Miriam vs Running Memo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Miriam
This running app automatically organizes your workout history from Apple Watch and Fitness. Track detailed metrics, set goals, and analyze performance trends. It offers personalized insights and shareable summaries of your runs.
- Automatic Apple Health data import
- Detailed run metric tracking
- Goal setting and streak monitoring
- Route recognition and course analysis
- Performance comparison and bests
- Shareable run summaries
- Home Screen widgets
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Keep running with Apple Watch and Apple Fitness. Miriam organizes the rest. When you open Miriam for the first time, running history from Apple Watch and Apple Fitness is organized automatically. Total distance, time, belt grade, personal records, and mileage achievements appear on one screen. β’ Every angle: Track distance, pace, heart rate, elevation, cadence, and more across daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, all-time, course, and standard-distance views, from 1 mile to 100 miles. β’ Goals and streaks: Create goals such as weekly distance, monthly run count, or 10K finishes. Miriam records whether each period was completed and counts streaks. β’ Frequent routes become courses: Choose one saved run and register it as a course. Similar past routes, and future runs with similar GPS paths, are automatically matched to the same course. See pace, heart-rate, and distance trends for familiar roads in one place. β’ Find your best by condition: Filter sessions by standard distance or course, then sort by distance, time, pace, average heart rate, cadence, power, active calories, elevation gain, ground contact time, and more. Miriam also finds standard-distance bests inside longer runs, such as the fastest 10K within a 12 km run. β’ Compare with past records: Pace, heart rate, and elevation charts can show past averages for the same course and your own average for the same standard distance. β’ Records and belt grades: View personal records, goal streaks, mileage achievements, and yearly medals in one place. Total distance is represented as a belt grade from white to blue, purple, brown, black, and red. β’ Share cards: Session cards turn a single run into a map or photo summary, while period cards summarize your day, week, month, year, or all-time records. Choose Satellite or Explore map styles, and include route heatmaps in period cards. β’ Home Screen widgets: Add goal progress and recent runs to Home Screen widgets to see them without opening the app. Add as many goal widgets as you like, one per goal, while the Activity widgets let you pick which period to show β today, this week, this month, this year, or all time. Miriam is free to use. Miriam Pro unlocks trend charts for every metric, share cards and data export, and unlimited goals and courses, with a one-month free trial. Miriam never sends your health or workout data to third-party servers. Everything is read from HealthKit and processed on your device, with no analytics SDKs, no ad SDKs, and no tracking. Your goals and courses sync only to your own iCloud. Course names are stored, never the routes you ran. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Running Memo
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β Log a run in seconds Enter distance, time, course, and how it felt. Pace (min/km) is calculated automatically β no stopwatch, no setup. β Your week at a glance The home screen shows this week's distance and count, plus your recent runs. Your streak of records builds up naturally. β Weekly graph & totals Review your distance week by week with a bar chart, and see total distance, total runs, and average pace together. β Course notes Name the routes you run often. Past courses are one tap away, so logging stays quick. β No GPS This app never uses location. You enter each run yourself, and everything is stored only on your device. No account is needed, and there is no upload or tracking. Note: the feel rating is a personal record. This app does not provide health or training guidance.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Miriam at none against Running Memo's shown. Running Memo's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 9 days) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Miriam sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Running Memo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Miriam ships an update every 9 days, Running Memo every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Miriam | Running Memo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | β |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 2 days β better |
| Ads | No β better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | β |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 β better |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hyeonrae Jo | δΈ½δ½³ ζ½ |
In-app purchases
Miriam
- Monthly Access1 Month trial$0.991 Month
- Yearly Access1 Month trial$7.991 Year
- Lifetime Access$19.99
Running Memo
- Remove Ads$0.99









