EntrenAI or Runna: a running plan, or one plan for everything you train?
Runna is one of the best-known running-plan apps and has belonged to Strava since 2025. EntrenAI builds a single plan for 12 sports, with strength and running coordinated, and adjusts it every morning to your sleep, stress and fatigue. If you only run, Runna is a very solid option; if you run and do other things, the comparison changes.
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Runna is a training-plan app focused on running: you pick a race (from 5K to marathon and beyond), your level and your days, and it gives you a plan with target paces, supporting strength sessions, and the option to move or skip sessions or rebuild the plan after missed runs. Strava bought it in April 2025, and it can now be bought on its own or bundled with Strava. It syncs with Garmin, Apple Watch, Coros and Suunto. Its main automatic adjustment is pace-based: if you consistently miss your target paces, or beat them, it changes them.
EntrenAI is an iOS and Android app that generates a periodized plan for 12 sports (running, hypertrophy, general strength, powerlifting, cycling, swimming, triathlon, duathlon, HYROX, hybrid, speed and power, and Spanish public-exam physical tests) and coordinates them when you do more than one. Every morning a sleep, stress and fatigue check-in produces a Readiness Score that raises or lowers the day's load, and if you miss a session the week is rearranged without breaking the block. The plan is calculated by a rules engine, not a language model, and the methodology is published.
The question is not which one is better but what you train. If your world is running, Runna is built for that. If you run on top of lifting, cycling or preparing for HYROX, or you do not want to pay for one app per sport, that is where EntrenAI offers something different.
EntrenAI vs Runna: side-by-side
No marketing fluff, no half-truths. Here’s what each app actually offers.
| Feature | EntrenAI | Runna |
|---|---|---|
| Periodized running plan | Yes, with paces from your VDOT and race-time prediction | Yes: it is their specialty, with race-specific plans and target paces |
| Other sports with their own plan | 12 sports: hypertrophy, strength, powerlifting, cycling, swimming, triathlon, duathlon, HYROX, hybrid, speed and exam physical tests | Focused on running, with supporting strength sessions |
| Coordination between strength and running | The plan spreads the week so they do not get in each other's way | Includes strength inside the running plan |
| Plan adjustment | Daily sleep, stress and fatigue check-in (Readiness Score), RIR/RPE-based loads and rescheduling of missed sessions | Adjusts target paces if you miss or beat them, and lets you move, skip or rebuild the plan after missed workouts |
| How the plan is calculated | In-house rules engine, published methodology | Running plan built with coaches' input; see their site for details |
| Watch sync | Reads activities from Strava, Apple Health and Health Connect; no watch app of its own | Syncs workouts to Garmin, Apple Watch, Coros and Suunto (strength sessions stay in the app) |
| Permanent free tier | Free workout logging; the personalized plan is paid, with a 7-day trial | No: paid, with a trial period |
| Price | €7.99/month or €23.99/year | About $120/year in the US ($19.99/month), or $149.99/year with Strava; prices vary by country |
| Track record and community | Launched in May 2026: younger, with fewer users | Far more established, with a large community and Strava behind it |
| Language | Spanish and English | Mainly English; check the languages on its store listing |
Competitor info: www.runna.com (retrieved May 7, 2026).
Who should pick which app?
EntrenAI is for you if you train more than one thing and want a single plan that coordinates them, so the leg session does not ruin the long run. Also if you want to start free: free workout logging costs nothing, and the personalized plan comes with a 7-day trial.
Runna is for you if running is your thing, you want a plan specific to a particular race, you follow your workouts on a Garmin, Apple Watch, Coros or Suunto, and you value a specialist app with a large running community and Strava behind it.
Use both if you run with Runna and want EntrenAI for the strength side or other sports. Note that they are not connected, and one plan does not know what the other says.
Frequently asked questions
It depends on what you need. For a pure running plan, Runna is a very specialized option and EntrenAI is a valid alternative, with VDOT-based paces and a daily adjustment for sleep and fatigue. Where they really differ is everything else: EntrenAI covers 12 sports and coordinates them in a single plan, which a running-only app does not do.
Runna's main automatic adjustment, according to its own help material, is pace-based: if you consistently miss your targets or beat them, it changes them. It also offers options for when you feel off or miss training, such as moving or skipping sessions and rebuilding the plan. EntrenAI starts from a different input: a daily sleep, stress and fatigue check-in that produces a Readiness Score and lowers or raises the day's load. They are two ways of adapting, and which suits you depends on whether you prefer reacting to performance or to how you show up each day.
EntrenAI, in most cases. As of October 2026, Runna costs around $120 a year in the US (about $20 a month), with different prices by country, and $149.99 a year if bought with Strava. EntrenAI costs €7.99/month or €23.99/year, with a 7-day trial, and free workout logging costs nothing. Prices change, so check the current one in the app store before deciding.
Yes, as a support to running. Runna includes strength sessions in its plans, but according to its own help material only running workouts sync with Garmin, so strength is followed in the app. If you also want a full plan to gain strength or muscle (hypertrophy, powerlifting), EntrenAI covers that as a sport of its own.
You can, though it is not the usual choice. You would pay for two subscriptions and the plans do not talk to each other, so you would have to fit the week together yourself. Most people prefer a single app: choose by your main sport.
Yes. EntrenAI reads your Strava activities and can publish your workouts to Strava. Strava has owned Runna since 2025, but that does not affect EntrenAI's Strava integration.
Specialization and track record. Runna has focused only on running for years, has a large community, syncs workouts to your watch (Garmin, Apple Watch, Coros, Suunto) and has Strava behind it. EntrenAI launched in May 2026, has no watch app of its own and is younger. Its advantage is breadth and coordination across sports.
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