How we choose.
drop. exists for one thing: to tell you, plainly, whether that shoe is worth it at today's price. Here's how we do it.
Prices, live
We check the listings of the top running stores every few minutes, across a catalog of over 700 shoes from 22 brands. What you see is the best offer available right now, in your size — not an average price, not a stale one.
The verdict
On every shoe with a price you get a straight call: BUY, WAIT or TRACKING. BUY when the discount off MSRP is real. WAIT when the price is full and it pays to wait. TRACKING when we don't yet have enough history to be honest — and in that case we'd rather tell you than fake it.
The reviews
For every shoe we read and watch the reviews that matter — the most serious video reviewers, the specialist articles, the runner threads on Reddit — and synthesize them into a single picture: fit, feel, durability, who it's for, weak points. We don't invent opinions: we distill the ones that already exist. If a shoe has fewer than three sources, we don't publish a verdict.
The Drop Score
Next to many shoes you'll find the Drop Score: a number from 0 to 100 that sums up what the reviews say, not the price. We compute it from the same independent sources across five aspects — cushioning, responsiveness, durability, comfort and value. The higher it is, the more the shoe convinced the people who put it on. The discount and the price verdict sit alongside: they're two different measures.
Nobody pays us for ranking
No store pays to appear higher or for a softer verdict. When you click an offer we may earn a small commission from the store, but that never changes the order: the best price always wins.
Questions? Write to us. drop. is made by runners, for runners.