Comparison

Ares vs RUNUP

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

Head to head
About

Ares

This app provides a customizable interval timer for various workouts like HIIT, Tabata, yoga, and stretching. It features real-time heart rate zone tracking with Apple Watch integration and allows users to create and save unlimited training sessions and workout sets. Voice cues guide users through workouts, ensuring focus remains on exercise.

Highlights
  • Customizable interval timer
  • HIIT, Tabata, Yoga, Stretch modes
  • Apple Watch control and heart rate zones
  • Unlimited training session saving
  • Workout set creation
  • Voice and sound cues
  • Training history tracking
Features
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An interval timer that does the counting for you. Set rounds, work and rest in seconds, and Ares guides you by voice through the whole workout: HIIT, Tabata, EMOM, AMRAP, circuits, yoga, stretching and mobility. Heart rate from Apple Watch or earbuds, your workout on the Lock Screen, no ads. INTERVAL TIMER • Work time, rest time and number of rounds, down to the second • Left/Right mode times each side for you. Perfect for stretching, yoga and exercises done one side at a time • Countdown before you start, the option to begin with a warmup and an optional final rest • Pin favorite workouts to the Home Screen and repeat your last one with a single tap WORKOUTS, SETS AND EXERCISES • Ready-made workouts and sets to get you started: 14 workouts and 6 sets, free • Save as many workouts as you like, each with its own name and icon, and edit or duplicate them anytime • Workout sets: rounds, custom rests between workouts, edit straight from the list • Share workouts and sets with a link or QR code, with a preview before adding • Exercise library, expanded regularly • Exercise names read aloud during your workout HEART RATE: APPLE WATCH AND EARBUDS • Control your workout from your wrist: pause, skip, resume • Live heart rate and heart rate zones on Apple Watch and iPhone • Heart rate from earbuds too, no watch needed, even on iPad: AirPods Pro 3, Powerbeats Pro 2 or newer (iOS and iPadOS 26 or later) • Train with just your watch: put a workout on Apple Watch and leave your iPhone at home • Calories tracked in every workout • Automatic sync with Apple Health ALWAYS AT HAND • Your workout on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a timer and a pause button, no unlocking needed • Widgets for the Home Screen and the Lock Screen • Keeps running with the screen locked and never stops your music, it just turns it down for voice cues • A big, clear timer on iPad that you can read from across the room PROGRESS AND HISTORY • Heart rate chart for every workout: work and rest with the average heart rate of each phase • Weekly trends for number of workouts and training time • Calendar, list and details of every workout • Share your result as a card for a story or post, with your own photo and title • Weekly streak: one workout a week keeps it alive • A reminder when your streak is at risk, at most once a week Privacy Policy: https://ares.eris.one/privacy-policy/ License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

RUNUP

Features
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Track your runs, find your friends, follow your progress — free, with no time limit. And when you want a real plan, RUNUP builds it around your goal and reshapes it after every run based on how you actually felt. FREE, FOREVER GPS tracking for every run: distance, pace, route, elevation, heart rate. Your full history and your stats. Today's three goals and your streak. Your weekly recap. Apple Health, Apple Watch, widgets and the Lock Screen. And the whole Club: leaderboards, challenges, activity feed, friends, shared routes. No countdown, no ads. RUNUP PLUS — 7 DAYS FREE The periodised plan and its adaptation, the coach by text and by voice, race-day preparation, your predicted times and your training load. A REAL COACH, NOT A CHATBOT — RUNUP PLUS A personal coach who knows your goal, your history and how today is going. Ask a question before a session, get nutrition advice, or talk it through after a run that hurt. Mid-run you can even talk to it: press, ask out loud, hear the answer in your headphones. A PLAN THAT LIVES WITH YOU — RUNUP PLUS After every run, rate how hard it felt (RPE) — the plan adjusts the difficulty of the weeks ahead. Base, specific, taper: a genuinely periodised plan built around your race date, 4 to 20 weeks depending on how long you have. With no race date (getting faster, losing weight, easing back in, staying fit), it runs continuously with built-in cutback weeks. Short night, or yesterday's session too brutal? Today's session eases off on its own. LIVE RUN TRACKING Real-time map and route, pace, heart rate, calories. Every run is saved to Apple Health, exports as GPX, and shares as a card with your route on it. APPLE WATCH Start a run from your watch and leave your iPhone at home: wrist heart rate, live distance and calories. Every run you finish on your wrist comes back to the phone with its debrief. With RUNUP Plus, today's session is pushed to the watch. STATS THAT ACTUALLY MEAN SOMETHING Pace trend, personal records, a map of every route you've run, and shoe mileage tracking. With RUNUP Plus: finish-time predictions for 5K, 10K, half and marathon, and eight weeks of training load. WHERE TO RUN WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW THE PLACE New city, no idea where to run? The map shows routes published by other runners around you, with distance, elevation and often a photo of the spot. Filter by length, keep the ones you like, open the start in Maps. Sharing your own runs takes two taps — and the first and last 300 metres are stripped before anything is sent, so nobody sees where you set off from or came home to. CLUB & COMMUNITY Weekly and all-time leaderboards, club challenges, group runs, an activity feed and badges. And if you'd rather follow a handful of people than a whole club, a friends feed does exactly that. THE END OF A PLAN ISN'T THE END — RUNUP PLUS When your plan finishes: a guided recovery block, then a new goal or free-run mode with no fixed plan at all. Requires iOS 17 or later. Connecting Apple Health is optional but recommended for a more accurate daily readiness score. The Club needs an account; everything else works without one. RUNUP PLUS SUBSCRIPTION RUNUP works without a subscription, with no time limit. RUNUP Plus unlocks the plan and the coach, after a 7-day free trial. • Monthly — €6.99 per month • Yearly — €39.99 per year (€3.33 per month) Auto-renewing, cancellable at any time from your Apple account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hicsuntco.github.io/RUNUP/privacy.html

Screenshots

Ares4 screens
RUNUP4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: RUNUP at every 3 days against Ares's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Ares sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and RUNUP sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ares ships an update every 2 weeks, RUNUP every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Ares versus RUNUP: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAresRUNUP
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (25 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings25 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size113 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKrzysztof OrlowskiCharlotte Grude

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Ares

Subscriptions2
  • Ares Plus$1.991 Month
  • Ares Plus$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Ares Plus Forever$24.99
2 purchases

RUNUP

Subscriptions2
  • RUNUP Plus Monthly$5.991 Month
  • RUNUP Plus Yearly$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Ares free?
Ares is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RUNUP free?
RUNUP is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ares or RUNUP have ads?
Neither Ares nor RUNUP shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ares or RUNUP?
Ares ships an update every 2 weeks, and RUNUP every 3 days. Most recently, Ares was updated on October 18, 2026 and RUNUP on October 6, 2026.

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