Comparison

Gymboss Interval Timer vs RunRecall

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

RunRecall

Features
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RunRecall is your running history on this iPad. Import the runs you already have, then find, map, and understand them without a social feed or a cloud copy of your GPS. Bring your archive in • Sync from Garmin Connect • Import Garmin’s Export Your Data ZIP • Import FIT files from RunGap, including the iCloud Drive → RunGap → Export folder • Add workouts from Apple Health • Open any run for the route, pace and heart-rate charts, splits, and workout intervals Explore years of running • Search by date, date range, or event name—even when a file was titled something generic • Dashboard, Trends, and Compare show volume, fitness, and side-by-side efforts • Map clusters where you ran; Records surfaces personal bests • Ask RunRecall questions about the runs stored on this device (Beta). Answers come from your local archive, not a cloud model Built to stay on the device FIT files, GPS tracks, Health workouts, maps, notes, and tags stay in RunRecall’s local storage. Connecting Garmin uses a short-lived inbox so the app can download activity files. That service is not a backup of your training history. Try free, then Unlock You can import a small number of FIT or Apple Health activities for free. RunRecall Unlock is a one-time purchase. It enables ongoing Garmin Connect sync and removes the free import limit. Restore Purchase on any iPad, iPhone, or Mac signed into the same Apple Account. RunRecall is not a live GPS tracker, coaching plan, or social network. It is a local library for the running you have already done. Need help? Open the Welcome Guide in Settings, or email support@landware.com.

Screenshots

Gymboss Interval Timer4 screens
RunRecall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RunRecall at none against Gymboss Interval Timer's 3. Gymboss Interval Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Gymboss Interval Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. RunRecall asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Gymboss Interval Timer versus RunRecall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGymboss Interval TimerRunRecall
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (797 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews36.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings797 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGymboss LLCLandWare, LLC

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

RunRecall

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Gymboss Interval Timer

Subscriptions1
  • Gymboss Premium Yearly$1.991 Year
One-time2
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • Sound and Color Bundle$0.99
None

RunRecall

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gymboss Interval Timer free?
Gymboss Interval Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RunRecall free?
RunRecall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Gymboss Interval Timer or RunRecall have ads?
Neither Gymboss Interval Timer nor RunRecall shows ads.

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