Run With Hal

I contacted the service about a month ago. I have been following the 18 Week Hal Higdon Advanced 2 marathon plan since Jan 11 and am in week 13 of the plan and have updated my paces since my last 10k to 41:04. Since then my long run paces have been absolutely insane. I am looking to run a 3:10 marathon but I am getting the app telling me I should have run my last long run at 6:42 for 20 miles. Why can I not put in my desired race pace??? I have attached a few screen grabs. This is a joke and now it is giving me issues and saying I am undertrained for not hitting those marks. I have attached the one for this Thursday that says I should do my run for 5 miles at marathon pace of 6:15!!! These times and the algorithm is totally off and is worthless to me now in my final weeks of preparation for my race. How is this possible, I guess I’ll be doing it on my own and not renewing or continuing with this worthless app. Terrible.

Got 3 weeks into training and they cut off access with out warning. I reached out to support and they said they are moving towards a subscription model. The app is not worth $59.99 in my opinion.

I can’t get past the forced to pay for a subscription screen

If I could give less than 1 star, I would. DO NOT FALL FOR THEIR FREE TRIAL!!! In November of 2025 I downloaded the app, looked around & then deleted it. Apparently at that time I had activated a free trial. Fast forward to January 10th, I was on a forum & someone suggest I download this app.. so I did & at that time it offered me a free trail for two weeks. Instantly I was charged. As soon as I was charged for the TEAR!!! I tried to go in immediately and dispute but it was denied. Now I’m stuck paying $60 for an app that I didn’t want.

When I first I used this app I liked it but seemed to obsolete the long stand free use mode. Unfortunately when I started using this I was not a disciplined running. This year after training for several prior marathons it now surfaced Hal+ pay prompt. I wanted it to work as before and could not find a way to dismiss the prompt. Too bad. I originally used these plans printed from web over a decade ago. I will go back to using those same plans and entering them in my calendar. Fond farewell to limited free use version of Hal app tech.

I am finishing up my training for my marathon in November and now that the bulk of my training is over I cancelled my plan to just use the remaining day plans for my taper mileage like I did last year for my marathon. However, there is now a pay wall that will not let you access the app unless you pay $6.99 per month or the $59.99 annual subscription. I am disappointed that they have now made it pay to use at all and this is most likely my last time using this app. I will be switching over to Endorphins or Runna due to this fiasco. Endorphins running from what I have seen provides weight/plyometric training workouts in conjunction with the the runs. It was nice while it lasted but the fact that I now have to pay to just see the remaining of my plan which was normally free has definitely left a sour taste in my mouth.

I used the app previously with my old phone just fine, but upgrading to the iPhone 16 pro and now when I install the app I am blocked by the Hal+ purchase screen with no way to bypass to free mode

I ended up creating my own training plan in a spreadsheet, and I finished a 50k as desired. No thanks to Run With Hal. I was very disappointed with the inflexibility of the 50k training plan on Run With Hal, and I’m disappointed I spent $60 or whatever to get it. I was navigating an injury and there was no good way to pause, indicate a need for temporary drop in mileage, etc. Also, as a working parent of young kids, no good way to easily shift around rest days and run days. And no good way to adjust goal pace or other attributes once you start a plan. I also don’t like the letter grade rating for adherence to the training plan. Huge turn off. Positive encouragement would be preferred. I would not use this app again.

I have been using the run with Hal app for about 6 months, and they recently removed the free tier entirely. This is incredibly disappointing, and this update is not reflected on the website or in the apps description. This app is quite frankly not worth the addition fee for me

I loved the interface. Loved the app. Great plans. Totally would’ve kept my subscription but every time I went to login/ it would make me re buy the subscription. It wouldn’t register that I already had an account. I would get an error message about auth expiring or malware. Very frustrating as it’s a good app!