Comparison

Personal Bests vs RunAtlas

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

Head to head
About

Personal Bests

This app analyzes your workout history from Apple Health to find your fastest segments of any distance. It ranks these personal bests across all your activities and timeframes, offering detailed insights and flexible tracking for athletes focused on performance.

Highlights
  • Finds fastest segments of any distance
  • Works across running, cycling, swimming, rowing
  • Segments can be anywhere within a workout
  • Customizable segment lengths
  • Rankings across all timeframes
  • Detailed segment analysis and export
  • Syncs via iCloud
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Personal Bests finds the fastest efforts hidden inside your workouts and awards you medals for them, with nobody to compete against but yourself. Your fastest 5K might be kilometers 7 to 12 of a half marathon. Your best mile might be buried in the middle of a long run. Personal Bests looks inside every workout in Apple Health, finds your fastest segment for every distance you care about, and ranks it against your whole history. Just You vs. You Personal Bests isn't a social network. There's no feed, no followers, no leaderboard of strangers and no challenges telling you to go faster. You earn gold, silver and bronze for real work, and the only person you're up against is you. Your Game, Your Rules • Choose the distances that count: 400 m, 5K, 10 miles, a marathon or anything else, for every sport. • Choose what you're compared against: all-time, the past year, or any window of days, weeks, months or years. • Coming back from an injury or a break? Rank against the last three months instead of your all-time best. • Keep the medals you've earned, even after you beat them, or let them move on. • Rank indoor and outdoor workouts separately, so a treadmill run isn't compared with a trail run. Find Your Fastest Efforts • Segments can start and end anywhere in a workout, not just at the start. • Running, cycling, swimming, rowing, paddling, walking, cross-country skiing and more. • Your whole Apple Health history, from Apple Watch, iPhone and other apps. • New workouts are analyzed automatically, even in the background. See Where You Were Fastest • On iPhone, your fastest segments are drawn on the route, each in its own color. • Leaderboards for your fastest times, longest workouts and farthest distances. • A short written summary of any workout, using Apple Intelligence where it's available. Keep Bad Data Off the Podium • Forgot to stop your watch on the train? Segments that are too fast to be true for you are flagged, judged against your own history. • Crop a workout to the part you actually did, or remove GPS spikes with one tap. • Your Health data is never changed. Celebrate Your Progress • Get a notification when a new workout earns a medal. • "While you were away": a recap of your new medals and training when you come back to the app. • Rankings and Recent Bests widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen. On iPhone, iPad & Mac • Your iPhone reads Apple Health and does the analysis. • iPad and Mac show your workouts, rankings and medals, with the list and details side by side. Private by Design • No account, no ads, no tracking. • Analysis runs on your device. • Syncs only through your own iCloud, and you can switch that off. • Read-only access to Apple Health. Make It Yours • Three app icons and three themes. Personal Bests is for anyone who loves earning medals but doesn't need to race strangers for them: runners tracking PRs from 400 m to the marathon, cyclists comparing their best 40K across seasons, swimmers, rowers, and everyone who has ever wondered, "When was I actually at my fastest?"

About

RunAtlas

Features
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Explore Your Running History RunAtlas transforms your Apple Health running data into beautiful insights. If you've been running with your Apple Watch, you already have years of runs waiting to be explored. Key Features: • Interactive World Map - See every city you've run in, with markers sized by how often you run there. Filter by all runs, 5K+, 10K+, half marathon, or marathon efforts. • Monthly Comparison - Compare your running in any month across all years. See all runs by default, or focus on 5K+ efforts when you want a performance-oriented view. • Fastest Times - Track your best 5K, 10K, half marathon, and marathon efforts when available. • Detailed Statistics - Explore yearly totals, distance milestones, countries visited, cities explored, pace trends, and more. • Run History - Browse all running workouts, search by location, and add location or distance details for indoor runs. • Run Routes - View the actual GPS route of any outdoor run on a map. Privacy First: - No accounts or sign-ups required - No data collection or tracking - Your running data is read from Apple Health and stays on your device - Optional indoor run edits can sync through your private iCloud account Requirements: - Reads running workouts from Apple Health - Works best with Apple Watch running data - Outdoor route maps require workouts with GPS route data Perfect for runners who want to understand their running history, track progress across years, or simply see all the amazing places they've run.

Screenshots

Personal Bests4 screens
RunAtlas4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: RunAtlas at weekly against Personal Bests's every 4 months. RunAtlas also leads on iOS requirement (18.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Personal Bests ships an update every 4 months, RunAtlas weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Personal Bests versus RunAtlas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPersonal BestsRunAtlas
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarkus KettnerShahin Sefati

In-app purchases

None

Personal Bests

No in-app purchases

None

RunAtlas

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Personal Bests free?
Personal Bests is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RunAtlas free?
RunAtlas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Personal Bests or RunAtlas have ads?
Neither Personal Bests nor RunAtlas shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Personal Bests or RunAtlas?
Personal Bests ships an update every 4 months, and RunAtlas weekly. Most recently, Personal Bests was updated on October 15, 2026 and RunAtlas on October 25, 2026.

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