# Runmate - Run with Friends — One runner's music, all voices

> One runner's music, all voices (iPhone/iPad app by Seongjoon Kim.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/runmate-run-with-friends/id6813763711 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Seongjoon Kim](https://appshunter.io/developer/1878659516)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Social Networking
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 30 MB
- Languages: American English, Korean
- Released: 2026-09-23
- Data updated: 2026-10-09

## What is Runmate?

Run with friends to one song, and hear each other as you go.

Open a room with a code and your friends join in. The music one runner plays reaches everyone in the room at the same moment, and turning on the mic sends your voice too. Close by, phones connect straight to each other; apart, they stay together over the internet.

Your run is tracked as usual: distance, pace and time, a split for every kilometer, and your route on the map. Set a goal and you'll hear when you're halfway and when you're done. In a room, your friends show up as dots on the map, so you always know how far apart you are.

Wear an Apple Watch and your run is on your wrist too — time, distance and pace, with pause and stop at hand. Allow saving to the Health app and each run becomes a workout, the watch measures your heart rate, and a run's details show your heart-rate zones, cadence and elevation.

Sign in with Apple, Google or Kakao. Your runs stay on your phone.

• Make a room, or join with a code, a QR code or an invite link
• Play music from another app, or a file of your own, to the room
• Share your voice with the mic
• Distance, pace, time, 1 km splits and your route
• Distance or time goals with spoken updates
• Follow, pause and stop your run on Apple Watch, with live heart rate
• Save runs to the Health app, with heart-rate zones, cadence and elevation
• Show your heart rate to the room, if you want to
• Follow your run on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island
• A notification when your run ends, and a summary every week

## Is Runmate safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Runmate.

## Is Runmate legit?

Runmate - Run with Friends has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Runmate is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.2 — 2026-10-07

• Stats: Profile → Stats, or the "This week" card on the home screen. Weekly, monthly and yearly bars, and personal records (longest run and time, fastest 1 km, 5 km, 10 km and half marathon).
• Pace and elevation charts on the run summary and in each record, plus a title and a note. The share button sends a result card.
• Indoor runs: turn on "Indoor run" in the goal sheet and a treadmill run measures distance from your steps, with no route.
• "Share as GPX file" at the bottom of a record moves it to other apps.
• Weekly goal in Settings (10, 20, 30 or 50 km), shown as a bar on the home card and a line in Stats, with your weeks in a row.
• Pick how often the voice reports (0.5, 1 or 2 km, every 5 or 10 minutes) and a target pace in Settings. The flag button on the run screen cuts a lap.
• Cancelling the countdown now stops the voice at once and returns to the room if you started there.

### 1.1.3 — 2026-10-06

• The room screen now has a bar along the bottom: Leave, Mic, Start, Music and Share, each with its name under it.
• Opening another room's invite link while you're in a room moves you there and leaves the old room.
• Starting the broadcast before you're in a room now says to join a room first.

### 1.1.2 — 2026-10-05

• While you share another app's music, the screen now stays on. iOS ends the sharing when the screen turns off.
• New: Screen off. It covers the screen in black and ignores touches, so the phone can go in your pocket without being locked. Hold the screen to unlock.
• If the screen turns off and the sharing ends, the room tells you right away.
• Turning sharing off or leaving a room now ends the broadcast at once, without an alert.
• Fixed the broadcast sheet opening by itself when you entered a new room.

### 1.1.1 — 2026-10-02

• Making a room takes you straight into it. The code, QR and invite link are behind the share button at the top right of the room's map.
• Joining with a code, an invite link or a QR takes you straight into the room too.
• Leave a room with the button at its top left. Runmate asks once before you go.
• Pick a goal time of 20, 30 or 45 minutes or an hour, or roll the wheel under "Custom" to set your own.
• The pause button sits in the same place on every page of the run screen.
• The orange microphone indicator is on only while you're on the run screen.
• Fixed Spotify pausing when you share another app's music.
• If the app quits unexpectedly, run cards no longer stay or pile up on the Lock Screen.

### 1.1 — 2026-09-30

• New: Runmate on Apple Watch. Start a run on your phone and it opens on your wrist — time, distance and pace, with pause and stop. With Save to Health on, it measures your heart rate too.
• Save your runs to the Health app as workouts: distance, route, pauses, elevation, and calories when your weight is known. Run with your watch on and the watch saves the workout with your heart rate.
• A run's details now show heart rate (average, max, curve and zones), cadence, elevation and running form. Your profile shows VO₂ max.
• Your live heart rate on the run screen.
• Turn on "Show my heart rate to the room" in Settings and the friends you run with see it too. It's off by default.
• The room is a tap away without starting the run — from the room's own page, and from the pause screen too. Ending a run now takes a 1.5-second hold.
• Sharing another app's sound starts with a short guide: play the music first, then start the broadcast. A minute of silence ends the sharing on its own.

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