About Lastfinder
Lastfinder helps you pick running shoes. You tell it which shoes you've run in, what the next pair is for and what you want to spend. It shows only the shoes that fit every answer, closest first.
It's named after the last, the foot-shaped form a shoe is built around. When a shoe feels narrow or short, the last is usually the reason.
Where the data comes from
Weights, stack heights, drops and widths come from the makers' own product pages. We keep the page each number came from and the date we last checked it. How soft, bouncy or roomy a shoe feels comes from runners: a group of testers to start with, then everyone who tells us how a pair fit. Prices and stock come from the shops' own listings, and the shop's page has the final word on both.
If a spec is wrong, a link is broken or a shoe is missing, email hello@lastfinder.cc and we'll put it right.
How the size advice works
Give your size in a shoe you know. We look at runners who've worn both that shoe and the one you're looking at, and the sizes they took. Each piece of advice says how many reports it rests on. When there are too few, we say so, and at most give the makers' size-chart answer, labeled as that.
How the list is ordered
Shoes are ordered by how close they come to your answers. Between two equally close shoes, the one more people look at and pick here goes first.
How we make money
Shop links on Lastfinder can be affiliate links: when you buy through one, the shop pays us part of the sale. You pay the same price either way.
We're not in any affiliate program yet. When we join one, it will have no say in which shoes you see or in what order. The only place a commission counts is the buy button. It goes to the cheapest shop that delivers to you and has your size. If a shop that pays us is within 2% (or 2 units of your currency, if that is more) of that price, it goes there instead. When no shop that delivers to you has the shoe in stock, it searches Amazon or goes to the maker's own store. Every shop we know of is listed under the button.
Privacy
You don't need an account. Lastfinder sets no cookies unless you sign in, and stores nothing in your browser unless you pick a country or add shoes to compare. Your finder answers stay in your browser and in the page address, which is what lets you share a result.
We count how the site is used without knowing who uses it. When a question is answered, we record the answers so far, the page, the country and the time. We also record which shoes come up first and which get opened. For each page view, we record whether the visit came from Reddit, a search engine, another site or none. Clicks on shop buttons are recorded with the shoe, the shop, the page, the country and the time. None of these records carries a cookie, an ID or an IP address, and we don't link them to each other or to anyone.
If you send a fit report, we keep its answers and use them, without your name, in the size advice. If you give us your email for a report, an alert or an account, we ask you to confirm it first. After that we use it only for what you asked, and every email has a one-click stop link. To keep the forms from being flooded, we keep a scrambled form of the sender's IP address for 24 hours, then delete it.
Signing in sets one cookie that keeps you signed in.
Shops you reach through our links, Amazon included, may set their own cookies to track the sale, under their own privacy policies. Our full privacy policy is at /privacy.
Contact
Corrections, affiliate partnerships, questions about this page: hello@lastfinder.cc.