Interval Timer vs RunIntervals
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Interval Timer
Organize your running and high-intensity interval training sessions with ease. Quickly set up custom time intervals for running, walking, warm-ups, and cool-downs. Receive voice and vibration notifications for interval changes, and enjoy background music playback.
- Intuitive design
- Customizable time intervals
- Warm-up and cool-down timers
- Voice and vibration notifications
- Background music support
- Foreground/background operation
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Interval Run is a running interval timer for iPhone and Apple Watch. Create run/walk intervals, sprint sessions, and HIIT workouts in seconds. Train with voice announcements and haptic cues, control workouts from Apple Watch, save sessions to Apple Health, and track your workout history. Choose from 25+ ready-made running workouts or build your own. Follow intervals from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, and focus on your run. 25+ READY-MADE RUNNING WORKOUTS • Explore run/walk workouts, running intervals, sprints, hill repeats, tempo runs, fartlek sessions, ladders, pyramids, and more • Find workouts for speed, endurance, recovery, and different training goals • Start any workout immediately or customize it to match your training • Save your favorites to My Workouts for quick access BUILD YOUR OWN INTERVAL WORKOUT • Create simple run/walk intervals or advanced multi-step workouts • Add warm-up, running, walking, recovery, rest, and cool-down sections • Set a custom duration for every step • Repeat intervals and complete workout blocks • Add custom cues to guide you through each workout step • Build sprint, HIIT, cardio, and structured running sessions • Save multiple workouts and reuse them anytime • Preview the complete workout before you start VOICE & HAPTIC INTERVAL CUES • Hear clear voice announcements at every interval transition • Feel haptic cues when it’s time to run, walk, recover, or rest • Keep your workout active while your iPhone is locked or the app is in the background • Follow your current interval from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island with Live Activities • Listen to music, podcasts, or audiobooks while you train RUN WITH APPLE WATCH • Sync workouts to Apple Watch • Start, pause, and control workouts directly from your wrist • Run phone-free with your workouts ready on Apple Watch • Follow interval progress without repeatedly checking your phone • Track heart rate, distance, and active energy during your workout • Get haptic interval cues directly on your Watch • Save completed workouts to Apple Health TRACK YOUR TRAINING • Browse completed workouts in calendar and history views • Review workout duration, intervals, distance, and active energy • Look back at your running and interval training over time • Share your workout results • Export and restore backups of your workout data MADE FOR RUNNERS WHO TRAIN WITH INTERVALS Whether you’re starting with beginner run/walk intervals, adding speed work to your weekly training, preparing for a 5K or another race, or creating a challenging HIIT session, Interval Run keeps every interval clear from start to finish. Use it as a simple run/walk timer, a running interval timer for speed training, an Apple Watch interval timer for phone-free workouts, or a flexible workout builder for more advanced structured sessions. From beginner run/walk workouts to sprints, tempo runs, hill repeats, fartlek training, and custom multi-step sessions, Interval Run adapts to the way you train. Start with one of 25+ ready-made workouts or create your own. Interval Run handles the timing so you can focus on your training. Some features shown, including the full workout library, advanced workout creation, multiple saved workouts, and full workout history, require Interval Run Pro. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
RunIntervals
Set custom interval timers with voice or tone alerts. This app seamlessly integrates with your existing audio and fitness apps, pausing or lowering music volume to ensure you never miss an alert.
- Customizable interval durations
- Voice and tone alerts
- Music volume lowering
- Spoken audio pausing
- Works with other apps
- No user data collection
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Just pick your interval durations and click GO! "Plays well with others," so if you have favorite apps for audio or fitness tracking it will work well alongside those. Audio voice alerts or tones will momentarily lower the volume of your music or briefly pause spoken audio just long enough to hear the alert, then let you get right back to listening! This app does not track or collect any user data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: RunIntervals at 90% against Interval Timer's 21%. RunIntervals also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (11.3 vs 26.0). Interval Timer's advantage is ratings volume (534 vs 123). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Interval Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and RunIntervals sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
RunIntervals holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 534 and 123 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 21% of Interval Timer's written reviews are positive against 90% of RunIntervals's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Interval Timer | RunIntervals |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (534 ratings) | 4.7 (123 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.1% of reviews | 90.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 534 — better | 123 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 11.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roma Sosnovsky | Robotic Jam LLC |
Customer experience
Interval Timer
RunIntervals
User reviews
Interval Timer
From 534 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Simple and easy to use
- 👍 Customizable intervals
- 🚀 Straightforward app
- 👍 Works as advertised
- 👍 Great for getting back into running
Room to improve
- 🔇 No audio prompts when screen is locked
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 🔒 Limited free version
- 🐛 Inconsistent performance
- 🔇 Voice prompts not loud enough
RunIntervals
From 123 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Perfect app
- 🚀 Great app
- 🚀 Simple and effective
- 🚀 Straightforward and easy to use
- 🚀 Does exactly what it needs to
Room to improve
- 🐛 Does not work
- 🐛 Tones fail
- 🐛 Alerts don't work
- 🐛 Stops randomly
- 🐛 No sound on watch
Bugs and requests
Interval Timer
Reported bugs
4 issues- Timer resets or freezes during workout
- Prompts not working when phone is locked or in pocket
- Unexpected interval changes or duration changes
- Compatibility issues with music playback
Requested features
6 requests- Option to pause/resume timer
- Larger time remaining display
- Apple Watch app
- Ability to play audio prompts even with screen off
- More interval options (run/walk/jog)
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- Congratulatory audio cue at the end
RunIntervals
Reported bugs
3 issues- Interval tones not working with podcast/music
- Interval tones not working on Apple Watch
- App randomly stops during workouts
Requested features
7 requests- Ability to swap run/walk intervals
- Option to start with walking
- Ability to set number of repeats
- Vibration alerts
- Longer interval options (up to 30/60/120 mins)
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- Repeat feature for intervals
- Total time limit for workout
In-app purchases
Interval Timer
- Interval Run Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Interval Run Pro Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Full Version$2.99
RunIntervals
- Small Tip$0.99
- Big Tip$2.99
Questions
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