Runna alternatives for runners who don't want streaks
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If you want a coaching app that isn't Runna, three actually work: Coopah, TrainAsONE, and Zonna, which I built. Runna is still the best-resourced app in this category. The plans are good, it runs on iOS and Android, and it's now backed by Strava's engineering team. The reason to look elsewhere isn't that Runna is bad. It's that Runna is now Strava's, and Strava is built on kudos, segments, leaderboards and Local Legend badges.
Strava announced the acquisition in 2025 and the deal has since closed. Runna says it's staying a standalone app "for the foreseeable future," and you can still buy a Runna subscription on its own without touching Strava at all. But the two are now one company, and the joint Strava-and-Runna subscription is the direction being pushed. If you'd rather your coach and your social feed lived in different apps, that's worth knowing going in.
The other reason people look elsewhere is price. Runna is £15.99 a month, or £99.99 a year paid upfront. That's not unreasonable for what you get, but it's more than a lot of people expect to pay for a training plan, and it's worth knowing what else is out there before deciding it's the only option.
Coopah
Coopah is the official training app of London Marathon Events: the TCS London Marathon, Brighton Marathon, the Big Half, the Vitality London 10,000. If you're training for one of those specifically, that partnership buys you something real: aligned taper timing, event-specific messaging, and a discount code through the race itself.
It costs £9.99 a month, billed annually, and runs on both iOS and Android. The free trial is a week, stretched to two if you come through a London Marathon Events code. If you want to compare against a free structure first, my 16-week marathon plan is public whether or not you ever install anything.
I haven't trained on Coopah myself, so I won't invent a complaint about how the coaching logic behaves week to week. What I can tell you honestly is the size difference: Coopah has raised roughly £1.5m in seed funding, against Runna's position now inside Strava. If you're weighing depth of investment and pace of development, that's the real comparison.
TrainAsONE
TrainAsONE has the broadest reach of anything on this page: iOS, Android, Garmin and a web app, plus a genuine free tier before you hit a paywall. Premium is £9.99 a month, or £99 a year.
It's an AI-adaptive plan generator: the next session changes based on the one you actually ran, not just the one you were given. That's the same core idea Runna and Zonna both use, built by a much smaller team with none of Strava's budget behind it. Same honesty as above: I haven't used it enough to tell you where the plan logic breaks down, only what it costs and what it runs on.
Zonna
Mine. £7.99 a month, or £59.99 a year, and the free tier stays a genuine free tier: a full plan, not a seven-day demo. No streaks, no badges, no leaderboards, no feed. The whole app is built around telling you when to hold back, because I ran a 100km race in July, went out too hard on the descents because nothing was telling me to stop, and walked the last 40km of it.
It's iOS only: iPhone and Apple Silicon Mac, nothing on Android. No Garmin workout export either, so if you live on a Garmin watch and want sessions pushed to it automatically, that's a real gap, not a small one. And it's built by one person, which means slower feature development than anything else on this page.
Which one
Training for a London Marathon Events race specifically: Coopah. The partnership is real and built around your event. Want the widest platform support and don't mind an app that looks its age next to the market leaders: TrainAsONE. Everything else being equal, and Strava's ecosystem being genuinely fine by you: Runna, still the safest recommendation for most people in this category.
Zonna is the narrower case. iPhone only, no interest in streaks or a feed, and you already know, the easy way or the hard way, that the thing costing you races usually isn't ambition. It's not knowing when to hold back.
If you want to see what a free plan looks like before paying anyone for anything, Zonna's plans are here.
Written by Russ Shear, who built Zonna after running 100km in July 2026 and walking the last 40 of it.