RunWindow vs Reaction Light Trainer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RunWindow
This app guides your runs using haptic feedback and on-screen cues to keep you within your target heart rate or pace zones. It focuses on training by feel, minimizing the need to constantly check your watch. View run trends and summaries post-workout.
- Haptic feedback for pace and heart rate zones
- On-screen color cues for effort level
- Adjustable pace or heart rate windows
- Run trend and summary data
- Apple Health integration
- No account or phone app required
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RunWindow taps you on the wrist when you drift outside the window you set, so you can run by feel without looking at your watch. Pick a target: a heart-rate range or a pace range. Then press Start, on your watch or your iPhone, and drop your arm. THREE CUES, NOTHING ELSE • Fast taps, nonstop: speed up • Slow taps, nonstop: ease off • One tap: you're back in range The cue tells you what to do, never which number moved, and it keeps going until you're back in your window. Hold a steady effort right on the edge and RunWindow stays silent. It waits for a real drift, not a wobble. ON YOUR IPHONE • Start on Apple Watch: one tap opens RunWindow on your wrist and starts the run • Tune your window on a drag-to-set track, lit green inside, warm above, cool below • Or set just a Max or a Min: one marker, cues on one side only • Quick heart-rate zones from your age, and your own saved windows • Every run in one place: time in window, the run drawn against your window, heart-rate zones, distance, pace and active calories. Delete any run you didn't mean to record • Settings sync both ways with your watch ON YOUR WATCH • Color Field turns the whole screen into the signal: green in range, warming toward red when you push too hard, cooling toward deep blue when you're too easy, with the word on screen so colour is never the only cue. Swipe up or down for a tick ring or a tuner. • Pause, resume, or change your window mid-run • Trend and Summary pages after every run • A one-minute demo shows every cue without running BUILT FOR TRAINING, NOT TRACKING • Heart rate streams live from the watch during the workout • Pace comes from GPS, smoothed so a single bad fix can't buzz you • Miles or kilometres • Every run is saved to Apple Health as a workout • No account, and no data leaves your devices RunWindow requires an Apple Watch: the cues are taps on your wrist. The watch needs Health access for heart rate and Location access for pace; the iPhone app reads your runs from Apple Health to show your history.
Reaction Light Trainer
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Reaction Light Trainer turns the phones you already own into a full reaction-light system — the kind of setup coaches pay hundreds for, free. Lights flash in random, unpredictable colors and positions; you react and hit them as fast as you can. Because the cue is unplanned, you train true REACTIVE agility, reaction time, reflexes and hand-eye coordination — not a memorized pattern. That's the difference between reaction lights and cones or ladders, and why athletes use them. KEY FEATURES - Multi-device stations: link several phones (and Apple Watch) over Wi-Fi and spread them out as reaction pods — build lines, boxes, arcs and circuits for a whole squad. Any device hosts and starts. - Solo drills on a single phone: 30s challenge, multi-light, color go/no-go, footwork. - Go / no-go: tap only the right color to train decision speed and impulse control. - Adaptive difficulty: the deadline tightens as you get faster, keeping you at your limit. - Rounds & rest, like real interval / SAQ training. - Live stats & competition: reaction time, hits, misses, accuracy, fastest/average, per-player results and head-to-head racing. BUILT FOR - Speed, agility & quickness (SAQ), reactive agility, change of direction - Soccer & goalkeepers, basketball, tennis, badminton, table tennis, hockey, volleyball - Boxing, MMA & martial arts — hand speed and defensive reflexes - Rehab & return-to-play, balance, proprioception and sports vision - Team & youth coaching, PE classes, group fitness, and cognitive / brain training A flexible, affordable alternative to expensive reaction-light pods — using the devices you already have. Free to download. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://scoreboard.100for1.com/reactionlight/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RunWindow at none against Reaction Light Trainer's 2. RunWindow also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). Reaction Light Trainer's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. Reaction Light Trainer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per year. RunWindow asks for nothing beyond the download.
RunWindow ships an update every 3 days, Reaction Light Trainer every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RunWindow | Reaction Light Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Fields | zhenyu song |
In-app purchases
RunWindow
No in-app purchases
Reaction Light Trainer
- Remove Ads (Yearly)$2.991 Year
- Remove Ads$6.99
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