Comparison

TreadIQ vs Rounds

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

Head to head
About

TreadIQ

Features
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TreadIQ helps you plan, run and review structured treadmill workouts. Connect a compatible Bluetooth FTMS treadmill to control your sessions and follow your training targets. TRAIN YOUR WAY • Quick-start runs and goals based on time, distance or heart rate • Custom workouts with warmup, intervals, repeat groups and cooldown • Speed and incline control on compatible FTMS treadmills • Heart-rate guidance with compatible Bluetooth sensors or Apple Watch UNDERSTAND YOUR PROGRESS • Ramp, MAF, Drift and Field LT fitness tests • Test results to help adjust your heart-rate zones • Workout history, splits and training statistics • With your permission, read workouts, heart rate, distance, active energy and weight from Apple Health for training metrics and calorie estimates, and save completed workouts, running distance and active energy to Apple Health • Optional private iCloud sync for custom workout plans; workout history, test results and health profiles are excluded • Apple Watch companion and Live Activities SIX INTERFACE LANGUAGES The iPhone and iPad interface is available in English, Russian, German, Spanish, French and Simplified Chinese. Follow your device language or choose a language in the app’s settings. Treadmill control requires compatible Bluetooth FTMS equipment; compatibility and supported controls vary by treadmill. Heart-rate devices are optional. Compatible watches must support Bluetooth heart-rate broadcasting to appear as a sensor. Apple Watch features require the companion app. Health access and iCloud sync are optional. No TreadIQ account is required. Fitness test estimates are intended for training guidance and are not medical diagnoses.

About

Rounds

Features
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Rounds is an interval timer built for the treadmill, bike and rower, where you can't keep staring at your phone. HEAR EVERY CHANGE Countdown beeps in the last three seconds of every step, a chime when the next one starts, and a voice that tells you what's next: "Level 8, 1 minute". Cues keep playing with the screen locked, on top of your own music. SEE IT FROM ACROSS THE ROOM A huge step label, a big countdown and progress rings, with one clear colour per phase: warm-up, work, rest, recovery and cooldown. BUILD THE WORKOUT YOU ACTUALLY DO Rounds that differ from each other, blocks with repeats, labels like "Incline 6" or "Speed 12", a different rest on the last repeat, and recovery between rounds. Or just use Quick start: work, rest, repeat. KEEP TRACK Every workout is logged with the time you actually exercised. See your week, month or year at a glance. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking. Everything stays on your phone. Share templates as files when you want to.

Screenshots

TreadIQ4 screens
Rounds4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: TreadIQ at 3 against Rounds's 1. Rounds's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
TreadIQ versus Rounds: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTreadIQRounds
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFavionicsMohamad Sobhie

In-app purchases

None

TreadIQ

No in-app purchases

None

Rounds

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TreadIQ free?
TreadIQ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rounds free?
Rounds is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TreadIQ or Rounds have ads?
Neither TreadIQ nor Rounds shows ads.

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