Best running shoes for plantar fasciitis

Runners talk about plantar fasciitis differently from people who stand all day: the question is usually whether a shoe let them keep training. This is every shoe with enough first-person reports from runners to rank on its own. Ranked by the share who said it helped, across 1,397 first-person verdicts. Every count links to the original comment.

• Altra175 of 206 helped · 85%
• Brooks Ghost Max36 of 41 helped · 88%
• Saucony Triumph few reports8 of 8 helped · 100%
• Brooks Ghost64 of 82 helped · 78%
• Asics Gel-Nimbus41 of 52 helped · 79%
• Asics Gel-Kayano65 of 86 helped · 76%
• Hoka Bondi205 of 286 helped · 72%
• Topo Phantom few reports9 of 10 helped · 90%
• Brooks Beast few reports18 of 21 helped · 86%
• Brooks Adrenaline GTS87 of 124 helped · 70%
• Hoka Clifton73 of 106 helped · 69%
• Saucony Guide few reports10 of 13 helped · 77%
• Altra Lone Peak few reports19 of 23 helped · 83%
• New Balance 860 few reports16 of 20 helped · 80%
• New Balance Fresh Foam 108025 of 35 helped · 71%
• Brooks Glycerin54 of 82 helped · 66%
• Hoka Gaviota26 of 36 helped · 72%
• Altra Escalante few reports13 of 16 helped · 81%
• Hoka Arahi21 of 30 helped · 70%
• Nike Vomero few reports9 of 13 helped · 69%
• Altra Torin21 of 31 helped · 68%
• Xero few reports9 of 12 helped · 75%
• Altra Paradigm few reports8 of 11 helped · 73%
• Nike Pegasus few reports9 of 14 helped · 64%
• New Balance 990 few reports9 of 13 helped · 69%
• Altra Experience Flow few reports6 of 8 helped · 75%
• Asics Novablast few reports4 of 10 helped · 40%
• Merrell Moab few reports4 of 8 helped · 50%

How this is ordered: not by raw percentage. Ten people out of ten is a weaker result than 205 out of 246, because ten people could be luck. Each shoe is ranked on the lower end of what its numbers can support at 95% confidence, so a small sample has to earn its place rather than win on a perfect score. Shoes marked few reports have under 25 verdicts — read them as a hint, not a finding. Anything under eight is left off entirely. How the counting works →