# Plod: Calm Run Coach — A voice coach for your runs > A voice coach for your runs (iPhone/iPad app by Manuel Rinaldi.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/plod-calm-run-coach/id6801514966 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Manuel Rinaldi](https://appshunter.io/developer/395552298) - Category: Health & Fitness, Lifestyle - Price: Free (on sale, was $0.99) - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 5 MB - Released: 2026-08-20 - Data updated: 2026-09-08 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/plod-calm-run-coach/id6801514966/reviews.md ## What is Plod? Plod is a running app that stays out of the way. No account. No login. No subscription. No feed, no followers, no streak guilt. You open it, you run, it tells you how it went. RUN WITH A VOICE IN YOUR EAR Plod speaks at the start and finish, at every completed kilometre, and when your pace drifts away from what the session asked for. Every number it says — your split, your elapsed time, your pace — is worked out on your phone or watch. It is correct, and it works with no signal and no account. Speech ducks your music instead of stopping it, and keeps going with the screen locked. SESSIONS THAT FIT YOUR PACES Tell Plod what you're training for and what you can run it in today. It works out your easy, long, tempo, interval and recovery paces from there, then builds named sessions around them — controlled pick-ups, steady tempo blocks, run/walk, long easy finishes. The coach walks you through each block, counts you into the end of one, and tells you when you're pushing an easy day too hard. APPLE WATCH THAT DOESN'T NEED YOUR PHONE Start a run on the watch and leave the phone at home. Route, distance, pace, heart rate and calories are recorded on your wrist, and the same voice coach speaks through it — including full interval and tempo sessions. Runs save to the watch first and transfer to your iPhone whenever the two are next near each other. Nothing is lost if you run out of range. THE DETAIL AFTERWARDS Kilometre splits with a relative-speed bar, elevation per split, your route on a map, moving time, cadence, steps, and average and maximum heart rate. Each figure appears only when it genuinely exists — Plod leaves a number out rather than inventing one. Runs save to Apple Health when you allow it, and export as JSON whenever you want them elsewhere. OPTIONAL: BRING YOUR OWN AI If you have an OpenAI API key, Plod can add one short line of encouragement to what the coach already says, and answer training questions in plain language. The key is yours, stored in your device Keychain, and never leaves it except to talk to OpenAI. Everything above works fully without it. Plod gives general fitness guidance, not medical advice. It is not a substitute for a doctor or a qualified coach. Stop and seek medical care if you feel unwell. ## Version history (last 2 releases) ### 2.0 — 2026-08-28 LAPS Plod now has a Laps session, for the runs that go round and round. Start it wherever your circuit starts. Plod measures the loop the first time round, then calls each lap after that — the lap number, the lap time, and whether you were quicker or slower than your first one. There is nothing to set up and nothing to tap mid-run. Your laps are listed in the run summary afterwards, next to your splits. Because Plod works out the loop from where you actually started, a 1.2 km park circuit reads as one lap, not one lap and a bit. ALSO IN THIS VERSION Your watch no longer stops measuring when you look at something else. If you left Plod to check a message or change a song, the distance you covered while you were away used to be lost. It is now counted. Music comes back to full volume after the coach speaks. Plod turns your music down to speak over it and then turns it back up — but sometimes it did not, and the rest of the run played quietly. Plod now checks that the volume really did come back, and keeps trying until it has. ### 1.0 — 2026-08-20 No release notes. ## More apps by Manuel Rinaldi - [TeatroInTown](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/teatrointown/id395552295) - [Arsenal AI. Art Generator](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/arsenal-ai-art-generator/id6745149054) - [Rosario 54](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rosario-54/id6801182922) - [Medjugorje: Peace Chaplet](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/medjugorje-peace-chaplet/id6804197688) All apps by Manuel Rinaldi: https://appshunter.io/developer/395552298 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-08.*