Comparison

INTVL vs wayloop

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

Head to head
About

INTVL

Transform your walks, runs, and bike rides into a real-world game where you claim territory by completing routes. Compete globally or locally, win real prizes, and connect with a community of athletes. Integrates with popular fitness devices and Apple Health.

Highlights
  • Claim real-world territory by completing routes
  • Compete on global and local leaderboards
  • Win real prizes through competitions
  • Join clubs for team-based play
  • Social feed to follow other players
  • Integrates with Garmin, Fitbit, Apple Health, and more
  • Gamified fitness experience
Features
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INTVL: The World Is the Game. INTVL turns every walk, run or bike ride into a game played on the real world globe. The idea is simple. When you run or ride in a loop, the ground inside that loop becomes your territory. The bigger, smarter and more tactical your routes, the more of the map you hold. Claim your territory Every loop you complete claims real space. Other players are out there doing the same thing, so the map is always moving. You can take a new route to take new ground, or go back over an area to defend what's already yours. Play it your way Some people want to be the best in the world, so they chase the global leaderboard. Others care more about home turf and work to become the territory leader of their own suburb or city. Both are worth playing for, and you can switch focus whenever you want. Hold ground, win real prizes Every bit of the map you hold earns you entries into our competitions, where the prizes are real. The more territory you hold at the end of the competition, the better your odds. Run and ride with clubs Join a club and play as a team. Your territory adds to your club's total, so a good capture from you helps everyone you're playing alongside. A feed built around the game INTVL has a social feed where you can follow other players, see their activities, and cheer them on. It's a good way to find people around you and stay connected to other athletes around the world. Bring your own gear INTVL works with the devices you already train on, so your activities sync straight into the game: - Garmin - Suunto - Polar - Coros - Fitbit - Hammerhead - Wahoo We built INTVL to give a new meaning to fitness. Movement without stakes is just exercise. The world is the game. Take it. This app integrates with Apple Health (HealthKit) to show insights about your activity, including steps, heart rate, and previous runs. Privacy Policy: https://www.intvl.com.au/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

wayloop

This app generates walking and running routes based on your available time or step count. It can incorporate errands, guide you to specific destinations, and track your progress with detailed summaries. Explore new streets and compete with friends on leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Generate routes by time or steps
  • Incorporate errands and waypoints
  • Track new streets walked
  • Turn-by-turn spoken directions
  • Post-walk summaries and stats
  • Weekly leaderboards and challenges
Features
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wayloop is an app that draws walking and running routes to fit the time or steps you have. Most route apps ask where you want to go. wayloop asks how long you want to walk. Say you have 60 minutes. wayloop draws a 60-minute route from your door and back. Move the ruler to 45 and the route gets shorter. Tap again for a different route. Steps work the same way. Say 10,000, or the 3,000 you still need this evening, and the route is that long. Or set a distance, like 3 miles, or 400 calories. A route can do an errand on the way. It can pass the grocery store, or end at the school gate. Set a time to be there, and wayloop tells you when to leave. wayloop paints the streets you walk on your map. The color changes every week, so you can see when you walked a street. With "Favour new streets" on, your routes take streets you have not walked yet. To walk every street in your city, set a distance. wayloop plans a route through streets you have not walked. For a run, say 10 kilometers and get a 10 km route from your door. THE ROUTE • Walk or run. Start at your door, a saved Place, an address, or anywhere you tap on the map. • End where you started, or somewhere else. • Add up to three Waypoints, places the route must pass: the grocery store, the post office, a friend's door. • Set your Preferences once: park paths and trails, avoid big roads, fewer turns, flatter or hillier. • Every route shows its climb, and its time includes it. • Or walk with no route: tap Just go, and wayloop paints every street you take. WHILE YOU ARE OUT • A tap on your wrist before every turn, and spoken directions if you want them, even with your phone locked. • It keeps recording with your phone in your pocket, and pauses when you stand still. • Apple Watch shows the next turn, the distance left and your map as it is painted. AFTERWARDS • A summary card you can share: new streets, your district before and after, steps, distance, time, climb, calories. • Stats: how much of your city you have walked, how much of your walking was on new streets, and each day against your Daily goal. • Weekly leaderboards with friends or your whole city, challenges to be first to paint part of a district, and all-time highscores. PRIVACY • Sign in once and wayloop backs up your map. A new iPhone gets it all back. Your account works on one iPhone at a time. • Friends see your totals, never the lines you walked. • wayloop learns from your backup to make routes better. It never uses your name, and never sells your backup. You can turn this off. • wayloop only counts which features you use if you say yes. It never includes your routes or GPS location. • wayloop leaves a privacy zone of up to 600 meters around your home off share cards and everything other people see. • wayloop reads your location only during a walk, or when you start from where you are. • You can export or delete everything in the app. APPLE HEALTH wayloop reads your day from your phone's health app, so walks without the app count toward your Daily goal. It saves your walks as workouts. WAYLOOP+ Just go is free, and every walk paints your map. wayloop+ lets you walk every route. Without it, you keep your map, stats, goals, saved places and community. A friend's invite gives you a week of wayloop+. Every three friends who join through your invites give you a month of it. wayloop+ costs $29.99 a year, with the first 7 days free, or $4.99 a month. Founder is one payment of $89.99 for wayloop+ for good. It is for the first 500 people or 90 days, whichever ends first. You pay through your Apple ID when you confirm. A subscription renews on its own unless you turn it off at least 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple ID settings. If you buy during a free trial, you lose the rest of it. Terms of use: https://www.getwayloop.app/terms Privacy policy: https://www.getwayloop.app/privacy Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Screenshots

INTVL4 screens
wayloop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: wayloop at none against INTVL's shown. wayloop also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). INTVL's advantage is ratings volume (5.7K vs 2) and chart position (#68 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. INTVL sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and wayloop sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

wayloop holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: INTVL has 5.7K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

INTVL ships an update every 6 days, wayloop every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
INTVL versus wayloop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterINTVLwayloop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (5.7K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings5.7K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#68 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size201 MB87 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperINTVL PTY LTDAdam Noren

Customer experience

INTVL

All ratings5,668 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral2.5%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews1,649 reviews
Positive83.1%
Neutral4.5%
Negative12.4%

wayloop

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

INTVL

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Runs not recording properly
  • App crashing during runs
  • Issues with syncing and manual review

Requested features

5 requests
  • Revise the 200m Terra rule
  • Add biking support
  • Ability to set a starting location in Terra
  • Allow creating and joining local run clubs
  • More detailed Terra features and competitions

wayloop

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

INTVL

Subscriptions9
  • INTVL1 Month trial$7.991 Month
  • INTVL7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • INTVL7 Days trial$8.991 Month
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  • INTVL7 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • INTVL$12.991 Month
  • INTVL1 Month trial$49.991 Year
  • INTVL7 Days trial2 variants$49.991 Year
  • INTVL7 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • INTVL Annual Subscription7 Days trial$79.991 Year
4 purchases

wayloop

Subscriptions3
  • wayloop+ monthly$4.991 Month
  • wayloop+ yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • wayloop+ yearly1 Year trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • wayloop+ Founder$89.99

Questions

Is INTVL free?
INTVL is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is wayloop free?
wayloop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, INTVL or wayloop?
wayloop is rated higher. INTVL averages 4.7 out of 5 from 5.7K ratings, while wayloop averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do INTVL or wayloop have ads?
INTVL shows ads; wayloop does not.
Which is updated more often, INTVL or wayloop?
INTVL ships an update every 6 days, and wayloop every 5 days. Most recently, INTVL was updated on November 7, 2026 and wayloop on November 6, 2026.

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