Comparison

TimerCoach vs RunTrace

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

Head to head
About

TimerCoach

Features
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Train with a timer that keeps up with you. Build HIIT, Tabata, kettlebell, yoga or circuit sessions with your own warmup, work, rest, cooldown and rounds. STAY IN CONTROL • Start and control workouts from Apple Watch • Follow the timer on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • Hear voice cues while your own music keeps playing MAKE EVERY SESSION YOURS • Save and share custom workouts without an account • Plan sessions and set reminders • Check your form with the front-camera overlay while the timer stays visible • Put your timer on a TV with AirPlay • See your training history and streaks No ads. No account. Your workouts and history stay on your device. Pseudonymous usage analytics help improve TimerCoach.

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RunTrace

Features
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Install RunTrace and your running history is already there. Every run in Apple Health — the ones from your Apple Watch, the ones from whatever app you used before — is on the first screen, with its route, splits and heart rate intact. No account to make, no import to wait for, nothing to set up. Then it records new runs too. GPS route, live pace, splits as you pass each kilometre or mile, auto-pause when you stop at a light, and spoken split announcements so you don't have to look. Distance and pace stay on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a pause button you can reach without unlocking. EVERY RUN, FULLY BROKEN DOWN • Route map, plus a profile of pace, elevation or heart rate along the distance • Splits chart showing your fastest and slowest laps • Time in five heart-rate zones • Running form measured by Apple Watch: power, cadence, stride length, ground contact and vertical oscillation • A note for how it felt TRENDS WORTH READING • Weekly volume over a week, a month, three months, a year, or everything • Pace trend, plotted so faster is up • Fitness, Fatigue and Form — training load that tells you whether you're fresh, building, or overreaching • Records: longest run, longest time, best pace, biggest week, week streak • Best efforts at 1 km, 1 mile, 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon, found inside runs you've already done • VO₂ Max, resting heart rate and HRV, each against where it was three months ago ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app records on its own — leave the phone at home. Start, pause, finish; the workout goes into Health and the run turns up on your iPhone. A WEEKLY GOAL, IF YOU WANT ONE Pick a distance for the week and watch the ring fill. Optional reminders on the days you plan to run. SHARE AND EXPORT A share card built for someone else's feed: one big number and the shape of your route, no street map of your neighbourhood. Export any run as GPX with heart rate and cadence, or export all of them at once. HOME SCREEN WIDGET This week's distance and your last run, at a glance. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account, no ads, no analytics, no servers of ours. Runs you record sync through your own private iCloud, so they follow you between devices. What RunTrace reads from Apple Health stays on the device it read it from. One purchase. No subscription, no unlocks, no paywall — everything above is in the app the first time you open it.

Screenshots

TimerCoach4 screens
RunTrace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: TimerCoach at Free against RunTrace's $5.99. RunTrace's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On 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

TimerCoach is free to download; RunTrace costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 3 level
TimerCoach versus RunTrace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimerCoachRunTrace
PriceFree — better$5.99
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSidi Mohamed Idrissi YaghirDajiale

In-app purchases

None

TimerCoach

No in-app purchases

None

RunTrace

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TimerCoach free?
TimerCoach is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RunTrace free?
RunTrace costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do TimerCoach or RunTrace have ads?
Neither TimerCoach nor RunTrace shows ads.

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