Cheaper alternatives to Runna in the UK
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If Runna's price is the problem, there are three realistic routes. Garmin Coach is free if you already own a Garmin watch. TrainAsONE has a free tier and a £99 a year premium plan. Zonna is £59.99 a year, with free 5K, 10K and half marathon plans. Coopah comes up as a fourth, but it undercuts Runna on the monthly price only, and not by much.
I built Zonna, so weigh that. Prices below were last checked on 10 September 2026 and they change, so check the app stores before you pay.
What Runna costs
Runna is £15.99 a month or £99.99 a year, with a one week free trial. It runs on iOS and Android and syncs with Garmin, COROS, Fitbit, Suunto and Apple Watch. Strava owns it.
The gap between monthly and annual is large. Twelve months at the monthly price is £191.88, so paying monthly costs nearly double. If you are comparing prices, compare the annual figure, and only pay monthly if you really will stop after a single block.
What free gets you
Garmin Coach is free on Garmin Connect. It gives you adaptive 5K, 10K and half marathon plans that adjust as you progress, built with coaches including Greg McMillan and Jeff Galloway. The catch is that you need a Garmin watch, and it stops at the half marathon.
TrainAsONE has a free tier with a seven day detailed plan, activity import and pace-based workouts. You only see a week at a time, and heart rate workouts and longer planning are premium.
Free plans in a PDF or a spreadsheet also work for plenty of people. If you have a goal, a calendar and some discipline, you may not need to pay for anything.
What the middle of the market costs
Coopah is £14.99 a month, or £119.99 a year if you pay upfront. It has a one week trial, works on iOS and Android, and is partnered with the TCS London Marathon. That is about a pound a month less than Runna, and twenty pounds a year more on the annual plan.
TrainAsONE Premium is £9.99 a month or £99 a year, with a 21 day trial. It is the closest to Runna on price, and it adds weather and elevation adjustments and fatigue monitoring. It also runs on Android, Garmin and the web.
What Zonna costs
Zonna is £7.99 a month or £59.99 a year, with a 14 day free trial. That is £40 a year less than Runna's annual plan.
The free tier is not a teaser. You get the full 5K, 10K and half marathon plans, every week of them, and you can rebuild a plan as often as you like. After the trial you keep the plan you built and drop to free.
Paid adds the things that need ongoing work: runs read back to you, a plan that moves when you miss a week, and marathon and ultra plans.
Here is what you give up. Zonna is iPhone and Mac only, so there is no Android. There is no Garmin workout export, so sessions will not appear on your watch. I am one developer, and I cannot match Runna's funding, its variety of workouts or its pace of development.
When paying more is worth it
If you are on Android, Zonna is out. If you want structured sessions pushed to your watch, Runna and Coopah do that and I do not yet.
If you are training for a marathon and want the most polished plans available, Runna is still very good, and at £99.99 a year it is a fair price for what it is.
Which to use
If you own a Garmin and are training for a 10K or half, start with Garmin Coach and pay nothing. If you want a paid app on Android, TrainAsONE or Coopah are the cheaper routes. If you are on an iPhone and want a plan that tells you when to slow down, try Zonna's free tier first. If none of that matters and you want the best-supported app, pay for Runna annually, not monthly.
For the fuller comparisons, see Runna alternatives and Coopah vs Runna. If your problem is that every run feels hard, start here.
Written by Russ Shear, who built Zonna after running 100km in July 2026 and walking the last 40 of it.