C25K® 5K Running Coach & Map

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1. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Deceptive. They hide the subscription requirement well. I thought this was a free app, but it’s a one week trial. I thought the pro version was just to unlock additional features. Nope - you can only use it for one week, then you have to pay. I’ll be starting over with something else.

2. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Disappointed. Used this app for years. Came back to it needing to get back and shape. A once free app now cost $30 for 3 months.

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Can’t purchase pro plans. I love the app but I can’t purchase a pro plan - says the offer isn’t valid regardless of what I choose and whether the free trial is toggled on or off.

4. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   What’s up with the GPS signal???. Horrible GPS signal…..

5. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Miss the free version. I’ve used this app a lot over the years. Just getting back to running and I see the program is no longer free, which was disappointing to find. I do appreciate the run timer, but having used it for free for years, I don’t see the value in paying. Especially when I can find it online for free.

6. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Devastated. I am sooooo upset there is no longer a free 8 week program for this app. I’ve used it for years (since 2019) on and off whenever I fall off my run journey and have recommended it to TONS of people. I downloaded the app this morning before my run and… bam! Of course, like everything else, only accessible to people with $$. Really ridiculous. You could’ve implemented ads for the free version, or provided more perks for a paid version. But instead, the same ol’ app…. Just now…. You gotta pay…. BIG BOO!!!! Never recommending this app again

7. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Useless. Won’t connect to my health nor fitness app when I have allowed it to. Won’t allow me to look at pretty much anything without paying. It’s useless.

8. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   BS. I thought this was a free app, so I got it. Week 2, day 2, I find I have to pay to continue. That’s not free.

9. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Used to be Free. I used this program in the past and the app was completely free to complete for the 5K. I downloaded it again to complete a second time and now you have to pay after day 4! WHAT A JOKE!

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not free. Found and app that’s actually free for the full program. This was only free for like a week.

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    purchased the bundle with unlimited pass a few years ago, no longer honors it. i purchased the bundle with unlimited that contains all four apps. i redownloaded them to get back to running and tried to restore my purchases and the apps no longer acknowledge my purchase. they claim i have no purchases to restore.

12. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Overpriced. $30 for 3 months or $40 for the year for a running app? Ridiculous.

13. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Put the program that used to be free behind a paywall. This program was totally free for years and now you want to charge me for anything beyond week 2 day 1. Unbelievable. 👎🏼👎🏼

14. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Would give 0 stars if I could. When this app came out I paid for access to it. This greedy developer doesn’t seem to understand what lifetime access means. I now cannot access the rest of my weeks because they paywalled an app I paid for. This app used to be amazing before the developers became greedy and dropped support for their legacy app which is just so slimy and gross I would love to give them a piece of my mind and will never buy or use any of their apps again.

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    My rating. Subscribe to read my review.

16. ★★★★★search fails to find what is needed

    Started great, now ready to trash it. It did an amazing job of moving me from barely walking to actually running for 20 minutes. Its strategy of increasing one's workout every day works very well. But then it brings one to one's maximum level. I am 73. There are certain things I cannot do now. But the app keeps going and wanting to push more and more and more and more. So I stopped using it. It would be nice if there was a way you could change the settings so it didn't push you so hard. Not everybody wants to do a 5K. But I cannot find such a thing. So I'm taking the trouble to leave a bad review.

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not up front you have to pay. Not a free app. They should tell you up front. Instead they wait till you complete a whole run

18. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Choose Another App. Some of the functionality outlined in the application description does not exist in the application. The interface is poorly designed and navigation is not intuitive. They stop letting you use an an application that you purchased full price, because they came out with a new subscription The following features do not exist in the application - no activity summary after a run - no run stats or history on previous runs - Music integration does not allow you to adjust volume. - if you try to rate the app from the app they restrict you from doing a write up - other basic features you find in similar applications does not exist

19. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Great another app to pay for. So disappointed I now have to pay after I have used this app several times the last 7 years

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Misleading. I thought it was the same free c 2 5k program that I had used years ago. But it isn’t free as far as I can tell. So disappointing.

21. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not free. Thought this was a free version. After 4 sessions you have to pay. Very annoying

22. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    You don’t make it clear only the first week is free.. They hide the fact that it’s only free for the first week down in the bulk of the description. It’s misleading and I don’t want to pay for an app when I can time myself for free. They should make it very clear. All of my progress is gone or I have to pay for another stupid app.

23. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No longer free. This app used to be free, was planning to use it to train. I will no longer use it because the amount it costs is too expensive.

24. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    MEMBERSHIP FEE?!?. Why is an app with basically static information cost a membership? "Oh to join the network" idc, I just want the nice audio cues when to walk or jog. Shameless

25. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No longer free. I have been using this app for a long time. I had to reinstall the app due to a technical issue and now it is no longer free! I will be moving away from this app to something else.

26. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Got to pay for more than a couple days. Soon as I get it downloaded I noticed they had a 20$ charge if you want to use it for more than a couple days. Immediately deleted the app.

27. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Nothing but crashes. This app is unusable. All it does is crash anytime I open the app.

28. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Not free. This app in not free. After doing 4 workouts, you will be either forced to pay for a Pro membership or delete the app. Don’t bother wasting your time with this unless you want to pay.

29. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Says it’s free, but it’s not. This app is nothing but a tease. They give you four and then expect you to go pro and if you don’t sorry about your luck. that probably should be something that is stated in the very beginning of the app before you started.

30. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Bad with Apple Watch. The app alone works well. When I launch the app from my watch, it tracks just fine. For multiple workouts, it would not sync with the phone app. I would not have both apps running at the same time. After tapping the check mark on my Apple Watch, the run info shows on the watch. When I tapped sync on the phone app, the workout did not show up. Once I tapped on that specific workout/day in the phone app, it shows “No Motion Detected” and would overwrite/erase the info that was previously on the watch app. This happened multiple times, so I started tracking run info in a spreadsheet instead of relying on the glitchy app that deletes data. I paid for the subscription, so that makes these bugs even more infuriating. I read the FAQ the first time this happened and followed instructions including not having both apps running at the same time, tapping the check mark on the Apple Watch app post-workout… all for this to happen multiple times afterward. I want to track my average HR and get better detailed info for each run, so I used my Apple Watch. Because they are not synched well, I will not be renewing the subscription and do not recommend using the Apple Watch with this app.