Comparison

Threshold vs Runapt

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

Head to head
About

Threshold

This app creates personalized, periodized running plans based on your goals, fitness, and schedule. It adapts to your progress, incorporates Norwegian threshold training principles, and offers coaching support. Track your runs, adjust your plan, and prepare for races with structured guidance.

Highlights
  • Adaptive training plans
  • Norwegian threshold sessions
  • Precise training paces
  • Progressive training weeks
  • Log, edit, and adjust workouts
  • Coach chat support
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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The Norwegian running method, adapted to your life. Threshold builds a complete, periodized running plan around your goal, current fitness, training history, and weekly schedule. It applies the principles behind Norwegian threshold training while scaling the dose to your level. This is a connected training plan rather than the same week repeated. Your training moves through base, build, peak, taper, and transition phases, with progressive volume and recovery weeks built in. HOW IT WORKS Tell Threshold about your running background, race goal, available days, and current training. The app creates a multi-week plan with clear warm-ups, intervals, target paces, recoveries, and coaching notes. WHAT YOU GET Adaptive Training Plan Your next sessions and weeks respond to what you actually complete, the effort you report, schedule changes, and missed training. Norwegian Threshold Sessions Controlled threshold work inspired by the Norwegian Method, including double-threshold days when they fit your experience, volume, and recovery capacity. Precise Training Paces Training zones and targets use your race results and current fitness so every easy run, threshold session, and interval workout has a clear purpose. Progressive Training Weeks Volume and intensity develop across real phases. Recovery weeks and guardrails help keep changes measured when your training load increases. Log, Edit, and Adjust Record completed sessions, correct the details later, skip or move a workout, and continue into the next block without losing your history. Coach Chat Ask questions about the plan, report fatigue, and get answers grounded in your completed training and current week. Apple Health Import Connect Apple Health to import completed runs and relevant workout details into your training history. WHO IT IS FOR - Runners preparing for a 5K, 10K, half marathon, marathon, or longer race - Runners who want a structured plan without hiring a full-time coach - Experienced athletes who want to apply Norwegian threshold principles with a practical weekly schedule - Developing runners who need the method scaled to their current training ABOUT THE METHOD Norwegian threshold training centers on accumulating high-quality work near threshold while keeping intensity controlled enough to recover and repeat. Threshold turns those principles into a plan you can understand, complete, and adjust week by week. Threshold provides training guidance and is not medical advice. Privacy Policy: https://thethresholdapp.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://thethresholdapp.com/terms Support: https://thethresholdapp.com/support

About

Runapt

Features
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Runapt builds your running plan — then adapts it every day. Most apps only track what you already ran. Runapt gives you a real plan for a race, then changes it when your fitness, schedule, readiness, or route changes. Each morning you get one clear answer: what to run, at what pace, and where. Paces come from Jack Daniels’ VDOT. Load uses CTL, ATL, and TSB. Miss a day or sleep badly and the week gets rewritten — it does not stack the missed work onto tomorrow. • Plans for 5K, 10K, half marathon, and marathon • Auto-generated routes that match the session distance • Live pace guidance while you run • A short coach note after each run about that run • Chat with an AI coach about paces and race strategy • History with maps, splits, and shareable cards • Syncs with Apple Health Free plan covers 5K and 10K. Pro unlocks full race blocks, deeper adaptation, AI coach notes, fatigue modeling, race prediction, and sync extras. Try Pro free for 14 days. Price is regional at checkout. Cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Where every plan finds a path. Privacy Policy: https://runapt.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://runapt.com/terms

Screenshots

Threshold4 screens
Runapt4 screens

Verdict

The call

Threshold and Runapt are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Threshold sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days and Runapt sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Threshold ships an update every 2 days, Runapt every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Threshold versus Runapt: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThresholdRunapt
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB65 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAthlete Mindset Inc.Rico Vossestein

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Threshold

Subscriptions3
  • Threshold Pro$7.997 Days
  • Threshold Pro7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Threshold Pro7 Days trial$69.991 Year
2 purchases

Runapt

Subscriptions2
  • Runapt Pro Monthly14 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Runapt Pro Annual14 Days trial$49.001 Year

Questions

Is Threshold free?
Threshold is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Runapt free?
Runapt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Threshold or Runapt have ads?
Neither Threshold nor Runapt shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Threshold or Runapt?
Threshold ships an update every 2 days, and Runapt every 3 days. Most recently, Threshold was updated on October 24, 2026 and Runapt on October 24, 2026.

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