# Run Buddy AI — Adaptive audio running coach

> Adaptive audio running coach (iPhone/iPad app by Antoine Mairesse.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/run-buddy-ai/id6762467126 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Antoine Mairesse](https://appshunter.io/developer/1894261072)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Navigation
- Price: Free (on sale, was $0.99)
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 17 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Spanish
- Released: 2026-04-24
- Data updated: 2026-08-19
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/run-buddy-ai/id6762467126/reviews.md

## What is Run Buddy AI?

Run Buddy AI helps you choose, run, and understand the workout that matters today.

Start a Free Run, follow a structured workout, or use the coach recommendation when Apple Intelligence or your personal AI provider is available. You can add a GPX route to any kind of run. It remains an optional reference and never replaces workout targets, steps, or distance.

DURING THE RUN

Audio coaching announces starts, transitions, recoveries, and effort changes. During sufficiently long blocks and free phases, the coach can also interpret your recent effort, consistency, and completed kilometres. A GPX adds map and elevation context without forcing voice navigation or ending the workout.

AFTER THE RUN

Review consistency, history, and coach analysis in a clear progression view. If you choose, Run Buddy AI connects to Apple Health to bring together runs recorded with the app, Apple Watch, or another compatible watch. Available heart-rate data can enrich the analysis.

SIMPLE AND PRIVATE

• Free Run always within reach
• Structured and saved workouts
• Optional GPX routes
• Audio coaching during the effort
• Unified RunBuddy and Apple Health history
• Optional AI analysis and recommendations

No Run Buddy account is required. The workout engine, GPS tracking, and essential cues work locally. Apple Intelligence stays on device when available. A personal provider key stays in Keychain and is sent only to the provider you select.

Run Buddy AI is free, with no subscription and no Run Buddy server.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4.0 — 2026-08-17

Run Buddy AI 1.4 adds richer context without making runs harder to start.

- Choose a GPX route for a Free Run, saved workout, or coach recommendation.
- Import a new GPX directly when preparing a run.
- Routes remain optional guidance: leave the path, take a shortcut, or run several laps without interrupting the workout.
- Elevation context now follows your real position on the route more accurately.
- During free phases and longer blocks, the coach interprets fresh measurements and completed kilometres without inventing a target for the next one.
- Local store migrations and recovery are more resilient to protect existing history.

Your existing runs, workouts, routes, and settings are preserved.

### 1.3.3 — 2026-08-04

This update improves pace reliability when GPS accuracy is reduced, avoids premature target-deviation cues, filters unrealistic elevation drift, and makes heart-rate coverage more representative for watches that record at a lower frequency.

### 1.3.2 — 2026-07-25

Run Buddy AI 1.3.2 makes post-run follow-up and Apple Health synchronization more reliable.

- Tell the coach whether a completed workout felt too easy, about right, or too hard.
- Access this feedback again from the workout details if you did not answer immediately.
- Coach analyses and recommendations now resume automatically after an interruption.
- Apple Health synchronization is more reliable, including during manual refreshes or when no new workout is found.
- Long coach responses powered by Apple Intelligence are handled more reliably.

Your existing runs and settings are preserved.

### 1.3.1 — 2026-07-22

Run Buddy AI is now free.

This release reorganizes the app around Today, Progress, and Library, adds Apple Health history, reconciles similar recordings, and enriches runs with available heart-rate detail. Settings, coach analysis, and workout screens have also been redesigned.

No account, subscription, or API key is required to run. Apple Intelligence and a personal provider remain optional. Existing users keep their runs, routes, workouts, settings, and keys.

### 1.2.1 — 2026-06-26

What's New:
- Improved delayed workout starts when locking your phone before running.
- Made the first coaching cue more reliable after countdowns.
- Improved live AI coaching continuity during structured workouts.
- Added clearer pace target information in workout analysis and coaching.
- Added elevation gain/loss context to help AI coaching better interpret effort.
- Improved coach summaries, recommendations, and translations.
- Fixed cases where API keys could appear saved but fail during AI requests.
- Improved keyboard dismissal in coach conversations.
- General reliability, performance, and prompt quality improvements.

## More apps by Antoine Mairesse

- [HikeBuddyAI](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hikebuddyai/id6762484354)

All apps by Antoine Mairesse: https://appshunter.io/developer/1894261072

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