Running Beats BPM for Spotify vs Optimize with Philip Levi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Running Beats BPM for Spotify
This app creates personalized running playlists by matching your music tempo to your desired running cadence. It integrates with Spotify, offering suggestions and learning your preferences to optimize your workout soundtrack.
- Cadence-based playlist generation
- Spotify integration
- Smart song suggestions
- Learns user song preferences
- Works with Spotify Free and Premium
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Run to the music you love, at the pace you actually run. Running Beats sorts the songs in your Spotify playlists by tempo and turns them into running playlists. With Auto Tempo, the music follows your feet. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick the playlists you like to run to. Your Liked Songs and your most played songs can join in too. 2. Set your usual running tempo. Not sure what it is? Running Beats can suggest one from your recent runs in Apple Health. 3. Tap Generate Playlists. You get a playlist for every 5 BPM in your range, saved to your Spotify account. 4. Start your run. AUTO TEMPO Your iPhone counts your steps as you run, and Running Beats plays the playlist that matches your cadence. Pick up the pace and the music picks up with you. Slow down for a hill and it slows down too. Prefer to set it yourself? Change the tempo with a tap. MADE FOR RUNNING • Every song lands on the beat of your stride, from your warm-up to your final sprint. • After each run, see how long you ran, the tempos you ran at and every song that played. Give each song a thumbs up or down. • Get a reminder when your playlists have new songs, so your next run has them too. PLAYLISTS THAT LEARN FROM YOU With Premium, your thumbs and the songs you skip shape your next playlists, and Spotify fills the gaps with recommendations at the same tempo that you'll like. RUNNING BEATS PREMIUM • Auto Tempo on every run • Unlimited playlists • Regenerate your playlists any time • Smarter running playlists Without Premium, you can pick up to 5 playlists, generate new playlists once a week and use Auto Tempo on your first 3 runs. Premium comes as a monthly or yearly subscription, with a free trial on the yearly plan, or as a one-time purchase. SPOTIFY FREE OR PREMIUM Running Beats works with both. With Spotify Premium, songs play in a smart order, you can skip songs and control your run from the Lock Screen, and Auto Tempo keeps following you while your iPhone is locked (iOS 26 or later). You need the Spotify app on your iPhone. NO DISTANCE, NO PACE Running Beats doesn't measure distance or pace. Keep your favorite running app or watch for that, and leave the music to Running Beats. Running Beats is an independent app and is not affiliated with Spotify. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://adriaanpardoel.com/privacy-policy/
Optimize with Philip Levi
This app offers a holistic approach to fitness and wellness, focusing on pain-free movement, clean eating, and reducing reliance on external aids. It provides a simple, sustainable system for busy individuals to train, eat, and recover effectively, celebrating the journey of self-improvement.
- Pain-free movement guidance
- Clean eating strategies
- Sustainable fitness approach
- Minimal equipment workouts
- Holistic wellness system
- Health data tracking (Apple Watch)
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When we Optimize, health is wealth. Our mission is to help our clients and community learn to move pain free, eat clean, depend less on pharmaceuticals and unskillful relationships with technology. All in order to thrive, naturally. Nothing great ever came out of anything easy. In fact the opposite is true. A little bit of controlled discomfort, done safely, makes us stronger humans. We are here to disrupt the ways in which we are terminally “amusing ourselves to death.” Optimize is a system that helps us move better in our bodies regardless of age, gender or walk of life. The Optimize approach utilizes minimal equipment. Lowering the barrier to entry and making holistic fitness simple and approachable for everyone. We help busy people take a radically simple and sustainable approach to fitness that doesn’t require effort to gain clarity on how to train, what to eat and how to recover. Fitness and wellness are a process - not an outcome. The journey should be an experience to learn from and something to celebrate. The best investment you can make is your own health. We work to build better humans by living an optimized life. We have been using Health Kit to facilitate users to track their health data when they do workouts, They can enable the iWatch option from the Devices section under Account, the User has to open the iWatch App and Start Session, Those health data like Heart Rate and Calorie Burn will be seen in Workouts Menu under Accounts
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Optimize with Philip Levi at 100% against Running Beats BPM for Spotify's 0%. Optimize with Philip Levi also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Running Beats BPM for Spotify's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months). On price 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. Running Beats BPM for Spotify sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Optimize with Philip Levi asks for nothing beyond the download.
Running Beats BPM for Spotify ships an update every 8 days, Optimize with Philip Levi every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Running Beats BPM for Spotify | Optimize with Philip Levi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 160 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adriaan Pardoel | Remote Coach Ltd |
Customer experience
Running Beats BPM for Spotify
Optimize with Philip Levi
In-app purchases
Running Beats BPM for Spotify
- Premium$3.99
Optimize with Philip Levi
No in-app purchases
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