Custom Rings vs RunIntensity
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Custom Rings
Create and track custom daily goals beyond standard activity metrics. Organize them into sets, sync with Apple Health, and compete with friends. Offers reminders, history, and streaks for motivation.
- Customizable goal rings
- Auto-tracking from Apple Health
- Session clusters for manual counters
- Scheduled rings for specific days
- Social sharing and challenges
- Apple Watch support
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
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Make progress on what matters to you. Custom Rings turns your habits and goals into personal rings: reading, water, movement, focus, practice, and more. Choose a name, unit, target, schedule, and color, then check in with a simple +. A SIMPLE DAILY CHECK-IN See your rings together on Today. Use your preferred quick amount, open a ring to enter a custom amount, and undo an accidental entry. Starter templates make it easy to begin. A CLEARER VIEW OF YOUR PROGRESS Your free seven-day overview shows completed goals and a daily tracker. Explore deeper comparisons, thirty-day summaries, full calendar history, and CSV export with Pro. CONNECTED TO APPLE HEALTH Connect compatible data for steps, active calories, exercise minutes, stand hours, walking distance, flights climbed, sleep, water, and time in daylight. Available data depends on your devices and permissions. Raw Health samples are processed on your device. IPHONE, WIDGETS & APPLE WATCH Keep goals visible with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. Use Quick Track to log progress, or check in from Apple Watch. The Three Rings complication lets you choose a different daily ring for each position in a large rectangular Watch face slot, with totals, percentages, or progress remaining. MORE WAYS TO MAKE IT YOURS Create session counters for goals that should not reset at midnight, such as workout sets or game scores. Use scheduled rings and reminders to fit your routine. Export a local backup of your rings and history, preview a backup before importing, and keep a recovery copy when restoring. OPTIONAL SHARING Sign in with Apple to add friends and share only the rings you choose. Pro adds more social features, including challenges, recurring seasons, and nudges. No account is required to track your own rings. START FREE • One group with up to five rings • Seven-day Progress overview and daily tracker • Up to three friends • Apple Health auto-tracking types • Scheduled rings and session counters • Reminders, widgets, Siri, and Watch complications PRO — ONE-TIME PURCHASE • Unlimited groups • Deeper insights and thirty-day summaries • Full calendar history and CSV export • Unlimited friends • Challenges, recurring seasons, and nudges No subscription. No ads. Your rings, your goals, your pace. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
RunIntensity
This app provides advanced running analytics, calculating training load with a multi-factor model that considers intensity, terrain, and environmental stress. It offers daily readiness scores and personalized workout plans to optimize training and recovery.
- Stress-Adjusted Miles (SAM) calculation
- Daily readiness score
- Readiness-first "Today" home screen
- Training planner with periodization
- Social features to train with friends
- AI coaching options
- Shoe mileage tracking
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Your 40 miles this week hit like 55. RunIntensity is the running app that knows the difference. Distance and pace don't tell you how hard a week really was. A hilly run in the heat or a tempo on tired legs costs more than the mileage suggests. RunIntensity scores every run in Stress-Adjusted Miles (SAM), a five-factor training load model built from heart rate, terrain, surface, cumulative fatigue and conditions. Your weekly mileage becomes a weekly training load you can plan around. TWO NUMBERS, ONE ANSWER EVERY MORNING RunIntensity reads what your watch already writes to Apple Health and scores two things separately, 0–100: • Recovery — heart, nervous system and sleep. HRV, sleep and resting heart rate against your own baseline. Snaps back overnight. • Freshness — muscles, tendons and joints. How much of your recent training your legs have absorbed. Drops with a hard session, climbs back over hours or days. Then one call: Ready, Steady or Recover. Ready only when both are high; Steady when one system is still catching up; Recover when rest is the workout. Recovered isn't the same as healed — this is the app that knows when you're overdoing it. KNOW WHAT TO DO TODAY Your verdict, today's workout, your weekly training load budget and a one-tap start. Widgets, Siri ("What's my readiness?") and Control Center keep it one glance away. FREE FOR EVERY RUNNER • Stress-Adjusted Miles — the real cost of every run • Recovery, Freshness and a daily Ready / Steady / Recover verdict • Weekly SAM budget with mid-week pacing tips • 26-week training load charts • Training planner with periodized phases and race milestones • Personal records and trophies • Shoe mileage tracking • Body soreness tracker — spot patterns before you overdo it • The peer-reviewed research behind every number WORKS WITH ANY WATCH Apple Watch, Garmin, COROS, Polar and more — any run that syncs to Apple Health flows in automatically, duplicates merged. No manual logging. APPLE WATCH APP • Workouts from your wrist with live heart rate, pace and distance • Race Pace interval timer with custom segments and repeats • Complications and Watch widgets with Recovery, Freshness and today's verdict • Live Activity on the Dynamic Island during workouts FRIENDS & THE BOARD — FREE See how your friends are training: readiness, training load, workouts, reactions, weekly leaderboards, head-to-head challenges and streaks. COACH BRADY — YOUR AI RUNNING COACH ($19.99/year, 7-day free trial) An AI running coach that has actually read your training. Every answer is grounded in your readiness, training load and workout history. Coach Brady plans workouts onto your calendar, sends weekly reviews and tracks your goals. Includes the web coach dashboard. COACH MODE — FOR COACHES ($39.99/year) Everything in Coach Brady plus unlimited athletes and groups, side-by-side readiness and load comparisons, assigned plans and push notifications when athletes sync. Coach Brady and Coach Mode require Sign in with Apple and an auto-renewable subscription. PRIVACY FIRST Core calculations happen on your device. RunIntensity reads Apple Health but never writes to it, and syncs only what you choose to share. No ads. No analytics SDKs. No tracking. A training tool, not a medical device. REQUIREMENTS iOS 17.0 or later; watchOS 10.0 or later for the Watch app (optional). Sign in with Apple for Friends, Coach Brady and Coach Mode. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Coach Brady and Coach Mode are auto-renewable yearly subscriptions charged to your Apple ID at confirmation and renewed automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.zerodi.net/runintensity-privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Custom Rings at every 4 days against RunIntensity's every 2 weeks. RunIntensity's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. Custom Rings sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and RunIntensity sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
RunIntensity holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 10 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Custom Rings ships an update every 4 days, RunIntensity every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Custom Rings | RunIntensity |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christopher DAdamo | Zero Di, LLC |
Customer experience
Custom Rings
RunIntensity
In-app purchases
Custom Rings
- Custom Rings Pro$2.99
RunIntensity
- Coach Brady — Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Coach Mode — Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
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