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Running app

  1. Market

    Installs
    333.2M

    Across 7 of 11 apps we could match.

    • Strava: 134,984,450 installs
    • adidas Running: 97,471,327 installs
    • Nike Run Club: 57,491,689 installs
    • ASICS Runkeeper: 36,062,232 installs
    • Runna: 3,793,901 installs
    • 5K Runner: 1,951,724 installs
    • INTVL: 1,424,771 installs
    • 41% leader share. Strava, by Google Play installs, across the 7 of 11 apps we could match
    • #3 Health & Fitness rank. Strava, top grossing, the best rank any app here holds
    • $7.99 median price. Lowest in-app price, median over the 9 apps that list one. 9 of 11 charge.
    • 7 of 11 recently updated. Updated in the 30 days before 2026-10-05

  2. Competition

    1. Map My Run GPS Running Tracker9 Sep755k ratings$27.99 to $49.99 a year
    2. Nike Run Club2 Sep419k ratings
    3. ASICS Runkeeper16 Sep380k ratings$39.99 a year
    4. Strava30 Sep376k ratings$59.99 a year
    5. 5K Runner1 Sep119k ratings$7.99 to $29.99
    6. Running TrainerOct 2022114k ratings$7.99 to $89.99
    7. adidas Running28 Sep108k ratings
    8. Running Walking Tracker Goals11 Sep108k ratings$44.99 a year
    9. Running SlimkitSep 202487k ratings$39.99 to $59.99 a year
    10. Runna29 Sep35k ratings$19.99 to $119.99
    11. INTVL4 Oct5k ratings$79.99 a year

  3. Reviews

    What 5,050 reviews talk about, every star counted.

    1. Performance+0.7%11 of 11 apps
    2. Sync & data+0.5%11 of 11 apps
    3. Limits & caps+0.2%10 of 11 apps
    4. Accuracy−0.1%11 of 11 apps
    5. Wishlist−1.5%11 of 11 apps
    6. Ads−1.5%11 of 11 apps
    7. Support−1.6%11 of 11 apps
    8. Login & auth−1.7%10 of 11 apps
    9. UX−2.4%11 of 11 apps
    10. Billing−6.7%11 of 11 apps
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  4. Searches

    Position in Apple’s suggestions
    1510
    010203041
    Countries
    With
    Without

  5. Traffic

    Google Ads, United States, 25 September 2026.

  6. Your test

    Free for 7 days

    What to call it. Where to launch. What a user costs.

    • What to call it
    • Where to launch
    • What a user costs
    • Every review, word for word
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Is there a market for a new running app?

11 apps compete here. They hold 333,180,094 installs on Google Play, counted across the 7 we could match. We hold 5,050 of their App Store reviews. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

How much do running apps charge?

9 of the 11 apps we could check charge inside the app. Half of them start at $7.99 or less.

What do people search for when they want a running app?

We scan 41 App Store storefronts. Typing running app completes to “running tracker” in 38 of them. Then “running assembly” in 25, “ghoststride: running tracker” in 22. These are Apple’s own suggestions. They show what gets typed, not how often.

What do users complain about most in running apps?

1. Sync & data: in 11 of 11 apps, 2.1% of reviews (1.6% in Health & Fitness apps). Counted from 5,050 reviews of every star on the 2026-10-05 snapshot, never estimated.

Cited: What RevenueCat measures across subscription apps

Their report has no category matching running app apps, so only all-category figures are shown. A near-match would be a guess.

  • the median app barely grows; the tails are extreme

    median MRR +5.3% YoY · top decile +306% · bottom decile contracting

  • the launch flood vs the incumbency moat

    ~2,000 → 14,700+ new subscription apps per month (Jan 2022 → Jan 2026), yet pre-2020 apps still hold 69% of subscription revenue

  • even top categories take over 100 days to reach $10k revenue

    >100 days to the first $10k

RevenueCat, State of Subscription Apps 2026, 115,000+ apps · $16B+ tracked revenue · >1B transactions. Published industry figures, shown for context; App Imp’s own numbers are counted from reviews and never mixed with these.

How this is counted

We count the reviews we hold again every week. Nothing is guessed. A topic is found by the words a review uses, so the same review always lands in the same place. Every star counts. A share is the part of all reviews here that mention a topic. We compare it with the same share across 1,164 Health & Fitness apps, the group most of these apps are in. A topic is a gap when at least 20 reviews mention it, at least half the apps have it, and it comes up at least 1.15 times as often as usual. A problem in one app is that app’s bug. A problem in every app is nobody’s gap. This market has no full report yet, so the per-app notes are absent rather than estimated.