RUN interval vs HIIT & Run Interval Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Customizable interval sessions
- Time and distance targets
- Distance Goal option
- Audio and visual feedback
- Detailed run summaries
- Apple Watch app
- Strava sharing
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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.
HIIT & Run Interval Timer
This app provides a simple and reliable timer for high-intensity interval workouts. It allows users to create custom workout segments, loop routines, and reorder exercises without distractions. It runs in the background and supports dark mode.
- Customizable workout segments
- Workout looping for multiple rounds
- Drag-and-drop segment reordering
- Background operation
- Dark mode support
- No ads or subscriptions
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HIIT & Run Interval Timer – Simple, Reliable, No Clutter HIIT & Run Interval Timer is a straightforward, no-frills app for timing your high-intensity interval workouts. It’s designed to do one thing and do it well—keep your workouts on track without distractions. Features: Create custom segments with names, durations, and alert sounds Loop your workouts for multiple rounds Drag and drop segments to reorder or delete them quickly Runs in the background while you listen to music or podcasts Supports dark mode for low-light workouts No ads, no subscriptions, no locked features Perfect for: HIIT and Tabata workouts Circuit training and EMOM sessions Running, cycling, rowing, or bodyweight intervals HIIT & Run Interval Timer is for anyone who wants a reliable interval timer that just works. Start your workout, focus on your intervals, and leave the rest to the timer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HIIT & Run Interval Timer at none against RUN interval's 2. HIIT & Run Interval Timer also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 77%). RUN interval's advantage is ratings volume (1K vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. RUN interval sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. HIIT & Run Interval Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
HIIT & Run Interval Timer 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of RUN interval's written reviews are positive against 100% of HIIT & Run Interval Timer's.
RUN interval ships an update every 3 months, HIIT & Run Interval Timer weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RUN interval | HIIT & Run Interval Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CAN YOU HEAR ME SOFTWARE | christopher sturm |
Customer experience
RUN interval
HIIT & Run Interval Timer
In-app purchases
RUN interval
- The full RUN interval$1.99
- The full RUN interval$3.99
HIIT & Run Interval Timer
No in-app purchases
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