Runbound: Run to Your Goal

Most running apps hand you their program: three runs a week, take it or leave it. Runbound works the other way round. You say what you want to get to, and the app builds the plan that gets you there. TWO GOALS, DONE PROPERLY Get there: your first 30 unbroken minutes, your first 5 km, or 5 km out to 10 km. Get faster: those same distances, at a pace you have not held before. That is the whole app. We do not train you for a marathon, because that is a different sport and it deserves a plan of its own. RUN ON YOUR RHYTHM Not "3x a week". Run every other day, every 3rd day, or pick the exact weekdays that fit your life. SEE THE STRAIN BEFORE YOU COMMIT Move the sliders for goal, timeline and rhythm, and the strain gauge answers honestly: Safe, Ambitious or Risky, with the reason in plain words. Coaches suggest adding no more than about 10% load a week. Runbound tells you what your timeline costs before you start, not after your shins find out. CLIMB, DO NOT LEAP Your plan starts from what you can run today and grows in steps your body can keep up with. The move from walk-run to continuous running is a bridge, not a wall. Say a run felt too hard and the next one steps back a level. MISS A RUN AND NOTHING BREAKS The plan reshuffles itself along your rhythm. There is no streak to lose, no red mark, no lecture. Good to see you back is the only message you will get. GUIDANCE ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app guides every step, phone free: run and walk cues with a 3-2-1 countdown you can feel, live pace and cadence on a keep-it-centered gauge, and haptics that tell you to lift or ease off. Runs sync back to your iPhone and save to Apple Health. A ROUTE THAT ENDS WHERE YOU STARTED Ask for a route and Runbound draws round-trips that fit today's run and finish where you set off, following real streets. The route rides along on your wrist and fills in behind you as you go. Routes cover the United States and ten countries in Europe today; the coverage map on runbound.app shows exactly where. WORKS WITH APPLE'S WORKOUT APP Prefer to start from Apple's own Workout app? Add your next runs there with one tap, walk segments become Recovery intervals, and Runbound recognises the runs you finish there, so they count towards your plan either way. YOUR PROGRESS, HONESTLY DRAWN The road to your goal draws every run behind you and the exact path ahead. No vanity metrics, nothing to shame you with. RUNBOUND PRO Your first three runs are free, with the full app and nothing held back. After that it is one small monthly subscription. There is no trial counting down in the background, so nothing is charged until you decide to subscribe. Cancel anytime. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your health data never leaves your device. No account, no social feed, no ads. Runbound asks first: no permission pop-ups until you press the button. Guided runs need an Apple Watch. Planning, routes and progress work on iPhone alone.