Trailcast vs Runnerd
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trailcast
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Trailcast turns your workouts from the Health app into meaningful insights. Export, analyze, and share your training sessions — with maps, weather, stats, and more. Routes and Maps Every workout is visualized on a speed-color-coded map. See at a glance where you pushed hard and where you held back. Export GPX, CSV, and TCX with a tap. Import just as easily. Analysis and Statistics The Effort Score from 0 to 100 shows you how hard a workout really was. Trailcast Pro adds Pace Zones, Heart Rate Zones, elevation profile visualization, calorie trends over 8 weeks, and the ability to compare two workouts on one map. Weather and Forecast See the weather during your workout and the forecast for your next session. The Ride Score rates how ideal conditions are for your training. Motivation and Gamification Streak tracking with heatmap, weekly goal with ring progress, 38 achievements with progress bars, and a Year-in-Review in Spotify Wrapped style keep you motivated long-term. Share and Widgets Create share cards for Instagram and Strava. Three widget sizes for Home and Lock Screen keep you on track at a glance. Privacy Trailcast processes all data exclusively on your device. No account, no cloud, no ads. Trailcast Pro Unlock unlimited exports, advanced analytics, full-screen maps, detailed weather data, and the full achievement catalog. Monthly: 2.99 Euro Yearly: 19.99 Euro, save around 44 percent The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Cancel anytime in your device settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Use: https://lemmidevpixelcraft.github.io/Trailcast-iOS/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://lemmidevpixelcraft.github.io/Trailcast-iOS/privacy.html
Runnerd
This app analyzes your running data from Apple Health to provide insights into your training, readiness, and performance. It offers detailed run breakdowns, season timelines, and coaching advice without requiring an account or subscription.
- Readiness Score calculation
- Detailed run analysis
- Performance Management Chart
- Season timeline view
- Three coaching tones
- Shoe mileage tracking
- Personal bests tracking
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Runnerd is a running coach and a serious analytics app in one. It builds a plan around your goal, explains every recommendation and works with the runs you've already logged. No subscription. No account. No compromises. HOW IT WORKS Connect Apple Health and Runnerd reads your past runs, whether they came from your Apple Watch, your iPhone or another running app. No blank slate: Runnerd knows where you stand from day one. Keep tracking with whatever you use today. Set a goal, like your next half marathon, and pick a coach. The Patient One builds up carefully, The Ambitious One pushes harder, and The Balanced One sits in between. The difference shows up in your plan, not just in the tone. Runnerd maps out every week until race day and schedules more of the run types you enjoy. You can add your own runs whenever you like. Each morning, your coach checks the plan against your readiness. After each run, it reviews how it went. Ahead of your goal? It'll tell you. Goal asking for more than your coach allows? It'll tell you that too. FOR NERDS WHO RUN Fitness, fatigue and form, running economy, intensity, training load: Runnerd shows whether your training is working and explains every term along the way. It's all built on proven sports science, not AI: Banister for fitness and form, Daniels VDOT for training paces and predictions, Karvonen for heart rate zones. IPHONE AND MAC Check in on your iPhone, dig deeper on your Mac with a native Mac app. Your data syncs through your private iCloud. Runnerd collects nothing and runs no servers. AND THE DETAILS Shoe mileage with a heads-up before a pair wears out. Personal bests, spotted automatically. Running partners. Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Share runs, weeks and personal bests as images. FREE, WITH A ONE-TIME PRO UPGRADE Runnerd is free to use. Pro adds race predictions, running technique analysis, GPX export and The Ambitious One. One purchase covers iPhone and Mac.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Trailcast at 17.6 against Runnerd's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Trailcast sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Runnerd sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Trailcast ships an update every 8 days, Runnerd every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trailcast | Runnerd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon Außerlechner | Norma Steller |
In-app purchases
Trailcast
- Trailcast Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Trailcast Pro Yearly$17.991 Year
Runnerd
- Runnerd Pro$7.99
- Support a Nerd$17.99









