Gymboss Interval Timer vs RunIntervals
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gymboss Interval Timer
This app provides a customizable interval timer for various workouts, allowing users to set single or multiple work and rest periods. It offers extensive customization options for alarms, program saving, and display, ensuring a tailored timing experience for any fitness routine.
- Programmable interval timer
- Unlimited intervals and rounds
- Save and manage unlimited programs
- Visual, audible, and vibrate alarms
- Music access and dimming
- Customizable display and background
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The Gymboss Interval Timer app is a programmable interval timer perfect for any workout where timing is needed to time work and/or rest periods. You can time a single time interval, or multiple time intervals, and repeat them as many times as you wish. Perfect for running, HIIT, tabata, crossfit, home workouts, mma, boxing, weight lifting, stretching, or any other workout that requires timing. This app incorporates all of the recommendations we have received over the years from our users to bring you the best app possible. Thank you for your input!!! Customizable Features: - save programs to your iCloud Drive account - unlimited intervals - up to 99 rounds/repeats - unlimited saved programs - music access directly from the app - music dims for alarm - multiple alarm sounds - visual, audible, and vibrate alarm options - social sharing options - prevent sleep feature - screen lock - customizable, moving background colors - large, easy to read display - landscape mode option - set different alarms for each interval - change the end of program alarm - label activity names for each interval to be displayed - built in stopwatch - ability to make rounds box bigger or smaller - copy an entire program option Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
RunIntervals
Set custom interval timers with voice or tone alerts. This app seamlessly integrates with your existing audio and fitness apps, pausing or lowering music volume to ensure you never miss an alert.
- Customizable interval durations
- Voice and tone alerts
- Music volume lowering
- Spoken audio pausing
- Works with other apps
- No user data collection
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Just pick your interval durations and click GO! "Plays well with others," so if you have favorite apps for audio or fitness tracking it will work well alongside those. Audio voice alerts or tones will momentarily lower the volume of your music or briefly pause spoken audio just long enough to hear the alert, then let you get right back to listening! This app does not track or collect any user data.
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Verdict
Gymboss Interval Timer and RunIntervals both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 91% of RunIntervals's written reviews are positive against 37% of Gymboss Interval Timer's. RunIntervals also leads on iOS requirement (11.3 vs 15.0). Gymboss Interval Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (840 vs 146). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Gymboss Interval Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year and RunIntervals sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Gymboss Interval Timer against 4.7 for RunIntervals. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gymboss Interval Timer has 840 ratings behind it against 146, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 37% of Gymboss Interval Timer's written reviews are positive against 91% of RunIntervals's.
Gymboss Interval Timer ships an update every 5 weeks, RunIntervals every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gymboss Interval Timer | RunIntervals |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (840 ratings) — better | 4.7 (146 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 36.7% of reviews | 90.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 840 — better | 146 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gymboss LLC | Robotic Jam LLC |
Customer experience
Gymboss Interval Timer
RunIntervals
User reviews
Gymboss Interval Timer
From 840 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Simple yet effective
- 🚀 Perfect gym partner
- 🚀 Grad App
- 🚀 Great
- 🚀 Simple easy to plan and workout
Room to improve
- 🐛 Clear data
- 🐛 Glitchy
- 🐛 Another buggy update
- 🐛 Landscape / portrait bugs
- 🐛 Sagging under bugs
RunIntervals
From 146 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Perfect app
- 🚀 Great app
- 🚀 Simple and effective
- 🚀 Straightforward and easy to use
- 🚀 Does exactly what it needs to
Room to improve
- 🐛 Does not work
- 🐛 Tones fail
- 🐛 Alerts don't work
- 🐛 Stops randomly
- 🐛 No sound on watch
Bugs and requests
Gymboss Interval Timer
Reported bugs
8 issues- Timer no longer beeps when screen is locked or app is in background
- Intervals disappear or get shuffled after updates
- Unable to save new workouts
- All workout sounds have gone
- Crashes when trying to edit intervals
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- Reordering of saved workouts
- Ads cover the timer screen
- Timer stops working when screen is locked or app is in background
Requested features
9 requests- Verbal prompts like a countdown "3-2-1 Go!" and "3-2-1 Rest"
- Ability to lock the screen
- Option to see what's coming next
- Workout block of 60/30/30 rather than just high and low
- Ability to start from partway through the sequence
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- Back and forward button to skip to the wanted element or go back during the sequence
- Different alarm sounds for each interval/color
- Countdown, CountUp feature
- Dark mode option
RunIntervals
Reported bugs
3 issues- Interval tones not working with podcast/music
- Interval tones not working on Apple Watch
- App randomly stops during workouts
Requested features
7 requests- Ability to swap run/walk intervals
- Option to start with walking
- Ability to set number of repeats
- Vibration alerts
- Longer interval options (up to 30/60/120 mins)
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- Repeat feature for intervals
- Total time limit for workout
In-app purchases
Gymboss Interval Timer
- Gymboss Premium Yearly$1.991 Year
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Sound and Color Bundle$0.99
RunIntervals
- Small Tip$0.99
- Big Tip$2.99
Questions
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