Switching Running Apps Without Losing Your History

TL;DR

If your runs were saved to Apple Health, they show up in RunTrace instantly, with no import and no account. Runs recorded in apps that never wrote to Health can't be recovered this way.

The pain

Years of runs sit in an app that now wants a subscription, or you simply want to leave. Starting a new app at zero means losing your records, your trends and your sense of progress.

Why RunTrace is different

It starts where your data already is. Apple Health holds the workouts from your Apple Watch and from other apps that wrote there. RunTrace reads them.

What to check

  1. Open Health and confirm your older runs are present.
  2. Install RunTrace and allow access.
  3. Browse history, records, best efforts at standard distances, and VO₂ Max, resting heart rate and HRV trends.

If runs are missing

They probably never made it into Health. Export from the old app (GPX) before leaving it if the option exists.

FAQ

Will every old run appear? Runs that were saved in Apple Health do. If an app never wrote to Health, its runs aren’t there.

Is there a subscription? No. One purchase includes everything.

The app RunTrace →