Comparison

Keho vs StartRunning

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

Head to head
About

Keho

Adaptive running plans adjust to your recovery and daily readiness. Track detailed statistics for various sports, including age-graded results and VO2max trends. Integrates with Apple Watch and other wearables for personalized insights.

Highlights
  • Adaptive running plans
  • Readiness and recovery tracking
  • VO2max and training load statistics
  • Age-graded race results
  • Workout detail with maps and splits
  • 3D route replays
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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Training plans for running, cycling and yoga that adapt to your sleep and recovery, and statistics that show how your training adds up. Keho works with your Apple Watch, your Polar or any watch that saves to Apple Health, right on your iPhone, no account required. A COACH THAT ADAPTS TO YOU • Running plans for your first 5K, a 10K, a half marathon or a marathon • Cycling plans for a sportive, gran fondo or gravel event, your first 50 or 100 km, or year-round fitness • Yoga practices for home, as a plan of their own or alongside your runs and rides • Paces and power targets based on your own races and fitness • Traveling, short on time or not feeling your best? Tell Keho and your week adjusts • Easier options when sleep, HRV or training load point to a tougher week. You decide • Your next sessions on Apple Watch with heart-rate, pace and power alerts • Read week 1 of any plan before you buy A plan that fits your life, week after week. START EVERY DAY READY • A readiness score every morning from your sleep, HRV, resting heart rate and training load • Today's session right next to it, on Home, in widgets, with Siri or as a notification • Every vital with your usual range, the last seven nights and a trend STATISTICS FOR EVERY SPORT • Totals, trends and personal bests for running, cycling, swimming, strength, yoga and more • Intervals, hill repeats, tempo runs and strides recognized automatically, with pace and heart rate for every rep • Workout analysis with maps, splits, grade-adjusted pace, power zones, cadence and every climb • Heart-rate zones from your real thresholds, with your time in Zone 2 and every other zone • Training load and form, a long-term VO2max trend and your goals • Replay a route as a 3D flyover and share it as a video See your progress in every workout. SLEEP AND RECOVERY • Sleep stages, sleep debt and sleep regularity, night by night • Naps appear beside your night and ease your sleep debt SHARE AND EXPORT • Share a workout as a Story over your own photo, a receipt, a race bib or a trading card • Export any workout as a FIT file, or its route as GPX WORKS WITH YOUR WATCH Keho reads what your watch already saves to Apple Health, history included. Apple Watch, Garmin, Suunto, COROS, Oura and Polar all work. MORE FROM YOUR POLAR Keho Polar Sync brings sleep stages, 24/7 heart rate, SpO2 and more from Polar Flow into Apple Health, and keeps Nightly Recharge and cardio load for the long run. Import your Polar data export to bring your full history along. PRIVACY FIRST Your health data stays on your iPhone. No account or sign-up required. Everything is calculated on your device. KEHO COACH AND MORE Core statistics are free forever. Unlock more: • Keho Coach: every running, cycling and yoga plan with a yearly subscription, or single running plans one at a time • Advanced statistics: readiness, training load and form, the VO2max trend and goals. Included with any purchase or as a one-time unlock • Polar Sync: start with a free month, then yearly, or pay once Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel them in your Apple Account settings. Everything you have synced stays yours. Ideal for runners, cyclists and everyone who wants their training to fit their life. Keho offers personal guidance, not medical advice. Keho is an independent app, compatible with Polar® devices. Polar and Polar Flow are trademarks of Polar Electro Oy. Keho is not affiliated with Polar Electro Oy or Apple Inc. SUPPORT Questions or feedback? Email support@coinlex.com. Website: https://www.keho.app Privacy Policy: https://www.keho.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.keho.app/terms

About

StartRunning

Features
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From the couch to thirty minutes of continuous running in nine weeks. No experience needed, no gear, and no prior idea of what "interval training" means. StartRunning takes you through 27 workouts, three a week. Each one opens with five minutes of brisk walking and ends with five minutes of cooling down. In between, running and walking alternate — at first one minute of running, ninety seconds of walking. By week nine you run for half an hour without stopping. WHAT GUIDES YOU • Spoken coaching tells you when to run and when to walk. You never have to look at your phone. • Tones and vibration for every change — even with music in your ears and the phone in your pocket. • A screen you can read in one second: one huge number, two buttons, nothing else. • GPS records your route and works out distance, pace and kilometre splits. • Your history shows every run with its map; the progress grid shows the whole plan at a glance. THREE LEVELS OF COACHING Voice and tones, vibration only, or nothing at all. Switchable mid-run — for the day you run with someone and still want to feel the interval change. YOU SET THE PACE All 27 workouts can be started and repeated at any time. Nothing is locked, nothing pushes you. If a week feels too fast, run it again. If you end a workout early, the time you ran still counts — only the plan doesn't move on. CUSTOM WORKOUTS You set total duration, run interval and walk break; the app works out the rest. For after the plan, or for the day you have something else in mind. WHAT THIS APP DOES NOT DO No ads. No subscription. No sign-up. No account. No tracking, no analytics, nothing shared with anyone. Your data stays on your device. What you export, you export yourself — as a backup file or as GPX. If you want, the app writes your workouts to Apple Health; that is off by default. Training and all your data work completely offline. Only the map view loads tiles from the network. ACCESSIBILITY Every interval type is signalled by word, icon, colour and vibration pattern — never by colour alone. The app holds up at triple system text size and respects the reduce-motion setting. WHAT IT COSTS The first 9 workouts are free — about three weeks of training, with everything included. After that you unlock everything once: all three plans, custom workouts, for good. No subscription, no follow-up costs. Your history stays open either way, unlocked or not.

Screenshots

Keho4 screens
StartRunning4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: StartRunning at 4 against Keho's 1. StartRunning also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Keho sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year and StartRunning sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Keho ships an update every 2 weeks, StartRunning fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Keho versus StartRunning: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKehoStartRunning
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCoinlexPatrick Engels-Kolodziej

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Keho

Subscriptions2
  • Polar Sync Yearly1 Month trial$4.991 Year
  • Coach Yearly$24.991 Year
One-time8
  • 5K Plan$3.99
  • First 5K Plan$3.99
  • First 10K Plan$3.99
Show 5 more
  • 10K Plan$3.99
  • Advanced Statistics$4.99
  • Half Marathon Plan$6.99
  • Polar Sync Lifetime$7.99
  • Marathon Plan$8.99
1 purchases

StartRunning

One-time1
  • StartRunning Lifetime$6.99

Questions

Is Keho free?
Keho is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is StartRunning free?
StartRunning is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Keho or StartRunning have ads?
Neither Keho nor StartRunning shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Keho or StartRunning?
Keho ships an update every 2 weeks, and StartRunning fortnightly. Most recently, Keho was updated on November 5, 2026 and StartRunning on November 6, 2026.

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