Comparison

Stride Marathon Training Plans vs Speed & Form

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

Head to head
About

Stride Marathon Training Plans

This app helps multi-sport athletes organize their training by planning, tracking, and logging swim, bike, run, and strength workouts in a single weekly view. It allows for custom workout creation and integrates with popular fitness platforms.

Highlights
  • Weekly training planner
  • Custom workout builder
  • Workout logging
  • Integration with Garmin, Apple Health, and calendar
  • Designed for triathletes and multi-sport athletes
Features
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You signed up for a marathon. Now the real work starts. Stride is a MARATHON ONLY training app that is built with one goal in mind - getting you ready for race day. A PLAN THAT FITS YOU Tell Stride about your race, recent running, experience, available days, and goal. You will be matched to one of 14 marathon plans built on proven training methods. Training for your first 26.2? Balancing three run days with cross-training? Chasing a faster time with more mileage and race-pace work? There is a custom plan built specifically for how you want to train. KNOW WHAT TO RUN TODAY Your complete build is mapped from today to your start line, including base, build, peak, recovery, and taper weeks. Open Stride and your next workout is ready. No searching through a PDF. No rebuilding a spreadsheet. No wondering whether today should be easy, long, or fast. EVERY WORKOUT HAS A JOB Tap any run to see the complete workout: warmup, intervals, distance, pace, and heart-rate targets. Your Today screen keeps the next run simple. Your Plan screen shows how every workout fits into the bigger build. You always know what you are doing and why it matters. TRAIN WITH YOUR RACE CLUB Marathon training is long. It is easier when you are not doing it alone. Choose from more than 200 supported marathons and Stride puts you in a Race Club with runners headed to the same start line. See their workouts, follow their training, and cheer each other through the long runs. First-timers, PR chasers, and Boston hopefuls all show up on race day together. YOUR PLAN, ON YOUR WATCH Connect Garmin or Apple Health to bring completed workouts into Stride automatically. Push structured workouts directly to Garmin so your pace and targets are ready on your wrist when it is time to run. BUILT ONLY FOR MARATHONS No 5K plans. No half-marathon plans. Stride is focused entirely on helping you prepare for 26.2. That means your plan, calendar, workouts, race countdown, and community all point toward the same start line. PRICING Try Stride free for 7 days. U.S. pricing after your trial: • Monthly: $19.99 per month • Annual: $99.99 per year Subscriptions renew automatically through your Apple account unless canceled before renewal. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store settings. Pick your race. Find your plan. Start training for the day that matters. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.downloadstride.com/privacy

About

Speed & Form

This app provides structured training programs for both strength and running. It focuses on efficient exercise flow and clear daily execution without distractions. Designed for focused workouts.

Highlights
  • Structured strength sessions
  • Pre-structured running workouts
  • Frictionless exercise flow
  • Workout logging
  • Focused daily execution
  • No social feeds or noise
Features
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FORM is a coach's training system. Every week is authored: easy, threshold, speed, long run, placed in the order that builds you. You open the app, see the work, do it, and file it. That's the job. No feed. No badges. No notifications trying to pull you back in. The programming does the thinking so you can do the running. Trust the process. Stay organized. Get out of the way of the work. FORM runs the same programming Brice writes for the athletes he coaches at Speed and Form in Miami. FORM is for athletes coached by Speed and Form and runners on a FORM plan. Plans and coaching at speedandform.com.

Screenshots

Stride Marathon Training Plans4 screens
Speed & Form4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Speed & Form at none against Stride Marathon Training Plans's 2. Speed & Form also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). Stride Marathon Training Plans's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Stride Marathon Training Plans sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Speed & Form asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Stride Marathon Training Plans against 5.0 for Speed & Form. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stride Marathon Training Plans ships an update weekly, Speed & Form every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Stride Marathon Training Plans versus Speed & Form: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStride Marathon Training PlansSpeed & Form
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (12 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better6
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB100 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStride Labs, LLCBrice Ikouebe

Customer experience

Stride Marathon Training Plans

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Speed & Form

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Stride Marathon Training Plans

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$19.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$99.991 Year
None

Speed & Form

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stride Marathon Training Plans free?
Stride Marathon Training Plans is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Speed & Form free?
Speed & Form is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Stride Marathon Training Plans or Speed & Form?
Stride Marathon Training Plans and Speed & Form are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 12 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do Stride Marathon Training Plans or Speed & Form have ads?
Neither Stride Marathon Training Plans nor Speed & Form shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stride Marathon Training Plans or Speed & Form?
Stride Marathon Training Plans ships an update weekly, and Speed & Form every 3 days. Most recently, Stride Marathon Training Plans was updated on October 17, 2026 and Speed & Form on October 28, 2026.

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