If Apple Health already knows your easy pace, Reshape is the better pick. It reads up to 8 weeks of your running and rebuilds your plan every week from what you actually ran. If you’re just starting out, Reshape walks you through a short onboarding first. If you want strength and Pilates bundled in, Runna is still the honest answer.
Side-by-side, only what’s different
| Reshape | Runna | |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly plan regenerated from what you actually ran | Yes, every week reads Apple Health and rewrites the next seven days | Plan reschedules around missed runs within the template; adjusts to recent paces |
| Onboarding | Reads up to 8 weeks of Apple Health, or a short onboarding if you’re new | Quiz-based: recent 5K time, days per week, duration, goal race |
| Race distances | 5K, 10K, half marathon, marathon | 5K, 10K, half, marathon, ultra up to 50K |
| Device support | iPhone, Apple Watch optional | Apple Watch, Garmin, COROS, Fitbit, Suunto |
| Strength, Pilates, mobility | Not yet. Running-only | Included: Pilates (Coach Christie Wang), Yoga (Louis Walcott), Stretch & Stability (Fraser Briggs) |
| Coaching note per workout | Plain-English, why this workout | Short session descriptions + 24/7 in-app chat support |
| Price | $4.99 / €4.99 per month | $19.99 per month or $119.99 per year. First week free |
| Ownership | Indie, one-person studio in the Netherlands | Acquired by Strava on April 17, 2025. Still operated as a standalone product |
Runna is $19.99 a month or $119.99 a year; Reshape is $4.99 a month. The gap is earned. Runna maintains a Pilates, yoga, and mobility library with real coaches (Christie Wang, Louis Walcott, Fraser Briggs), supports Apple Watch, Garmin, COROS, Fitbit, and Suunto, and backs plans up to 50K ultra. Reshape is Apple-only and running-only up to marathon, which is how it stays at a quarter of the price for the part it covers.
Reshape is best for you if…
- Apple Health already knows your easy pace. Reshape reads up to 8 weeks of running and starts from reality, not a quiz.
- You want the plan to actually adapt. Each week is rebuilt from what you ran, not just shuffled around a fixed template.
- You don’t want to pay $20/mo. Reshape is roughly a quarter of the price for the running side alone.
What Runna does better
- Strength, Pilates, and yoga with real coaches. Christie Wang leads a Pilates series, Louis Walcott covers yoga, Fraser Briggs runs stretch and stability. Reshape doesn’t do any of that.
- Device support beyond Apple. Apple Watch, Garmin, COROS, Fitbit, Suunto. Reshape is Apple-only.
- Ultra distances. Plans go up to 50K ultra. Reshape tops out at marathon.
- Longer track record.Finalist for Apple’s App of the Year 2024, millions of runners, more race completions. If that reassures you, it should.
Why people switch from Runna
- The Strava acquisition changed the vibe. Runna lives inside a social network now. Some runners don’t want their plan there.
- Quiz-based onboarding feels generic. Reshape starts from your real history, not a few sliders.
- $20/mo for a running plan is a lot. Reshape covers the running side at a fraction of that.
Reshape is not for you if…
- You want a human coach in the loop. Look at Coopah: human hybrid, same category.
- You want it free forever. Nike Run Club is free and sets the bar for audio coaching.
- You only want strength programming, not running. A dedicated strength app will be deeper than either of these.
Common questions
No. Reshape reads the last 8 weeks of your running from Apple Health, which includes every session you just did on Runna. Tell it your race date and current week, and it picks up where your real training actually is. You don’t lose the weeks you’ve already put in.
Strava announced the definitive agreement to acquire Runna on April 17, 2025. Runna is UK-based, founded in 2021 by Dom Maskell and Ben Parker, and was one of three finalists for Apple’s App of the Year in 2024. Post-acquisition, Runna continues to operate as a standalone product; Strava has said it plans to invest in the Runna team for the long term.
Partly. Runna reschedules around missed runs and adjusts to your recent paces within a training template, so it responds to what you did. Reshape takes a different approach: instead of moving sessions around a template, it reads Apple Health and rewrites the next seven days from the runs you actually completed. Different mechanism, overlapping outcome.
No, and on purpose. Reshape builds a fresh plan from your Apple Health history rather than copying another app’s template. The starting point is what you actually ran, not what someone else assigned.
Yes. Runs recorded on Apple Watch sync to Strava through the standard Apple Health integration, so your feed, segments, and clubs keep working. Reshape plans the workouts; Strava keeps being Strava.