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Your run for today.

Choose a clear session, hear the important moments while you run, and turn your history into useful progress — without building a complicated training plan.

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Start simply Free Run and saved workouts stay within reach.

Run by ear Hear starts, transitions, recoveries, and effort changes.

Keep context Bring RunBuddy and Apple Health history together.

Before the run

One useful decision, not another dashboard.

Today keeps the next action obvious. Start freely, reuse a workout, or follow a personalized recommendation when Apple Intelligence or your personal AI provider is available.

Always available

Free Run

Start immediately with local tracking and essential audio cues. No account, API key, or network required.

Your structure

Saved workouts

Build and reuse timed or distance-based sessions without turning every run into a planning exercise.

When AI is available

Coach recommendation

Use recent training, preferences, and available health context to prepare a more relevant next session.

You stay in control

Review the plan before you start.

See the coach’s intent, effort guidance, and every workout step before deciding whether today’s recommendation fits your day.

Detailed Run Buddy AI workout recommendation with coach intent and workout steps

During the run

Guidance where it matters: in your ears.

Run Buddy AI announces the start, workout steps, countdowns, recoveries, and key effort changes. The workout engine and essential cues remain local and reliable, including when your phone is locked or another app is in front.

Run Buddy AI active workout screen showing the current step, target pace, and controls

After the run

Your history becomes context.

Progress brings together RunBuddy sessions and optional Apple Health workouts. Similar recordings are reconciled, while available heart-rate detail can enrich the session view and coach analysis.

Your momentum

Consistency is becoming your strength

3runs · 10 days

24.5 kmrecent distance

Stabletraining rhythm

RunBuddy + Apple Health

One run, richer information

Keep RunBuddy’s workout structure and spoken timeline while adding compatible heart-rate and summary data from Apple Health — without displaying the same run twice.

Run Buddy AI Progress screen with recent consistency and training history

Completed Run Buddy workout enriched with Apple Health heart-rate information

Private by design

Choose how much intelligence you want.

Running never requires a Run Buddy account, subscription, or API key.

Automatic

Uses Apple Intelligence on device when compatible. Essential workout guidance stays local.

100% local

No language-model processing. Tracking, structured workouts, history, and essential cues remain available.

Personal provider

Optional advanced AI using your own key. The key stays in Keychain and is sent only to the provider you select.

Run Buddy AI intelligence and connections settings

Product analytics never include your route, location, health metrics, prompts, conversations, keys, or custom provider URL.

Anonymous product analytics can be disabled at any time in Settings.

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Version 1.3

Run Buddy AI is becoming free.

No subscription. No Run Buddy server. Your existing runs, routes, workouts, settings, and keys stay with you.

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