Comparison

Race With Maps 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

Race With Maps

Features
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The Race With Maps (RWM) App uses a race course designed in Google MyMaps. Design the course yourself or use one from a friend! For example, how about a 5K race around your vacation beach town or just around your neighborhood. Design it in Google My Maps (or use your friends), download it, then during your run, as you encounter the MyMaps Markers on the your course, Race With Maps makes audio announcements using the description of the MyMaps Markers. For example, during a RWM race, when the runner arrives at a turn they might hear “take a left at the stop sign and run on the sidewalk”. Arriving at Waypoints, crossing Lines, going over an Area boundary all cause RWM to fire the audio announcement in the description of the Marker. And RWM can compute and insert race time, race distance, pace, cadence and deviation from a time goal into an announcement. As example of a pace insertion announcement the runner might hear “Your pace over the last mile was 10 minutes per mile”. A Start Line can automatically starts the race while a Finish Line can automatically stops the race. This allows a runner to create a custom race course in MyMaps with race progress updates, directions, points of interest, fueling/hydration reminders and more. And since RWM uses .kml files, these Projects can be shared with others. RWM is a regular running App if the user chooses to not use a Map. See the website intervalrunner.com for user guides and examples Race With Maps comes with access to a website with free sample Project downloads or you can import .kml files from the your iCloud. RWM allows a runner to use either a Run-Walk and Always Run techniques between warmup and cooldown periods with optional periodic updates. It does not need the internet, or contains ads. 60 Day Free Trial! Are you Ready to Race?

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

Race With Maps4 screens
RUN interval4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Race With Maps at none against RUN interval's 2. Race With Maps also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). RUN interval's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.6). On price and ads 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. RUN interval sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Race With Maps asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Race With Maps ships an update every 5 weeks, RUN interval every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 12, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Race With Maps versus RUN interval: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRace With MapsRUN interval
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.7 (1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews—77.5% of reviews
Number of ratings—1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.615.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJane BrownCAN YOU HEAR ME SOFTWARE

In-app purchases

None

Race With Maps

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

RUN interval

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

Questions

Is Race With Maps free?
Race With Maps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RUN interval free?
RUN interval is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Race With Maps or RUN interval have ads?
Neither Race With Maps nor RUN interval shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Race With Maps or RUN interval?
Race With Maps ships an update every 5 weeks, and RUN interval every 3 months. Most recently, Race With Maps was updated on October 12, 2026 and RUN interval on October 12, 2026.

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