screen with a countdown and elevation profile. LIVE RACE TRACKING On race day, UltraPlan becomes a real-time companion. Live ETA on the lock screen and Dynamic Island, auto-advance through checkpoints, off-course detection. Lock your phone and run. TRAIL TRACK & FIND YOUR WAY BACK On recces and training runs, record a breadcrumb and let UltraPlan guide you home along your own path, not a straight-line shortcut. A built-in SOS screen shares your exact position to read out even with no signal. NUTRITION PLANNING Fuel segment by segment with a database of leading race brands. Add custom foods, set carb and sodium targets, and let Smart Fill build a balanced plan. Assign drop bags and get a full pack-and-shop list for race week. SUPPORT CREW Assign crew to each checkpoint from your Contacts, share plans and shopping lists for clean handovers, and set sleep-stop wake messages so they know when to move you on. COURSE, WEATHER & ELEVATION Per-checkpoint forecasts and live conditions for recces. Heat factors adjust your pace for hot weather, and kit advice flags wet-cold risk: spare waterproofs, dry layers, where to stage them. Elevation profile and route map. SAFETY & HEALTH MONITORING Record body weight with thresholds for healthy loss and gain. UltraPlan alerts you when projected loss enters a caution or high-risk zone, critical in heat. One-tap Emergency SOS shares your problem and location. RACE DAY PACK & KIT Tick off the mandatory kit checklist and add race-specific items, then export a PDF pack: segments, ETAs, nutrition, drop bags, kit, contacts, weather, and logistics in one file. A condensed Quick Card folds into a drop bag; export as CSV. LOGISTICS & SHARING Log travel, hotels, and transport, with reminders for registration and a morning-of alarm. Share a plan with another UltraPlan user, and compare runs segment by segment when you've raced it before. ULTRAPLAN PRO (one-time, lifetime, Family Sharing) The free tier plans one race with most tools. Pro unlocks unlimited races, live tracking, Crew Live Link, FIT and heat-adjusted pacing, training log and readiness, race comparison, full PDF and Quick Card, CSV export, Smart Fill, custom food and kit with iCloud sync, widgets, full weather, and Dark theme. Plan the miles. Trust the plan. Run the race.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: UltraPlanRun at none against Picstat's shown. UltraPlanRun also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). Picstat's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Picstat sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and UltraPlanRun sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Picstat ships an update weekly, UltraPlanRun daily. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Picstat | UltraPlanRun |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily โ better |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kuba Studio | John Weir |
In-app purchases
Picstat
- Bronze$0.991 Month
- Silver$2.991 Month
- Gold$3.991 Month
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- PicStat Plus$4.991 Month
- Bronze$8.991 Year
- Silver$24.991 Year
- PicStat Plus$39.991 Year
- Gold$44.991 Year
UltraPlanRun
- UltraPlan Pro$14.99









