MapStride vs Moonrain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MapStride
Track your runs, walks, and cycling routes with live GPS mapping. Monitor distance, speed, pace, steps, and calories burned. Review your progress and workout history with a clean, ad-free interface.
- Live GPS route tracking
- Real-time workout statistics
- Distance, speed, and pace measurement
- Calorie burn calculation
- Weekly progress dashboard
- Workout history log
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MapStride is a free GPS run, walk and cycle tracker that maps your route, measures your stats and tracks your fitness progress in one clean app. Need a run tracker, walking tracker or cycle tracker? MapStride handles all three without a subscription or paywall, and without the clutter of Strava, MapMyRun or MapMyWalk. No account required to start. GPS ROUTE TRACKING ON A LIVE MAP Every workout is tracked live on a GPS map. Your route appears as you move. Choose from multiple map styles. When you finish, your complete route is saved to review, share or compare. Run it, walk it, cycle it on your workout map. FREE RUNNING TRACKER, WALKING TRACKER AND CYCLING TRACKER IN ONE APP Built for runners, walkers, cyclists, hikers and anyone who moves outdoors. A free running app and run tracker with GPS pace and distance. A walking tracker, step counter and step tracker with calories burned. A cycling tracker and cycle tracker with speed and distance. A hike tracker or hiking tracker for trails and trekking. All in one app. REAL-TIME GPS STATS FOR EVERY WORKOUT • Distance in kilometres or miles • Time, duration and moving time • Current speed and average speed • Pace per kilometre or mile • Steps during walking and running • Elevation gain • Calorie tracker estimates from your profile (height, weight, age and activity) Stats update live. Track running distance, track walking distance and use MapStride as a cardio tracker, distance tracker and outdoor fitness tracker. Plan walking routes on the map as you go. RELIABLE BACKGROUND TRACKING Background GPS keeps recording with the screen off or in other apps. Pause and resume mid-workout. Recover a session if the app closes. Data saves locally even offline. Switch metric or imperial units anytime. GOALS, STREAKS AND PROGRESS RINGS Set goals for distance, steps, calories, duration or workout count: daily, weekly or monthly. Mark a primary goal on home-screen rings. Build a daily streak, celebrate milestones and personal bests, with evening reminders, weekly recap alerts and re-engagement messages. PROGRESS CHARTS, CALENDAR AND WEEKLY INSIGHTS Interactive charts for week, month and year, plus a calendar view. See weekly distance, calories, steps and active time by running, walking and cycling. A fitness tracker and workout tracker focused on improvement, not a social feed. WORKOUT HISTORY, SHARING AND ROUTE REVIEW Every workout saves its GPS route map, time, distance, pace, speed, steps, elevation and calories. Filter by activity. Export shareable workout cards in multiple styles after each outing. GUEST MODE, CLOUD SYNC AND APPLE HEALTH Start as a guest with no sign-up. Local history from session one. Sign in with Apple, Google or email for cloud backup, synced goals and a profile across devices. Optionally connect Apple Health to import or export steps, workouts, distance and calories. PERSONALISATION Light, dark or system theme. Metric or imperial units. Multiple languages. Profile photo and health profile for accurate calorie estimates. OUTDOOR FITNESS WITHOUT THE COMPLEXITY Clean GPS tracking for outdoor run, walk, cycle or hike. No social feed. No premium paywall on core tracking. No subscription required for everyday logging. Looking for a free running app, walking app, walking tracker, cycling tracker, step counter app or Strava alternative? MapStride covers walk, run and cycle in one focused package. FREE TO DOWNLOAD GPS maps, live stats, step counter, steps tracker, calorie tracking, elevation, history, goals, streaks, charts, shareable cards and route review are free to use. Download MapStride free on the App Store. Start your run, walk or cycle. Track it on the map. TERMS OF USE (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Moonrain
Drift off to sleep with a variety of ambient sounds, ASMR, or guided meditations. This app offers customizable sound mixes, a sleep timer, and a gentle wake alarm. It works offline with no ads or subscriptions.
- 28 ambient soundscapes
- Customizable sound mixes
- Sleep timer with fade-out
- Guided breathing and ASMR
- Meditation timer
- Focus environments
- Gentle wake alarm
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Fall asleep to rain on the window, ocean waves or a crackling fire, unwind with whispered ASMR, or focus in a quiet café or library. Ease stress with meditation or slow, guided breathing. Moonrain is free and works completely offline: no account, no ads, no subscription and no tracking. - 28 ambient sounds: rain, ocean, forest, fire, fans, trains, and brown, pink and white noise - Mix up to four sounds with independent volumes, and let them drift gently - Describe a mix in your own words, like "rain on a tent with a campfire", and Moonrain picks the sounds - Find your presets, saved mixes and places in iPhone search, and let a Work Focus open Environments - Sleep timer that fades everything out once you're asleep - Relax: wind down, body scan, a breathing guide with a soft tone, and 8 whispered ASMR experiences in 3D sound - Meditation timer with Tibetan, crystal and deep singing bowls - Environments to work, study or read in: coffee shop, library, park, rainy tea house and train, plus a noise lab - Gentle wake alarm that fades in a nature sound - Dim bedside clock with a red night light, and an OK-to-wake clock for kids - Day Sleeper mode for people who sleep during the day - Save mixes, share them as a link or QR code, back them up, or export one as an audio file - Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy widgets, Control Center controls and Siri - Simple Mode with large text and one big play button - Plays all night with the screen locked; control it from the Lock Screen - Calm animated scenes that honor Reduce Motion and go dark to save battery overnight - Works on iPhone, iPad and Apple silicon Macs - 100% offline: no account, no ads, no tracking, and no internet needed
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Moonrain at none against MapStride's 3. MapStride's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, review sentiment, ads and monetization model 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. MapStride sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Moonrain asks for nothing beyond the download.
MapStride holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MapStride has 28 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
MapStride ships an update every 5 days, Moonrain every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MapStride | Moonrain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (28 ratings) — better | 4.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 130 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ARTEVUS TECHNOLOGIES (PRIVATE) LIMITED | Gurwinder Singh |
Customer experience
MapStride
Moonrain
In-app purchases
MapStride
- Support MapStride $1.99$2.00
- Support MapStride $4.99$5.00
- Support MapStride $7.99$8.00
Moonrain
No in-app purchases









