Running Tracker vs Underfoot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Running Tracker
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Turn your outdoor runs into territory on the map. Track your GPS route, pace and distance while you claim new areas. Run solo or help your clan grow its shared territory, then see how you compare on the leaderboards. CLAIM YOUR CITY โข Turn valid outdoor activities into map territory โข Explore nearby routes and see who controls each area โข Run solo or grow shared territory with your clan TRACK YOUR PROGRESS โข Record routes, pace, distance, duration, speed and elevation โข Review your activities and captured area โข Choose standard, dark, satellite or hybrid maps โข Connect supported heart rate, cadence and power sensors COMPETE AND SHARE โข Join challenges and leaderboards โข Follow athletes, share activities, send kudos, comment and message โข Create activity cards and 3D route stories to share CONTROL YOUR DATA Choose activity visibility and route privacy. Block or report accounts and delete your account from settings. Location is used during active recording to map routes, calculate distance and validate territory claims. Background location is used only while an activity is recording. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://runquestapp.app/privacy
Underfoot
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Your steps already add up to something. This app decides what. Underfoot turns the steps your phone already counts into distance along a real long-distance route: the actual surveyed line, with its actual length, its actual climbs and its actual places. Walk your usual day, and you move a little further down the trail. FOUR ROUTES, ALL ON YOUR PHONE โข Appalachian Trail - 3,478 km, Georgia to Maine, 18 sections. Free, all of it. โข Pacific Crest Trail - 4,269 km, desert to the North Cascades, 20 sections. โข Route 66 - 3,643 km, Chicago to the Pacific, 20 sections. โข Camino de Santiago - 762 km across northern Spain, 7 sections. Nothing is downloaded later. Every route is in the app from the first launch, and it all works in airplane mode. PAINTED, NOT PHOTOGRAPHED 128 original paintings, one for every stretch of country you walk through, in daylight and at night. The season is baked into each one, so a year passes while you walk: early spring in Georgia, high summer in Virginia, late autumn at the end. A JOURNAL THAT BECOMES A BOOK One line a day, in your words. Along the way you pass named places: shelters with the year they were built, passes, towns, roadside stops, and find what somebody walking before you wrote there. After a year you have something you won't want to lose. SECTIONS, NOT ONE ENDLESS LINE A long trail takes years at an honest pace, so the unit that matters is the section: a month or two, ending in something. Eighteen of them on the Appalachian Trail alone. NO STREAKS, NO GUILT A day without walking is called a zero day, and on a real trail it is completely normal. Nothing here burns down, nothing scolds you, nothing asks you to come back tomorrow or lose what you built. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE No account, no server, no analytics, no third-party code of any kind. Your steps are read from Health on your phone and stay there. Progress syncs between your own devices through your private iCloud, and nowhere else. WIDGETS One for each trail you're walking, in four sizes, including the Lock Screen. FREE AND PRO The Appalachian Trail is free in full: every section, every painting, the journal, the widget. Pro opens the rest of the catalogue, lets you walk several routes at once, writes fresh journal entries on your device, and exports your journal as a book. For motivation, not for navigation. This is not a hiking navigation app and carries no GPS guidance of any kind. Route data comes from public surveys and is credited in the app. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, the Pacific Crest Trail Association, or the National Park Service. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Underfoot Pro is offered as a monthly subscription (US$4.99 per month) and a yearly subscription (US$29.99 per year). Lifetime (US$59.99) is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Prices are in US dollars and may differ in other regions. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Subscriptions can be managed, and auto-renewal turned off, in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tasty-adasaurus-c8c.notion.site/Underfoot-Privacy-Policy-3dde95387907802aa9d0fd753e3eb287
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Running Tracker at 17.0 against Underfoot's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Running Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per month and Underfoot sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Running Tracker ships an update every 3 days, Underfoot every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | Running Tracker | Underfoot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days โ better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 โ better | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ugur Sumakoglu | Uladzislau Zakharo |
In-app purchases
Running Tracker
- Runquest Elite Monthly$4.491 Month
- Runquest Elite Annual7 Days trial$37.491 Year
- Runquest Elite Lifetime$149.99
Underfoot
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- Yearly$29.991 Year
- Lifetime$59.99









