I’ve been using this app on and off for over 10 years and I love it! It’s taken me through 4 half marathons. It’s compatible with my Apple Watch and makes it easy to change tracks on my watch while in the app on my watch and running. I have friends I connect with and it has a user friendly activity feed where you can scroll and rapidly view distance/time/pace of what you and your friends have run during the week. I love that you can add pictures to the feed. Seeing your friends activity inspires you to run and it’s great if you have similar goals with those on your feed. And it’s great even if not. It’s fun. Some suggestions for the app: When I leave a comment on someone’s run it notifies them to view it, however it does not notify me back if they responded to the comment. If I was wondering if they responded on the app then I would have to pick through and find where I commented to see if they responded. Secondly, when I initiate the app through my phone there’s a delay in my MapMyRun app on my Apple Watch to pick up that I’ve started a workout already (not sure if this is MapmyRun’s problem or not). If I initiate the workout on my Apple Watch it does not communicate the splits through my Beats headphones (probably because they are synced to my phone, not my watch?). Again, that may not be the apps responsibility. But just some things I’ve noted. Overall a great app to pair with running training.

I’m writing this review based mainly on my experience with the MVP plan (upgrade). I got the upgrade so that I could have access to the training plans. Unfortunately, this app has deleted runs in my plan, or has changed data from runs after the fact. For example, my plan will guide me through a tempo interval run, but afterwards changes it to an “easy run” and I lose all my data for the intervals. This has been happening at least once a week. I’ve contacted support several times about this issue and I don’t get a response every time. I’ve gotten two responses. The first of these told me to try the usual first fixes, deleting and redownloading the app, etc. When I contacted them again and told them it’s still not working properly and I’d like to cancel my subscription and seek a refund, they didn’t try to address the problem any further…just told me to contact Apple about my subscription since I did the in app purchase through them. I’ve tried this MVP plan once before, a couple of years ago, and had similar glitchy issues. I figured I’d give it another try, only to find that they still haven’t fixed these issues. I gave it two stars only because the gps is accurate and when you run without the training plan it does give you an accurate time/pace. The voice prompts and data are helpful/informative. But other apps do these things as well.

Decent app overall, but I use it almost exclusively for running in the city. It doesn’t seem to have a good way of filtering data taken while I’m stopped at traffic lights. As far as I can tell, it averages my being stopped at lights into metrics like foot strike angle (0 degrees) and cadence. Being stopped of course helps me catch my breath, so it makes sense to average it into pace data, but the app seems to treat stopped time identically to running time for metrics for which it doesn’t make sense to do so. As a result, this subset of the metrics is less useful to me, as I have to guess what the values would be sans stopped data. There are a variety of kinds of workouts to choose from, and even different kinds of runs, so I suggest adding a “city run” option that addresses the peculiarities of running downtown into its filtering. P.S. I also don’t like that it sends me emails saying that I only have 25% of the miles left on my shoes — per metrics it claims that I set. I never set any such metrics! They just want me to buy new Under Armour shoes. Why not be honest and say it’s coming from their own recommendation for how many miles to run in the shoes? The UA shoes I have are still in great shape — in fact, a testament to UA, the owner of the app — and I don’t appreciate the dishonest marketing tactics. And anyway, isn’t all my data enough compensation for the app being free? (;