Comparison

Pacenote vs RUNBLE

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

Head to head
About

Pacenote

This app helps runners build lasting habits by logging daily runs, managing training, and tracking shoe mileage. It offers real-time GPS tracking, manual workout entry, and data synchronization with popular fitness platforms. Connect with other runners through social features and personalized coaching to stay motivated and injury-aware.

Highlights
  • Running calendar and activity tracking
  • Real-time GPS and manual workout logging
  • Shoe mileage tracking
  • Data sync with Apple Health, Garmin, Strava
  • Social features: STEP, Pace League, Crews
  • Personalized training coach
  • Medal verification
Features
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"Pacenote โ€” the smart running app that turns every drop of sweat into a story" Pacenote is more than a distance tracker. Itโ€™s a running lifestyle app that logs your daily runs on a calendar, helps you manage your training, and builds lasting running habits. Whether youโ€™re just getting started or training for a full marathon, discover a new kind of joy in running with Pacenote. [Key Features] - Running calendar & intuitive activity tracking โ€ข Log every run like stamping a calendar. See distance, time, pace, and other essentials at a glance. โ€ข Track in real time with built-in GPS, or add workouts manually with ease. - Essential for runners: shoe mileage tracking โ€ข Tag the shoes you wore on each run. โ€ข Mileage is calculated automatically per pair so you never miss the right time to replace worn-out shoes. - Data sync & integrations โ€ข No need to switch watches or apps. Sync workouts from Apple Health, Garmin Connectโ„ข, and Strava. โ€ข Bring all your scattered activity data into one placeโ€”Pacenote. - STEP โ€” run together and cheer each other on โ€ข Share todayโ€™s run and leave cheers and comments on other runnersโ€™ activities. โ€ข Even on solo days, stay connected with runners on STEP and keep your motivation going. - Compete and connect: Pace League & Crews โ€ข Pace League: Join a league and compete with other runners. Tier rankings based on your performance keep competition fun and rewarding. League schedule uses U.S. Eastern Time (ET). โ€ข Crews: Bring your real-world crew or find like-minded runners online. Cheer each other on and grow your crew together. - Stay consistent and injury-aware with a personalized training coach โ€ข Build a smart training plan based on your recent workouts or personal goals. โ€ข Coaching tailored to your running style and schedule becomes your reliable pacemaker. - A polished experience built for runners โ€ข Multilingual support for global runners (English, Korean, and Japanese). โ€ข Manage your profile with ease and choose only the push notifications you need. - Medal verification โ€ข Verify race results and add them to your profile. โ€ข Scan your finisher medal and match it against official references for quick verification. [Support] Questions or ideas? Weโ€™re happy to hear from you anytime. โ€ข Email: support@pacenote.app [Legal] โ€ข Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.pacenote.app/en/terms โ€ข Privacy Policy: https://www.pacenote.app/en/privacy

About

RUNBLE

Features
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RUNBLE์€ Zone 2 ๋Ÿฌ๋‹์œผ๋กœ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ๋‹ค์ด์–ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋•๋Š” ๊ณผํ•™ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ ์ฝ”์นญ ์•ฑ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™œ Zone 2์ธ๊ฐ€? ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ํƒ„์ˆ˜ํ™”๋ฌผ์ด, ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ์ง€๋ฐฉ์ด ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Zone 2๋Š” ์ง€๋ฐฉ์„ ์ฃผ ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ๋กœ ํƒœ์šฐ๋Š” ์œ ์ผํ•œ ์‹ฌ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜ ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ - ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ Zone 2 ์‹ฌ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜ ๊ณ„์‚ฐ (Spanaus + Karvonen ๊ณต์‹) - 4๋‹จ๊ณ„ ๋งž์ถคํ˜• ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ ํ”Œ๋žœ (ACSM ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ๋ผ์ธ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜) - ์‹์‚ฌ ํŒจํ„ด๋ณ„ ๋งž์ถค ์‹๋‹จ (ํ•œ์‹/๋นต๋ฉด/๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌ/์†Œ์‹) - Zone 2 ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์‹ฌ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜ ์ฒด์ปค - ์ฃผ๊ฐ„ ์ฒดํฌ์ธ & ๊ฐ๋Ÿ‰ ๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”„ - ๊ณผํ•™ ์ •๋ณด ์นด๋“œ 5์ข… ๊ณผํ•™์  ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ - Spanaus ๊ณต์‹: ์„ฑ๋ณ„ยท์ฒด์ค‘ ๋ฐ˜์˜ ์ตœ๋Œ€์‹ฌ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜ ๊ณ„์‚ฐ - Karvonen ๊ณต์‹: ์•ˆ์ •์‹œ ์‹ฌ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜ ๋ฐ˜์˜ Zone 2 ์‚ฐ์ถœ - ACSM ์ ์ง„์  ๊ณผ๋ถ€ํ•˜ ์›์น™ ์ ์šฉ - WHOยท๋Œ€ํ•œ๋น„๋งŒํ•™ํšŒ ๊ถŒ์žฅ ์•ˆ์ „ ๊ฐ๋Ÿ‰ ์†๋„ (์ฃผ 0.7kg) - ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์˜์–‘์กฐ์‚ฌ(KNHANES) ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์‹๋‹จ 4๋‹จ๊ณ„ ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ ํ”Œ๋žœ Phase 1: ์Šต๊ด€ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ (20~30๋ถ„) Phase 2: ์ง€๋ฐฉ ์—ฐ์†Œ ์‹œ์ž‘ (30~40๋ถ„) Phase 3: ์ตœ๋Œ€ ์ง€๋ฐฉ ์—ฐ์†Œ (40~50๋ถ„) Phase 4: ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ (45~55๋ถ„) ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์ด์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Screenshots

Pacenote4 screens
RUNBLE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RUNBLE at none against Pacenote's 5. On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Pacenote sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. RUNBLE asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pacenote ships an update every 5 days, RUNBLE every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 7 level
Pacenote versus RUNBLE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPacenoteRUNBLE
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 4 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
MonetizationFreeโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details โ€” not scored
Size217 MB68 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperStudio HeumsSOON KWAN KWON

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Pacenote

One-time5
  • 50 ํŽ˜๋…ธ$0.49
  • Buy the developer a coffee$2.99
  • 300 ํŽ˜๋…ธ$3.99
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  • 600 ํŽ˜๋…ธ$6.99
  • 1800 ํŽ˜๋…ธ$19.99
None

RUNBLE

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pacenote free?
Pacenote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RUNBLE free?
RUNBLE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pacenote or RUNBLE have ads?
Neither Pacenote nor RUNBLE shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pacenote or RUNBLE?
Pacenote ships an update every 5 days, and RUNBLE every 4 days. Most recently, Pacenote was updated on November 7, 2026 and RUNBLE on October 25, 2026.

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