Runtime vs Pacecraft
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Runtime
Track your runs, walks, hikes, and jogs with detailed statistics including route, time, speed, pace, and altitude. Supports Apple Watch, widgets, and shoe mileage tracking. Visualize your progress with 3D maps and share your workouts.
- Route, time, speed, pace, and altitude tracking
- Apple Watch integration
- Stopwatch widget and Notification Center control
- Shoe mileage tracking
- 3D map visualization of routes
- Pedometer functionality
- Exportable KML and GPX files
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**New in Runtime 2.3** watchOS 2, iOS 9, and 3D Touch Support! **New in Runtime 2.2** Apple Watch and Split Times! **New in Runtime 2.1** Shoe Tracking and HealthKit! **New in Runtime 2.0** Stopwatch Widget, Detailed Running Statistics, Live Running Map View Runtime is a simple run tracking app that takes advantage of the latest features in iOS 8, the iPhone 5s, and the iPhone 6. Use Runtime to track your route, time, speed, pace, and altitude everywhere you go for a run/walk/hike/jog/jaunt etc. Runtime supports Apple Watch for controlling your run right from your wrist. Use Apple Watch to start a run, view stats on your progress while you're on the go, including pace, distance, time, location, and split times and a complete elevation profile. Runtime for Apple Watch is an incredibly advanced stopwatch right on your wrist. You can also control your workout without the stopwatch widget. Quickly start a new run from Notification Center, pause a run without launching the app, and view your time, distance, and steps all from the convenience of the Today screen. Keep track of the mileage on your shoes with the new Shoe Closet feature to add your shoes to Runtime and automatically log the distance you run on each shoe. Visualize your content. Organize your routes and times into places and view rich 3D map images of each run. View pace and elevation details for each run. Runtime supports the M7 motion co-processor, which allows you to use Runtime as a pedometer. Open the menu to view how many steps you've taken today and this week. Runtime will also use the M7 to show you when and where you stopped to rest on the trail. Time spent walking is highlighted yellow, while normal activity is highlighted orange. Share your workouts with friends and other apps. Runtime can export KML and GPX files that you can use with other apps. GPX files can be used for geotagging your photos, or for location simulation in Xcode! **New in Runtime 2.0** Runtime is now FREE! Track your runs in the app and in HealthKit, start new runs with the stopwatch widget, and view a detailed map of your route, all for free. You can also upgrade to Runtime’s Advanced Features, which include: - Track the distance run on each of your shoes. - Adding multiple places that you want to track workouts. - Create custom workouts. Use the Interval Timer to configure high and low intensity alerts with custom alert tones for a rich custom workout experience! - Use the cutting edge Flyover feature to get a cinematic tour of your tracked routes! - View detailed stats for every place you run to track your trends over time. Additional features include: - State Restoration - Backup data with Dropbox import/export* - Add notes to each run - AirDrop or email your route to friends - Share your run on Twitter and Facebook - Deferred Location updates can help save battery power on long runs (iPhone 5 and up) * Dropbox import/export requires a Dropbox account. Learn more about Dropbox at dropbox.com. Disclaimer: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Learn more about Runtime at conradstoll.com/runtime
Pacecraft
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Walking game powered by your real steps — because nothing motivates you to walk more than a race worth winning and a city worth building. Pacecraft fuses a step counter with multiplayer step challenges, a monthly league season, and an RPG city-builder. Every step earns energy. Spend it to grow a living isometric city, or put it toward crushing your opponents in a live race. Your daily walk becomes a fitness game you actually care about. MULTIPLAYER STEP RACES Race across four categories — no filler, no pay-to-win: • Global — open to every walker on the planet • Friends — head-to-head with people you follow • Private — invite-only, your rules • Group — full team competition Monthly global leagues open a fresh season with a worldwide leaderboard. Log more steps than anyone else and climb — or get climbed. A new step challenge with real stakes, every month. BUILD YOUR CITY BY WALKING Steps convert to energy; energy builds your city. Place parks, towers, energy plants, and landmarks — each building visibly evolves through multiple upgrade levels. Population and happiness mechanics gate your progression, so a more active week means a more thriving city. This is an idle-style city-builder where the idle resource is your real-world movement. Your city reflects how much you walk. That is the entire point. ACCURATE STEP COUNTER, BATTERY-FRIENDLY Steps are the primary metric. Distance is secondary, never the headline. As a walking app, Pacecraft reads directly from Apple Health for precise, real-time tracking. No manual entry, no GPS battery drain, no guessing. QUESTS, MILESTONES & SOCIAL FEED Daily and weekly walking targets keep your streak alive. Hit milestones to unlock achievement badges. Follow friends, react on the activity feed, and chat live inside races. Public profiles let you challenge anyone directly and compare city progress on a step leaderboard. 30 LANGUAGES, FULL RTL SUPPORT Complete localization in 30 languages including Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian, with proper right-to-left layout throughout. WHY A WALKING GAME BEATS A PLAIN STEP TRACKER Most step counter apps tell you how far you walked. Pacecraft gives you a reason to walk further tomorrow. The city grows only as fast as you do. The league season has a deadline. Your friends are already one district ahead. These overlapping pressures replace the manufactured motivation of streaks and badges alone — here, the reward is something you genuinely built. This is a gamified fitness loop built on a simple truth: when walking has real consequences — a bigger city, a race win, a seasonal league rank — people walk more. That is what separates this walking game from any plain walking app or step tracker you have tried before. FAIR PLAY AND PRIVACY, BY DESIGN Every step submission is server-verified through a multi-layer anti-cheat system. There is no manual step entry, no purchased steps, and no shortcut to any leaderboard. Rankings reflect real effort only. Your health and fitness data is never used for advertising, never sold, and never shared with ad networks. This fitness game is free. An optional one-time or subscription purchase removes ads — that is the only thing money buys. It cannot purchase steps, race wins, or city upgrades. No pay-to-win, anywhere. Walk. Race. Build your city. Terms of Use (EULA): https://pacecraft.cloud/en/terms Privacy Policy: https://pacecraft.cloud/en/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Runtime at none against Pacecraft's shown. Runtime also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). Pacecraft's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Runtime sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pacecraft sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Runtime ships an update every 2 months, Pacecraft every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Runtime | Pacecraft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 64.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Conrad Stoll | Ali Demirci |
In-app purchases
Runtime
- Runtime Advanced Features$4.99
Pacecraft
- Ad-Free Monthly$1.491 Month
- Ad-Free Annual$7.991 Year
- Ad-Free Lifetime$14.99









