# Pace Buddy — Voice-guided running plans

> Voice-guided running plans (iPhone/iPad app by Marcello Mascia.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pace-buddy/id6792657057 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Marcello Mascia](https://appshunter.io/developer/332157008)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Utilities
- Price: Free (on sale, was $3.99)
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.6 · 18 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-09
- Data updated: 2026-10-31

## What is Pace Buddy?

Set a goal. Get a plan. Let your watch coach every run.

Pace Buddy answers one question every day: why run today? You pick a goal — a 5K, a 10K, a half, a marathon, or just the habit of running more — and Pace Buddy turns it into a training plan where each day is the next step toward it. Your progress is always in front of you.

Then your Apple Watch takes over. It runs each workout hands-free, guiding you by voice. Leave your phone at home.

WHAT IT DOES

• Goal to plan. Choose a race or a habit and get a training plan built around it, laid out day by day.
• Your watch coaches you. Pace, heart rate, distance, and the current step on screen — and in your ears. Pace Buddy speaks each step change, a heads-up before the next one, the halfway point, and every split with its pace.
• Pace nudges. On a pace-target run it tells you when you drift — speed up, ease off — and when you're back on.
• Fully offline on the watch. No phone, no signal needed. Cues play over the watch speaker, AirPods, or any Bluetooth headphones.
• Saved to Apple Health. Every run is saved as a workout with its route and an effort score, so it counts toward your rings.
• Paces that fit you. Your targets come from your recent 5K time — type it in, pick a run from Health, or run the built-in 5K time trial. Run a faster 5K and Pace Buddy offers to update the rest of your plan.
• Just want to run? Quick Start gives you an easy run, a long run, a tempo, intervals, or a fartlek with no setup at all.
• Stays in step. Reminders on training days, a watch-face complication, the Smart Stack, and "ask Siri for today's run." Your plan lives in your own iCloud and reaches your watch automatically.

NO LOCK-IN

No account. No subscription. Your identity is your own iCloud, your health data stays in Apple Health, and a plan someone shares with you opens straight in the app. Pace Buddy is the coach — the goal and the plan are yours.

The run itself needs an Apple Watch: live GPS, heart rate, and voice coaching all happen on your wrist.

## Is Pace Buddy safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Pace Buddy.

## Is Pace Buddy legit?

Pace Buddy appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Pace Buddy is 75 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1.0 — 2026-10-23

• More accurate pace. The pace on your watch reacts faster when you speed up or slow down, and the pace it speaks now matches your distance.
• Made for big screens. On iPad and iPhone Duo, a workout opens next to Today or your plan, and the list stays in view. Hold the screen upright and Pace Buddy opens on Today.
• Every run shows its map. Fixed runs that opened with no route, or with some of their analysis missing.
• Smaller fixes and polish.

### 1.0 — 2026-10-09

No release notes.

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