Comparison

Intervals Aloud vs PaceCue

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Custom interval workouts
  • Audio and voice cues
  • Haptic feedback
  • Countdown warnings
  • Live Activity on Lock Screen
  • Works with screen locked
  • Preset workouts
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Intervals Aloud4 screens
PaceCue4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Intervals Aloud versus PaceCue: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIntervals AloudPaceCue
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYarden EitanToddly LLC

Customer experience

Intervals Aloud

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PaceCue

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Intervals Aloud

No in-app purchases

None

PaceCue

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Intervals Aloud free?
Intervals Aloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PaceCue free?
PaceCue is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Intervals Aloud or PaceCue?
Intervals Aloud and PaceCue are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Intervals Aloud or PaceCue have ads?
Neither Intervals Aloud nor PaceCue shows ads.

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