Fitness · Channel report
What people complain about in Running
WaveSeek read 1,076 public posts about Running over 30 days and found 345 genuine complaints in them. Below are the ones that came up most, each linking to the post it was read from.
Measured 5 August 2026 · 3 distinct sources in the last 7 days · this page is rebuilt on every deploy
Daily mentions, 2026-07-22 → 2026-08-05. Peak 75 in a day.
Week over week, mentions moved -52%. A growth figure only appears here when it survives a baseline floor, a source-change check and a credibility ceiling — most channels most weeks show nothing, and that is the honest answer.
The evidence chain
Every complaint below came out of this. Nothing is estimated; each step is a count.
- 1,076posts ingested about Running30-day window
- 991read by the classifier92% of them
- 345were genuine complaints35% of what was read
Mentions here exclude news wires and video titles: somebody reporting on Running is not somebody having a problem with it. The Trends screen inside the app counts those too, because it measures attention rather than frustration — which is why the two numbers differ and why this page says which one it is using.
What people actually complain about
The 8 most frequent complaint clusters of 30 found, phrased by the classifier from the posts themselves. The links go to the original post — not to a summary of it.
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App crashes after update
Crashing — I’ve had this app for years and it worked fine until the most recent update. Now it won’t open.…
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App crashes on launch
App won’t open, just crashes — I can’t use the app because it won’t open on my iPhone 15 pro. It just cras…
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3
Unreliable GPS tracking
GPS poor — The gps location doesn’t always work
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4
Unreliable activity tracking during long sessions
Dropped rides during the ride — Twice over the past four days of a bike packing trip, I have finished my ride o…
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5
Unresponsive customer support
Lack of customer service — It is impossible to get customer service. The only service is through an AI bot tha…
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6
Unreliable device pairing
Watch won’t stay paired — Recently my Forerunner 945 started disappearing from the app. I’ve tried every suggestion fou…
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7
Unreliable workout tracking and sync
7/28/26: 10+ years later, still having NRC training plan issues. Non-Guided Runs won't save, after comple…
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8
Inaccurate distance tracking
my strava does not show my distance.strava you immediately correct this problem.
The count is over every post in the cluster. The links are a sample of them, capped at three, and never imply the list is complete.
Who is already there
6 apps measured in this channel from their own recent store reviews. Ratings are computed from the reviews WaveSeek ingested in the window, not read off a store listing.
| App | Rating | Reviews read | 4★ and up |
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| Strava: Run, Bike, Walk | 2.7★ | 28 | 39% |
| Garmin Connect™ | 2.6★ | 22 | 36% |
| Nike Run Club: Running Coach | 2.7★ | 19 | 42% |
| Runna: Running Plans & Coach | 4.4★ | 12 | 83% |
| ASICS Runkeeper—Run Tracker | 3.6★ | 9 | 67% |
| Map My Run GPS Running Tracker | 4.6★ | 8 | 88% |
Search demand
315,350 Google searches a month on average, from Google Ads keyword volume — the one number on this page you can check against a source that is not us.
Twelve months of monthly volume, ending 2026-06 for the keywords running, running app.
Searches peak in September and bottom out in July — a 94% swing across the year.
What this page does not tell you
Four competitors in this category print a market size on a page like this one. We do not, because we cannot measure one: mention counts, complaint counts and search volume are not a market size, and a dollar figure built from them would be a guess wearing a decimal point. The same goes for revenue projections, customer demographics and funding comparables.
Everything above is a count of public posts and reviews over a stated window. It is evidence of what people said, not a prediction of what will sell.
See Running change
This page is a snapshot. Inside WaveSeek the same channel is live: the complaint list is re-clustered every six hours, competitor ratings are tracked week over week, and saved ideas report what moved since you saved them.
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