Intervals Aloud vs PaceCue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Intervals Aloud
This app provides spoken guidance for various workout types, including walk-run, HIIT, and breathing exercises. It eliminates the need to watch a clock, allowing users to focus on their training with audio cues for every interval, rest, and round. It offers both pre-made routines and custom sequence building, with background and lock screen support.
- Spoken interval guidance
- Pre-made and custom routines
- Background and lock screen coaching
- Standalone Apple Watch app
- Live Activity and Dynamic Island support
- Optional Apple Health integration
- Offline core cues
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Train without ads, accounts or paywalls—and without watching the clock. Intervals Aloud speaks every exercise, pace change, rest, countdown and round, so you always know what to do now and what comes next. Keep moving while your music plays, your iPhone is locked or your Apple Watch runs the workout. START FAST Choose a ready-made routine for walk-run, HIIT, Tabata, EMOM, sprints, circuits, stretching, breathing or focus—or build exactly the sequence you need. STAY IN THE FLOW • Natural coaching voices, plus iPhone Voice • Spoken interval names, upcoming cues and round counts • Overall progress and a live plan that always shows your place • Background and Lock Screen coaching over music • Standalone Apple Watch app • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Optional Apple Health workout saving • History, reminders and streaks • Shareable routines with nested rounds and sets Free. No ads. No account required. Core cues are ready offline. New custom names may briefly need an internet connection the first time; once prepared, they’re saved on your device. If preparation isn’t available, iPhone Voice can start immediately.
PaceCue
This app provides a customizable interval timer for runners. It offers audio cues, voice announcements, and haptic feedback to guide users through warmups, hard efforts, easy recovery, and cooldowns. The timer works with the screen locked and features live activity updates.
- Custom interval workouts
- Audio and voice cues
- Haptic feedback
- Countdown warnings
- Live Activity on Lock Screen
- Works with screen locked
- Preset workouts
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PaceCue is a simple, focused interval timer built for runners. Create custom workouts with warmup, hard, easy, and cooldown intervals - then hit start and let audio cues, voice announcements, and haptic feedback tell you when to push and when to recover. No need to look at your phone. Features: • Build custom interval workouts with repeating blocks • Audio beeps, voice announcements, or both — your choice • Haptic feedback on interval changes • Countdown warnings before each transition • Live Activity on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Works with your screen locked • Comes with preset workouts to get you started (5K Speed, Tempo Run, Pyramids, and more) • Export & import your workouts for backup • No subscriptions. No ads. Just run.
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Verdict
Intervals Aloud and PaceCue are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Intervals Aloud against 5.0 for PaceCue. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | Intervals Aloud | PaceCue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Daily |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yarden Eitan | Toddly LLC |
Customer experience
Intervals Aloud
PaceCue
In-app purchases
Intervals Aloud
No in-app purchases
PaceCue
No in-app purchases








