# Kova Run — Run Simple. Watch Ready. > Run Simple. Watch Ready. (iPhone/iPad app by APPE LATTE LIMITED.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kova-run/id6762404544 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [APPE LATTE LIMITED](https://appshunter.io/developer/1480686912) - Category: Health & Fitness, Sports - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 20 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-06-27 - Data updated: 2026-09-04 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kova-run/id6762404544/reviews.md ## What is Kova Run? KOVA records your run and then tells you what it was, in a sentence. Most trackers hand you a wall of charts and leave the reading to you. Kova does the reading. Every summary opens with a plain-language account of the session: how you started against your average, where the pace went, what the splits did, whether it took a record. It states facts. It never coaches you. RUN, WALK, HIKE Three modes, each measured on its own terms. Runs and walks lead with pace. Hikes lead with vertical metres per hour, because pace is the wrong number on a climb. A hike starts with the trail name, the one thing only you know — everything else comes off the recording. WHILE YOU RUN One number at full height, the one you chose, above a pace channel showing where you are sitting. Four smaller tiles you can swap. Lap, pause, map. That is the whole screen. GHOST Race a past run. Kova rebuilds it as a time-and-distance curve and shows the gap live, in seconds, with a haptic when the lead changes. Free: your own last time on a route you have run before, picked up automatically when you start where you started last time. Pro: pick any past run, race a friend's shared ghost, and read the gap chart afterwards. A shared ghost carries a time and distance curve only. No coordinates. Sharing your ghost never shares where you run. BEACON Hand one person a live link before you head out. They watch your position and route in a browser — no app, no account. The link is the only credential and carries no identity; the contact name you save stays on your phone. Kova checks in on you during the run, notices if you leave the line you planned, and tracks your turnaround budget. End the run and the session is deleted, so the link stops working. AFTERWARDS Splits coloured by what they actually did. Records, and how far off them you were. Route clustering that recognises the same loop across months, with a progress ladder down it. Share cards that draw your route line rather than screenshot a map, including cutout frames you can put your own photo behind. Workouts written to Apple Health. ON YOUR WRIST AND HOME SCREEN An Apple Watch app: one crown-scrolled column under a pace band. A Live Activity carrying the same pace channel on the Lock Screen. A Home Screen widget and a Control Center control for starting from wherever you are. KOVA PRO Full analytics: 7, 30 and 90-day trends, efficiency measured as seconds per kilometre at the same heart rate, volume, and fourteen cards a tap down. Personal bests across every distance. Training load and ACWR. Time in heart-rate zones, per run and across a window. Ghost: any past run, a friend's ghost, the post-run gap chart. A mid-run notice when a record is within reach. LOCATION AND YOUR DATA Kova asks for location While Using, never Always. Runs sync to your Kova account so a lost phone is not a lost history — that includes the route line, which is why the signed-in session is bound to this device and kept out of device backups. Sign out and the next person to sign in on the same phone sees nothing of yours. Delete your account and the runs, splits, records and profile go with it. Built for iOS 26. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Kova Monthly | $2.99 | per month | | Kova+ Yearly | $19.99 | per year | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.2.1 — 2026-08-22 YOUR WATCH NO LONGER NEEDS YOUR PHONE Start a run, walk or hike on Apple Watch, leave your phone at home, and Kova keeps the whole session on your wrist — stats and your route map included. Browse past sessions right on the watch. When your phone turns up, everything transfers across on its own and appears in History, your profile and the web portal. Nothing is lost if the two never meet. A REDESIGNED WATCH APP Every screen rebuilt around one number that owns the screen. Swipe between pace, heart rate with time in zone, your ghost, and safety — you choose what you glance at. Hikes lead with ascent and climb rate, walks with time on feet and steps, so neither shows a pace that means nothing. FIXES Sunrise and sunset times were the wrong way round. Route maps and splits could vanish from a run after syncing — they now come back on their own. Personal bests are measured on your moving time, so pausing no longer costs you a record. Premium codes unlock Pro properly. Splits are colour-coded when you reopen an activity, and the mid-run map opens at half height with your pace and time still visible. ### 1.2 — 2026-08-19 Treadmill and indoor runs: Kova now measures distance from your steps when GPS can't help. New Polaroid-style share stickers you can drop straight onto a Story, with your own photo showing through. ### 1.1.2 — 2026-08-15 • Small update bump to fix a bug where PB's weren't storing properly. ### 1.1.1 — 2026-08-14 • Small update bump to fix a bug for logging body metrics. ### 1.1 — 2026-08-13 GHOST Race a past run. The gap shows live, in seconds, with a haptic when the lead changes. The free tier picks up your last time on a route you have run before. Pro adds any past run, a friend's shared ghost, and the gap chart afterwards. A shared ghost carries a time and distance curve only — never coordinates. BEACON Hand one person a live link before you head out. They watch in a browser, no app needed. Kova checks in during the run, notices if you leave the line you planned, and tracks your turnaround budget. The run ends, the link dies. HIKE MODE Start with the trail name; the rest comes off the recording. Vertical metres per hour replaces pace, because pace is the wrong number on a climb. REDESIGNED, EVERY SCREEN The summary now opens with a plain-language read of the run instead of seven stacked cards. One hero number over a pace channel while you run. History groups the same route across months. Analytics leads with the figure that moved. New share cards, including cutout frames for your own photo. The watch app is one crown-scrolled column. FIXED Elevation was corrupted by every pause and resume, which threw off gradient and grade-adjusted pace. Signing out left the previous account's profile, records and training load on the phone; it no longer does. 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