Comparison

Stride Marathon Training Plans vs Longrun

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

Longrun

Features
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You have never run a marathon. You have a date, a start line, and a number that looks impossible from where you are standing today. Longrun turns that into tomorrow morning. Tell it three things: what a good race looks like to you, how far you run right now, and which race you are training for. Longrun counts back from the real date and builds the twelve to twenty weeks in front of it. Three runs a week to start, every one of them easy. One long run every Sunday, growing about a mile at a time. A taper that arrives before you think you need it. Then it hands you one day at a time. A PLAN THAT MOVES WHEN YOU DO Every training plan meets real life somewhere around week three. Yours will too. Tell Longrun you missed a run and the week reshuffles itself. Miss a hard session and the next one becomes an easy run while the long run holds its distance. Miss a long run and next Sunday holds at this Sunday's number, and the growth waits a week. Miss two in a week and the following week eases about 10 percent, then rebuilds. Every change is shown to you, in a sentence, with the reason. Nothing disappears quietly. EVERY DAY, ON ONE SCREEN Today opens on the session you have, the pace range to hold it at, and roughly how long it will take. Underneath: your water, your food, last night's sleep and HRV, and this week's seven bars filling in. - Live run with GPS distance, pace, mile splits and cues that arrive when you need them - Fuel: a calorie and carb target that changes with the kind of day it is, and a meal plan you log with one tap - Body: sleep, HRV and resting heart rate from Apple Health, an acute-to-chronic training load ratio with the 0.8 to 1.3 sweet spot marked, and shoe mileage so you retire a pair before it retires you - Progress: total distance since week one, planned against done, longest run, easy pace, and a finish-time estimate built from the runs you have actually done RACE DAY, ALREADY REHEARSED Choose from 377 races, all seven World Marathon Majors among them, or type in your own name and date. From that moment the Race tab counts down. Your finish time, your pace per mile, how many gels to carry and roughly where to take them. A race-week checklist that opens seven days out: cut the volume, carb-load, pin the bib, oats and a banana three hours before, arrive 75 minutes early. Course profile, typical weather, your bib number and your wave. By race morning you will have practiced all of it. THIRTY-FOUR LANGUAGES, MILES OR KILOMETERS Longrun is fully translated into 34 languages and lays out right to left in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu. Switch between miles and kilometers whenever you like. WHAT LONGRUN LEAVES OUT No chatbot. No AI writing your training. No feed to scroll, no kudos, no follower count. A plan, the day in front of you, and a coach's voice saying the things a good coach says: go slower, eat something, get some sleep. LONGRUN PRO Longrun Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Start with 7 days free, then $39.99 per year. Or pay $2.99 for your first month and $39.99 per year after that. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. Manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew in your App Store account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Prices are in US dollars and vary by region. Terms of use: https://b2b83827-legal.app.amba.host/terms.html Privacy policy: https://b2b83827-legal.app.amba.host/privacy.html

Screenshots

Stride Marathon Training Plans4 screens
Longrun4 screens

Verdict

The call

Stride Marathon Training Plans and Longrun are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 and Longrun sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $39.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Stride Marathon Training Plans versus Longrun: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStride Marathon Training PlansLongrun
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB62 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperStride Labs, LLCApp Machina LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Stride Marathon Training Plans

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$19.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$99.991 Year
1 purchases

Longrun

Subscriptions1
  • Longrun Pro1 Month trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Stride Marathon Training Plans free?
Stride Marathon Training Plans is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Longrun free?
Longrun is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Stride Marathon Training Plans or Longrun have ads?
Neither Stride Marathon Training Plans nor Longrun shows ads.

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