Comparison

Empace vs Miriam

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

Head to head
About

Empace

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A running coach that fits the plan to your life โ€” not your life to the plan. WHAT RUNNERS SAY "Surprised how nice it was to chat with it! Got a few good suggestions for how to train with my injury." โ€” Robert, ultra marathoner "Knows exactly when to push you and when to hold you back." โ€” Christian, ultra marathoner "It accounts for injuries, limitations and even other sports when it builds your plan. It makes training both fun and motivating." โ€” Tobias Static training plans ask you to fit your life around them. Miss a Tuesday and the whole thing feels broken. Empace replaces the plan with a coach: connect Strava, tell it your goal, and it writes your weeks around your schedule, your past injuries, and everything else that makes you you. IT BUILDS THE PLAN AROUND YOU Tell it the goal โ€” a first marathon, a sub-1:30 half โ€” and it writes the weeks. When life gets in the way, tell your coach and the plan moves. Nothing is ever marked missed, because a plan that shames you is a plan you quit. IT KNOWS YOUR RUNNING It reads your whole Strava history the moment you connect, and every run after. Ask how today went โ€” it's already read the numbers. IT REMEMBERS WHAT NO OTHER APP TRACKS Your injury. Your schedule. What you said after last Sunday's long run. Every conversation builds on the last. IT SHOWS YOU WHETHER IT'S WORKING Aerobic efficiency, week by week: the same heart rate, a faster pace. One honest line that says whether you're getting fitter. IT TAKES REST SERIOUSLY Recovery is where adaptation happens. Your coach will tell you to rest, and it will mean it. WHY EMPACE โ€ข A coach that adapts to your life, not a template you adapt to โ€ข Built on your Strava history from run one โ€ข Remembers injuries and goals across conversations โ€ข Tracks aerobic efficiency, training load and recovery โ€ข Honest about rest โ€” not a "more is better" coach Built by a runner. Tell your coach what you'd change and it reaches me directly. Free to start. Upgrade to Pro Plus for unlimited coaching. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Miriam

This running app automatically organizes your workout history from Apple Watch and Fitness. Track detailed metrics, set goals, and analyze performance trends. It offers personalized insights and shareable summaries of your runs.

Highlights
  • Automatic Apple Health data import
  • Detailed run metric tracking
  • Goal setting and streak monitoring
  • Route recognition and course analysis
  • Performance comparison and bests
  • Shareable run summaries
  • Home Screen widgets
Features
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Keep running with Apple Watch and Apple Fitness. Miriam organizes the rest. When you open Miriam for the first time, running history from Apple Watch and Apple Fitness is organized automatically. Total distance, time, belt grade, personal records, and mileage achievements appear on one screen. โ€ข Every angle: Track distance, pace, heart rate, elevation, cadence, and more across daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, all-time, course, and standard-distance views, from 1 mile to 100 miles. โ€ข Goals and streaks: Create goals such as weekly distance, monthly run count, or 10K finishes. Miriam records whether each period was completed and counts streaks. โ€ข Frequent routes become courses: Choose one saved run and register it as a course. Similar past routes, and future runs with similar GPS paths, are automatically matched to the same course. See pace, heart-rate, and distance trends for familiar roads in one place. โ€ข Find your best by condition: Filter sessions by standard distance or course, then sort by distance, time, pace, average heart rate, cadence, power, active calories, elevation gain, ground contact time, and more. Miriam also finds standard-distance bests inside longer runs, such as the fastest 10K within a 12 km run. โ€ข Compare with past records: Pace, heart rate, and elevation charts can show past averages for the same course and your own average for the same standard distance. โ€ข Records and belt grades: View personal records, goal streaks, mileage achievements, and yearly medals in one place. Total distance is represented as a belt grade from white to blue, purple, brown, black, and red. โ€ข Share cards: Session cards turn a single run into a map or photo summary, while period cards summarize your day, week, month, year, or all-time records. Choose Satellite or Explore map styles, and include route heatmaps in period cards. โ€ข Home Screen widgets: Add goal progress and recent runs to Home Screen widgets to see them without opening the app. Add as many goal widgets as you like, one per goal, while the Activity widgets let you pick which period to show โ€” today, this week, this month, this year, or all time. Miriam is free to use. Miriam Pro unlocks trend charts for every metric, share cards and data export, and unlimited goals and courses, with a one-month free trial. Miriam never sends your health or workout data to third-party servers. Everything is read from HealthKit and processed on your device, with no analytics SDKs, no ad SDKs, and no tracking. Your goals and courses sync only to your own iCloud. Course names are stored, never the routes you ran. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Empace4 screens
Miriam4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Miriam at every 9 days against Empace's every 3 weeks. Empace's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Empace sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Miriam sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Empace ships an update every 3 weeks, Miriam every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 6 level
Empace versus Miriam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEmpaceMiriam
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsโ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetizationโ€”Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size62 MB8 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMarcus HojvallHyeonrae Jo

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Empace

Subscriptions4
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Pro Plus Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly1 Month trial$49.991 Year
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  • Pro Plus Yearly1 Month trial$79.991 Year
3 purchases

Miriam

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Access1 Month trial$0.991 Month
  • Yearly Access1 Month trial$7.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$19.99

Questions

Is Empace free?
Empace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Miriam free?
Miriam is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Empace or Miriam have ads?
Neither Empace nor Miriam shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Empace or Miriam?
Empace ships an update every 3 weeks, and Miriam every 9 days. Most recently, Empace was updated on November 9, 2026 and Miriam on November 1, 2026.

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