Comparison

Lap Counter vs RUN interval

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Lap Counter

Easily track your laps during indoor workouts without relying on GPS. This app offers a simple tap-and-hold interface to record laps, set distance goals, and review your progress with detailed history and visual charts. Customize units and enjoy a dark mode option for comfortable use.

Highlights
  • Single tap lap recording
  • Flexible distance goal setting
  • Circular progress bar visualization
  • Detailed history and insights
  • Metric and imperial unit support
  • Dark mode option
  • Weight tracking and charts
Features
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Introducing Lap Tracker: Your Essential Fitness Companion Tired of unreliable GPS signals interfering with your indoor workouts? Lap Tracker is the perfect solution! Designed for runners, swimmers, cyclists, and anyone tracking laps, our app provides a simple yet powerful way to monitor your progress, even in challenging environments like indoor tracks or pools. Anyone doing laps has said "was that lap 12 or lap 13".... and then we get discouraged... just click the screen and done... you do the laps, we'll do the rest. Key Features: Effortless Lap Tracking: Accurately record your laps with a single tap and hold. Flexible Goal Setting: Calculate the number of laps needed to reach your distance goals. Stunning Visuals: Track your progress with a dynamic, visually engaging circular progress bar. Powerful History & Insights: Review past sessions with detailed history views, filterable by date range. Works with Apple Watch so you can leave your iPhone at home. Sync your laps to your iPhone when you return from your workout. Customize Your Experience: Switch between metric (meters/kilometers) and imperial (feet/miles) units. Enable dark mode for comfortable use in low-light conditions. Enhanced Accuracy: Minimize accidental lap recordings with our tap-and-hold feature. Lap Tracker is the ideal companion for your indoor workouts. Download today and start tracking your progress with confidence! Search Search history view so you can choose between pool, track, or any other track name you provided Search stats view so you can narrow down your specific stats for each track name you provided Track your weight changes and track by week, month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, and all time. Review your weight chart to view your weight changes. https://www.leindesign.ca/policy/eula.php

About

RUN interval

This app simplifies interval and Fartlek running by allowing you to set custom targets for time or distance during hard, easy, and rest efforts. It offers detailed post-run summaries, audio and visual feedback, and an Apple Watch app for enhanced training.

Highlights
  • Customizable interval sessions
  • Time and distance targets
  • Distance Goal option
  • Audio and visual feedback
  • Detailed run summaries
  • Apple Watch app
  • Strava sharing
Features
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Easily set up and record your Interval and Fartlek running sessions. With the flexibility of using time and/or distance as interval targets for your "Hard", "Easy" and "Rest" efforts. The simple but highly configurable interface on your phone and watch will have you running sooner. Now with a Distance Goal option for your session. Along with great audio and visual feedback, detailed post-run summary, share your runs to Strava, and a full-featured Apple Watch app. You can also record your regular runs with voice-over calling out distance and pace feedback. Key Features: • Easily create flexible custom interval sessions. • Utilize three effort targets "Hard", "Easy" and "Rest" in each set, targeting time or distance (meters or miles). • You can "Skip" any of the three efforts to create flexible sets, like building a progressive intervals session. • NEW: Set a Distance Goal for your session, that repeats the sets from the start until the distance has been reached. • Set a Warm-Up and Warm-Down timer or distance around your session. • Clear and easily glanceable visuals and audio prompts, including vibrations. • Voice-over prompts to save you from looking at the screen, great for iPhone or headphone users. • Voice-over prompts include the upcoming intervals effort and time/distance amount, and your last intervals average pace and heart rate. • Full-featured Apple Watch App! • Heart Rate Zones! (see description below) • Indoor Mode, no GPS, for treadmill running. • Sound Mode, for normal, discrete or silent audio prompts on your watch. • Vibration feedback on both the phone and watch. • Detailed run summary, showing pace for hard and easy efforts. • The run summary also includes interval breakdown, distance breakdown and heart rate details. • Play music or podcasts while running and still hear the audio prompts. • Sharing. Share a summary photo with your friends. • Private data. We don’t send any of your data to a server or share it with anyone. Session Types: • Normal Run – Record a normal run, long or short. • Record Intervals – If you run with a group or do an undefined session, then use the Record Interval option. It allows you to manually change between "Hard" and "Easy" reps, allowing you to record your session. • Custom Intervals – Our fully flexible intervals that allow you to use time and/or distance for the efforts. Add multiple intervals sets together to create the session you want. Sharing: From the summary screen, you can share your runs with friends or across social media. If you want to share directly with friends or across other social media, you can share a summary image with the details of your run. Heart Rate Zones: (Apple Watch Only) Zones are displayed as grouped percentages of your maximum heart rate. Giving you an indication of your current work rate based on your current heart rate. Just enter your maximum workout heart rate into our Settings screen and they will display on your Watch the next time you run. Zone 1: Very Light Effort 50-60% (Gray) Zone 2: Light Effort 60-70% (Blue) Zone 3: Moderate Effort 70-80% (Green) Zone 4: Hard Effort 80-90% (Yellow) Zone 5: Maximum Effort 90-100% (Red) Privacy: We don’t want to know where you have run, that's for you to worry about. We don’t send any of your data to a server or share it with anyone you don't want too. We keep your running records safe in Apple Health so you have control. Apple Heath gives you the control over who accesses your data. We only write and read the data we record from your running. Feedback: And because we don't send any data to a server, we need you to send us feedback and suggestions. Hit the Support link below or visit our website to contact us.

Screenshots

Lap Counter4 screens
RUN interval4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: RUN interval at 77% against Lap Counter's 0%. RUN interval also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). Lap Counter's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Lap Counter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and RUN interval sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lap Counter ships an update every 2 months, RUN interval every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Lap Counter versus RUN interval: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLap CounterRUN interval
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.7 (1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews77.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJohn LeinCAN YOU HEAR ME SOFTWARE

Customer experience

Lap Counter

Written reviews8 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative75.0%

RUN interval

All ratings1,003 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral1.6%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews191 reviews
Positive77.5%
Neutral5.2%
Negative17.3%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Lap Counter

One-time1
  • Premium Access$1.99
2 purchases

RUN interval

One-time2
  • The full RUN interval$1.99
  • The full RUN interval$3.99

Questions

Is Lap Counter free?
Lap Counter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RUN interval free?
RUN interval is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lap Counter or RUN interval have ads?
Neither Lap Counter nor RUN interval shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lap Counter or RUN interval?
Lap Counter ships an update every 2 months, and RUN interval every 3 months. Most recently, Lap Counter was updated on October 7, 2026 and RUN interval on October 12, 2026.

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