Training plan apps, compared honestly.
Every app here does something well, and a few of them are free. These pages say plainly what each one is for, where Apex is the better fit, and where it is not.
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The best-known adaptive running plan app. Run-only, premium price.
Same job — an adaptive plan that reacts to your week — with multisport and a much lower price.
Read the comparisonThe industry tool coaches use to deliver plans to clients.
TrainingPeaks is built for the coach. Apex is built for the athlete who does not have one.
Read the comparisonA calendar your coach assigns workouts into.
Final Surge delivers a plan someone else wrote. Apex writes and revises it.
Read the comparisonFree adaptive plans bundled with your Garmin watch.
Garmin Coach is free and fine for a first 5K. It does not plan a marathon build, a triathlon, or a bad week.
Read the comparisonFree guided runs and fixed training plans.
NRC is the best free audio-run experience. Apex is the plan underneath it.
Read the comparisonThe place your training goes after you do it.
Strava records the run. Apex decides what the run should have been.
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