Elevation Athlete Tracker vs Marafit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Elevation Athlete Tracker
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Elevation helps endurance athletes understand training load fast. See your selected day and week at a glance, compare this week with last week, and open the workouts that created the load. Track running, cycling, and general training duration with a calendar-led dashboard built around weekly comparison instead of endless lists. Use HealthKit data to review distance, duration, calories, HRV trends, and training balance when available. Free to download. Some advanced analytics require a subscription. Terms of Service: https://www.getelevation.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.getelevation.app/privacy
Marafit
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Marafit turns your own Apple Health running data into a full 16-week marathon plan โ and keeps adjusting it to what you actually run. Most training apps hand you a template and ask you to fit into it. Marafit reads your last 90 days of runs, works out your heart-rate zones, your easy pace, your threshold pace and your current fitness, and builds the plan around those. WHAT YOU GET FOR FREE โข A complete 16-week periodised plan โ 3:1 build/down weeks, a 3-week taper, every session placed on a real date โข Pick your own training days: long run day, quality day, and as many support runs as you want (3 to 6 sessions a week) โข Personal heart-rate zones for every session, derived from your maximum and resting heart rate via the Karvonen method โข Daily readiness score from HRV, resting heart rate and sleep, with the full breakdown of how it was calculated โข Today's fitness, fatigue and form (CTL / ATL / TSB) โข Weekly score: planned versus actual, session by session โข Long-run comparison: heart-rate curve and time in each zone โข A realism check on your goal time, so you find out before week one rather than on race day MARAFIT PRO โข Paces tuned to you โ easy and threshold paces come from your own measured efforts and VDOT, instead of being derived from your goal time โข A plan that follows you โ miss a week or overshoot one, and the remaining weeks are re-anchored to what you actually ran โข Fitness and fatigue trends over 90 days, not just today's numbers โข Deep run analysis โ aerobic efficiency, heart-rate drift with warm-up removed, heat stress from the temperature and humidity recorded during the run, plus running dynamics and elevation HOW IT WORKS Marafit reads runs, heart rate, HRV, resting heart rate, VO2 max, sleep and body metrics from Apple Health. It never writes anything back. Every calculation runs on your iPhone. The training model follows established methods: Karvonen heart-rate reserve for zones, Daniels VDOT for equivalent performances and threshold pace, Banister TRIMP for training load, and the CTL / ATL / TSB fitness-fatigue model. BEFORE YOU START Marafit needs running history in Apple Health to build anything โ record runs with Apple Watch or the iPhone Workout app. If you have none yet, tap "Or explore with demo data" on the first screen to load 13 weeks of sample runs and see the whole app, then clear them in one tap. Currently supports the full marathon (42.195 km). Half marathon is not included: the periodisation, long-run progression and race-pace work are all calibrated for the full distance, and offering a rescaled version would produce a plan that looks usable but isn't. iPhone only. There is no iCloud sync, so your data stays on the device you use. PRIVACY No account. No servers. No analytics, advertising or tracking SDKs. Your health data never leaves your device โ we have no way to receive it even if we wanted to. Deleting the app deletes everything. SUBSCRIPTION Marafit Pro is available as a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, or a one-time lifetime unlock. Eligible Apple IDs get a 7-day free trial on the yearly plan. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings. The lifetime option does not renew. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://jakepyth.github.io/marafit-support/privacy.html Marafit gives training guidance, not medical advice. It does not diagnose or treat any condition. Consult a physician before starting a new training programme, and stop if you feel unwell.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Elevation Athlete Tracker at every 2 days against Marafit's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Elevation Athlete Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Marafit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Elevation Athlete Tracker ships an update every 2 days, Marafit every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Elevation Athlete Tracker | Marafit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days โ better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel James Tronca | ๆด ๅ |
In-app purchases
Elevation Athlete Tracker
- Monthly Subscription$3.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Lifetime Subscription$59.99
Marafit
- Marafit: Marathon Training$2.991 Month
- Marafit: Marathon Training7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Marafit: Marathon Training$39.99
Questions
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