Sweat Map vs RunBests
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sweat Map
Visualize your outdoor activities with a personal heatmap. Track runs, walks, and cycles, with data automatically syncing from Apple Health. See your training progress and explore your activity history on an interactive map.
- Personal running heatmap
- Automatic Apple Health sync
- Interactive activity map
- Route visualization
- Filter by workout type
- Privacy-focused, on-device data
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Your personal running heatmap and workout tracker. Sweat Map transforms your workout history into a beautiful activity heatmap — see every run, walk, cycle, and outdoor workout on one interactive fitness map. RUNNING HEATMAP & ACTIVITY TRACKER Build your own running heatmap like Strava's global heatmap, but personal. Every outdoor workout you've ever tracked appears on your map. Run tracker data, walking routes, cycling paths, and hiking trails — all visualized. The more you train a route, the brighter it glows on your fitness heatmap. AUTOMATIC WORKOUT SYNC Your workout tracker data imports automatically from Apple Health. Compatible with: • Apple Watch workouts • Strava • Nike Run Club • Garmin Connect • Runkeeper • MapMyRun • Komoot • WorkOutDoors • Any run tracker or activity tracker that saves to Apple Health RUNNING MAP & ROUTE TRACKER View your complete running map and training log in one place. Filter by activity type to see just your running routes, cycling heatmap, walking tracker data, or hiking trails. Your route tracker history becomes a visual training log. WORKOUT HISTORY VISUALIZATION See your fitness journey at a glance. Months or years of workout history displayed on your personal heatmap. Track running progress, discover patterns in your outdoor workouts, and watch your activity map grow over time. SHARE YOUR FITNESS MAP Export your running heatmap or cycling map to share your fitness journey. Show friends your most-trained routes or your city exploration progress. FEATURES • Personal running heatmap from your workout history • Activity tracker with automatic Apple Health sync • Running map with route visualization • Cycling heatmap and walking tracker support • Training log with distance and workout stats • Filter by workout type and date range • Dark Mode support • Privacy-focused: all data stays on device PERFECT FOR • Runners building a personal running heatmap • Cyclists creating a cycling heatmap • Fitness enthusiasts tracking outdoor workouts • Anyone wanting to visualize their activity tracker data • Athletes reviewing their training log and route history Your run tracker, walking tracker, and cycling data deserves more than a list. Sweat Map turns your workout tracker history into a fitness map you can actually see and share.
RunBests
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Run Bests finds your personal best running times in Apple Health. Runs rarely end at exactly the same distance. Set the distances you care about and choose a margin to group comparable workouts. A 5-mile target with a 0.25-mile margin includes runs from 5.0 through 5.25 miles. COMPARE TIMES CLEARLY Workout time covers the full run and uses the duration reported by Health. Race time estimates how long it took to reach your target distance from the start. Both exclude pauses. Each has its own pace, and the workout detail explains which time you are viewing. FIND YOUR FASTEST SEGMENTS See your fastest continuous 1 mile, 1 km, or custom distance anywhere within a run. Segment estimates use Health's recorded distance samples when available, with GPS as a labeled fallback. A best segment can start between the fixed split markers shown in Fitness. CUSTOMIZE YOUR RECORDS Choose distances in miles or kilometers, set a distance margin, and enable half marathon, marathon, longest run, longest workout time, and fastest average pace records. FOLLOW YOUR PROGRESS Filter by all time, a recent period, a calendar year, or a custom date range. View the top 20 in each category and sort qualifying runs by race time, race pace, workout time, or workout pace. Workout sorts include runs without usable race timing. EXPLORE EACH RUN Open a workout to see its timing, distance, route map, heart rate, elevation, energy, and weather when those details are available in Health. YOUR DATA STAYS UNDER YOUR CONTROL Run Bests reads running workouts from Apple Health and keeps a local cache on your device. No account, advertising, tracking, or developer-operated server. Run Bests does not write to Health. Requires running workouts in Apple Health. Race and segment estimates depend on the distance and timing data recorded with each workout.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sweat Map at daily against RunBests's every 2 weeks. 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.
Sweat Map ships an update daily, RunBests every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sweat Map | RunBests |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vanilla b.v. | John Bergmayer |
In-app purchases
Sweat Map
No in-app purchases
RunBests
No in-app purchases









