Ghost Go Run vs Flare
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ghost Go Run
Race against your past performance or a friend's recorded activity. This app provides live feedback on your progress, helping you stay ahead or catch up during runs. Track key metrics and review your history to achieve new personal bests.
- Race against saved activities or pace goals
- Live gap and progress updates
- Apple Watch integration for phone-free control
- Spoken updates and kilometre splits
- Activity history and record tracking
- Optional ghost sharing for challenges
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Race against a real benchmark, from you or a friend. Ghost turns a previous activity into a live reference, so you can see whether you are ahead or behind while you run. Choose a distance and pace goal or a ghost, start moving, and let the gap guide you. DURING EVERY ACTIVITY • Choose a distance and pace goal, or challenge a saved activity. • Check your gap and progress on iPhone. • Use Apple Watch to start, pause, and finish without reaching for your phone. • Hear spoken updates during the activity, including each kilometre split. • Check time, distance, pace, heart rate, and elevation when available. AFTER YOU FINISH • See the result at a comparable distance. • Review your activity history and saved references. • Discover records, trophies, and milestones earned from eligible activities. • Share your ghost through your usual apps so someone else can challenge it in Ghost. LOCAL PRIVACY Ghost does not require an account or a server. Your activities, settings, and library are stored on your device. The app uses GPS to measure the activity, motion data to help interpret the session, and HealthKit to read available fitness metrics; Apple Watch records the workout when you start from the watch. Audio is used for activity guidance. Ghost does not sell your data and has no ads. Sharing a ghost is optional: the file is sent through the app you choose and is handled according to that app’s policies. Ghost is a fitness tool. It does not provide medical diagnosis or treatment.
Flare
Log migraine details like pain level, medications, and triggers to identify patterns. Visualize your migraine history with color-coded entries and monthly charts. All your data is kept private on your device.
- Color-coded pain scale 1-10
- Custom medications and triggers
- Monthly dashboard with charts
- Export and import data as CSV
- Light and dark mode
- 100% private data storage
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Flare is your personal migraine tracker: simple, private, and always with you. Log every migraine day with a pain level from 1–10, your medications, and what triggered it. Your calendar fills with color-coded entries so you can spot patterns at a glance. The dashboard charts your migraine days, average pain, medication use, and top triggers month by month. Features: - Color-coded pain scale 1–10 - Custom medications and triggers - Monthly dashboard with charts - Export and import your data as CSV - Light and dark mode - 100% private — all data stays on your device - No account required
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ghost Go Run at Free against Flare's $1.99. Ghost Go Run also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). Flare's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Ghost Go Run is free to download; Flare costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ghost Go Run holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ghost Go Run has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ghost Go Run | Flare |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sergio Gragera Camino | Emma Backer |
In-app purchases
Ghost Go Run
No in-app purchases
Flare
No in-app purchases
