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Comparison · 15 tools · checked Oct 31, 2026 to Nov 2, 2026

Trail race planning tools compared

Most tools do one job: find a race, pace it, fuel it, or put it on your watch. Kliva does all of them in one plan, and adds something no other tool in this comparison has: a finish time from your UTMB Index. We make Kliva, so every fact below comes from public sources, mainly each tool's own website and its app store page where it has one.

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trail races
32’000+
countries
110
runner jobs covered
9 / 9
languages
5

Only on Kliva

One thing no other tool here does

Your finish time, from your UTMB Index

Link your UTMB profile and Kliva shows the time runners with your index usually take on this course, with a fast and a slow end. It is built from nearly 1,000,000 race finishes. A reference to set your target, not a promise.

Example · 100 km course · UTMB Index 620
16:40typical finish for your index
fast day 14:50slow day 19:10

Median error 8.3% on courses the model never saw. Elsewhere: Vert.run scales your index from winning times; ITRA says its score can't predict times across races.

And everything else, in one plan

Pacing, fueling, cutoffs and your watch, from the same numbers

Other planners pace or fuel. Kliva paces each section first, then fuels it against its own time, so your gels know how slow the big climb is.

Why one app wins

One plan instead of five tools that don't talk

  • Find the raceWhat runners use todayAhotu, Finishers, race websitesOn Kliva32’000+ trail races, filters by km and D+
  • Plan the seasonWhat runners use todayRunning Around, a spreadsheetOn KlivaRamp to your goal race, prep races
  • Set a target timeWhat runners use todayGuesswork, Vert.runOn KlivaTypical finish for your UTMB Index
  • Pace and fuelWhat runners use todayTrailSplit, Race Ultra, a fuel calculatorOn KlivaOne plan, your products, cutoff margins
  • Put it on the watchWhat runners use todayGarmin PacePro, COROS Pace StrategyOn KlivaData field with aid stations and fuel alerts

Scorecard

How many of the 9 runner jobs each tool does fully

Find, target time, pacing, fueling, cutoffs, weather, watch, crew, season. Read from public sources between Oct 31, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.

  • Kliva9
  • Trailia5
  • TrailSplit4
  • RacePace3
  • Race Ultra3
  • COROS Pace Strategy3
  • Garmin PacePro2
  • Running Around1

Partial support (a small race list, crew tracking without a roadbook) does not count as full. The tables below have every cell, each read from public sources.

We chose these jobs ourselves, and target time is one Kliva was designed around, so the list favors Kliva. Without it Kliva does 8 of 8.

The tables: 15 tools, 9 jobs, split by need

Every cell, read from public sources. Some sites couldn't be read when we checked, so a no means we found nothing, not that the tool can't do it. A tool missing from a table means we found nothing for those jobs.

Find a race

Race catalogues and how big each one is. Sizes are what each tool states on its own site.

Find a race
ToolFindCatalogue
KlivaFind: Does it32’000+ trail races
Ahotuchecked Oct 31, 2026Find: Does itNot checked
Finisherschecked Oct 31, 2026Find: Does it5’489 trail raceschecked Nov 2, 2026
TrailSplitchecked Oct 31, 2026Find: PartlyNot checked
Trailrace.cochecked Oct 31, 2026Find: PartlyNot checked
Running Aroundchecked Oct 31, 2026Find: Partly2’200+ raceschecked Nov 2, 2026
UTMB Worldchecked Oct 31, 2026Find: PartlyNot checked
RacingSchedulechecked Nov 2, 2026Find: Partly13’951 races, all sportschecked Nov 2, 2026
TrailRunTemplechecked Nov 2, 2026Find: Partly532+ raceschecked Nov 2, 2026

RacingSchedule's total covers running, trail, cycling, triathlon and obstacle races, and most of them are in the United States.

Prepare your season

Ordering the races of a year and building up to your goal race.

Prepare your season
ToolSeason
KlivaSeason: Does it
Running Aroundchecked Oct 31, 2026Season: Does it
TrailRunTemplechecked Nov 2, 2026Season: Does it
Trailiachecked Nov 2, 2026Season: Does it
Trailrace.cochecked Oct 31, 2026Season: Partly

Plan the race day

Target time, pacing, fueling, cutoffs, weather, watch and crew, for one race.

Plan the race day
ToolTarget timePacingFuelingCutoffsWeatherWatchCrew
KlivaTarget time: Does itPacing: Does itFueling: Does itCutoffs: Does itWeather: Does itWatch: Does itCrew: Does it
TrailSplitchecked Oct 31, 2026Target time: Not found in public sourcesPacing: Does itFueling: Does itCutoffs: Does itWeather: Not found in public sourcesWatch: Does itCrew: Partly
Trailiachecked Nov 2, 2026Target time: Does itPacing: Does itFueling: Does itCutoffs: Does itWeather: Not found in public sourcesWatch: Not found in public sourcesCrew: Not found in public sources
RacePacechecked Oct 31, 2026Target time: Not found in public sourcesPacing: Does itFueling: Does itCutoffs: Not found in public sourcesWeather: PartlyWatch: Does itCrew: Not found in public sources
Race Ultrachecked Oct 31, 2026Target time: Not found in public sourcesPacing: Does itFueling: PartlyCutoffs: Does itWeather: Not found in public sourcesWatch: Not found in public sourcesCrew: Does it
COROS Pace Strategychecked Oct 31, 2026Target time: Not found in public sourcesPacing: Does itFueling: Not found in public sourcesCutoffs: Not found in public sourcesWeather: Does itWatch: Does itCrew: Not found in public sources
Garmin PaceProchecked Oct 31, 2026Target time: Not found in public sourcesPacing: Does itFueling: Not found in public sourcesCutoffs: Not found in public sourcesWeather: Not found in public sourcesWatch: Does itCrew: Not found in public sources
Trailrace.cochecked Oct 31, 2026Target time: Not found in public sourcesPacing: Not found in public sourcesFueling: Not found in public sourcesCutoffs: PartlyWeather: Not found in public sourcesWatch: Not found in public sourcesCrew: Not found in public sources
Ahotuchecked Oct 31, 2026Target time: Not found in public sourcesPacing: Not found in public sourcesFueling: Not found in public sourcesCutoffs: Not found in public sourcesWeather: Not found in public sourcesWatch: PartlyCrew: Not found in public sources
Vert.runchecked Oct 31, 2026Target time: PartlyPacing: Not found in public sourcesFueling: Not found in public sourcesCutoffs: Not found in public sourcesWeather: Not found in public sourcesWatch: Not found in public sourcesCrew: Not found in public sources
UTMB Worldchecked Oct 31, 2026Target time: Not found in public sourcesPacing: Not found in public sourcesFueling: Not found in public sourcesCutoffs: Not found in public sourcesWeather: Not found in public sourcesWatch: Not found in public sourcesCrew: Partly
TrailRunTemplechecked Nov 2, 2026Target time: PartlyPacing: Not found in public sourcesFueling: PartlyCutoffs: Not found in public sourcesWeather: Not found in public sourcesWatch: Not found in public sourcesCrew: Not found in public sources

Jobs: find the race (a large trail catalogue), target time, pacing per section, fueling plan, cutoff margins at aid stations, weather in the plan, plan on the watch, crew roadbook, season planner (build up to your goal race). Only full dots count toward the scorecard.

Updated Nov 2, 2026

In one line

What each tool does

One line per tool, from public sources. Kliva's limits are on its line too.

Questions

What runners ask

What is the best app to plan a trail race in 2026?

Kliva covers 9 of the 9 jobs we checked, from finding the race to the plan on your Garmin. TrailSplit is a good choice for the Grand Raid races it covers; Garmin PacePro and COROS Pace Strategy pace a course but don't plan fueling or aid stations.

Can I predict my trail race time from my UTMB Index?

Yes, on Kliva. Link your UTMB profile and each plan shows the typical finish for runners with your index on that course, with a fast and a slow end. It works for 15 to 200 km courses.

Does it work with COROS or Suunto?

The data field is Garmin only today, and a Suunto app is coming soon. For COROS, Suunto and others, export the GPX with aid stations and cutoffs as waypoints.

How did you compare these tools?

We read public sources, mainly each tool's own website and its app store page where it has one, between Oct 31, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, and scored the same 9 jobs for each. Where we found nothing, or a site couldn't be read when we checked, we counted it as not offered, so a no means we found nothing, not that the tool can't do it. A tool missing from a table means we found nothing for those jobs. We make Kliva. Spot an error? Tell us and we fix it.

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