Comparison

Run Tracker vs Ember

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

Head to head
About

Run Tracker

This app focuses on building consistent running habits by tracking your consecutive running days. It syncs with Apple Health and Strava, offering insights into your patterns and motivating you with milestones and private accountability groups. It's designed for those prioritizing consistency over performance.

Highlights
  • Automatic run tracking via Apple Health/Strava
  • Consecutive day streak counter
  • Consistency insights and pattern analysis
  • Streak Passport with yearly activity rings
  • Run Defense Mode with Live Activity
  • Private accountability groups (Streak Circles)
  • Milestone badges and shareable achievements
Features
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Build a daily running habit, one run at a time. StreakRunner brings your running history together and shows your consecutive days, milestones and progress. WHAT COUNTS A classic streak requires at least 1 mile (1.609 km) in one run each day. Separate shorter runs are not added together. Premium lets you choose a personal distance or duration minimum. Personal goals, filled history and saver-assisted records are distinct from an official running streak. YOUR RUNNING HISTORY Import saved running workouts from Apple Health, or log a completed run manually. Apple Watch and other apps are supported when they save running workouts to Health and you grant read access. Strava imports require Premium. Imports update when saved workouts become available; StreakRunner does not record live GPS runs. SEE YOUR PROGRESS Follow your current streak, calendar, milestones and weekly recap. See your earned milestones and best streak in History. Open your Streak Passport for yearly activity, achievements and share cards. STREAK CIRCLES Private groups for 2–8 friends use iCloud sharing. See daily statuses and send reactions. An iCloud account is required for Circles. RUN DEFENSE MODE A Live Activity shows your streak, a countdown and progress from saved workouts. It is not a live distance feed from an unfinished workout in another app. PREMIUM • Personal distance or duration goals • Automatic Strava imports • Five widgets for your streak, progress and quick logging • Your five longest running streaks • Backdate your current streak once or add a past streak • One streak saver included every three months Additional saver packs are available separately. Savers preserve assisted continuity; they do not represent a run. After Premium expires, your personal goal stays saved and the active calculation returns to the classic mile. PRIVACY Your run data stays on your devices and syncs through iCloud, not through our servers. Purchases are processed by Apple and validated by our subscription provider, RevenueCat. Circles shares selected information with people you invite through Apple's CloudKit sharing. Nothing is sold or used for advertising. Terms of Use: https://streakapp.suur.io/terms Privacy Policy: https://streakapp.suur.io/privacy

About

Ember

This app helps you create a personal archive of your life and relationships. It allows you to journal about your experiences, tag people in your entries, and revisit memories through a feed or map. You can also import old journals and customize your writing experience.

Highlights
  • Tag people in journal entries
  • Organize memories by person and circle
  • Memory feed and location map
  • Import from Day One and Apple Journal
  • Markdown, photos, voice memos, music
  • Private iCloud sync
  • Exportable archive
Features
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Ember is a journal that remembers your people. Write about your day. Mention someone once, and every moment you share gathers on their page. Years from now, open it and everything you lived together is there, in your own words. A life archive, kept by you. No account. No AI. Just open Ember and write. MENTION THEM ONCE • Type @ and a name. That moment now belongs to them, and to you. • Everyone gets a page: how you met, the stories you share, every moment you wrote down. • Worlds for the circles you move in (family, work, college) and stories for chapters that span years. • Bring people in from Apple Contacts, with birthdays and details intact. IT COMES BACK TO YOU • The Feed brings back moments you had almost forgotten, on the right day: a year since you met, a story from last summer. • When someone you care about has been quiet too long, they gently surface. No streaks. No guilt. YOUR LIFE, ON A MAP • The Map shows where every memory happened: entries, stories and people. • On Mac and iPad, the Graph shows everyone at once, gathered into the worlds you share. BRING YOUR OLD JOURNALS • Import from Day One and Apple Journal, with your photos, video and audio. • Ember finds the people already in your old entries, so years of writing gather on their pages. WRITE THE WAY YOU ALWAYS HAVE • Markdown, photos, voice memos, and songs from Apple Music. • Weather is added for you. Places only when you choose. • Themes, fonts and line spacing to make it feel like yours. SEND THEM THE MEMORY • Turn a moment into a card for the people in it, or keep a story as a PDF keepsake. • Nothing is hosted. You choose what to send, and to whom. YOURS ALONE • Local-first: your journal lives on your device. • Lock it with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode. • Sync is private, through your own iCloud. • Export everything, anytime, as an open, documented archive. • No AI. Ember never reads, writes or summarizes a word of your journal. ON IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC One archive, wherever you write. ⌘K searches everything on Mac and iPad. EMBER PLUS Ember is free, with no limit on what you write. Ember Plus adds: • iCloud sync across your iPhone, iPad and Mac • The full theme catalogue Available monthly with a 1-week free trial, yearly with a 2-week free trial, or as a lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Support: https://ember.mov/support/ Privacy Policy: https://ember.mov/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Run Tracker4 screens
Ember4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ember at 100% against Run Tracker's 0%. Ember also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Run Tracker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Ember sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ember holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Run Tracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ember's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Run Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Ember every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Run Tracker versus Ember: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRun TrackerEmber
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB32 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSUUR Limited Liability CompanyNandhakumar Senthilkumar

Customer experience

Run Tracker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Ember

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Run Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • StreakRunner Premium$4.991 Month
  • StreakRunner Premium$24.991 Year
One-time2
  • 5 Streak Savers$9.99
  • 20 Streak Savers$19.99
3 purchases

Ember

Subscriptions2
  • Ember Plus Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Ember Plus Yearly14 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Ember Plus Lifetime$119.99

Questions

Is Run Tracker free?
Run Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ember free?
Ember is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Run Tracker or Ember?
Ember is rated higher. Run Tracker averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Ember averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Run Tracker or Ember have ads?
Neither Run Tracker nor Ember shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Run Tracker or Ember?
Run Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Ember every 4 days. Most recently, Run Tracker was updated on October 24, 2026 and Ember on October 25, 2026.

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