MyTrainPal vs PaceVault
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MyTrainPal
This app provides a professional-grade AI coaching platform for endurance athletes. It adapts training plans based on real-world life events and offers expert methodologies from a marketplace. Athletes can choose their training philosophy and receive logic-driven adaptations from an AI coach.
- AI-powered adaptive training plans
- Expert methodology marketplace
- Logic-driven schedule adaptation
- Approval-based workout modifications
- Contextual memory for athlete preferences
- Multi-sport data analysis
- Advanced load tracking (ATL, CTL, TSB)
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MyTrainPal is an AI coach for cyclists, runners and triathletes. It builds your training plan, adapts it to your life and explains every session with your own data. When it's time to ride indoors, MTP Ride turns your workouts into 3D roads you ride with your smart trainer. AN AI COACH THAT KNOWS YOU • Ask anything in plain language: "How is my fitness building?", "Should I train today?", "How did my intervals go?" • Get answers from your own data, with charts right in the chat: fitness and fatigue trends, weekly load by sport, power and heart rate for any ride. • Your coach remembers your goals, schedule, injuries and preferences across conversations. A PLAN THAT ADAPTS TO YOU • Build a plan for your goal event on proven training methodologies, from base to build, peak and taper. • Busy week, short night or heavy legs? Your coach proposes the change. • Nothing changes without you. Every proposal waits for your Approve or Reject. MTP RIDE: YOUR WORKOUTS IN 3D • Pair your smart trainer over Bluetooth: Tacx, Wahoo, Elite and other FTMS trainers. • ERG mode holds the target power of every interval. On free rides your trainer follows every gradient. • Ride the Costa Blanca, the mountains, winter, the coast or the suburbs, at morning or sunset light. • Import any GPX and ride it in the world you choose. • Race your past self on the same course, or ride in a group of AI riders. • Pick your kit and bike, from road KNOW WHEN TO PUSH • A daily readiness score from your sleep, HRV, resting heart rate and training load. • Fitness, fatigue and form trends sbuilding or overreaching. • Home screen widgets and Apple Watch sync. EVERY SESSION, ANALYSED • Power, heart rate, cadence and paccurve. • Planned vs. actual for every structured workout. • Ask your coach to review any active. WORKS WITH YOUR GEAR • Strava, intervals.icu, Apple Health, Wahoo, Polar, Ultrahuman and Hevy. • Garmin, COROS, Suunto, Zwift, Whools.icu. • Activities and health data sync automatically. ONE PLAN FOR EVERY SPORT Cycling, running, swimming and stren for a gran fondo, a marathon or a triathlon. FOR COACHES MyTrainPal Coach adds an athlete triummaries per athlete, direct messaging and scheduling in plain language. START FREE Every core feature is included for free to explore the full experience. MTP Ride is free with your MyTrainPal account. Upgrade to MyTrainPal Plus for a higher AI allowance for daily coaching. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account. Terms of Service: https://mytrainpal.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://mytrainpal.app/privacy-policy
PaceVault
Analyze your running history with best efforts, route matching, and lifetime trends. This private app provides insights into your personal records and wellness signals, all processed on your device.
- Best efforts and PR detection
- Route matching and ranking
- Year-over-year trend analysis
- Wellness signal tracking
- 100% on-device processing
- No account or cloud required
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Best-efforts records, matched routes, and lifetime trends — all on your iPhone, all private. PaceVault turns your Garmin activity history into the analytics you've been missing. • Best efforts — every PR across every distance, auto-detected • Route matching — see every run of your favorite loop, ranked • Year-over-year trends across your whole history • Wellness signals gathered in one place — how you feel is yours to read • 100% on-device. No account, no cloud, nothing leaves your phone Free, forever. Every feature, for every user.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: PaceVault at free against MyTrainPal's freemium. MyTrainPal's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 days). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. MyTrainPal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and PaceVault sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for MyTrainPal against 5.0 for PaceVault. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
MyTrainPal ships an update every 2 days, PaceVault every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MyTrainPal | PaceVault |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 189 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Krzysztof Kostecki | ZACHARY THOMAS MULLEN |
Customer experience
MyTrainPal
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In-app purchases
MyTrainPal
- MyTrainPal PLUS Monthly1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- MyTrainPal Coach Monthly1 Month trial$24.991 Month
- MyTrainPal 1000 AI Credits$9.99
PaceVault
- Small Tip$1.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99









