Run Ri Run vs StartRunning

Take your running to the next level with Run Ri Run—an app tailored specifically for runners who rely on their Apple Watch to power their workouts. With Run Ri Run, you can plan an entire training schedule right from your wrist, keeping every workout organized, focused, and just a tap away. Whether you’re training for a marathon or just aiming to improve your pace, Run Ri Run makes it effortless to create fully customizable workouts. Build intervals with specific goals—target a certain pace, hit a heart rate zone, or conquer distance-based reps. Each workout adjusts based on your goals, offering in-the-moment feedback to keep you on track and motivated. Designed for simplicity, Run Ri Run allows you to set up even complex workouts in seconds. With the Apple Watch’s haptic feedback, you’ll get gentle reminders when it’s time to adjust your pace or heart rate, so you can stay fully focused on your run. Make every mile count with Run Ri Run, your ultimate Apple Watch training partner. Plan, train, and conquer your goals—all from your wrist.

From the couch to thirty minutes of continuous running in nine weeks. No experience needed, no gear, and no prior idea of what "interval training" means. StartRunning takes you through 27 workouts, three a week. Each one opens with five minutes of brisk walking and ends with five minutes of cooling down. In between, running and walking alternate — at first one minute of running, ninety seconds of walking. By week nine you run for half an hour without stopping. WHAT GUIDES YOU • Spoken coaching tells you when to run and when to walk. You never have to look at your phone. • Tones and vibration for every change — even with music in your ears and the phone in your pocket. • A screen you can read in one second: one huge number, two buttons, nothing else. • GPS records your route and works out distance, pace and kilometre splits. • Your history shows every run with its map; the progress grid shows the whole plan at a glance. THREE LEVELS OF COACHING Voice and tones, vibration only, or nothing at all. Switchable mid-run — for the day you run with someone and still want to feel the interval change. YOU SET THE PACE All 27 workouts can be started and repeated at any time. Nothing is locked, nothing pushes you. If a week feels too fast, run it again. If you end a workout early, the time you ran still counts — only the plan doesn't move on. CUSTOM WORKOUTS You set total duration, run interval and walk break; the app works out the rest. For after the plan, or for the day you have something else in mind. WHAT THIS APP DOES NOT DO No ads. No subscription. No sign-up. No account. No tracking, no analytics, nothing shared with anyone. Your data stays on your device. What you export, you export yourself — as a backup file or as GPX. If you want, the app writes your workouts to Apple Health; that is off by default. Training and all your data work completely offline. Only the map view loads tiles from the network. ACCESSIBILITY Every interval type is signalled by word, icon, colour and vibration pattern — never by colour alone. The app holds up at triple system text size and respects the reduce-motion setting. WHAT IT COSTS The first 9 workouts are free — about three weeks of training, with everything included. After that you unlock everything once: all three plans, custom workouts, for good. No subscription, no follow-up costs. Your history stays open either way, unlocked or not.