Map My Tracks vs Runner's Shadow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Map My Tracks
This app helps runners track their progress, analyze performance, and set goals. It provides personalized feedback, route insights, and motivational features. Connect with friends and share your running journey.
- GPS run tracking
- Performance analysis
- Personalized feedback
- Goal setting
- Route insights
- Live tracking
- Social sharing
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Every run tells a story. Map My Tracks helps you understand yours. Whether you're running the same route every day, training for your first 5K, or preparing for a marathon, Map My Tracks gives you insights that actually matter. Discover patterns in your training. Celebrate streaks that keep you motivated. Understand what your body is telling you. Join over a million people who've made Map My Tracks their go-to companion for running. ===== Featured in Apple's What's hot list #1 iPhone app in Health & Fitness in Japan, France, Belgium, Iceland, Czech Republic ===== YOUR PERSONAL RUNNING COACH After every run, get feedback that's tailored to you. Learn about your training consistency and performance trends. Discover which routes bring out your best. See how factors like weather, time of day, and rest affect your running. Get intelligent analysis that helps you improve. See patterns like: "Your Tuesday runs are consistently your strongest" or "You run faster on cooler days." Understand your training load before you overtrain. Celebrate when you hit a new streak or PR. It's like having a coach who knows your history and adapts to your goals. TRACK YOUR RUNS WITH PRECISION Record every run with GPS accuracy. Track distance, pace, speed, elevation, heart rate, calories, and duration. Or just press start and let the app do the work. Review your week at a glance or dive deep into detailed stats when you want them. Connect your Garmin, Wahoo, or Coros device to automatically bring all your runs into one place. All your training—all your insights—in a single app. SHARE YOUR RUNNING JOURNEY Broadcast live so friends and family can follow along during races or long runs. Add photos and create videos that capture the whole experience. Follow friends and keep each other motivated. Or keep it private—it's your choice. SET YOUR RUNNING GOALS Whether it's completing a 5K, running consistently three times a week, beating your personal record, or conquering a marathon, set goals that matter to you. Track your progress with intelligent insights that help you get there. COMPETE AND IMPROVE Compare your performance on segment leaderboards. Challenge yourself on popular running routes. Track your progress over time and see your improvement. UNLOCK EVERYTHING WITH PLUS • AI-powered Activity Insights after every run • Live tracking so others can follow your progress during races and training runs • Ad-free experience • Advanced analysis tools on app and website • Full access to all features Subscriptions for Map My Tracks PLUS are $4.99 per month or $49.99 for a full year. Map My Tracks PLUS subscriptions will be charged to your iTunes account after your confirmation of purchase. Your monthly subscription will automatically renew each month and be charged through your iTunes account, yearly subscriptions will automatically renew each year. Subscriptions renew at $4.99 per month or $49.99 for a full year automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed. FEEDBACK If you're enjoying Map My Tracks: Running Tracker, leave us a good review in the App Store. If not, send your feedback to support@mapmytracks.com and let us fix it before you write a review. Map My Tracks uses HealthKit to export your running activities into the Health app and to read heart rate and biometric data. This service is optional. Please note that continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Terms of service: https://www.mapmytracks.com/term-service Privacy policy: https://www.mapmytracks.com/privacy-policy
Runner's Shadow
This app serves as a comprehensive companion for outdoor runners, allowing them to track, log, and analyze their runs from various sources. It provides detailed run history, course tracking, personal records, lap analysis, and shoe mileage management, all integrated with Apple Health and Activity.
- Run history tracking
- Course and personal record management
- Lap analysis
- Journaling and labeling
- Shoe mileage tracking
- Apple Watch app integration
- Data import from Apple Health
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Follow your runs like your shadow follows you. What Is Runner's Shadow? A runner's companion. A fantastic app for all outdoor runners to augment their kit. Runner's Shadow is an iOS Activity and Health-based app for the purpose of augmenting, tracking, logging, and understanding your outdoor runs, regardless of source; regardless of when the run took place. And it includes an Apple Watch app to get out and run with. Why Try Runner's Shadow? Run History A history of all of your runs, from any supported App. The run history is all your runs, grouped by week, month, year, and all-time. It has graphs, logs, journals, and more (like courses). Courses Which routes you've run. Do you tend to run the same routes repeatedly? Why not keep track of those as courses? This app keeps track of all of your courses; and your personal records for each course. Personal Records What's my personal best? Accurate and complete PRs. What is the best I've done so far at this distance? This course? This week? This month?. Runner's Shadow PR keeps my goals in perspective and my motivation on-point. This app finds and keeps your bests. Laps Keep and Recall interval laps. With a tap of a button in the Shadow Runner's watch app (included), you can set your laps. In the iPhone app, you can see how you did for them. What was the lap distance? Pace? Gain? It's all there. Journaling What are my thoughts after a run? How was the run? What do I find interesting about this course? Who did I run with? What did we laugh about? The journals are for these and/or anything else you want to write there. Labeling Tag runs for later retrieval. Label the people you ran with. Or label which runs were races. Or label which runs were your favorites. Tag runs with labels any way you'd like. Shoe Tracking Keep track of your running shoes. You may have heard that running shoes should be replaced between 300-500 miles or in 3-6 months. But how do you keep track of that? Simply add your shoes to the app, then tap on which ones were worn after a run. We'll keep track of how many run, miles, and days you've put on the pair. Photos Find photos taken near the time of your run. Want to find those shots you get before and after a run a year and a half later? Well, you just go to that run and click the 'camera' button, and there they all are. Graphs? Yes. Numbers? Of course. Maps? You bet. Running app for your Apple Watch? Yeah, that too. Watch Laps? Uh huh. Open to suggestions? We listen. What you'd expect? We try to be more than that. You can run with this or any other app that supports Apple Activity; we'll take it from there. ---- The data comes from Apple Health/Activity. That means that any outdoor running app that works with Apple Health/Activity will work with this one. The data goes nowhere. We don't take it. We don't keep it. We don't track it. We don't track you. We're not interested in all of that. We're just runners who want to enhance all of our running experiences. Contact us: support@alumra.ltd
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Runner's Shadow at 5.0 against Map My Tracks's 4.5. Runner's Shadow also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6). Map My Tracks's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Map My Tracks sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Runner's Shadow asks for nothing beyond the download.
Runner's Shadow holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Map My Tracks has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Map My Tracks ships an update every 2 months, Runner's Shadow every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 12, 2026 and June 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Map My Tracks | Runner's Shadow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tinderhouse | Alumra, Ltd |
Customer experience
Map My Tracks
Runner's Shadow
In-app purchases
Map My Tracks
- PLUS subscription1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- PLUS subscription$49.991 Year
- Enable sensors$0.99
- Graphs$0.99
- No ads$0.99
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- Pro upgrade$3.99
Runner's Shadow
No in-app purchases








