Comparison

Runmo vs StepKeep

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

Head to head
About

Runmo

This app analyzes your past running data from Apple Health to provide personalized training plans and insights. It offers detailed performance metrics and adapts to your progress and health status. Designed for runners of all levels, it acts as an intelligent coach to help you achieve your goals.

Highlights
  • AI-powered personalized training plans
  • Reads running history from Apple Health
  • Detailed post-run analysis
  • Advanced physiological and performance metrics
  • Adaptable plans for injuries or missed sessions
  • Annual goal tracking and progress visualization
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The smartest, most personal running companion. You've already done the running. Runmo reads that history out of Apple Health and turns it into something you can use: progress worth tracking, analysis worth reading, and a coach that actually understands you. Whether you're a complete beginner or an elite athlete. ——— WORKS WITH THE DEVICE YOU ALREADY RUN WITH Runmo doesn't ask you to change anything about how you run. Keep using your Apple Watch, your Garmin, your COROS or your phone. If it writes to Apple Health, Runmo reads it. Full history, every run: heart rate, splits, elevation, route, sleep, HRV, running power and effort score. ——— ACTIVITY. YOUR YEAR, AT A GLANCE. - Annual goal wheel with an editable target. Drag to adjust, tap to commit - Stats bar with total distance, run count and average pace - Top Locations showing where you actually run - Weekly Overview, intensity-colored - All Runs with details, track replay and a shoe log ——— COACH. YOUR PERSONAL TRAINING PARTNER. Coach knows your runs, your readiness, your health log and even your weather. And uses all of it to talk to you like a real coach. - Daily briefings that guide you into today's session - Post-run analysis. How you ran, whether you're on plan, what to watch - Custom plans built around your history and your goal, from 5K to marathon - Adaptability. Log an injury or skip a session and Coach proposes a one-tap plan change ——— LAB. THE METRICS OTHER APPS DON'T SHOW. Fourteen cards spanning physiology, performance and pattern, built from real HealthKit data. - Cardio efficiency: average HR, max HR, VO2 max, resting HR - Power and terrain: total power output, calories, elevation gain - Running form: cadence, ground contact time, stride length - Environment: time of day, temperature, monthly distance - Trends: cardiac efficiency, pace-at-effort, paired runs, trajectory and more. Adjusted to show what actually matters ——— PRIVATE BY DESIGN. Coach only ever sees aggregated numbers and short labels, through a stateless proxy. Never your name. Never your coordinates. Never your run IDs. Everything else stays either on device or securely in your iCloud. Invisible to us. ——— RUNMO PLUS Runmo is free to read your history and explore Lab. The full AI Coach with daily briefings, post-run analysis and custom plans, Advanced analysis and more, are part of Runmo Plus. Start with a free week on us. Then $9.99/month, or even less on annual. ——— Runmo reads your running history from Apple Health. It does not record runs itself. You'll want an Apple Watch or another device that writes workouts to Apple Health. Runs on iPhone with iOS 26 or newer. Made for runners, by runners. ——— Runmo Plus is an auto-renewable subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled. Terms of Use: https://runmo.app/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://runmo.app/legal/privacy

About

StepKeep

This app synchronizes with Apple Health to provide an accurate, verifiable step count. It displays real-time data, offers historical trends, and includes features like goal setting and challenges. It prioritizes privacy by not uploading data or requiring an account.

Highlights
  • Accurate step count synced with Apple Health
  • Timestamped data for verification
  • History restoration and streak preservation
  • Goal setting, streaks, and rest days
  • Weekly, monthly, and yearly trends
  • Challenges and badges
  • Heart rate estimation (for reference)
  • Apple Watch app and complications
Features
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Most step counters show you a number you cannot check. Open the Health app and it says something different, and nobody tells you which one is right. StepKeep shows the number Health shows. Every day, on every screen, next to the time it was last updated. Why the number holds up: • One authoritative total, read straight from Apple Health and deduplicated across iPhone and Apple Watch. Never re-counted, never estimated from your weight or your stride. • Steps still waiting to sync get their own line, so the big number never runs ahead of Health. • Every screen is timestamped. If the data is more than two hours old, StepKeep says so instead of pretending it is live. • A source breakdown shows which device contributed what, and how many duplicate steps were removed. Key Features: • History restored: the first launch brings your past days back from Health, so your record and your streak survive a new phone. • Goals, streaks and rest days: set a daily goal, build a streak, and spend a rest day when life gets in the way. The streak stays alive. • Trends: week, month and year, with a calendar heat map and your best day. • Insights that admit what they do not know: how today compares with your usual pace, how this period compares with the last, and the hours you are most active. Too little data, and StepKeep says so rather than inventing a number. • Challenges and badges: daily, weekly, monthly, or your own target and length. Finish it and the badge is yours. • Calories, distance, floors and exercise minutes, all read from Health so they match too. • Heart rate: your Health heart rate and resting rate in one chart, plus a quick estimate with the rear camera. For reference only, not a medical device. • Apple Watch app and complication: today, the last 7 days and your goal on your wrist, and it works offline. • Widgets and Live Activity: Home Screen, Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. • Manual entry: treadmill, stroller, phone left on the table. Add those steps yourself; they stay on this device. • Wheelchair mode: counts pushes and wheelchair distance, read from Health like everything else. • Reminders: a nudge when you are close, a word when you hit the goal. Works with your devices StepKeep reads from Apple Health, so it already includes Apple Watch, Garmin, Oura, Whoop, Polar, Amazfit and Withings. Anything that writes to Health is already counted. No extra setup, no extra account. Private by design No ads. No third-party SDKs. No account to create. Your steps never leave your iPhone: nothing is uploaded to a server, and nothing goes to iCloud. Free forever: today's steps, the 7-day chart, week trends, goals, streaks, rest days, challenges, badges, every widget, the Live Activity and the Watch complication. StepKeep Plus adds month and year trends, camera heart rate measurement, and CSV export of your whole history. Fully usable with VoiceOver and Dynamic Type. Available in 15 languages. Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/stepkeep-terms Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/stepkeep-privacy

Screenshots

Runmo4 screens
StepKeep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Runmo at every 3 days against StepKeep's every 6 days. StepKeep's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.1). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Runmo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and StepKeep sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Runmo against 5.0 for StepKeep. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Runmo ships an update every 3 days, StepKeep every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Runmo versus StepKeep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRunmoStepKeep
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.116.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB13 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperRunmo Labs月梅 孙

Customer experience

Runmo

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

StepKeep

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Runmo

Subscriptions2
  • Runmo Plus Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Runmo Plus Yearly7 Days trial$79.991 Year
3 purchases

StepKeep

Subscriptions3
  • StepKeep Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
  • StepKeep Plus Yearly Offer$9.991 Year
  • StepKeep Plus Yearly$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Runmo free?
Runmo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is StepKeep free?
StepKeep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Runmo or StepKeep?
Runmo and StepKeep are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Runmo or StepKeep have ads?
Neither Runmo nor StepKeep shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Runmo or StepKeep?
Runmo ships an update every 3 days, and StepKeep every 6 days. Most recently, Runmo was updated on October 8, 2026 and StepKeep on October 16, 2026.

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