Very basic
I won’t pay for this again. It ends up being quite discouraging. The distances are OK and on par with the PDFs from the website, but the paces are a bit ridiculous. Check out Reddit threads for more. Gives me a bad “grade” for going farther but not quite as quickly. Won’t connect with Apple Watch and the gps doesn’t match distances. My Apple Watch gives much more feedback than the app. Great for tracking but not great for coaching.
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Glitchy new app
The app failed to sync my completed runs despite telling me that my garmin was synced. It then adapted the plan to the fallacy that I hadn’t been completing assigned workouts. I discovered this right before my race and realized it had been way over training me.
You should really be QCing your product and hiring engineers that know what they’re doing. Gotta pay for talent.
Support also gave me an LLM slop response when I inquired.
Product was better before the glitchy auto adapt feature.
You should really be QCing your product and hiring engineers that know what they’re doing. Gotta pay for talent.
Support also gave me an LLM slop response when I inquired.
Product was better before the glitchy auto adapt feature.
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Perfect for beginners!
I’m not a runner by any means. I started about 4 months ago and picked up Run with Hal to prepare for a 5k, and I’ve loved having a plan created for me! I will say sometimes it will have me run like 7 miles, which my mom (who is an experienced runner) says is a bit much for a beginner. Other than that, I love it!
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Overall great, it appears could use slight improvement
I really enjoy the structure of the training program and the feedback. My only complaint is that when I use the app to track a run it often won’t let me save at the end of a workout and I end up having to enter the information manually
Hal believes in you!
I had a 10 mile race and I have previously gotten hurt and my times were getting worse and worse. I followed his plan and he predicted a pace for my race that I haven’t run in 10 years. I thought yeah right… well Yes Right! I ran that race and felt great and my time was amazing like he predicted. I followed it to a tee and it worked!!!!!!! Highly recommend! Hal believes in you and so now you can believe in you too!!
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Ok not great
Very inflexible training program. Can only use a garmin and then manually enter the time. I said I was injury prone and the mileage was not adapted for that. If i do the workout tuesday instead of monday i cant log that run and have to enter everything manually. Runna is way more flexible, and adds all types of cross training workout. I will be going back to Runna and if need be just use Hal’s program online for free. Not worth paying for.
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Worthless No Pacing Input. Why can I not put in my desired race pace????
I contacted the service about a month ago. I have been following the 18 Week Hal Higdon Advanced 2 marathon plan since Jan 11 and am in week 13 of the plan and have updated my paces since my last 10k to 41:04. Since then my long run paces have been absolutely insane. I am looking to run a 3:10 marathon but I am getting the app telling me I should have run my last long run at 6:42 for 20 miles. Why can I not put in my desired race pace???
I have attached a few screen grabs. This is a joke and now it is giving me issues and saying I am undertrained for not hitting those marks. I have attached the one for this Thursday that says I should do my run for 5 miles at marathon pace of 6:15!!! These times and the algorithm is totally off and is worthless to me now in my final weeks of preparation for my race. How is this possible, I guess I’ll be doing it on my own and not renewing or continuing with this worthless app. Terrible.
I have attached a few screen grabs. This is a joke and now it is giving me issues and saying I am undertrained for not hitting those marks. I have attached the one for this Thursday that says I should do my run for 5 miles at marathon pace of 6:15!!! These times and the algorithm is totally off and is worthless to me now in my final weeks of preparation for my race. How is this possible, I guess I’ll be doing it on my own and not renewing or continuing with this worthless app. Terrible.
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No longer free
Got 3 weeks into training and they cut off access with out warning. I reached out to support and they said they are moving towards a subscription model. The app is not worth $59.99 in my opinion.
Free trial scam
I can’t get past the forced to pay for a subscription screen
FRAUD AND A SCAM
If I could give less than 1 star, I would. DO NOT FALL FOR THEIR FREE TRIAL!!! In November of 2025 I downloaded the app, looked around & then deleted it. Apparently at that time I had activated a free trial. Fast forward to January 10th, I was on a forum & someone suggest I download this app.. so I did & at that time it offered me a free trail for two weeks. Instantly I was charged. As soon as I was charged for the TEAR!!! I tried to go in immediately and dispute but it was denied. Now I’m stuck paying $60 for an app that I didn’t want.
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Don’t waste your time. Can’t skip hal+ Paywall
Paywalled as soon as i registered. No way to bypass.. dark pattern designed app
Free version used to work now only pay prompts
When I first I used this app I liked it but seemed to obsolete the long stand free use mode. Unfortunately when I started using this I was not a disciplined running. This year after training for several prior marathons it now surfaced Hal+ pay prompt. I wanted it to work as before and could not find a way to dismiss the prompt. Too bad. I originally used these plans printed from web over a decade ago. I will go back to using those same plans and entering them in my calendar. Fond farewell to limited free use version of Hal app tech.
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Will not let me see the rest of my plan after I ended my paid subscription when it used to be free
I am finishing up my training for my marathon in November and now that the bulk of my training is over I cancelled my plan to just use the remaining day plans for my taper mileage like I did last year for my marathon. However, there is now a pay wall that will not let you access the app unless you pay $6.99 per month or the $59.99 annual subscription. I am disappointed that they have now made it pay to use at all and this is most likely my last time using this app. I will be switching over to Endorphins or Runna due to this fiasco. Endorphins running from what I have seen provides weight/plyometric training workouts in conjunction with the the runs. It was nice while it lasted but the fact that I now have to pay to just see the remaining of my plan which was normally free has definitely left a sour taste in my mouth.
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App seems broken
I used the app previously with my old phone just fine, but upgrading to the iPhone 16 pro and now when I install the app I am blocked by the Hal+ purchase screen with no way to bypass to free mode
Inflexible and disappointing
I ended up creating my own training plan in a spreadsheet, and I finished a 50k as desired. No thanks to Run With Hal. I was very disappointed with the inflexibility of the 50k training plan on Run With Hal, and I’m disappointed I spent $60 or whatever to get it. I was navigating an injury and there was no good way to pause, indicate a need for temporary drop in mileage, etc. Also, as a working parent of young kids, no good way to easily shift around rest days and run days. And no good way to adjust goal pace or other attributes once you start a plan. I also don’t like the letter grade rating for adherence to the training plan. Huge turn off. Positive encouragement would be preferred. I would not use this app again.
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Priced out
I have been using the run with Hal app for about 6 months, and they recently removed the free tier entirely. This is incredibly disappointing, and this update is not reflected on the website or in the apps description. This app is quite frankly not worth the addition fee for me
Bug/App doesn’t Work
I loved the interface. Loved the app. Great plans. Totally would’ve kept my subscription but every time I went to login/ it would make me re buy the subscription. It wouldn’t register that I already had an account. I would get an error message about auth expiring or malware. Very frustrating as it’s a good app!
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Forces paid version
Forces you to do paid version despite advertising as free.
Long run recommendation
I told the app that I wanted my long run to be on Sunday. I’ve created a few different plans to see if it’s modify, but it’s consistently placing them on a weekday. WTH. Agree with some of the others that I’m already running 20-35 miles a week and this was creating a “speed” plan for me to run 7 miles this week?!
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Did you get rid of the free version or is it just a bug?!
I’ve been using the app forever and love it, but I was curious about the plus benefits and when I clicked on it to learn more, it wouldn’t let me go back and was trying to force me to upgrade to the paid version with no warning! I was in the middle of a training cycle too. Super disappointing. Please fix the bug or let me go back to the free version.
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