Comparison

Make Me Workout vs RunTrace

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

Head to head
About

Make Me Workout

This app helps you track workout progress locally, without requiring an account or subscription. It offers features like random workout generation, customizable organization with tags, and the ability to save video clips for exercise reference. Enjoy widgets for reminders instead of constant notifications.

Highlights
  • Local data storage
  • Workout progress tracking
  • Random workout generator
  • Customizable workout organization
  • Save video clips for exercises
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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Save workout inspiration and actually use it. Make Me Workout helps you turn exercises, stretches, and workout ideas into workouts you can start right away. Build your own exercise library, mix your movements and track your progress without being pushed into someone else’s program. No account. No ads. No subscription. What you can do: - Save the ideas you find. Add links from YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok to an exercise or workout, so you can return to the original video when you need it. - Build workouts your way. Create your own library of exercises, stretches, mobility work, and routines. Organize it with tags that make sense to you. - Start with less friction. Choose a workout, generate one at random, try a deck-of-cards workout, or see what today’s workout has in store. - Track your progress in all it's forms. Log sets, reps, weight, and duration. Review your history and see how you improve over time. - Share workouts people can use. Send a workout to friends, family, clients, or your audience. They can import it and start it easily. - Keep your data on your device. Your exercises, workouts, history, and progress stay local. No account or email required. - Use widgets instead of noise. Put a workout reminder on your Home Screen or Lock Screen without getting pinged everyday. Explore the app freely and complete one workout free. Then unlock continued workouts, history, statistics, sharing, and everything else for $5 once. Start now. Or save it for later. It is your workout.

About

RunTrace

Features
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Install RunTrace and your running history is already there. Every run in Apple Health — the ones from your Apple Watch, the ones from whatever app you used before — is on the first screen, with its route, splits and heart rate intact. No account to make, no import to wait for, nothing to set up. Then it records new runs too. GPS route, live pace, splits as you pass each kilometre or mile, auto-pause when you stop at a light, and spoken split announcements so you don't have to look. Distance and pace stay on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a pause button you can reach without unlocking. EVERY RUN, FULLY BROKEN DOWN • Route map, plus a profile of pace, elevation or heart rate along the distance • Splits chart showing your fastest and slowest laps • Time in five heart-rate zones • Running form measured by Apple Watch: power, cadence, stride length, ground contact and vertical oscillation • A note for how it felt TRENDS WORTH READING • Weekly volume over a week, a month, three months, a year, or everything • Pace trend, plotted so faster is up • Fitness, Fatigue and Form — training load that tells you whether you're fresh, building, or overreaching • Records: longest run, longest time, best pace, biggest week, week streak • Best efforts at 1 km, 1 mile, 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon, found inside runs you've already done • VO₂ Max, resting heart rate and HRV, each against where it was three months ago ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app records on its own — leave the phone at home. Start, pause, finish; the workout goes into Health and the run turns up on your iPhone. A WEEKLY GOAL, IF YOU WANT ONE Pick a distance for the week and watch the ring fill. Optional reminders on the days you plan to run. SHARE AND EXPORT A share card built for someone else's feed: one big number and the shape of your route, no street map of your neighbourhood. Export any run as GPX with heart rate and cadence, or export all of them at once. HOME SCREEN WIDGET This week's distance and your last run, at a glance. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account, no ads, no analytics, no servers of ours. Runs you record sync through your own private iCloud, so they follow you between devices. What RunTrace reads from Apple Health stays on the device it read it from. One purchase. No subscription, no unlocks, no paywall — everything above is in the app the first time you open it.

Screenshots

Make Me Workout4 screens
RunTrace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Make Me Workout at Free against RunTrace's $2.99. RunTrace's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads and iOS requirement 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

Make Me Workout is free to download; RunTrace costs $2.99 up front. Make Me Workout sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. RunTrace asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Make Me Workout versus RunTrace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMake Me WorkoutRunTrace
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDru HarrisonDajiale

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Make Me Workout

One-time1
  • Life Time Access$4.99
None

RunTrace

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Make Me Workout free?
Make Me Workout is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RunTrace free?
RunTrace costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Make Me Workout or RunTrace have ads?
Neither Make Me Workout nor RunTrace shows ads.

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