# Pocket Crew: Race Pace Planner — Trail & ultra pace calculator > Trail & ultra pace calculator (iPhone/iPad app by Tom L. Graulus.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocket-crew-race-pace-planner/id6757974111 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Tom L. Graulus](https://appshunter.io/developer/1869838726) - Category: Health & Fitness, Sports - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 13 MB - Languages: American English, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, European Spanish - Released: 2026-05-20 - Data updated: 2026-10-28 ## What is Pocket Crew? Pocket Crew turns the course GPX and the race's list of aid stations into a plan you can actually run: every station with an ETA, your buffer to each cutoff, what to eat between them, and a race-day screen that shows only what comes next. Built by a trail runner for the ultra distance. Your plan and the race-day screen work with no signal, on the mountain, with the phone in your vest. PLAN THE RACE • Import the course GPX: distance, climbs and the elevation profile appear at once • Add aid stations by typing the distance or placing them on the map • Trail-aware pacing: grade, altitude, fatigue, night and heat shape every leg. Or use even pacing from one goal time • Find Pace: enter a target finish and see the flat pace it needs, with a warning when that's faster than your own flat pace • Cutoffs as clock times, the way races publish them, with your buffer at every station • Loops and out-and-backs: a GPX waypoint you pass twice gets a row for each visit, and live tracking stays on the right lap • Running the same race again? Start from last year's plan FUEL & GEAR • Hourly carb, fluid and sodium targets, suggested from your race time, the temperature and how salty you sweat • Measure your sweat rate with a simple weigh-in test • One tap fills the fuel plan to your target with the gels, drinks and real food you've tested and approved. Any brand • A plain eating plan: what to eat every hour • Gear library with shoe mileage, and a packing list per race with drop bags RACE DAY • Map-first live screen: next station, distance to go, ETA and your cutoff buffer, always in view • Arrive and leave with one tap, a station timer, and a list of what to grab from your drop bag • GPS auto-arrival, voice cues for turns and for each climb ahead, and an alert when you go off course • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with pause • Fuel reminders that say what to eat, and play over your music • Send Update: text your family your distance, next stop and finish time, with a map link, whenever you have signal • Dim red night mode TRAINING • Plan long runs with checkpoints and stash points, or just press Record and go • Splits per kilometer or mile, elevation, best efforts, and heart rate from a Bluetooth strap or Apple Health • Share a safety plan before a long run: route, checkpoints, bail-out plan and emergency contact • A short debrief that feeds back into your fuel and gear libraries • Weekly distance, time and climb • Ask Siri to start a run AFTER • Planned vs actual splits, time at aid stations, finish vs goal • Runs and races saved to Apple Health; export a GPX for Strava in one tap • A paced GPX for your watch, a printable pace card for your crew, or a wrist card • A share image of your course and time PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking. Your plans stay on your phone, and in your own iCloud if you turn sync on. Everything in Pocket Crew is free, with no subscription. An optional one-time "Buy Me a Gel" supports the developer and adds three extra app icons. Kilometers or miles, meters or feet. Pocket Crew is the tool I wanted at 3 a.m. at mile 45. If it helps you, a rating helps me keep building it. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Buy Me a Gel | $2.99 | one-time | ## Is Pocket Crew safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Pocket Crew. ## Is Pocket Crew legit? Pocket Crew: Race Pace Planner appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Pocket Crew is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.2 — 2026-10-26 • Pocket Crew now speaks French, Spanish, Italian, German and Dutch • A new name on the App Store: Pocket Crew: Race Pace Planner. Same app, same plans • Buy Me a Gel: an optional one-time tip that unlocks three extra app icons and a supporter mark on your share images. Every feature stays free ### 1.1 — 2026-10-24 • Kilometers or miles (Settings > Units) • Runs and races saved to Apple Health; GPX export for Strava • Start a new race from a previous race's plan • Place aid stations on the map; a station passed twice on a loop gets a row for each visit • Fuel: suggested targets, one-tap fill from the fuel you've tested, and a sweat-rate test • Race day: cutoff buffer always in view, pull-up drawer, bigger buttons, night mode • Send Update to family, a "grab here" list at drop bags, and a safety plan to share before long runs • Live Activity for every run, with pause from the Lock Screen and an off-course alert • Voice cue before each climb; fuel reminders say what to eat • Wrist card, share image, and "Start a run" with Siri • Today's race or run is one tap away on the Record tab • Fixes for GPS on loop courses, pause and pace, crash recovery and trail-pacing ETAs ### 1.0 — 2026-05-20 No release notes. ## More apps by Tom L. Graulus - [DeepFocus - Pomodoro Timer](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/deepfocus-pomodoro-timer/id6757949768) - [Budget Room: Sub Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/budget-room-sub-tracker/id6758020989) - [TikClockOut](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tikclockout/id6758422366) All apps by Tom L. Graulus: https://appshunter.io/developer/1869838726 --- *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 2026-10-28.*