Flux Run vs StartRunning

Meet Flux Run — the running app that gets smarter every time you lace up. Whether you're just starting out or chasing a new PR, Flux Run gives you the tools, coaching, and motivation to run with real purpose. TRACK EVERY RUN, PERFECTLY Accurate GPS tracking captures your pace, distance, elevation, and splits in real time — so you always know exactly how you're performing. Review detailed mile (or km) splits, pace trends, and weekly progress the moment you finish. AI COACHING THAT ACTUALLY KNOWS YOU Flux Run's AI studies your full running history — your pace trends, distance, recovery patterns, and consistency — then builds a personalized training plan designed around your specific goals. Training for your first 5K? Chasing a half marathon? The plan adapts as you improve. The more you run, the smarter it gets. STAY MOTIVATED, STAY CONSISTENT - Daily streak tracking to build an unbreakable habit - Weekly distance charts to visualize your progress - Leaderboards to run alongside the community - Milestone badges for every achievement — first run to marathon finisher - Challenges to keep things interesting RUN WITH FRIENDS (NEW) - Follow friends and share your runs as glowing heatmaps - Give kudos, comment and discover runners around the world - Private by default: you choose who sees your runs - The start and end of every route are hidden automatically PRO FEATURES Upgrade to unlock the full power of Flux Run: - Full AI coaching with dynamic weekly training plans - Smart recovery recommendations based on your actual data - Streak Freeze — protect your streak when life gets in the way - Advanced metrics: elevation gain, max/min speed, full split breakdowns - A Pro checkmark next to your name in the community - Your posts get a boost in Discover - No ads BUILT FOR RUNNERS, NOT SPREADSHEETS No cluttered dashboards. No confusing menus. Flux Run is fast, clean, and premium — designed to get out of your way so you can focus on the run. Download Flux Run and experience coaching that moves with you. Privacy Policy: https://fluxrunai.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://fluxrunai.com/terms.html

From the couch to thirty minutes of continuous running in nine weeks. No experience needed, no gear, and no prior idea of what "interval training" means. StartRunning takes you through 27 workouts, three a week. Each one opens with five minutes of brisk walking and ends with five minutes of cooling down. In between, running and walking alternate — at first one minute of running, ninety seconds of walking. By week nine you run for half an hour without stopping. WHAT GUIDES YOU • Spoken coaching tells you when to run and when to walk. You never have to look at your phone. • Tones and vibration for every change — even with music in your ears and the phone in your pocket. • A screen you can read in one second: one huge number, two buttons, nothing else. • GPS records your route and works out distance, pace and kilometre splits. • Your history shows every run with its map; the progress grid shows the whole plan at a glance. THREE LEVELS OF COACHING Voice and tones, vibration only, or nothing at all. Switchable mid-run — for the day you run with someone and still want to feel the interval change. YOU SET THE PACE All 27 workouts can be started and repeated at any time. Nothing is locked, nothing pushes you. If a week feels too fast, run it again. If you end a workout early, the time you ran still counts — only the plan doesn't move on. CUSTOM WORKOUTS You set total duration, run interval and walk break; the app works out the rest. For after the plan, or for the day you have something else in mind. WHAT THIS APP DOES NOT DO No ads. No subscription. No sign-up. No account. No tracking, no analytics, nothing shared with anyone. Your data stays on your device. What you export, you export yourself — as a backup file or as GPX. If you want, the app writes your workouts to Apple Health; that is off by default. Training and all your data work completely offline. Only the map view loads tiles from the network. ACCESSIBILITY Every interval type is signalled by word, icon, colour and vibration pattern — never by colour alone. The app holds up at triple system text size and respects the reduce-motion setting. WHAT IT COSTS The first 9 workouts are free — about three weeks of training, with everything included. After that you unlock everything once: all three plans, custom workouts, for good. No subscription, no follow-up costs. Your history stays open either way, unlocked or not.