RunStation vs LAXProtocol
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RunStation
Track your workout splits and station times with this app. It provides a detailed race-style breakdown of your training sessions, including ROXZONE and total times. Connect compatible equipment for accurate data integration.
- Per-station and per-run split timing
- ROXZONE transition tracking
- Customizable workout station combinations
- Improvised workout tracking
- Watch-based workout guidance
- Bluetooth equipment integration
- Sled meter tracking with iPhone
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RunStation turns any training session into a full race-style breakdown: every station time, every run split, your ROXZONE, your total — on your wrist, with your phone in the locker. THE FULL BREAKDOWN, EVERY SESSION Per-station times. Per-run splits. Heart rate across the whole hour with the hard parts marked. Transitions totalled as ROXZONE. The kind of report you get on race day, from a Tuesday in the gym. ROXZONE, MEASURED Transitions decide finish times. RunStation times every one — from the moment you stop to the moment you start again — and totals them the way the race does. BUILD THE SESSION YOU'RE ACTUALLY DOING Any combination of the eight race stations and 7 training movements. Distance or time goals per segment, rounds, free reordering. The full race is built in as a template. OR DON'T PLAN AT ALL Start on the watch with nothing loaded and pick each station as you walk up to it. Class rotations, open gym, anything improvised — the same breakdown comes out. THE WATCH DOES THE WORK The watch knows what's next and what's left, counts down your goals, and keeps timing the parts you'd never track yourself. REAL NUMBERS FROM THE MACHINE SkiErg, rower and bike connect over Bluetooth and report their own distance, straight into your splits. SLED METERS, MEASURED Put your iPhone on the sled for push and pull. It measures the distance and shows your meters live on your phone and watch. Walking with the phone in your hand doesn't count. YOURS TO KEEP Everything writes to Apple Health. Counts stay editable after the fact. Any plan or result goes out as a whiteboard card — the way it would look written on the gym wall. MOTION LAB (optional) If you opt in, RunStation shares the motion sensor data from your workouts so movement recognition can be improved. No name, no email, no location — a random ID only, and you can turn it off at any time. RunStation is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by HYROX or Upsolut Sports AG.
LAXProtocol
This app provides structured lacrosse warm-up, speed, and strength drills designed to prevent common non-contact injuries. It offers detailed instructions and sideline tools for coaches and players, with a free tier and a one-time purchase for full access.
- Seventy-six drills across seven sections
- Pre-practice, strength, and recovery routines
- Written coaching cues for every drill
- Sideline screening tools (sweat rate, hop symmetry)
- Printable handouts for parents and players
- Accessibility features for field use
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Most lacrosse injuries never involve contact. The ACL, the hamstring, the shooter's shoulder — they go on a cut, on a dodge, on a cold first step. LAXProtocol is the warm-up, speed and strength work that guards against them, filmed rep by rep with Cape Concierge PT, a Cape Cod physical-therapy practice. Over 80 drills across six sections, each with its cues written out. Not a video library to scroll — a structure a coach can actually run: what to do before practice, what builds the armor, and what you owe your body afterwards. THE WALL KEEPS SCORE Wall ball is the sport's daily ritual, and the app gives it a set list with real names — the Starter Five, the 250s, and the tiers a day streak opens. Timed rounds run themselves; rep rounds wait for your Done and tick an honest pace. A ball-down key keeps a clean-rep percent beside the finish, and a balance ledger shows how your wall time splits between your hands — because lacrosse is the sport where the weak hand has no hiding place. All of it stays on your phone. THE FILM ROOM, ON THE FIELD Start a session and its film saves to your phone, so a turf field with no bars still plays every clip; Settings can keep the whole library. Sideline mode blows up the controls and brightens the screen, and touch lock shrugs off a stick bump. The session clock runs practice by hand, on timed reps and rest, or in stations, and calls the next drill out loud. Your playlist keeps going underneath, mirror flips a clip for a lefty, and AirPods, a clicker or Siri can run it. NO ACCOUNT, NO SETUP There is no sign-in, no password and no roster. Download it and more than 15 free drills are already there — at least one in every section — including the prehab core and three printable handouts. Nothing to set up before a practice you are already late for. SEE WHAT YOU ARE GETTING Every filmed drill shows a real frame from its own footage, locked Pro drills included, so you see what is behind the paywall before you pay. LAXPROTOCOL PRO Pro unlocks the rest of the library: the speed and agility ladder, the full strength block, stickwork and dodging, and the whole recovery section. Choose a monthly or annual plan, or the lifetime unlock — every way in opens the same drills. Both plans start with a week-long free trial for new subscribers and renew automatically at the price shown until canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel them in your Apple Account settings or in the app's Settings. The lifetime unlock never renews and never expires. Restore with the same Apple Account. Which drills are free is a coaching call that may change as the program develops. Terms of Use: https://playprotocol.tatzel-labs.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://playprotocol.tatzel-labs.com/laxprotocol-privacy SIDELINE TOOLS • Sweat rate — weigh in, weigh out, get a real fluid target instead of a guess • Hop symmetry — a single-leg hop screen with left/right difference worked out for you • Workload — acute-to-chronic ratio, so a training spike shows before it costs you a player • Heat check — heat-index guidance against the usual practice bands These are screening tools for a coach, not a diagnosis, and the app says so where you use them. Anything that hurts goes to a clinician. HANDOUTS FOR PARENTS AND PLAYERS Clean one-pagers you can text to a parent or print for the locker room. BUILT TO BE READABLE ON A FIELD Type scales with your text size, VoiceOver reads every control, and six coats of paint, from old-school slate to dyed-mesh neon, are mixed for daylight and night. PRIVACY, PLAIN-LANGUAGE • No advertising, no analytics, no tracking SDKs of any kind • No health data — the sideline tools work out a number on your device and keep nothing • Nothing is sold or shared, because nothing is collected The program — the drills, the progression, the coaching — is built with Cape Concierge PT. The app is published and supported by Tatzel Labs LLC. Questions? Email support@tatzel-labs.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RunStation at none against LAXProtocol's 1. RunStation also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). LAXProtocol's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. LAXProtocol sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. RunStation asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for RunStation against 5.0 for LAXProtocol. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LAXProtocol has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
RunStation ships an update every 4 days, LAXProtocol every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | RunStation | LAXProtocol |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 益平 林 | Tatzel Labs LLC |
Customer experience
RunStation
LAXProtocol
In-app purchases
RunStation
No in-app purchases
LAXProtocol
- LAXProtocol Pro$99.99









