Comparison

RUNalytics vs RunBests

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

Head to head
About

RUNalytics

Track your running progress towards a yearly goal using data from Apple Health. Visualize your distance, runs, and time with charts and a calendar. Automatically records personal bests and offers advanced insights with a one-time purchase.

Highlights
  • Yearly running goal tracking
  • Apple Health data integration
  • Visual progress charts and stats
  • Personal record tracking
  • Running calendar
  • Advanced insights (Pro)
  • Home screen widgets (Pro)
Features
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Set a yearly running goal and watch your progress build – all from your Apple Health data. RUNalytics reads your running workouts from Apple HealthKit and turns them into a clear, focused dashboard. No manual entry. No social feeds. No clutter. Just your data, presented beautifully. PROGRESS Track your cumulative distance, total runs, or total time against your yearly goal. See exactly where you stand with a visual progress chart, stats grid, monthly breakdown, and running calendar. PACE A smoothed pace trend chart shows how your speed is changing over time. See your average and best pace at a glance. PERSONAL RECORDS Your bests are tracked automatically – longest run, best pace, fastest 5K, 10K, half marathon, and marathon (shown dynamically based on your data), plus your best week. CALENDAR Browse your running calendar and tap any day to see the full details – distance, time, pace, and more. INSIGHTS (PRO) Go deeper into how you run: running streaks, weekday and time-of-day patterns, pace zones, race-time predictions, and year-over-year comparison. HOME SCREEN WIDGET (PRO) Keep your year-to-date progress on your Home Screen – distance, runs, or time against target, in small, medium, or large. Pick the metric per widget. THEMES & APP ICONS (PRO) Make it yours with ten colourways inspired by iconic racing shoes – five light, five dark – each with a matching Home Screen app icon. YOUR FULL HISTORY (PRO) Browse every past year, and export your complete run history to CSV. Your data, yours to keep. RUNALYTICS PRO Pro is a one-time purchase – no subscription – and is Family Sharing enabled. It unlocks Insights, all goal types, previous years, colour themes and app icons, the Home Screen widget, and CSV export. Core tracking stays free. PRIVACY FIRST All your data stays on your device. RUNalytics does not collect, store, or transmit your personal health data. No servers. No analytics. No tracking. FLEXIBLE GOALS Choose kilometres or miles. Set your goal type – distance, number of runs, or total time – and define your yearly target. Works with any run recorded by your Apple Watch, iPhone, or compatible third-party app.

About

RunBests

Features
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Run Bests finds your personal best running times in Apple Health. Runs rarely end at exactly the same distance. Set the distances you care about and choose a margin to group comparable workouts. A 5-mile target with a 0.25-mile margin includes runs from 5.0 through 5.25 miles. COMPARE TIMES CLEARLY Workout time covers the full run and uses the duration reported by Health. Race time estimates how long it took to reach your target distance from the start. Both exclude pauses. Each has its own pace, and the workout detail explains which time you are viewing. FIND YOUR FASTEST SEGMENTS See your fastest continuous 1 mile, 1 km, or custom distance anywhere within a run. Segment estimates use Health's recorded distance samples when available, with GPS as a labeled fallback. A best segment can start between the fixed split markers shown in Fitness. CUSTOMIZE YOUR RECORDS Choose distances in miles or kilometers, set a distance margin, and enable half marathon, marathon, longest run, longest workout time, and fastest average pace records. FOLLOW YOUR PROGRESS Filter by all time, a recent period, a calendar year, or a custom date range. View the top 20 in each category and sort qualifying runs by race time, race pace, workout time, or workout pace. Workout sorts include runs without usable race timing. EXPLORE EACH RUN Open a workout to see its timing, distance, route map, heart rate, elevation, energy, and weather when those details are available in Health. YOUR DATA STAYS UNDER YOUR CONTROL Run Bests reads running workouts from Apple Health and keeps a local cache on your device. No account, advertising, tracking, or developer-operated server. Run Bests does not write to Health. Requires running workouts in Apple Health. Race and segment estimates depend on the distance and timing data recorded with each workout.

Screenshots

RUNalytics4 screens
RunBests4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RunBests at none against RUNalytics's 1. RunBests also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads and device support 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. RUNalytics sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. RunBests asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RUNalytics ships an update every 2 months, RunBests every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
RUNalytics versus RunBests: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRUNalyticsRunBests
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXavier VerhoevenJohn Bergmayer

In-app purchases

1 purchases

RUNalytics

One-time1
  • RUNalytics Pro$4.99
None

RunBests

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RUNalytics free?
RUNalytics is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RunBests free?
RunBests is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do RUNalytics or RunBests have ads?
Neither RUNalytics nor RunBests shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RUNalytics or RunBests?
RUNalytics ships an update every 2 months, and RunBests every 2 weeks. Most recently, RUNalytics was updated on November 5, 2026 and RunBests on November 5, 2026.

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