Comparison

Simple Interval Workout Timer vs StartRunning

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

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Simple Interval Workout Timer

Features
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BAKA is a clean, distraction-free interval timer built for people who train hard and want their tools to stay out of the way. When you work, the screen goes black and your countdown burns in yellow. When you rest, the screen flips to yellow. No reading required. You know exactly where you are at every second of every round. BUILT FOR SPEED Open the app and your last workout is already on the home screen. One tap and you are training. No menus, no setup, no wasted time. SIMPLE TIMER, SERIOUS TRAINING Set your work duration, rest duration, and number of rounds. BAKA handles the rest. Whether you are doing classic Tabata, long HIIT intervals, or a custom circuit you built yourself, the timer gets out of your way and lets you focus on the work. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS Every completed workout is automatically saved to your history. Your current streak and personal best are always visible. Seeing your streak grow is one of the simplest and most effective ways to stay consistent over time. FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE ROUTINES BAKA comes loaded with five proven interval templates including Tabata, HIIT 40/20, 45/15 Burn, 30/30 Grind and 60/20 Beast. You can use them as-is, edit them to match your training, or build new routines from scratch. Pin your favorite to the top so it is always one tap away. AVAILABLE IN 9 LANGUAGES BAKA is fully translated into English, Serbian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Polish, Italian and Japanese. Choose your language on the very first screen and the entire app follows. CHOOSE YOUR APP ICON Pick the icon that fits your style. BAKA offers multiple icon options so the app looks exactly how you want it on your home screen. BAKA Privacy Policy: https://cohen--apps.web.app/privacy-policy.html Terms of use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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StartRunning

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From the couch to thirty minutes of continuous running in nine weeks. No experience needed, no gear, and no prior idea of what "interval training" means. StartRunning takes you through 27 workouts, three a week. Each one opens with five minutes of brisk walking and ends with five minutes of cooling down. In between, running and walking alternate โ€” at first one minute of running, ninety seconds of walking. By week nine you run for half an hour without stopping. WHAT GUIDES YOU โ€ข Spoken coaching tells you when to run and when to walk. You never have to look at your phone. โ€ข Tones and vibration for every change โ€” even with music in your ears and the phone in your pocket. โ€ข A screen you can read in one second: one huge number, two buttons, nothing else. โ€ข GPS records your route and works out distance, pace and kilometre splits. โ€ข Your history shows every run with its map; the progress grid shows the whole plan at a glance. THREE LEVELS OF COACHING Voice and tones, vibration only, or nothing at all. Switchable mid-run โ€” for the day you run with someone and still want to feel the interval change. YOU SET THE PACE All 27 workouts can be started and repeated at any time. Nothing is locked, nothing pushes you. If a week feels too fast, run it again. If you end a workout early, the time you ran still counts โ€” only the plan doesn't move on. CUSTOM WORKOUTS You set total duration, run interval and walk break; the app works out the rest. For after the plan, or for the day you have something else in mind. WHAT THIS APP DOES NOT DO No ads. No subscription. No sign-up. No account. No tracking, no analytics, nothing shared with anyone. Your data stays on your device. What you export, you export yourself โ€” as a backup file or as GPX. If you want, the app writes your workouts to Apple Health; that is off by default. Training and all your data work completely offline. Only the map view loads tiles from the network. ACCESSIBILITY Every interval type is signalled by word, icon, colour and vibration pattern โ€” never by colour alone. The app holds up at triple system text size and respects the reduce-motion setting. WHAT IT COSTS The first 9 workouts are free โ€” about three weeks of training, with everything included. After that you unlock everything once: all three plans, custom workouts, for good. No subscription, no follow-up costs. Your history stays open either way, unlocked or not.

Screenshots

Simple Interval Workout Timer4 screens
StartRunning4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Simple Interval Workout Timer at none against StartRunning's 1. StartRunning's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17). On price, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. StartRunning sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Simple Interval Workout Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Interval Workout Timer ships an update every 2 weeks, StartRunning fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Simple Interval Workout Timer versus StartRunning: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Interval Workout TimerStartRunning
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksFortnightly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch โ€” better
Requires iOS1715.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size12 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNikola RadovanovicPatrick Engels-Kolodziej

In-app purchases

None

Simple Interval Workout Timer

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

StartRunning

One-time1
  • StartRunning Lifetime$6.99

Questions

Is Simple Interval Workout Timer free?
Simple Interval Workout Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is StartRunning free?
StartRunning is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Simple Interval Workout Timer or StartRunning have ads?
Neither Simple Interval Workout Timer nor StartRunning shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Simple Interval Workout Timer or StartRunning?
Simple Interval Workout Timer ships an update every 2 weeks, and StartRunning fortnightly. Most recently, Simple Interval Workout Timer was updated on October 9, 2026 and StartRunning on October 4, 2026.

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