Comparison

Waddle vs Rounds Coach

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

Head to head
About

Waddle

This app offers gentle running plans for beginners, featuring guided intervals and GPS tracking. It adapts to your pace and allows adjustments, with a friendly goose mascot to motivate you. Build a consistent movement habit towards your fitness goals without pressure.

Highlights
  • Guided run/walk intervals
  • GPS outdoor activity tracking
  • Adaptive training plans
  • Workout scheduling and reminders
  • Progress tracking and badges
  • Route planning and replays
Features
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Meet your new running buddy. It’s a goose. It honks. Waddle to Run turns beginning—or beginning again—into something a little less intimidating. Choose your goal, tell us what feels manageable, and get a gradual walking or run-walk plan designed to fit your week. Follow guided intervals, track outdoor activities with GPS, plan favorite routes, and watch small sessions add up over time. Miss a day? The goose saved your spot. Need to walk? That was always allowed. Build toward a regular movement habit, a 20-minute jog, your first 5K, or a 10K—without treating every workout like a test. Along the way, you can: • Hear run and walk cues • Track distance, pace, time, and routes • Adjust sessions when they feel too hard • Schedule runs and receive reminders • Collect badges and unlock goose gear • Create private route postcards and replays • Save completed workouts to Apple Health Running is hard enough. Your running app doesn’t need to yell at you. Waddle. Jog. Honk. Repeat. Waddle to Run is free to download. Waddle Premium access, available through an auto-renewable subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase, is required to start guided runs and unlock personalized plans, run tracking, Progress, route postcards and replays, Live Activities, and goose outfits. Pricing and any available trial are shown before purchase. Terms of Use: https://spammusubitech.github.io/waddle-to-run/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://spammusubitech.github.io/waddle-to-run/privacy/

About

Rounds Coach

This interval timer app provides a real coach's voice to guide you through workouts, offering customizable timers for HIIT, Tabata, and circuits. It integrates with music apps, Apple Watch, and Apple Health, with widgets for quick access.

Highlights
  • Real coach voice for interval guidance
  • Customizable HIIT, Tabata, and circuit timers
  • Music integration with Spotify and Apple Music
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Apple Watch and Apple Health integration
  • Workout history and streaks tracking
  • Share timers via link or QR code
Features
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Rounds is an interval timer that doesn't hold features back. Everything is free — unlimited timers, compound timers, the coach voice, music, widgets, Apple Watch and Apple Health. A REAL COACH Liam calls every round, every interval and what's next — 400+ exercises, from burpees to the Pilates hundred — "Round 3 of 8! Work!", "Next up: squats!" — over your music, with the screen locked. BUILD ANY WORKOUT • HIIT, Tabata and circuit builders • Custom timers with repeating groups inside groups • Change every work or rest interval at once • Folders and search — drag timers to rearrange them, or drop one on a folder to file it • Starter workouts: Tabata, HIIT, the 7-Minute Workout, a Pilates mat class, EMOM, boxing rounds and focus sessions IN CONTROL MID-WORKOUT Jump straight to any interval from the list on the workout screen — handy when a class runs long or short. Pause, skip back or skip ahead any time. START WITHOUT OPENING THE APP • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets start a timer in one tap • Siri and Shortcuts: "Start Tabata in Rounds", "Start a 5 minute countdown in Rounds" YOUR MUSIC Works with whatever you're playing — Spotify, Apple Music, podcasts. The music dips while the coach talks, can pause on every rest, and pauses with the workout. Or pick an Apple Music playlist for any timer. ACTIVITY AND STREAKS Every workout lands in your history: your day streak, this week's minutes and a month calendar in your timers' colours. Workouts from your Apple Watch count too. SHARE A TIMER Send any timer as a link or a QR code. Friends open it and add it to Rounds in one tap. WITH THE PHONE IN YOUR POCKET The timer keeps running, beeping and talking with the screen off. The Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show the time left and where you are in the workout. APPLE WATCH Run any timer from your wrist with haptics, Liam's voice and live heart rate. Tap the next interval to skip ahead. APPLE HEALTH Finished workouts are saved to Health with the workout type you choose. ALSO A one-tap countdown for rest between sets, and a stopwatch with laps. No subscription. No ads. No account. Your timers stay on your iPhone and Apple Watch.

Screenshots

Waddle4 screens
Rounds Coach4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rounds Coach at none against Waddle's 5. Rounds Coach also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

Both are free to download. Waddle sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Rounds Coach asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Waddle against 5.0 for Rounds Coach. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Waddle ships an update weekly, Rounds Coach daily. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Waddle versus Rounds Coach: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWaddleRounds Coach
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size153 MB40 MB
Age rating+174+
DeveloperSpam Musubi TechnologiesAryaman Ravi

Customer experience

Waddle

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Rounds Coach

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Waddle

Subscriptions5
  • Premium Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Premium Annual — Final Offer$9.991 Year
  • Premium Annual — Special Offer$19.991 Year
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  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Premium Annual$39.991 Year
None

Rounds Coach

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Waddle free?
Waddle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rounds Coach free?
Rounds Coach is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Waddle or Rounds Coach?
Waddle and Rounds Coach are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Waddle or Rounds Coach have ads?
Neither Waddle nor Rounds Coach shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Waddle or Rounds Coach?
Waddle ships an update weekly, and Rounds Coach daily. Most recently, Waddle was updated on October 9, 2026 and Rounds Coach on October 11, 2026.

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