RunToMax vs StartRunning

Record your runs on Apple Watch for free. RunToMax Pro tells you what to run today, and why. Every morning, Pro reads your sleep, heart rate variability and recent training, then tells you whether today is for pushing, going easy or recovering. Follow plans and guided sessions on your wrist, with a pace target for every rep. FREE, WITH NO TIME LIMIT • Outdoor and treadmill runs on Apple Watch, with one data screen and five fields you choose • Live pace, distance and auto-laps with the Hero Pace lap banner, music controls and heart-rate chest straps • Run summaries with your route map, splits and stats, plus history, Apple Health and export • A cinematic 3D flyover replay of your route, with Apple Maps satellite imagery • This morning's HRV, resting heart rate and sleep compared with your own usual • VO₂ max, HRV and resting heart rate trends from Apple Health • Build a training plan and see its first week, and try a strength session from each category • Design & share for your runs, with RunToMax branding on every export TRY THREE COACHED RUNS If you've never had Pro or a Pro trial, turn on coaching for your next three runs: Today's call, readiness and a guided session on your Watch with a matching route. No subscription starts and there's no deadline. A run counts once it's saved with at least 1 km and five active minutes. AI coaching isn't included. ACCURACY WE ACTUALLY TEST, ON EVERY RUN • Live pace you can trust, distance and auto-laps that add up, precision start, and honest behavior through pauses • Distance, pace and elevation validated run after run against dedicated running watches • Barometric climb tracking, per-runner calorie modeling, and full-resolution heart rate and cadence • When the data cannot support a conclusion, RunToMax says so instead of guessing WITH RUNTOMAX PRO Built for the wrist • Fully configurable watch screens: choose your metrics, layouts and button controls, per run type • Live map with breadcrumb trail, heart-rate zone alerts, audio cues and a target pace for every workout • Follow a route on your wrist, or pick a distance and let RunToMax suggest a new loop • Structured sessions on the watch: intervals, tempo, progressions, with live per-rep pace targets and a coach in your ear for every rep, in the voice you choose Understand every run • A verdict on the watch the moment you stop, and deep analysis on the phone • Training impact, effort score, heat cost, weather, and full charts for pace, heart rate, power and cadence • Race predictions, threshold and training paces, and fitness trends over time Know when to pull back • Morning readiness that fuses your recovery signals into one honest number, and Today's call • Ramp warnings when training load climbs faster than your body can absorb • Heat-adjusted pacing: what the heat should cost you before the run, and what it actually cost after Train on a plan • Training plans built from your real running history: your level, your volume, your race date • Sensible ramps, cutback weeks, and no back-to-back hard days • Every week of your plan on your watch, adapting to how you respond • The full strength library • AI coaching that turns your data into plain-English guidance, grounded in your actual runs RunToMax Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, billed annually or monthly. New subscribers can try it free, where eligible: 14 days with the annual plan, or 7 days with the monthly plan. The price for your country is shown before you subscribe. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Your saved runs, history and export stay available without a subscription. Terms of Use: https://runtomax.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://runtomax.com/privacy RunToMax is for runners 18 and over. It provides training guidance, not medical advice.

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 — at first one minute of running, ninety seconds of walking. By week nine you run for half an hour without stopping. WHAT GUIDES YOU • Spoken coaching tells you when to run and when to walk. You never have to look at your phone. • Tones and vibration for every change — even with music in your ears and the phone in your pocket. • A screen you can read in one second: one huge number, two buttons, nothing else. • GPS records your route and works out distance, pace and kilometre splits. • 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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.