Comparison

Final Surge vs Mesa Marathon

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

Head to head
About

Final Surge

This app helps endurance athletes, runners, cyclists, and triathletes manage their training. It offers features for planning, tracking workouts, and communicating with coaches or teams. Premium subscriptions unlock advanced analytics and tools.

Highlights
  • Dark Theme & Custom Icons
  • Dynamic Font & Navigation
  • Calendar Date Range & Labels
  • Training Plan Management
  • HRV & Morning Readiness (Premium)
  • Route Builder (Premium)
  • Apple Health & Wahoo Integration
Features
Read full description

Introducing Final Surge 4.0 – Train with a Purpose. With our biggest update yet, Final Surge is here to help you reach your goals, whether you're a seasoned runner, triathlete, cyclist, endurance athlete, or just starting your fitness journey. If you work with a coach, club, or team, or you train on your own using a training plan, Final Surge has robust features to ensure your training is efficient and tailored to your needs. Final Surge is compatible with many GPS watches, cycling computers, and other with various devices. What's New: -Dark Theme & Custom App Icons: Discover the beauty of contrast and depth with our Dark Theme. -Dynamic Font Size: Adjust the size of the app text based on your preferences, ensuring optimal readability. -Dynamic Navigation: Adjust and customize your navigation panel based on your preferences. -Calendar Date Range & Labels: The enhanced calendar allows for range selection, providing quick features like adding date range labels or clearing specific training days. -Training Plan Management: Edit, add, move, and remove workouts from your personal calendar, team calendar, or a specific athlete's calendar. What's New for Athletes: -Subscribe to Athlete Premium and unlock additional features such as HRV & Morning Readiness, Weather & Forecasts, Partner Discounts, Route Builder and more! -Apple Health Integration: Sync your fitness workouts, vitals data, and completed workouts to and from your Apple watch. -Wahoo Integration: Sync planned structured workouts to your Wahoo devices, and sync completed workouts from Wahoo to Final Surge. -Widgets: Choose from various widgets to view your upcoming workouts and fitness data from your home screen. -Time Zone Auto Adjustments: Whenever you travel, we detect and align your workouts to your new time zone seamlessly. What's New for Coaches: -New Coach's experience within the app to make it more efficient and coach-friendly. -Manage athlete and team calendar settings. -Update structured workout settings within the app. -Access to Athlete Notebook. Training Made Easy: -Quickly access today's workout on your iPhone or Apple Watch. -Push structured workouts to your Apple Watch, and let Siri guide you through each step of the workout. -Create a custom training plan or utilize one of the hundreds available online at FinalSurge.com. -Build a workout library to create training schedules effortlessly. -Get a Weekly Snapshot of your fitness summary at a glance. -Keep tabs on the mileage you're putting on your gear. Teams & Clubs: -Athlete and coach communication through post-activity comments, workout feel, and pain and injury reports. -Post activities to the Social Wall to stay accountable and celebrate progress with teammates. -Coaches can manage training plans, schedule group runs, and track athletes and team progression.

About

Mesa Marathon

This app offers real-time race day tracking for runners and their loved ones. It also features a loyalty program to earn and redeem points for discounts on future events and merchandise.

Highlights
  • Real-time race tracking
  • Progress monitoring for friends and family
  • Points-based loyalty program
  • Earn rewards points
  • Redeem points for discounts
  • Event and merchandise offers
Features
Read full description

The Mesa Marathon app includes race day tracking and a points-based loyalty program. For race day, use the app to get your tour of Mesa as you run and for your friends and family to track your progress in real-time. The loyalty program tracks the rewards points that you earn when you purchase race entries, attend an expo, etc. You can also redeem points for discounts on upcoming events or items as they become available.

Screenshots

Final Surge4 screens
Mesa Marathon3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Final Surge at 51% against Mesa Marathon's 0%. Final Surge also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (121 vs 3). Mesa Marathon's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (4.0 vs 3.8). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Final Surge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Mesa Marathon asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mesa Marathon holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Final Surge has 121 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 51% of Final Surge's written reviews are positive against 0% of Mesa Marathon's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Final Surge ships an update every 2 weeks, Mesa Marathon every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Final Surge versus Mesa Marathon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFinal SurgeMesa Marathon
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (121 ratings)4.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.5% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings121 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size160 MB92 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFinal SurgeBrooksee, LLC

Customer experience

Final Surge

All ratings121 ratings
Positive68.6%
Neutral5.0%
Negative26.4%
Written reviews91 reviews
Positive50.5%
Neutral14.3%
Negative35.2%

Mesa Marathon

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Final Surge

Subscriptions2
  • Final Surge Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Athlete Premium7 Days trial$99.991 Year
None

Mesa Marathon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Final Surge free?
Final Surge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mesa Marathon free?
Mesa Marathon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Final Surge or Mesa Marathon?
Mesa Marathon is rated higher. Final Surge averages 3.8 out of 5 from 121 ratings, while Mesa Marathon averages 4.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Final Surge or Mesa Marathon have ads?
Neither Final Surge nor Mesa Marathon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Final Surge or Mesa Marathon?
Final Surge ships an update every 2 weeks, and Mesa Marathon every 4 months. Most recently, Final Surge was updated on October 16, 2026 and Mesa Marathon on October 3, 2026.

Other comparisons