Comparison

Talos Training vs RUNUP

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

Head to head
About

Talos Training

Features
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Talos tracks your lifting sessions while you do them, set by set, not from memory afterwards. And when you sign up for a race, it builds the training plan that goes with it. WORKOUT TRACKING - Warm-up sets and working sets, loads and reps logged in two taps - Per-exercise rest timer, with alarm and vibration - Your usual settings remembered for every movement - A structured session or free training, depending on the day EXERCISE LIBRARY - Detailed entries with an animated demo and a diagram of the muscles worked - Your personal records and your progress curve on every movement - Favorites and filters to find an exercise in a second RUNNING, TOO - Pick your race (5K, 10K, half marathon, marathon, trail or triathlon) and a date - A week-by-week plan built from the shape you're actually in, not a generic template - Sessions eased off when your legs say so: your lifting counts in that fatigue - Easy, long, tempo, intervals and race pace, each with its own target pace PROGRESS - A full history of your sessions and your loads - Personal records detected automatically - Volume, frequency and estimated energy expenditure NUTRITION - Log a meal by photographing it, or simply by describing it out loud - Calories and macros worked out and compared against your target for the day ANATOLY, YOUR COACH - Programs matched to your level, your equipment and the time you actually have - An analysis of your sessions and your eating, and answers to your questions CONNECTED TO YOUR ECOSYSTEM - Apple Health: your steps, your energy expenditure and your workouts synced automatically - Strava and Garmin for your runs and rides Talos is free to install. A subscription unlocks Anatoly the coach, nutrition tracking and programs generated for you. Terms of Use: https://talos-fitness.fr/terms-of-service.html

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RUNUP

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Track your runs, find your friends, follow your progress โ€” free, with no time limit. And when you want a real plan, RUNUP builds it around your goal and reshapes it after every run based on how you actually felt. FREE, FOREVER GPS tracking for every run: distance, pace, route, elevation, heart rate. Your full history and your stats. Today's three goals and your streak. Your weekly recap. Apple Health, Apple Watch, widgets and the Lock Screen. And the whole Club: leaderboards, challenges, activity feed, friends, shared routes. No countdown, no ads. RUNUP PLUS โ€” 7 DAYS FREE The periodised plan and its adaptation, the coach by text and by voice, race-day preparation, your predicted times and your training load. A REAL COACH, NOT A CHATBOT โ€” RUNUP PLUS A personal coach who knows your goal, your history and how today is going. Ask a question before a session, get nutrition advice, or talk it through after a run that hurt. Mid-run you can even talk to it: press, ask out loud, hear the answer in your headphones. A PLAN THAT LIVES WITH YOU โ€” RUNUP PLUS After every run, rate how hard it felt (RPE) โ€” the plan adjusts the difficulty of the weeks ahead. Base, specific, taper: a genuinely periodised plan built around your race date, 4 to 20 weeks depending on how long you have. With no race date (getting faster, losing weight, easing back in, staying fit), it runs continuously with built-in cutback weeks. Short night, or yesterday's session too brutal? Today's session eases off on its own. HYROX, ULTRA, TRIATHLON โ€” RUNUP PLUS Three full preparations, not variations on the running plan. HYROX: the eight stations and their transitions. Ultra: elevation, fast hiking, running at night. Triathlon: swimming, cycling and brick sessions, from sprint to long distance. LIVE RUN TRACKING Real-time map and route, pace, heart rate, calories. Every run is saved to Apple Health, exports as GPX, and shares as a card with your route on it. APPLE WATCH Start a run from your watch and leave your iPhone at home: wrist heart rate, live distance and calories. Every run you finish on your wrist comes back to the phone with its debrief. With RUNUP Plus, today's session is pushed to the watch. STATS THAT ACTUALLY MEAN SOMETHING Pace trend, personal records, a map of every route you've run, and shoe mileage tracking. With RUNUP Plus: finish-time predictions for 5K, 10K, half and marathon, and eight weeks of training load. WHERE TO RUN WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW THE PLACE New city, no idea where to run? The map shows routes published by other runners around you, with distance, elevation and often a photo of the spot. Filter by length, keep the ones you like, open the start in Maps. Sharing your own runs takes two taps โ€” and the first and last 300 metres are stripped before anything is sent, so nobody sees where you set off from or came home to. CLUB & COMMUNITY Weekly and all-time leaderboards, club challenges, group runs, an activity feed and badges. And if you'd rather follow a handful of people than a whole club, a friends feed does exactly that. THE END OF A PLAN ISN'T THE END โ€” RUNUP PLUS When your plan finishes: a guided recovery block, then a new goal or free-run mode with no fixed plan at all. Connecting Apple Health is optional but recommended for a more accurate daily readiness score. The Club needs an account; everything else works without one. RUNUP PLUS SUBSCRIPTION RUNUP works without a subscription, with no time limit. RUNUP Plus unlocks the plan and the coach, after a 7-day free trial. โ€ข Monthly โ€” โ‚ฌ6.99 per month โ€ข Yearly โ€” โ‚ฌ39.99 per year (โ‚ฌ3.33 per month) Auto-renewing, cancellable at any time from your Apple account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hicsuntco.github.io/RUNUP/privacy.html

Screenshots

Talos Training4 screens
RUNUP4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: RUNUP at every 3 days against Talos Training's every 2 months. Talos Training's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Talos Training sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and RUNUP sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Talos Training ships an update every 2 months, RUNUP every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Talos Training versus RUNUP: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTalos TrainingRUNUP
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” better
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size48 MB11 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAvekoCharlotte Grude

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Talos Training

Subscriptions2
  • Talos Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Talos Premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
2 purchases

RUNUP

Subscriptions2
  • RUNUP Plus Monthly$5.991 Month
  • RUNUP Plus Yearly$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Talos Training free?
Talos Training is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RUNUP free?
RUNUP is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Talos Training or RUNUP have ads?
Neither Talos Training nor RUNUP shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Talos Training or RUNUP?
Talos Training ships an update every 2 months, and RUNUP every 3 days. Most recently, Talos Training was updated on October 24, 2026 and RUNUP on October 23, 2026.

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