Run.
Walk.
Repeat.
Want a simple running timer? Just getting back into running? Lapwing tells you when to run and when to walk, so you can stop doing sums in your head and just go.
The whole idea
Run two minutes. Walk one. Repeat.
Run/walk is how most people get back to running without getting hurt. The hard part is remembering to switch. Lapwing does the remembering: set two dials, put the phone in your pocket, and listen. A chime and a buzz tell you when to run and when to ease off. You never have to look at it.
Two ways to run
Timed, or by feel.
Intervals
You pick the run and walk lengths, and the clock flips between them until you stop. This is the one to use if you are following a plan or building back up.
Free
No timer. Run until you want a break, tap Walk, tap Run when you are ready again. Some days you do not want to be told what to do.
Where you went
A map that shows the walking too.
Your route is drawn in two colours: brass for the stretches you ran, steel for the stretches you walked. It is an honest picture of the run, and after a few weeks the brass starts taking over. Distance and pace come along with it.
Afterwards
Split by interval, not by distance.
Everyone else splits your run per kilometre. That tells you nothing when you are stopping to walk every two minutes. Lapwing logs each run and each walk as its own line with its own distance and pace, so you can see how run 3 compared with run 11, and scrub back through the whole thing.
On your wrist
Leave the phone at home.
Lapwing has an Apple Watch app. Start a run from the watch and it keeps its own clock, its own GPS route and its own haptics, and reads your heart rate as you go. Start on the phone with the watch on and the same run shows in both places, so either one can switch phase or stop it. Watch runs save to Apple Health as a workout with its route.
Week by week
Watch the weeks add up.
Home shows your last run, then the week or month at a glance: distance, how much of it you ran, how many days you got out, and how far you climbed, each against the period before. Underneath, a map draws every route you ran in that time. Tap a number for the day-by-day chart behind it.
No audience
Nobody is watching.
No ads
Not in the free version, not anywhere. Nobody is paying to put something in front of your run.
No account
Open it and start. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to log in to.
No tracking
No analytics, no ad identifiers, no crash reporters. Lapwing collects nothing about you.
No feed
No followers, no kudos, no leaderboard, no weekly ranking against strangers.
Yours for good
Your runs stay yours.
On your iPhone
Every run and its route is saved on the phone. No signal needed, and there is no Lapwing server to send it to.
In your own iCloud
Sync uses your private iCloud, which only your Apple ID can read. We cannot see it.
Export any run
Save a run as a file and keep it wherever you like.
Paid once, if at all
The timer is free for good. One optional unlock, never a subscription, so your history never depends on one.
Price
The timer is free. Forever.
Everything you need to go for a run costs nothing, with no trial and no ads. What you can buy, once, is your own history.
Free
No account, no trial, no ads
- Both modes, intervals and free
- Route map, distance, and pace
- Interval splits on every run
- Your three most recent runs
- Week and month dashboard, with a map of every route
- Export any run as a file
$4.99 once
One payment, not a subscription
- Every run you have ever done
- Six month and year dashboards
- The Apple Watch app, with heart rate
- iCloud sync across your devices
- Everything in Free, unchanged
Older runs are never deleted while you are on the free tier, only hidden. Buy the unlock any time and they are all still there.
Go for a run.
