Comparison

RUN interval vs FITimer

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

Head to head
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.

About

FITimer

This fitness app helps you create and track custom interval workouts with audible cues. It also supports continuous run/walk tracking with detailed statistics and saves your workout history.

Highlights
  • Customizable interval timers
  • Preset interval options
  • Continuous run/walk tracking
  • Workout history log
  • Audible interval cues
  • Background operation
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FITimer is an interval timer application for fitness training on mobile devices. The app has a very simple interface to quickly create custom time-based or select preprogrammed intervals. You can also create a fixed number of sets or go infinite reps. While running, the app provides an audible beep for transitioning to the next interval. Well, you're not in it for the intervals? That's okay, we got continuous run/walk tracking too. Your workouts run in the background with music and provide you the important information of the workout including distance covered, duration, number of sets, pace, etc. as applicable. All workouts are saved in the 'History" tab, with a symbol and date that can help you find the one you are looking for. Some of the key features of FITimer : - A clean and easy to use interface from the start of the app, that guides the user through the application. - Select a preset interval timer and create a custom one to personalize the interval workout to whatever you would like. - Continuous Run / Walk option without intervals and track key workout statistics, such as distance, steps, duration, and pace. - FITimer is equipped with beeps that can tell you when to switch the intervals, even while in the background. The beeps seamlessly mix with your music. - After your workout is completed, FITimer keeps track of the completed workouts in the history tab and can be accessed whenever you would like. - Background compatibility has been integrated with FITimer. It allows you to listen to your music while running or you could use other applications. Enjoy the app!! FITimer will soon have new, exciting, and useful features!

Screenshots

RUN interval4 screens
FITimer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FITimer at none against RUN interval's 2. FITimer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). RUN interval's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (1K vs 6). On price, update cadence and device support 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. FITimer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

FITimer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RUN interval has 1K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RUN interval ships an update every 3 months, FITimer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
RUN interval versus FITimer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRUN intervalFITimer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1K ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings1K — better6
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCAN YOU HEAR ME SOFTWAREAKRS Ventures LLC.

Customer experience

RUN interval

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

FITimer

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

RUN interval

One-time2
  • The full RUN interval$1.99
  • The full RUN interval$3.99
None

FITimer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RUN interval free?
RUN interval is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FITimer free?
FITimer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, RUN interval or FITimer?
FITimer is rated higher. RUN interval averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1K ratings, while FITimer averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do RUN interval or FITimer have ads?
FITimer shows ads; RUN interval does not.
Which is updated more often, RUN interval or FITimer?
RUN interval ships an update every 3 months, and FITimer every 2 months. Most recently, RUN interval was updated on October 1, 2026 and FITimer on September 18, 2026.

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