Comparison

Runner vs Dirt Hunters MTB

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Dirt Hunters MTB

Discover and plan mountain bike trails with detailed route planning, offline maps, and ride recording. Share your adventures, compete on leaderboards, and enjoy cinematic flyover films of your rides. This app offers a comprehensive experience for mountain bikers without ads or paywalls.

Highlights
  • Route planner with riding style options
  • GPS ride recording with auto-timing
  • Cinematic flyover films of rides
  • Curated UK and global trail database
  • Offline map caching
  • Social feed for rides and achievements
  • Group Ride live tracking
Features
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Ride it. Map it. Fly over it. Dirt Hunters is the free MTB app with 200,000+ trails across 73 countries, cinematic 3D flyover films of every ride, weekly leagues with real promotion and relegation, and timed runs on every trail — no paywall, no ads, ever. Open the app. Tap Start. Ride. We log your route, distance, climb, descent, speed and timed trail sections — and quietly add them to leaderboards, your passport, and your rider level. Every ride ends with a cinematic 3D flyover film of your line. FLY OVER EVERY RIDE • 3D flyover films: a zoom in from space, your route drawing itself over real mountains, live speed and altitude, and a marker where you hit top speed • Film any trail or any past ride, then share the video — free for everyone • Full 3D terrain maps to explore, tilt and spin PLAN THE RIDE • Route planner: link up trails and places, or drop pins on the map • Off-road / balanced / fastest riding styles — routes that seek out singletrack • Distance, climb, descent, est. time, elevation profile and a surface breakdown before you ride • Navigate on-screen with off-route alerts, or export GPX to your bike computer RECORD THE RIDE • One-tap start, background GPS, auto-pause, voice announcer, calorie estimates • Auto-timing on known trail sections, even when you forget to press record • Auto-saves as you go — never lose a ride to a battery drop FIND THE TRAILS • 200,000+ trails worldwide, graded green / blue / red / black • Terrain map styles with 3D hillshading, bridleways, contours and marked MTB routes • Ridden-routes layer and heatmap show where people actually ride THE FEED — RIDE TOGETHER • Every ride plays as an animated map replay, right in the feed • Weekly hunt league with real promotion and relegation, settled every Monday • Reactions, comments and kudos — with push notifications when your crew responds • Group Ride mode shows your crew live on one map • Leaderboards, daily quests, monthly challenges, seasonal events, XP and badges • Suggestion box: tell us what to build next, vote on what matters OFFLINE-FIRST • Map tiles cache automatically; rides save locally first and sync when signal returns PRIVACY • No ads. No tracking SDKs. No selling your data. Ever. • Works fully without an account — anonymous rider ID by default • In-app account deletion (Profile → Delete my account) Dirt Hunters MTB is a passion project built by riders. Email support@dirthunters.app if a trail's missing or a feature's broken. Ride more. Find dirt.

Screenshots

Runner1 screens
Dirt Hunters MTB4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Dirt Hunters MTB at every 2 weeks against Runner's every 27 months. Runner's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Runner ships an update every 27 months, Dirt Hunters MTB every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Runner versus Dirt Hunters MTB: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRunnerDirt Hunters MTB
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 27 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB58 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developermargaret kovatchsam staples

Customer experience

Runner

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative50.0%

Dirt Hunters MTB

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Runner

No in-app purchases

None

Dirt Hunters MTB

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Runner free?
Runner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dirt Hunters MTB free?
Dirt Hunters MTB is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Runner or Dirt Hunters MTB have ads?
Neither Runner nor Dirt Hunters MTB shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Runner or Dirt Hunters MTB?
Runner ships an update every 27 months, and Dirt Hunters MTB every 2 weeks. Most recently, Runner was updated on November 1, 2026 and Dirt Hunters MTB on October 31, 2026.

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