Comparison

RIVL Run vs Underfoot

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

Head to head
About

RIVL Run

Features
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RIVL transforms every run into a territory. Connect your Strava account, sync your runs, and discover the areas you capture on the map thanks to your running routes. With RIVL, every activity counts: • Visualize your territories on an interactive map • View your runs and captured areas • Track your ranking by city, country, or time period • Compare your progress with other runners • Access your distance, run, and territory statistics • Analyze your activities to better understand your runs RIVL adds a new dimension to running: run, explore, capture, and progress. Main features: • Map of captured areas • Strava connection • Run history • Rankings by period and location • Runner profile and statistics • Activity analysis • In-app support Whether you run to improve, explore your city, or challenge other runners, RIVL makes every run more engaging.

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Underfoot

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Your steps already add up to something. This app decides what. Underfoot turns the steps your phone already counts into distance along a real long-distance route: the actual surveyed line, with its actual length, its actual climbs and its actual places. Walk your usual day, and you move a little further down the trail. FOUR ROUTES, ALL ON YOUR PHONE • Appalachian Trail - 3,478 km, Georgia to Maine, 18 sections. Free, all of it. • Pacific Crest Trail - 4,269 km, desert to the North Cascades, 20 sections. • Route 66 - 3,643 km, Chicago to the Pacific, 20 sections. • Camino de Santiago - 762 km across northern Spain, 7 sections. Nothing is downloaded later. Every route is in the app from the first launch, and it all works in airplane mode. PAINTED, NOT PHOTOGRAPHED 128 original paintings, one for every stretch of country you walk through, in daylight and at night. The season is baked into each one, so a year passes while you walk: early spring in Georgia, high summer in Virginia, late autumn at the end. A JOURNAL THAT BECOMES A BOOK One line a day, in your words. Along the way you pass named places: shelters with the year they were built, passes, towns, roadside stops, and find what somebody walking before you wrote there. After a year you have something you won't want to lose. SECTIONS, NOT ONE ENDLESS LINE A long trail takes years at an honest pace, so the unit that matters is the section: a month or two, ending in something. Eighteen of them on the Appalachian Trail alone. NO STREAKS, NO GUILT A day without walking is called a zero day, and on a real trail it is completely normal. Nothing here burns down, nothing scolds you, nothing asks you to come back tomorrow or lose what you built. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE No account, no server, no analytics, no third-party code of any kind. Your steps are read from Health on your phone and stay there. Progress syncs between your own devices through your private iCloud, and nowhere else. WIDGETS One for each trail you're walking, in four sizes, including the Lock Screen. FREE AND PRO The Appalachian Trail is free in full: every section, every painting, the journal, the widget. Pro opens the rest of the catalogue, lets you walk several routes at once, writes fresh journal entries on your device, and exports your journal as a book. For motivation, not for navigation. This is not a hiking navigation app and carries no GPS guidance of any kind. Route data comes from public surveys and is credited in the app. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, the Pacific Crest Trail Association, or the National Park Service. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Underfoot Pro is offered as a monthly subscription (US$4.99 per month) and a yearly subscription (US$29.99 per year). Lifetime (US$59.99) is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Prices are in US dollars and may differ in other regions. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Subscriptions can be managed, and auto-renewal turned off, in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tasty-adasaurus-c8c.notion.site/Underfoot-Privacy-Policy-3dde95387907802aa9d0fd753e3eb287

Screenshots

RIVL Run4 screens
Underfoot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RIVL Run at none against Underfoot's 3. RIVL Run also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days) and iOS requirement (18.4 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Underfoot sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. RIVL Run asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RIVL Run ships an update daily, Underfoot every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
RIVL Run versus Underfoot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRIVL RunUnderfoot
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB80 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJoseph LarocheUladzislau Zakharo

In-app purchases

None

RIVL Run

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Underfoot

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is RIVL Run free?
RIVL Run is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Underfoot free?
Underfoot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do RIVL Run or Underfoot have ads?
Neither RIVL Run nor Underfoot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RIVL Run or Underfoot?
RIVL Run ships an update daily, and Underfoot every 4 days. Most recently, RIVL Run was updated on October 25, 2026 and Underfoot on October 26, 2026.

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