GhostLoop vs Vitadel Run
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GhostLoop
Race against your past self with recorded runs that become ghosts. Track outdoor GPS, treadmill, or import rides and swims. Compete with friends through step challenges and race their ghosts.
- Race your past self with recorded ghosts
- Live gap indicator and audio cues
- GPS tracking with map-matched routes
- Treadmill mode and Apple Health import
- Create step challenges with friends
- Export activities as GPX
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Every run you record becomes a ghost — a replay of the exact runner you were. Lace up, pick one, and race it. GhostLoop isn't about competing with strangers on a leaderboard. The only person you're chasing is the one you were last Tuesday. And you'll know exactly where they are the whole way. RACE YOUR PAST SELF • Every recorded run is saved as a ghost you can race any time • A live gap shows whether you're ahead or behind, meter by meter • Hear it happen: spoken splits, pace, and the moment your ghost passes you • Save your favorite routes as loops and build a library of rivals TRACK IT ANYWHERE • Outdoor GPS with map-matched routes and elevation • Treadmill mode: race indoors with no GPS, using your own calibrated stride • Rides and swims import from Apple Health — pace in min/100m for the pool • Apple Watch app: start a run, walk, or pool swim and see your ghost gap on your wrist • Auto-pause when you stop, auto-resume when you go SEE YOURSELF GET FASTER • Weekly and monthly trends, training load, best weeks, longest runs • Run streaks with rest days that don't break the chain • Elevation profiles and 3D route views • Personal records that only compare like with like — a bike ride never fakes a running PR RUN WITH YOUR CREW • Add friends and see their step counts on a live club leaderboard • Create step challenges — daily, weekly, monthly • Send a ghost to a friend so they can race your loop on their own feet • Ghost runners fill out the board so it stays competitive from day one YOUR DATA, YOUR CALL • Export any activity as GPX; import your history from other apps • Shared route images hide the start and end of your run • Detailed Health records stay on your device; only daily step totals and challenge progress sync to people you accept Outmove yesterday. Apple Health is used to read your step counts and import your own workouts. Location is used to track your route while you run. GhostLoop never sells your data.
Vitadel Run
This app provides personalized running training plans that adapt daily based on your body's recovery data, including sleep and heart rate. It offers plans from 5K to marathon distances with science-based methods and real-time performance tracking.
- Personalized adaptive training plans
- Daily readiness scoring (sleep, HRV)
- 5K to marathon training distances
- Real-time GPS tracking and metrics
- AI-powered post-run analysis
- Apple Watch integration
- Group training challenges (Pacts)
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Vitadel Run is the running coach that actually knows how your body is doing. Every morning it reads your sleep, HRV, and recovery -- then adapts your personalized workout to match. Training plans from 5K to marathon, on iPhone and Apple Watch. ► TRAINING THAT ADAPTS TO YOU Most running plans are blind. They don't know you slept four hours. They can't see your HRV crashed. They just tell you to run. Vitadel Run scores your readiness every morning from sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, and a 10-second body check-in. Green means go hard. Yellow means dial it back. Red means recover. Your workout adjusts automatically. No more guessing. No more overtraining. ► TRAINING PLANS BUILT ON SCIENCE Built on methods from the best minds in distance running -- Daniels, Pfitzinger, Hudson, Canova, Magness, Eyestone, Stazza, Higdon, and Joyner. Battle-tested, not invented from scratch. VDOT-based periodization with base, build, peak, and taper phases. Plans for 5K, 10K, half marathon, and marathon -- adapted to your fitness level, goal, and race date. Structured workouts with warm-up, intervals, cooldown, target paces, and human-voice audio cues. ► PACE THAT KEEPS UP WITH YOU Your plan adjusts as you improve. Pace recalibration detects when you've outgrown your training zones and updates your targets automatically -- so the work stays hard in the right way. ► TRACK EVERY RUN GPS tracking on iPhone and Apple Watch. Real-time pace, distance, heart rate, elevation, and cadence. Splits and laps. Route maps. Post-run analysis with AI-powered insights on your performance, effort, and body response. ► APPLE WATCH & LIVE ACTIVITIES A full standalone Watch app -- start runs from your wrist, no iPhone required. See your metrics on the Dynamic Island and Lock Screen mid-run. Haptic alerts and voice cues for intervals and lap splits. ► GHOST RUNNER Race your past self. See exactly where you were on any previous run and turn every repeat route into a personal competition. ► RACE PREDICTIONS & PERSONAL RECORDS Predicted finish times for the 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon, grounded in your actual training data. Personal records across every distance. Your fitness trend over time, in one chart. ► PACTS: TRAIN FOR THE SAME RACE AS A GROUP Pick a race, invite your crew, and see a shared weekly scoreboard: runs, long runs, quality sessions, rest, and each person's readiness. Race countdown and block progress keep everyone honest -- you'll know before Sunday if someone skipped their long run. Not lining up a race? Choose a famous trail challenge instead (Tour du Mont Blanc, Camino de Santiago, and more) and work through it together. ► ASK YOUR RUNNING COACH Ask questions about your training, recovery, fueling, or race strategy. Get answers grounded in your actual training data -- not generic advice copy-pasted from the internet. ► CONNECTS TO EVERYTHING Apple Health, Strava, Garmin, Polar, Oura, Fitbit, Whoop, Suunto, COROS (coming soon). Your running plan finally has the full picture. ► HOME & LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS Today's workout, your readiness, weekly progress, race predictions, PRs -- one glance away. ► SHARE YOUR RUNS Beautiful share cards with your stats, route, and insights. Customize backgrounds, pick your metrics, post to Instagram Stories or save to camera roll. ► GEAR TRACKING Log your shoes, track mileage per pair, get retirement alerts when it's time for a new pair. ► BUILT BY A RUNNER Vitadel Run was built by a runner who got injured using another app that had zero context and no idea he was overtraining. So he built one that actually listens and adapts. Every feature in Vitadel Run exists because a runner needed it. ► QUESTIONS? Email us at help@vitadel.com or go to https://vitadel.com/contact. – Privacy Policy: https://vitadel.com/privacy – Terms of Use (EULA): https://vitadel.com/terms Download Vitadel Run and train with your body, not against it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GhostLoop at none against Vitadel Run's 2. GhostLoop also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). Vitadel Run's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 2). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Vitadel Run sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $17.95 per month. GhostLoop asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for GhostLoop against 5.0 for Vitadel Run. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Vitadel Run has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
GhostLoop ships an update every 5 days, Vitadel Run every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GhostLoop | Vitadel Run |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ian Castillo | Feanor Labs |
Customer experience
GhostLoop
Vitadel Run
In-app purchases
GhostLoop
No in-app purchases
Vitadel Run
- Pro Marathon Training – Vitadel Run$17.951 Month
- Marathon Training – Vitadel Run Pro7 Days trial$119.991 Year









