Comparison

RUN interval vs Climategames

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

Climategames

Turn your physical activities into tangible environmental impact. Track your workouts to plant trees, remove ocean plastic, or sequester carbon. Earn rewards and join challenges to make a difference for wellbeing and the planet.

Highlights
  • Track workouts for climate action
  • Plant trees
  • Remove ocean plastic
  • Sequester carbon
  • Earn climate-action rewards
  • Join events and challenges
  • Blockchain-validated activity
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ABOUT CLIMATEGAMES Inspire your friends, family and colleagues to start moving and taking climate action today! Climategames exist so people and companies like you, can make a meaningful difference to wellbeing and the planet. Our goal is to mobilise 1% of Earth's population by 2027, support the $500B annual funding gap for the nature-based solution and play a role in keeping global warming to less than 1.5°C. Using our Climategames App, every swim, cycle, run or walk you take can contribute to planting trees, removing plastic from the ocean, or sequestering carbon (& other greenhouse gas emissions) from the atmosphere. We use blockchain to validate all environmental activity and our ledger is available on the mobile App, so you know that your action is validated and protected for the long term. It’s free to join and we gift every new member one tree to start your climate action! HOW DO I BUILD MY IMPACT? Firstly, take part in an event/challenge that offers climate-action rewards (such as sequestering carbon/trees/plastic). A list of these events can be found on the homepage of your app: Enter an event, complete the required activity and automatically receive the climate-action reward. These are hosted by Climategames Club, our partners, as well as your organisation as part of their sustainability and wellbeing agenda. Secondly, you can subscribe to one of our three plans, putting you in control of creating a real environmental impact through your workouts. In settings (which can be found on your profile page), choose from one of three environmental impact plans which start from as little as £3.49 per month. PREMIUM & CLIMATE OFFSETTING Creating your Climategames account is free and straightforward, we plant your first tree with your first activity! Our premium model allows you to directly contribute all workouts to nature-based solutions and offset your unavoidable carbon footprint. All three plans contribute to planting trees, removing plastic from the ocean, or sequestering carbon (& other greenhouse gas emissions) from the atmosphere. Inspire your friends, family and colleagues to start moving and taking climate action today! FOR ORGANISATIONS By offering a tool like Climategames, organisations can demonstrate their commitment to sustainability and inspire employees to take action towards a common goal. Climategames allows you to create events to mobilize employees to work towards reducing and offsetting your Scope 1, 2 & 3 targets is a great way to engage your workforce in your organization's sustainability goals. By using Climategames to track employee wellness and champion the most engaged, as well as support the least engaged individuals, you can create a sense of competition and motivation that can help drive engagement and participation. Climategames visibly reports on carbon reduction activities and validate any carbon & nature-based solutions, as this helps to build trust and transparency around your sustainability efforts. By using our simple CSR platform to reward and offer employee perks, you can further incentivize participation and build a culture of sustainability within your organization. SYNC YOUR WORKOUTS & CONNECTIVITY TO PARTNERS INCLUDING STRAVA, APPLE HEALTH, GOOGLE FIT etc. We have an in-built tracker and you can add workouts manually but are also connected to leading wearables. These include Apple Health Kit, Google Fit, Garmin, Polar, Fitbit, Suunto and Wahoo. We also connect to the Apple Health Kit if you use a different tracking App and want to add your data to Climategames. For further information check out our connectivity web page. Climategames | Faq. You can also email us at hello@climategames.com for more information.

Screenshots

RUN interval4 screens
Climategames4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: RUN interval at 4.7 against Climategames's 4.0. RUN interval also leads on ratings volume (1K vs 8). Climategames's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, review sentiment, 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. RUN interval sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Climategames sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

RUN interval holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RUN interval has 1K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 77% of RUN interval's written reviews are positive against 83% of Climategames's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RUN interval ships an update every 3 months, Climategames every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
RUN interval versus Climategames: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRUN intervalClimategames
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1K ratings) — better4.0 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews77.5% of reviews82.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1K — better8
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB126 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCAN YOU HEAR ME SOFTWARECOMPETE IMPOSSIBLE LTD

Customer experience

RUN interval

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

Climategames

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive82.6%
Neutral4.3%
Negative13.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

RUN interval

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

Climategames

Subscriptions3
  • Green Fighter$3.491 Month
  • Climate Hero$5.991 Month
  • Planet Champion$10.491 Month

Questions

Is RUN interval free?
RUN interval is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Climategames free?
Climategames is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, RUN interval or Climategames?
RUN interval is rated higher. RUN interval averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1K ratings, while Climategames averages 4.0 from 8 ratings.
Do RUN interval or Climategames have ads?
Neither RUN interval nor Climategames shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RUN interval or Climategames?
RUN interval ships an update every 3 months, and Climategames every 3 weeks. Most recently, RUN interval was updated on October 18, 2026 and Climategames on October 16, 2026.

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