Onbeat Running vs Cyclune
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Onbeat Running
This app provides a metronome to help runners achieve a quicker, lighter stride. It plays a steady beat that syncs with your steps, even under music or podcasts, and offers interval workouts and a four-week program to retrain your cadence. It also features a standalone Apple Watch app for phone-free runs.
- Adjustable running metronome
- Plays under music/podcasts
- Interval workouts with voice cues
- Four-week cadence retraining program
- Standalone Apple Watch app
- Customizable workouts
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Sore knees? Overstriding? Quicker, lighter steps are the fix. Onbeat gives you a steady beat in your ears. Your feet lock onto it. The beat plays under your music or podcast. You can still hear it on a loud road, with your phone in your pocket or just your watch on your wrist. Run to the beat and your cadence goes up. The training layer makes it stick: interval workouts with voice cues, and a program that retrains your cadence in four weeks. THE BEAT • Exact timing at any steps per minute. No drift, no stutter • Plays under whatever you listen to. Loud enough for the road • Change tempo without breaking stride. Controls on the Lock Screen THE TRAINING LAYER • Interval workouts. A voice tells you when to push and when to recover. You never look at the screen • Cadence Builder: four weeks of small steps that raise your cadence for good • Build your own workouts and keep them APPLE WATCH • Works on its own. Leave the phone at home and the real beat plays from your wrist • Intervals and voice cues on the watch too. Every run saves to Apple Health FREE, FOR EVERYONE Every feature is free: the running metronome that plays under your podcast, interval workouts with voice cues, the four week cadence program, and the standalone Apple Watch app. No trial. No unlock. No subscription. No account. No ads. Works offline. My mission is to expand what people can do and be so that we each can build a life worth living. Since the costs to maintain the apps are minimal, I freely offer these tools to the public in service to the mission. If you would like to support the cause, you can leave a tip, rate the app, or join the newsletter from Settings. Tips are optional and unlock nothing, because everything is already yours.
Cyclune
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Get to know your daily patterns with Cyclune: an Apple Health-based Daily Rhythm Score and classic biorhythm cycles in one private app. RHYTHM — YOUR DAILY PATTERNS With your permission, Cyclune reads the last 14 days of Apple Health data to estimate a Daily Rhythm Score (0–100). Explore sleep timing, sleep duration, daytime activity, activity consistency, heart recovery and daylight. The confidence indicator shows how much usable data supports your score. Free access includes your score and up to three available factors, with insights and tips based on those factors. Pro opens the full six-factor breakdown, insights based on all available factors, a 14-day score history, today’s activity timeline and advanced 24-hour activity rhythm analysis. Available results depend on your Health data; at least three useful days are needed. CLASSIC — EXPLORE YOUR CYCLES Enter your date of birth to explore traditional biorhythm curves. Physical and Emotional cycles, an energy ring, charts and a 7–90-day forecast are free. Pro adds Intellectual, Intuitive, Spiritual, Aesthetic and Charismatic cycles, detailed insights, trends and next peak/trough forecasts. Compare up to three local profiles: two cycles for free, all seven with Pro. Classic biorhythms are for entertainment and self-reflection, not scientifically validated predictions. APPLE WATCH & WIDGETS Keep your latest Rhythm and Classic summaries close with the companion Apple Watch app and watch face complications. Watch summaries refresh from your paired iPhone. The Watch interface is in English. Pro also includes Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets on iPhone. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking and no Cyclune cloud server. Health data is read only and processed on your iPhone. Compact summaries can sync to your paired Apple Watch; nothing is uploaded to us. Share cards only when you choose. Optional reminders are local. PRO — ONE PURCHASE Unlock Pro with one optional in-app purchase. No subscription and no recurring charges. Restore your purchase with the same Apple ID. Cyclune is a self-observation tool. Its scores and insights are estimates, not medical advice, diagnosis, treatment or a measure of readiness. Apple Health access is optional; Classic works without it.
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Verdict
Onbeat Running and Cyclune are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Onbeat Running sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Cyclune sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Onbeat Running | Cyclune |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Alterras LLC | Artem Odintsov |
In-app purchases
Onbeat Running
- A coffee$2.99
- A generous tip$9.99
- Pay it forward$19.99
Cyclune
- Cyclune Pro$3.99







