Compared
px and Runna, compared.
Runna is a running coach: plans from 5k to ultramarathon, with strength on the side, sent to your watch. px is one coach across training, mind and food, and the run is one part of the day it plans. Here is what each one does, and how to use both.
Checked against Runna’s published pages on 31 October 2026. Prices in US dollars.
What each one is
Two different jobs.
px
px is one coach across Move, Mind and Fuel. It builds a plan from your pursuit, which can be a half marathon, a marathon, HYROX, a triathlon or a comeback, sets each day from your sleep, training, calendar and how you feel, and gives the reason for every change. The runs you finish with Runna reach px through Apple Health, and px plans the rest of the day around them.
Runna
Runna is a running coach app. It builds plans for 5k, 10k, half marathon, marathon and ultramarathon, and custom plans from 6 to 26 weeks for any distance from 5 to 50 km, around the days a week you can train, with strength, conditioning and mobility sessions alongside. Workouts sync to Garmin, COROS, Fitbit, Suunto and Apple Watch, and to Strava. It costs $19.99 a month or $119.99 a year, with the first week free.
Side by side
What each one does.
| px | Runna | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | pxOne coach for training, mind and food. | RunnaA running coach: plans for a distance, sent to your watch. |
| What it reads | pxGarmin and Oura directly; WHOOP, Apple Watch, Fitbit, Polar and more than thirty other apps and devices through Apple Health or Google Health Connect; your calendar; what you log. | RunnaYour completed runs, from your watch or Strava. |
| Plans your training | pxSessions written for your pursuit, every exercise on video, placed around your calendar. | RunnaRunning plans from 5k to ultra, with strength and mobility alongside. |
| Decides each day | pxEvery morning, from your sleep, training, calendar and how you feel, with the reason for every change. | RunnaA plan built to your goal, level and training days; completed sessions feed later paces. |
| Mind | pxBreathwork and meditation timed to your week, five minutes or forty-five. | RunnaNot part of Runna. |
| Food | pxMeals that match the work, built around how you already eat. | RunnaNutrition advice in its support content. No meals. |
| Ask it | pxAsk px, by text or voice, at any hour, in 15 languages. It can rebuild the session, log a meal or move the plan. | RunnaNo coach to ask; the plan and its support content. |
| Price | px$29.99 a month or $199 a year, everything included. The first seven days are free. | Runna$19.99 a month or $119.99 a year. First week free. |
| Needs a device | pxNone. A phone is enough; a watch, ring or strap makes it sharper. | RunnaNone. A watch takes the workouts. |
Which one
One, the other, or both.
Runna, if running is the whole of it
A race on the calendar, a plan to the start line, the sessions on your watch. Runna does that well, and strength sits beside it.
px, if the run has to fit a life
The run, the strength, the breathwork and the food, planned together around the day you actually have, and changed when the night was short or the meeting moved. px plans a marathon, a HYROX or a comeback the same way.
Both, if you are mid-plan
Finish the Runna plan you are on. Its runs reach px through Apple Health, and px plans the food, the calm and the rest of the week around them.
Using both
Runna measures. px decides.
Let Runna write to Apple Health on your iPhone. The runs you finish reach px there, counted once, where they belong, so the rest of the day is planned around the work you did rather than the work you meant to do.
px does not write over a plan you are following. It reads the run you finished and decides the rest.
From px Insights
The decisions behind it.
Each morning’s call, worked through in writing: when the wearable says rest, when to train anyway, and how to tell tired from under-recovered.
From px Insights
The Training Plan for Busy Professionals
Two strength sessions, sometimes three, and a daily walk. Why the smaller number works, and how a plan survives a calendar that never stays still.
How to Stay Consistent With Training
Nearly half of people who intend to train do not. Why consistency fails, what the evidence says actually holds, and how to build a week that survives.
Should I Train Today? How to Decide Before You Start
Not sure whether to train or rest? Here is how to read sleep, HRV and resting heart rate together and make the call in under a minute, before you get changed.
Questions
Can I use Runna and px at the same time?
Yes. Runna’s completed runs reach px through Apple Health, and px plans the food, the mind work and the rest of the week around them. When your Runna plan ends, px can write the next block itself.
Does px write running plans?
Yes: a half marathon, a marathon, HYROX, a triathlon or a comeback, with the sessions on video and placed around your calendar, and changed each morning to the night you had.
Does px send sessions to my watch?
px runs on your phone and on Apple Watch, where each session you run is saved to Apple Health as a workout. It reads Garmin and Oura directly, and other watches through Apple Health or Health Connect.
Tomorrow morning, already decided.
Seven days are free. By this time next week, px knows your normal.