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Run timer

  1. Market

    Installs
    36.1M

    Across 2 of 11 apps we could match.

    • ASICS Runkeeper: 36,062,232 installs
    • Simple Interval Timer: 11,664 installs
    • 100% leader share. ASICS Runkeeper, by Google Play installs, across the 2 of 11 apps we could match
    • $1.99 median price. Lowest in-app price, median over the 9 apps that list one. 9 of 9 charge.
    • 5 of 11 recently updated. Updated in the 30 days before 2026-10-05

  2. Competition

    1. ASICS Runkeeper16 Sep380k ratings$39.99 a year
    2. Running TrainerOct 2022114k ratings$7.99 to $89.99
    3. Interval Timer □ HIIT Timer26 Mar87k ratings$1.99 to $29.99
    4. Timer+ Countdown & Stopwatch30 Sep41k ratings$0.99 to $44.99
    5. Interval TimerNov 202519k ratings$4.99 to $9.99 a year
    6. Intervals Pro17 Sep14k ratings$19.99 a year
    7. Simple Interval TimerJan 20236k ratings$0.99 to $2.99
    8. RUN interval5 Jun1k ratings$1.99 to $3.99
    9. Interval Timer23 Sep534 ratings$19.99 a year
    10. Performance TimerFeb 201563 ratings
    11. Run Walk Run Timer24 Sep1 ratings

  3. Reviews

    What 2,699 reviews talk about, every star counted.

    1. Ads+1.4%7 of 10 apps
    2. Limits & caps+0.8%9 of 10 apps
    3. Sync & data−0.5%5 of 10 apps
    4. Wishlist−1.5%10 of 10 apps
    5. Support−2.3%7 of 10 apps
    6. UX−2.4%9 of 10 apps
    7. Login & auth−3.1%5 of 10 apps
    8. Billing−3.9%9 of 10 apps
    9. Performance−4.5%9 of 10 apps

    We have not counted the wishes for this market yet.

  4. Searches

    Position in Apple’s suggestions
    1510
    010203041
    Countries

    Checked. Nothing to show.

    Google suggests no wishes for this term.

  5. Traffic

    Google Ads, United States, 25 September 2026.

  6. Your test

    Free for 7 days

    What to call it. Where to launch. What a user costs.

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    • Where to launch
    • What a user costs
    • Every review, word for word
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Is there a market for a new run timer app?

11 apps compete here. They hold 36,073,896 installs on Google Play, counted across the 2 we could match. We hold 2,699 of their App Store reviews. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

How much do run timer apps charge?

9 of the 9 apps we could check charge inside the app. Half of them start at $1.99 or less. 2 more apps have no price data yet.

What do people search for when they want a run timer app?

We scan 41 App Store storefronts. Typing run timer completes to “run walk run timer” in 28 of them. Then “pushpace: interval run timer” in 25, “run timer : running clock” in 22. These are Apple’s own suggestions. They show what gets typed, not how often.

What do users complain about most in run timer apps?

1. Ads: in 7 of 10 apps, 4.7% of reviews (3.3% in Health & Fitness apps); 2. Limits & caps: in 9 of 10 apps, 2.4% of reviews (1.6% in Health & Fitness apps). Counted from 2,699 reviews of every star on the 2026-10-05 snapshot, never estimated.

Cited: What RevenueCat measures across subscription apps

Their report has no category matching run timer apps, so only all-category figures are shown. A near-match would be a guess.

  • the median app barely grows; the tails are extreme

    median MRR +5.3% YoY · top decile +306% · bottom decile contracting

  • the launch flood vs the incumbency moat

    ~2,000 → 14,700+ new subscription apps per month (Jan 2022 → Jan 2026), yet pre-2020 apps still hold 69% of subscription revenue

  • even top categories take over 100 days to reach $10k revenue

    >100 days to the first $10k

RevenueCat, State of Subscription Apps 2026, 115,000+ apps · $16B+ tracked revenue · >1B transactions. Published industry figures, shown for context; App Imp’s own numbers are counted from reviews and never mixed with these.

How this is counted

We count the reviews we hold again every week. Nothing is guessed. A topic is found by the words a review uses, so the same review always lands in the same place. Every star counts. A share is the part of all reviews here that mention a topic. We compare it with the same share across 1,164 Health & Fitness apps, the group most of these apps are in. A topic is a gap when at least 20 reviews mention it, at least half the apps have it, and it comes up at least 1.15 times as often as usual. A problem in one app is that app’s bug. A problem in every app is nobody’s gap. This market has no full report yet, so the per-app notes are absent rather than estimated.