Personal Bests vs RunBests
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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 helps you discover your fastest efforts hidden inside your workouts. Most fitness apps only show totals: total distance, total time, average pace. Personal Bests goes deeper. It analyzes every workout in Apple Health and finds your fastest segments of any length, then ranks them across all your workouts and timeframes. Need to find your fastest 7K segment within the last year? Your fastest 1-mile effort ever, even if it happened in the middle of a longer run? Your best 500m row, 5K ride, or 1K swim? Personal Bests will find it. Segment-Based Personal Bests • Automatically finds your fastest segments for any distance you care about. • Works across running, cycling, walking, swimming, rowing, and more. • Segments don’t need to align with workout start or end — Personal Bests finds the fastest effort anywhere inside a workout. Custom Distances • Track exactly what matters to you. • Add any segment length: 400m, 1K, 7K, 10 miles, marathon, or anything else. • Set favorite segments per activity for quick access. Rankings Across Time • Rank your segments against all your workouts. • Filter rankings by timeframe: • All-time • Past year • Past months or weeks • Custom time windows • Instantly see where a workout ranks — 1st, top 10, or beyond. Detailed Segment Analysis • View segment results, rankings, and medals for each workout. • See which distance source was used (GPS route, Health statistics, or raw samples). • Export segment results or distance data as CSV for deeper analysis. Powerful Rankings View • Browse leaderboards by: • Segment (fastest times) • Duration (longest workouts) • Distance (farthest efforts) • Filter by activity type, timeframe, and segment length. • Quickly jump from rankings into the full workout details. Now on iPhone, iPad & Mac • Your segments and rankings sync securely through your own iCloud. • Widgets keep your latest personal bests on the Home Screen. • Background notifications alert you the moment you set a new best. • Optional, on-device AI summaries (Beta) give a quick recap of a workout. Flexible & Private • Uses your existing Apple Health data. • No third-party accounts — your data syncs privately through your own iCloud. • Analysis runs on-device. • You stay in full control of what’s included. Who Is This For? Personal Bests is built for athletes who care about performance, not just totals: • Runners tracking PRs at multiple distances • Cyclists comparing best efforts over time • Swimmers, rowers, and endurance athletes • Anyone who wants deeper insight into their training history If you’ve ever wondered “When was I actually at my fastest?”, Personal Bests is for you.
RunBests
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Run Bests shows your personal best running times drawn from your health data. Outside of a race, runners rarely hit the exact same distance twice. Your "5-mile run" might be 5.1 miles today and 5.05 miles tomorrow. Because of that variation, Run Bests brackets runs within a certain range together. Just set a target distance (in miles or kilometers) and choose a "margin of error." For example, if you want to find your fastest 5-mile run, set a 0.25 margin and Run Bests will instantly scan your selected date range and pull every run between 5.0 and 5.25 miles into one clean, sortable list. KEY FEATURES * Distance Bracketing Group your past runs using a custom margin of error (0, 0.25, 0.5, or 1) so no near-miss gets left out. Margin is applied upward only — a 4.99-mile workout won't count toward 5-mile until it crosses the line. * Race Time vs. Workout Time For each qualifying workout, see both the time you crossed the exact target distance (race time, GPS-derived) and the full elapsed workout time. * Best Segment Paces Find your fastest contiguous 1 km, 1 mile (or any distance you pick) found anywhere inside any run — even if your fastest mile happened in the middle of a long marathon. * Major Races + Overall Records Toggle Half Marathon and Marathon. Plus longest distance, longest duration, and fastest average pace. *Custom Date Filters Browse PRs across all time, the last 30 / 90 days, the last year, a single year, or any custom date range. Watch yourself improve across a training cycle. *Tap-to-Sort Leaderboards Inside each category, top 20 by Race time, Race pace, Workout time, or Workout pace. * Privacy by Design Run Bests reads your running workouts from Apple Health and stores a private local cache on your device. Nothing leaves your phone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: RunBests at every 4 days against Personal Bests's every 6 months. RunBests also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Personal Bests ships an update every 6 months, RunBests every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on August 30, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Personal Bests | RunBests |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Markus Kettner | John Bergmayer |
In-app purchases
Personal Bests
No in-app purchases
RunBests
No in-app purchases









