Comparison

Runsense vs Grid

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

Head to head
About

Runsense

This running coach learns your training habits and recovery to create personalized, adaptive plans. It offers 24/7 chat support for questions and adjustments, integrating with health data for smarter coaching.

Highlights
  • Personalized adaptive training plans
  • 24/7 AI coaching via text
  • Integration with Apple Health data
  • Periodized plans for various goals
  • Compounding training memory
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Runsense gets you to your goal, whether that is your first 5K or a hundred-mile ultra. Tell Runsense about the whole runner: your goal race, your running history, how fit you are today, the days you can run and the rest of your life. Your coach designs the full arc of training from today through your goal and the recovery after it, so you are ready for the next challenge. It has the elements your goal needs: aerobic base, economy and speed, volume and fatigue resistance, and race-specific work, laid out in build weeks, cutback weeks and a taper. Then it coaches you through it. Travel, a missed week, a cold, a strong block of training: your coach reworks the plan the way a sharp human coach would, and tells you why. Your coach is there 24/7. Question about a workout? Want to understand the training theory behind it? Need to move a session because life happened? Ask, and your coach answers with the reasoning, not just the change. What you get: A program built for your race. Not a template with your name on it. Your goal, your history and the week you actually have decide what each week is for. A coach in your corner. It checks in, asks how a run felt, answers your questions, and reworks the plan when something changes. Coaching grounded in the runs you actually did. With your permission, your coach reads every run from Apple Health or your connected account: distance, pace, heart rate, elevation. It reads your sleep, HRV and resting heart rate too, takes what you tell it about how a run felt, and coaches on all of it. Your plan on your watch. Each day's workout arrives on your Apple Watch with the warm-up, intervals and targets laid out, and updates whenever your plan changes. Works with Apple Watch, Garmin, COROS, Suunto, Polar and Strava. Proof you are getting fitter. Fitness, fatigue and form trends built from your own training, so you can see the work adding up. Memory that compounds. Runsense keeps your history and the context you share, so the coaching gets sharper the longer you train with it. This is not a workout library or a pace calculator. It is a coach with judgment, paying attention to you every week. New members get their first 2 weeks of coaching free. Privacy Policy: https://runsense.ai/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://runsense.ai/terms-of-service

About

Grid

Features
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Your habits, as a grid you can actually see. Grid turns your habits into a contribution grid, like the one developers get on their code profile. One tap fills a square. Green builds up. Streaks become obvious, and so do the gaps. HOW IT WORKS 1. Add a habit. Three are free, and you do not need an account. 2. Tap the square when you do it. 3. Watch the grid fill in. That's the whole app. WHY A GRID AND NOT ANOTHER CHECKLIST A grid shows a whole year at once. You do not need to open a chart to know how the last three months went: the colour tells you in half a second. Missing a day stays visible instead of disappearing, which is exactly why people keep going. FREE, WITHOUT LIMITS - One-tap tracking and the full colour grid - Home-screen widgets, with no upgrade prompt - Streaks, stats, Perfect Days - 3 habits, 30 days of history, forever - Nothing to sign up for, no ads, no data selling, no social feed GRID PREMIUM - Unlimited habits - Full grid history, not just the last 30 days - Streak rescue and deeper streak analytics - Habit autopsy and load coaching: see which days and habits actually hold - AI-written weekly reviews - Clean share cards without a watermark - Custom colours and icons, CSV export - 7-day free trial, then $1.99 per month or the annual plan. Cancel anytime, and your grid stays yours. BUILT FOR REAL LIFE Choose which weekdays count toward a streak, so a gym habit on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays still builds one. Turn on vacation mode and a planned break stops counting against you. Set a reminder for the time you actually do the thing. NEVER LOSE YOUR GRID Sign in once and your grid syncs. New phone, reinstall, lost device: your squares come back with you. Grid Premium is an auto-renewing subscription charged to your store account and can be cancelled any time in your store settings. Prices vary by region.

Screenshots

Runsense4 screens
Grid4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Runsense at every 5 days against Grid's every 2 weeks. Grid's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Runsense sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and Grid sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Runsense ships an update every 5 days, Grid every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Runsense versus Grid: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRunsenseGrid
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB65 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperRaphael Crawford-MarksAtanas Dimitrov

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Runsense

Subscriptions2
  • Runsense Founder Monthly$8.991 Month
  • Runsense Founder Annual$69.991 Year
2 purchases

Grid

Subscriptions2
  • Grid Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Grid Premium Annual7 Days trial$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Runsense free?
Runsense is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Grid free?
Grid is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Runsense or Grid have ads?
Neither Runsense nor Grid shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Runsense or Grid?
Runsense ships an update every 5 days, and Grid every 2 weeks. Most recently, Runsense was updated on October 28, 2026 and Grid on October 25, 2026.

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