Pace It vs Zonna Run
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pace It
This app helps runners analyze their training progress by tracking pace improvements across heart rate zones. It provides personalized training paces that adapt to your current fitness level, ensuring your workouts remain relevant. Monitor key metrics like VO2 max and training load for a comprehensive view of your development.
- Track pace progression across heart rate zones
- Personalized adaptive training paces
- Monitor VO2 max and training load
- Build and run structured workouts on Apple Watch
- Integrates with Strava and Apple Health
- Shoe tracking and rotation
- Personal best and yearly performance summaries
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The feedback loop your training was missing. Built for runners who care about pacing accuracy, long-term progress beyond PBs and whether all that training is paying off. Am I getting fitter? See how your pace changes at the same heart rate across zones, month after month. Are my training paces still right? Get updated pace targets for 5K, 10K and threshold efforts based on your runs and current fitness. Am I doing too much? Compare your recent training load with your baseline to help balance training and recovery. What run makes sense today? Get a daily workout suggestion based on your training load and paces. Works with Apple Health. Compatible with Strava. No account needed. LONG-TERM FITNESS TRENDS - Average monthly pace trends by heart rate zone, Zone 1 to Zone 4 - Running efficiency: pace vs heart rate for every run over 90 days - Pace It Index: a 0 to 100 fitness score with a 30-day trend - VO2 max tracking & VDOT trends TRAINING LOAD & RUN SUGGESTIONS - Training Load Ratio: your last 7 days against your baseline, updated after every workout across all activities - Recovery time: estimate when your load will return to optimal range - Today's run: see a workout suggestion based on your load & paces, including a lower-load option when needed APPLE WATCH WORKOUTS - 5 running screens - 35+ configurable metrics - Build and run structured workouts with pace or heart rate targets & haptic alerts - Complications: steps, Training Load Ratio, weekly mileage, training distribution & Today's Run TRAINING PACES BUILT FROM YOUR RUNS - 7 paces from your last 60 days, with heart rate ranges, RPE & race-effort equivalents - Race estimates - Race calculator - Automatic or custom heart rate zones TRAINING DISTRIBUTION & VOLUME - Easy vs hard split, time in zone and load focus using LT1 and LT2 estimates - Weekly mileage, run goals and streaks RUN ANALYSIS: - Pace, heart rate, power, cadence, running dynamics, splits, segments & elevation - Automatic run categorization: easy, tempo, intervals, long run and more - Automatic personal best tracking: 5K, 10K, half, marathon & longest run INTEGRATIONS & MORE TOOLS - Strava: automatic run import and export, plus historical syncing - Shoe tracking - Share run stats: route, HR and pace - Home & lock-screen widgets - Yearly summaries ACCESS, SUBSCRIPTION & PURCHASE INFORMATION Pace It offers free and Pro features. The free version includes selected features but not the Apple Watch app. To access Pace It Pro you can choose between: - Lifetime Access: one-time purchase - Subscriptions: Monthly or Yearly plans Subscription plans include a 1-week free trial. Pro access includes the full Pace It experience, including pace trends, Training Load Ratio tracking, personalized training paces and the Apple Watch app. PAYMENT & RENEWALS - If you start a free trial, you will not be charged until the trial period ends. Unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the trial ends, your subscription will automatically renew at the selected price. - Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. - Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. - Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. - Manage or cancel your subscription at any time in your App Store account settings. PRIVACY Apple Health data is analyzed on your device. If you connect Strava, activities shared through Strava are stored on our servers for syncing, including workouts you export from Pace It. Pace It is not a medical device. It provides training insights for informational purposes only. TERMS & PRIVACY Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Additional Terms (Pace It Terms of Use): https://paceit.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://paceit.app/privacy-policy Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy: https://paceit.app/consumer-health-data-privacy
Zonna Run
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You're trying hard. That's the problem. Most runners go medium-hard on everything and never improve. Zonna gives you a zone for each session and holds you to it. Easy when it's easy, hard when it's hard. WHAT IT DOES A training plan built for your race. 5K, 10K, half marathon, or marathon. Tells you what to do each day and why. Heart rate zones paced to you. Calculated from your age and your runs. No guessing, no generic targets. Real analysis after every run. Kit, your in-app coach, reads what you actually did against the zone you should've been in — and tells you honestly. A weekly zone score. Every Sunday: how disciplined was your week. The number you didn't know you needed. A plan that moves. Miss a session, change a day, get injured — your plan reshapes itself, calmly. Apple Health integration. Your runs and recovery sync automatically. Nothing to log manually. WHO IT'S FOR Runners with a day job. People who've got training schedules and conference calls. The ones who keep going too hard because they've only got an hour after work and they want to make it count. If you're a sub-elite athlete running 100+ miles a week, this isn't for you. Zonna is for the rest of us — the runners who blur their zones because life is loud. WHAT'S FREE, WHAT'S PAID Free: a complete training plan for your race, daily session detail, heart rate zone targets, manual logging. Premium (14-day free trial, then £7.99/month or £59.99/year): Kit reads every run, weekly zone score, dynamic plan reshaping that responds to missed sessions or new injuries, post-run pace and heart-rate analysis, continuity across coaching surfaces. PRIVACY Your health data stays on your device by default. Apple Health permissions are read-only. We never write back. No data sold, ever. Full policy at zonna.run/privacy. You can't outrun your easy days.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pace It at every 2 weeks against Zonna Run's monthly. Pace It also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Zonna Run's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). On price, 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. Pace It sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Zonna Run sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pace It ships an update every 2 weeks, Zonna Run monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pace It | Zonna Run |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dionysis Kastellanis | RUSSELL JAMES SHEAR |
In-app purchases
Pace It
- Pace It Access (Monthly)7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Pace It Access (Yearly)7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Lifetime$89.99
Zonna Run
- Premium Monthly14 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Zonna Premium Annual14 Days trial$59.991 Year









