Final Surge vs RunGR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
RunGR
This app provides structured coaching and a supportive community for runners of all levels. It offers training programs, running calculators, and event listings. Members gain access to exclusive club announcements and benefits.
- Structured training programs
- Running pace calculators
- Event listings
- Community support
- Member benefits
- Merch store access
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RunGR is a Grand Rapids-based running club that supports individual athletic excellence through the sport of running with structured coaching and a strong and supportive community. While many of us join for the workouts as we chase personal records, we keep showing up because of the guidance and support we receive from our coaches and the community we build with our teammates. RunGR will help add the structure and purpose to your routines needed to take your running to the next level. RunGR offers training programs for runners of all levels. Current RunGR members and the general public are welcome to download and use the the RunGR Connect app: Free for Everyone: You don't have to be a RunGR member to take advantage of the public resources such as listings of upcoming events, running tools, and the RunGR merch store. Amongst the running tools our helpful "Track Math" running calculators are perfect for anyone who runs, races, and who ponders what-if goals! • Find out what pace you'd need to hold to achieve your target time. • Find out what your finish time for a race would be if you held a given pace. • Use your results from a recent race to predict what you may be able to achieve in races of other distances. • Build a strategy for negative splits to quickly compute your finish time. Members: RunGR members also have access to additional resources like club announcements, training schedule & plans, the most up-to-date member benefits and discounts, and volunteer opportunities. We look forward to connecting with you! To learn more about RunGR and how to become a member, please visit rungr.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: RunGR at 5.0 against Final Surge's 3.8. RunGR also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). Final Surge's advantage is ratings volume (125 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Final Surge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. RunGR asks for nothing beyond the download.
RunGR holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Final Surge has 125 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Final Surge | RunGR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (125 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 125 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 162 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Final Surge | Chris HALFORD |
Customer experience
Final Surge
RunGR
In-app purchases
Final Surge
- Final Surge Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Athlete Premium7 Days trial$99.991 Year
RunGR
No in-app purchases
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