Run Diary vs Run Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Run Diary
Track your runs with GPS, monitor speed, distance, and calories burned. Save logs with details like mood and weather, set goals, and share your progress. Supports background running and lock screen controls.
- GPS tracking for speed, distance, and route
- Calorie burn calculation
- Running log with mood, weather, and area icons
- Background running and lock screen support
- Pause and resume functionality
- Running goal setting
- Standard and metric unit support
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Run Diary will keep you motivated for your running process. This app uses GPS to locate and give the current speed, used time, distance and route in map, also calculates calorie burned when running according to your weight, speed and time used. You can save the log directly after running or add manually later. Features: ⁃ Show current speed, used time, calorie burned and route in map. ⁃ Two map styles: Satellite and Street. ⁃ Keep running logs and also with mood, weather and area icon. ⁃ Calculates total time used, calories burned and average speed for all logs. ⁃ Supports running in background and lock screen. ⁃ Supports pause and resume. ⁃ Share logs info by Facebook, Twitter and Email. ⁃ Create running goal with days and distance. ⁃ Supports standard & metric units. This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life. If you have any question or suggestion, please send email to maxwellsoftware@gmail.com.
Run Diary
This app transforms running into a mindful journey by tracking miles, emotions, and gratitude. Create photo collages, log reflections, and visualize progress with a calendar dashboard. Receive daily motivation and weekly achievements to foster growth and joy.
- Automatic run import
- Photo collage creation
- Gratitude tracking
- Mood and weather logging
- Post-run journaling
- Calendar visualization
- Weekly achievement summaries
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Run Diary is a running journal. It records the run, then asks the better question: how did it feel? Your runs arrive on their own from Apple Health. What you add to them is the part that lasts. WHAT YOU ADD A note written while it's still fresh. How the run felt, in a tap. The weather. What you were grateful for. Photos from the road. WHAT YOU GET BACK A calendar of your month, and what you ran and wrote. A collage of your photos, grouped by month. A word cloud built from the things you've been grateful for. A weekly view that shows the shape of your week at a glance. A quote each morning, if you want one. FROM APPLE HEALTH Run Diary imports your running workouts automatically — from your Watch, or any app that writes to Apple Health. It only reads your workouts. It never writes anything back. You can also log a run by hand, including a second run on the same day. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your entries, photos and reflections stay on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no account to create. ALSO INSIDE Miles or kilometres. Choose which day starts your week. A daily inspiration reminder you can turn off.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Run Diary at 100% against Run Diary's 0%. Run Diary also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Run Diary's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On price, ratings volume 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. Run Diary sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Run Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.
Run Diary holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Run Diary's written reviews are positive against 100% of Run Diary's.
Run Diary ships an update every 12 months, Run Diary every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Run Diary | Run Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Glen Bentley |
Customer experience
Run Diary
Run Diary
In-app purchases
Run Diary
- Remove ads$0.99
- Map$1.99
Run Diary
No in-app purchases









