Comparison

Loadcast or Runna if you run and lift?

Runna builds a running plan around your race and lets you add a strength plan to it. Loadcast decides each day from the sessions you logged, and it counts a leg day as load on the same legs you run on.

Last checked 13 October 2026. We make Loadcast, so read our lines with that in mind.

By Ole Fiegenbaum, founder of Loadcast. Before the app, Ole's triathlon training ran through one ChatGPT chat. More on the landing page.

How this page was made: our lines come from how the Loadcast engine works. Each claim about another app that has a source link was read on that app's own page, on the date shown under it. The rest is our judgment. The text was written with AI help.

What is each one built for?

Runna

Runna describes itself this way. "Your personalized running coach with tailored training plans to achieve your goals, from running a faster 5k to finishing your first marathon."

Source runna.com/pricing, read on 13 October 2026.

Loadcast

Loadcast is a coach for strength and endurance. Each day it decides what you train today, from the sessions you logged and how they felt.

How does each one handle a race?

Runna

Runna plans "for all abilities, whether it's a first 5k or fifth marathon". You choose a distance and a period "from 8 weeks to 26".

Source runna.com/features, read on 13 October 2026.

Loadcast

Loadcast takes your race date too. When the race is your main goal, it counts the days down and moves your training through peak, taper and race week.

How does lifting fit in?

Runna

Runna says you "can build a fully personalized strength training plan that fits seamlessly into your running program" and tailor it "to your strength level, equipment, and schedule".

Source runna.com, read on 13 October 2026.

Loadcast

Loadcast reads a leg day as load on your legs. The day after a leg day it says "Your leg day is still in your legs, so no hard intervals today."

Which phone, watch and apps does each one work with?

Runna

Runna says to "download Runna on iOS or Android". It lists that it "syncs with Garmin, COROS, Fitbit, Suunto, and Apple Watch", and it syncs with Strava.

Source runna.com, read on 13 October 2026.

Loadcast

Loadcast is an iPhone app. It reads your sessions from Apple Health.

What does each one cost?

Runna

Runna lists a "Monthly Plan" and an "Annual Plan" on its pricing page.

Source runna.com/pricing, read on 13 October 2026.

Loadcast

Loadcast is a paid app too. We leave the amounts out here, because the price you pay depends on your country. Read the number on each app's own page before you decide.

Pick Runna if

You are training for a running race and want the plan built around that date.
You use Android.
Your watch is a Garmin, COROS, Suunto or Fitbit, which Runna lists as synced.

Pick Loadcast if

You lift and run in the same week and want today's session set from both.
Your week keeps changing and you want tomorrow to follow what you really did.
You have an iPhone.

What Loadcast does not do

There is no Android app.
There is no Apple Watch app of its own.

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