Comparison

Run Diary vs TriLog

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

TriLog

Log mood, energy, and symptoms moment-by-moment to see how they correlate with sleep, weather, and habits. Visualize your week hour-by-hour on a single timeline. Designed for serious self-trackers who need detailed insights.

Highlights
  • Moment-by-moment data capture
  • Hour-by-hour timeline visualization
  • Correlation with sleep, weather, habits
  • Customizable forms for logging
  • Experiment tracking (Trials)
  • Provider reports (PDF export)
  • Interactive dashboards
Features
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TriLog is the personal data logger. Capture mood, energy, focus, and symptoms in seconds — then see how they line up with sleep, weather, habits, and everything else on one timeline. Most trackers ask once a day how you felt, then average it. But the crash hits at 2pm. The migraine lasts four hours. The good morning follows a bad night. TriLog records moments, not daily summaries: every entry has a time, and a whole week sits on one screen, hour by hour. Built for people who already track seriously — energy you have to budget, symptoms nobody can explain, experiments you're running on yourself — and who have outgrown mood journals, spreadsheets, and scattered notes. NEW IN 4.0 • Notes view — every note, tracker entry, and dose from the week in one place. Filter it, or flip to a two-week time-of-day chart. • Forms — log several fields as one entry: a pain episode, a bowel event, a restaurant visit. Start from a template or build your own. • Trials — run an experiment (magnesium, no afternoon coffee), mark the days you missed, then end it Adopted, Dropped, or Inconclusive. • Episode trackers — a headache with a start, a severity, and a stop, drawn as a band for as long as it lasted. • Provider Report — a printable PDF of your sleep, energy, trackers, and forms to bring to an appointment. • Interactive dashboards — export the week chart or your metrics as a web page and explore months on a big screen. • Trio view — a week chart with the three columns you choose. CAPTURE IN SECONDS Capture has to be effortless or it won't survive a hard week. • One tap each for mood, energy, and activity • Quick Track — leave it open and log with single taps • Type a line — "t hd 3", "int coffee" — with your own shorthand • Siri — "energy 3", "mood sad" • Long-press any chart to log at that time; drag a marker to re-time it EVERYTHING ON ONE CLOCK Your entries sit alongside weather, barometric pressure, pollen, air quality, and daylight; Apple Health sleep stages, HRV, resting heart rate, steps, and workouts; and hour-by-hour Screen Time. Did this week feel worse because of sleep, pressure, screen time, or something you took on Tuesday? WHAT YOU CAN LOG • Mood, energy, and activity throughout the day • Notes — meals with calories, health, journal, cycle • Trackers — ratings, numbers, choices, episodes, traffic lights, titled ratings • Intake — coffee, supplements, medications, with caffeine totaled in mg • Day Launch and Day End — sleep, goals, reflections, routines • Habits — daily checkmarks, no streaks, no scores SEE WHAT LINES UP • Week chart — seven days, twenty-four hours, one screen • Day view, Notes view, and Trio view • Journal — your journal notes and Day End reflections, collected day by day with photos • Metrics grid — sleep, energy, weather, steps, trackers, and trials by day • Analysis — patterns, day ratings, correlations, intake and cycles against your ratings • Free, open-source Mac and Windows viewer PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No third-party servers. No ads. Your log lives on your device, with optional iCloud backup. Export everything, anytime. ONE PRODUCT, NO TIERS Try everything free for 30 days. Then $59.99/year or $7.99/month to keep logging. Cancel during the trial and pay nothing. If you stop subscribing, the app becomes read-only — everything you logged stays browsable and exportable. Demo Mode (Menu → About) lets you explore with sample data first. A LOGBOOK, NOT A DOCTOR TriLog records and displays. It does not diagnose, treat, or give medical advice. If you find a pattern that matters, bring it to a qualified professional. Questions or ideas? I read every email: support@trilog.app Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Run Diary4 screens
TriLog4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: TriLog at 100% against Run Diary's 0%. TriLog also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.7) and ads (none vs shown). Run Diary's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Run Diary sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and TriLog sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TriLog holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Run Diary's written reviews are positive against 100% of TriLog's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Run Diary ships an update every 12 months, TriLog every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Run Diary versus TriLog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRun DiaryTriLog
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵Joseph Orr

Customer experience

Run Diary

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative80.0%

TriLog

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Run Diary

One-time2
  • Remove ads$0.99
  • Map$1.99
2 purchases

TriLog

Subscriptions2
  • TriLog Pro1 Month trial$7.991 Month
  • TriLog Pro1 Month trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Run Diary free?
Run Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TriLog free?
TriLog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Run Diary or TriLog?
TriLog is rated higher. Run Diary averages 1.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while TriLog averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Run Diary or TriLog have ads?
Run Diary shows ads; TriLog does not.
Which is updated more often, Run Diary or TriLog?
Run Diary ships an update every 12 months, and TriLog every 3 weeks. Most recently, Run Diary was updated on November 1, 2026 and TriLog on November 5, 2026.

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