Comparison

Beyond Routes vs Rounds

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

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About

Beyond Routes

Features
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The best running tracker you own came free with your phone. It is on your wrist, or in your pocket, and Apple makes it better every year. Keep recording with it. Beyond Routes is what happens afterwards. It reads the outdoor workouts already in your Apple Health, finds the routes you run again and again, and compares today’s run with every previous run you have made over the same ground. THE ROUTES YOU REPEAT Beyond Routes recognizes a repeated route from the GPS your workouts already carry. Nothing to set up, no segment to draw, no course to mark. Run the same loop the other way round and it stays a separate route, because it is a different run. COMPARED WITH YOUR OWN HISTORY β€’ Mile by mile against yourself: this run, your record for each segment, and the matching segment of your fastest complete run on the route. Kilometres if you prefer them. Beyond Routes cuts every split, record and comparison to the unit you set. β€’ Every run on the route in one place, the trend across all of them, and the record for each mile. β€’ The run’s own detail, from pace and splits to elevation, heart rate, effort, energy, cadence and running dynamics, with each card saying where its figures came from and how much of the run they cover. β€’ Runs, walks, hikes and rides, each kind compared only against its own kind. β€’ A run your watch filed as a walk is one tap to put right. It leaves the walks’ records and joins the runs’. Nothing is written back to Apple Health. β€’ Corrections that hold. Rename a route, merge two, split one, move a run between them. Beyond Routes never undoes your correction on its own. RUN IT AGAIN Pick any run on a route and watch it again from the air, at the pace you ran it, with your fastest previous run on that route moving beside you the whole way. The gap between the two of you stays on screen, and you can see exactly where you lost it. Open a route from a city you have moved away from, and more comes back than the time. YOUR HISTORY STAYS YOURS There is no account to make and nothing to import. The workouts are already in Apple Health, where you put them, and Beyond Routes reads them from there. It never writes to Health, and everything it works out stays on your iPhone. Delete the app tomorrow and your history is exactly where it was, ready for whatever you use next. Nothing here is holding it. FREE AND PREMIUM Two whole routes are free for ever. Not a trial, not a preview. On both of them everything works, uncapped: the full history, the trend, the mile records, flying any run on the route and choosing which run it races. Off them, your newest workout is open in full on every route. Premium opens every route and every workout you have, as far back as Apple Health goes. WHAT IT WILL NOT DO It does not record workouts. It does not coach you, set you goals, rank you against strangers, or ask you to share anything with anyone. It explains what you already did, and has no opinion about what you should do next. REQUIREMENTS Outdoor workouts recorded with GPS and stored in Apple Health. A workout without a route cannot be matched to a route, so it is not imported. TERMS Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://beyondbeyond.se/beyond-routes/privacy

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Rounds

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Set work, rest, and rounds. Hit start. That's it. Rounds is a no-frills interval timer for HIIT, Tabata, boxing rounds, and circuit training. Pick your work time, rest time, and number of rounds, and Rounds counts you through the whole thing: a "get ready" lead-in, a big countdown you can read from across the room, 3-2-1 ticks before each change, and a distinct sound and vibration on every phase: get ready, work, rest, next round, done. STAYS ON, STAYS ACCURATE The screen stays on for the whole workout, so you can glance at the clock and hear every cue. If you lock the phone or switch apps anyway, Rounds keeps counting and picks up exactly where it should when you come back. Sound cues play while Rounds is on screen. FAST TO START No workout library to scroll, no plan to build, no account to create. Three numbers and a start button. Pause, skip, or stop any time. FREE - The full timer: work, rest, rounds, and the "get ready" lead-in - Sound and vibration cues with the Classic sound pack - 1 saved preset - Light and dark theme PREMIUM ($9.99/year) - Unlimited saved presets - Bell and Buzzer sound packs Premium is an auto-renewing annual subscription. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account subscription settings. No videos, no coaching, no social feed, no ads. Just a fast, accurate timer. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://babycarzta-a11y.github.io/legal/rounds/privacy.html

Screenshots

Beyond Routes4 screens
Rounds4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Rounds at 15.0 against Beyond Routes's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Beyond Routes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Rounds sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
Beyond Routes versus Rounds: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeyond RoutesRounds
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyβ€”Every 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod β€” better
Requires iOS26.015.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size9 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBeyond Beyond ABOleksandr Stankevych

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Beyond Routes

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly1 Month trial$19.991 Year
1 purchases

Rounds

Subscriptions1
  • Rounds Premium$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Beyond Routes free?
Beyond Routes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rounds free?
Rounds is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Beyond Routes or Rounds have ads?
Neither Beyond Routes nor Rounds shows ads.

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