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Running app

  1. Market

    Installs
    332.1M

    Across 7 of 11 apps we could match.

    • Strava: 134,227,388 installs
    • adidas Running: 97,393,341 installs
    • Nike Run Club: 57,310,822 installs
    • ASICS Runkeeper: 36,056,057 installs
    • Runna: 3,734,658 installs
    • 5K Runner: 1,950,043 installs
    • INTVL: 1,410,169 installs
    • 40% 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.
    • 9 of 11 recently updated. Updated in the 30 days before 2026-09-28

  2. Competition

    1. Map My Run GPS Running Tracker9 Sep754k ratings$27.99 to $49.99 a year
    2. Nike Run Club2 Sep419k ratings
    3. ASICS Runkeeper16 Sep380k ratings$39.99 a year
    4. Strava23 Sep375k ratings$59.99 a year
    5. 5K Runner1 Sep119k ratings$7.99 to $29.99, period not listed
    6. Running TrainerOct 2022114k ratings$7.99 to $89.99, period not listed
    7. adidas Running11 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. Runna23 Sep34k ratings$19.99 to $119.99, period not listed
    11. INTVL27 Sep5k ratings$79.99 a year

  3. Reviews

    What 4,518 reviews talk about, every star counted.

    1. Performance+0.7%11 of 11 apps
    2. Sync & data+0.7%11 of 11 apps
    3. Limits & caps+0.4%10 of 11 apps
    4. Accuracy+0.1%11 of 11 apps
    5. Wishlist−1.0%11 of 11 apps
    6. Support−1.3%11 of 11 apps
    7. Login & auth−1.5%10 of 11 apps
    8. Ads−1.5%11 of 11 apps
    9. UX−2.3%11 of 11 apps
    10. Billing−5.6%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

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

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    • Where to launch
    • What a user costs
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Is there a market for a new running app?

11 apps compete here. They hold 332,082,478 installs on Google Play, counted across the 7 we could match. We hold 4,518 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 “adidas running” in 25, “relentless running” in 24. 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, 2.3% of reviews (1.6% in Health & Fitness apps); 2. Limits & caps: in 10 of 11 apps, 2% of reviews (1.6% in Health & Fitness apps). Counted from 4,518 reviews of every star on the 2026-09-28 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 1,157 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.