Free Run
Start immediately with local tracking and essential audio cues. No account, API key, or network required.
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Your run for today.
Choose a clear session, hear the important moments while you run, and turn your history and your own feedback into useful progress — without building a complicated training plan.
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.
Saved workouts
Build and reuse timed or distance-based sessions without turning every run into a planning exercise.
Coach recommendation
Use recent training, preferences, and available health context to prepare a more relevant next session.
You stay in control
Choose a route without changing the workout.
Reuse a saved GPX route, import a new one, or run without a route. The choice is visible before the start and remains independent from the workout plan.
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.
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.
Consistency is becoming your strength
3runs · 10 days
24.5 kmrecent distance
Stabletraining rhythm
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.
Observed, not imposed
Running references built from your real sessions.
Run Buddy summarizes the paces you actually sustain by effort type, duration, and terrain. These references give the coach useful context without turning them into rigid prescribed zones.
Your last word
Tell the coach what the numbers missed.
Keep the quick too hard, just right, or too easy choice, then add an optional note in your own words. The coach uses both when producing the run recap and updating its memory. You can edit the feedback later from the run detail and request an updated recap.
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.
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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A coach with better context.
Observed running references and optional written feedback help the coach understand the run behind the numbers.