Comparison

RUN interval vs Crown

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

Crown

Features
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Hair change is slow, and camera-roll photos lie: different angles, different light, different distance. Crown makes your photos comparable, month after month, so you can see what is really changing. STANDARDIZED MONTHLY PHOTOS - Guided capture for five consistent angles: hairline, crown, temples, donor, full - Ghost overlay of your last photo, live face-alignment guidance and a tilt gauge - Exposure recall repeats your last ISO, shutter speed and white balance - A quality gate checks alignment, lighting and color before you keep a shot HONEST COMPARISONS - Before/after slider with geometry-aligned photos (eye line, face, or image registration) - Monthly GIF timelapse, stabilized frame to frame - No AI density scores, no fake measurements - just clean, comparable evidence TREATMENTS AND ROUTINES - Track minoxidil, finasteride or any regimen with flexible reminders - Adherence rings, streaks, and a treatment timeline that lines up with your photos - Weekly check-ins for shedding, scalp state and optional, neutral side-effect notes REPORTS FOR YOUR DERMATOLOGIST - Export a clean PDF: photo series, adherence summary, capture conditions, notes - Bring structured evidence to appointments instead of scrolling your camera roll PRIVATE BY DESIGN - No account, no ads, no tracking; your data never touches our servers - Everything stays on your device and in your private iCloud - Optional Face ID lock and on-device face blurring for shared images CROWN PRO Unlimited photo sessions, full history, PDF reports and iCloud sync. Monthly, yearly with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Crown documents change over time. It does not diagnose, measure hair density, or provide medical advice, and it is not a medical device. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: http://crown.ketaisoft.com/privacy/

Screenshots

RUN interval4 screens
Crown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: RUN interval at 3 against Crown's 1. RUN interval also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, 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 Crown sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
RUN interval versus Crown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRUN intervalCrown
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews77.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings1K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB4 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperCAN YOU HEAR ME SOFTWAREQingdao Ketai Software Co.,Ltd.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

RUN interval

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

Crown

Subscriptions2
  • Crown Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Crown Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Crown Pro Lifetime$69.99

Questions

Is RUN interval free?
RUN interval is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Crown free?
Crown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do RUN interval or Crown have ads?
Neither RUN interval nor Crown shows ads.

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