Runner vs TraceTrack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Runner
Track your walks and monitor your fitness with this app. It measures speed, altitude, direction, and current location on a map, perfect for those embracing a healthy lifestyle.
- GPS tracking
- Speed measurement (average and maximum)
- Altitude tracking
- Direction monitoring
- Current position on map
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Great application for all fans of healthy lifestyle. It that can measure your average and maximum speed, altitude, moving direction and current position on map.
TraceTrack
Record and review your outdoor activities like walking, running, cycling, and car trips. Visualize your routes on a map with detailed metrics like distance, speed, and altitude. Save and manage your trips in iCloud for access across devices.
- Activity tracking (walking, running, cycling, car trips)
- Map overlays with distance, speed, altitude
- Background tracking support
- Save trips to iCloud archives
- Edit saved trip data
- Cross-device trip viewing
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TraceTrack is a simple activity tracker that supports, walking, running, cycling and even car trips. Map overlays show distance travelled, speed, altitude, and heading direction. You can start a track and let the app run in the background with your phone in your pocket, or have the map display active showing speed and distance progress as you work toward your goals. Trip tracks can be saved into archives stored in iCloud, that can be viewed with the App on other devices. Archive trips can also be edited in the App to add parts to the trip or to remove anything not required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: TraceTrack at 100% against Runner's 0%. TraceTrack also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 27 months). Runner's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Runner ships an update every 27 months, TraceTrack every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Runner | TraceTrack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | margaret kovatch | Gordon Thomson |
Customer experience
Runner
TraceTrack
In-app purchases
Runner
No in-app purchases
TraceTrack
No in-app purchases
