# Runner Lab — Running goals & analytics

> Running goals & analytics (iPhone/iPad app by Luigi Coden.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/runner-lab/id6783847213 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Luigi Coden](https://appshunter.io/developer/6783847215)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Sports
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 5 MB
- Languages: American English, Italian
- Released: 2026-07-02
- Data updated: 2026-09-09
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/runner-lab/id6783847213/reviews.md

## What is Runner Lab?

Runner Lab reads your runs from Apple Health and turns them into a clear picture: how much you've done, where you're heading and what you can reach by the end of the year.

Everything happens ON YOUR IPHONE. Runner Lab reads your data read-only, never writes to Health, has no account and uses no tracking.

YEARLY GOAL & PROJECTION
• Set a kilometre goal for the year.
• See progress, weekly pace and your end-of-year projection: will you make it?
• Compare against the ideal plan, week by week.

WIDGET & SHORTCUTS
• The "Year" widget on your Home Screen and Lock Screen: kilometres, goal, projection and last run. It refreshes when you open the app, and says so when the data gets old.
• Three actions for the Shortcuts app: the year goal, your best over a distance, the last run.

SHARE & EXPORT
• A card to share for a run, a record or the goal, with no coordinates and no maps.
• Every run as GPX and the archive as CSV: your data stays yours.

FORM & TRAINING LOAD
• Fitness, fatigue and today's form (CTL/ATL/TSB), acute/chronic ratio, time in zone.
• Recovery: resting heart rate, HRV and VO₂max over time.

HISTORY
• Years side by side, months and weeks with the indoor split, seasonality.
• Habits: the year's calendar, consistency, your typical week, times of day and run lengths.

RECORDS & PREDICTIONS
• Personal records on standard distances (1 km, 1 mile, 5K, 10K, half, marathon).
• Race-time predictions based on the Riegel formula.

RECURRING ROUTES
• Runner Lab recognises the routes you run often by comparing shape and GPS track.
• Rename, merge or split groups however you like.

ADVANCED PER-RUN ANALYSIS
• Per-kilometre splits, elevation, climbs and descents, rhythm changes.
• Heart rate, zones, training load (CTL/ATL/TSB), efficiency factor and decoupling.

THE RUNNER LAB EDGE
Apple only computes form and load for natively-recorded workouts. Runner Lab computes them ALSO for runs imported into Health from other apps or devices — a complete picture you won't get elsewhere.

RUNNER PRO
The numbers are free: goal and projection, the year-by-year archive, today's form, personal records over every distance, indoor times and the list of recognised routes. Runner Pro unlocks the readings: the training-load curves and what they mean, the daily advice, race predictions and record progression, comparisons between repeats of a route, zones and advanced per-run analysis, Habits and period trends in History. Available as a subscription or a one-time purchase. The yearly subscription starts with a seven-day free trial.

ACCESSIBILITY
• The whole app follows Larger Text, all the way to accessibility sizes.
• With VoiceOver the charts can be walked with the Audio Graph: pace sounds like a pace, not like a decimal number.
• Contrast measured role by role in both themes, 44-point tap targets, and Reduce Motion respected.

PRIVACY
No server, no account, no tracking. Processing happens on your device; the only exception is optional and off by default: turn on "Names from the starting place" and a route's starting point is sent once to Apple's geocoding service to obtain its name.

Requires runs recorded in Apple Health. No data yet? You can explore the app with sample data.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy: https://privacy.coden.cloud/runner

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Runner Pro - Yearly | $24.99 | per year |
| Runner Pro - Monthly | $4.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Runner Pro - Lifetime | $59.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.3 — 2026-09-08

• **The widget shows your form.** In the medium widget with a goal, the form takes the place of the verdict the bar already gives: the band and the signed number, the last one the app computed. It stays while it is less than two days old, the same clock the widget uses to declare stale data; past that the verdict comes back, instead of a band decided three days ago.
• **The widget taps through where it matters.** Each cell of the medium size opens where its number is explained: form opens Form, the record opens Records, the rest opens Year.
• **Indoor runners are visible.** In the medium widget without a goal, the record is your indoor time when you have none on the road over 10 or 5 km, and it says so: "Indoor 10 km". The shareable card of a treadmill run now carries the word "Indoors", which three rules in place of the shape of the route never said.
• **One clock.** The widget and the Shortcuts actions declare old data by the same threshold, after two days: before, the widget said it and the action stayed quiet until the seventh.
• **The actions tell you where you're heading.** "Year goal" now adds the end-of-year projection, the same one you read in the medium widget. And in the Shortcuts app the three actions explain themselves, instead of being a list label.
• **Charts you can hear.** With VoiceOver the Audio Graph now walks the period trend, the year comparison, a run's elevation profile and the heat chart: four curves you could previously only look at. Pace sounds like a pace, not like a decimal number.
• **The free trial shows, and so does the price.** The yearly subscription button reads "Start free trial" when the trial is yours to take. The terms now sit above the button and always carry the figure: before, whoever picked the monthly plan read renewal and cancellation and no price at all. And switching plans no longer makes the page jump.
• **More honest numbers after an update.** The widget does not show records computed under superseded criteria: they are recomputed the first time you open the app. And a form decided under changed criteria is not repeated: the cell goes back to the verdict, until the calculation says it again under today's rules. And if you have not granted access to Health yet, the widget shows your goal instead of a zero nobody measured.
• **Verdicts that wait for enough data.** Heart-rate variability is measured against the preceding weeks rather than against itself, so a week-long drop no longer reads as balance. The aerobic-base verdict stays quiet on months with a single run. And if you have just started, the end-of-year projection is computed over the weeks you actually ran, not diluted over eight.
• **Clear about what is free.** Today's form, your personal bests and the recognised routes have been free since 2.0, and the screens describing Runner Pro still listed them among its features. Now the paywall, the Settings footer and the last step of the introduction say what Pro adds: the load curve beneath the number, the daily advice, the zones, race predictions and the comparison between repeats of a route.
• **Numbers that no longer contradict each other.** In "How often you run" the label at the top read "every 2 days" while the highlighted bar below it marked a single day: those are the average gap and the gap you repeat most, and now they say so. Elevation above a thousand metres carries a thousands separator, from a run's summary to the year's "you climbed 12,345 m". And the Habits info button opens the Habits card, not the one about recent runs.
• **Large text and reduced motion.** The headers of the five sections and the split rows grow with the text instead of writing over the next line; with Reduce Motion the loading bar no longer scrolls forever; at accessibility sizes the Home advice reserves four lines instead of two, and the sentence that used to be cut mid-word now fits.

### 2.2 — 2026-09-03

• **The "Year" widget.** Your year's kilometres and goal on the Home Screen and Lock Screen, in five sizes: small, medium with the graduated bar and three readings (projection, what you need per week, verdict), and the three Lock Screen ones. It only shows what the app has already computed, and when the data gets old it says so, "Upd. 3 d ago", instead of pretending. Without a goal it still shows your last run, weekly average and 10 km best.
• **Three actions for Shortcuts.** "Year goal", "My personal best" (with a distance), "Last run": they answer with your numbers without opening the app, and say when the data is old before the number. Add them to a shortcut like any other action.
• **The Home opens on numbers.** The form card no longer flashes an empty state before computing: while it reads, it keeps the shape of the data and doesn't jump. Personal bests appear on the first frame, without waiting for Health.
• **More honest records.** Indoor-only runners hear their indoor times, never "no records"; old dates say the year; durations are spoken in words.

### 2.1 — 2026-09-02

• **Share the run, the record, the goal.** Three cards designed for chats: the shape of your loop (just the shape — never coordinates, never places), your personal-best time, the year that beats its goal. You'll find them on the run detail, in Records, and on the Home of a completed year.
• **Advice of the day.** With Runner Pro, Form crosses the three signals the app already computes — acute/chronic load, form balance, resting heart rate — into one sentence with its reasons. It only speaks when the signals agree: few words, worth reading.
• **Form starts on the right foot.** Fitness and fatigue no longer start from zero: the first weeks no longer read "Overload" for new runners, thresholds adapt to your level, and runs without a heart-rate strap count fairly instead of counting as rest.
• **Duplicate runs recognise themselves.** The same run recorded by your Watch and a third-party app no longer counts twice: the app keeps the richer version and shows you what it merged, with the option to split.
• **More honest personal bests.** Hand-entered Health entries and implausible paces no longer make it into your records: a typo doesn't rewrite your history.
• **Export your data.** Each run's GPX track from its detail screen, your full archive as CSV from Settings. Your data is yours.

### 2.0 — 2026-08-31

• **The app has been redesigned from scratch.** Paper and ink, a single accent colour — terracotta, which always means your own data — and cards replaced by fine rules. Every screen has one protagonist: the thing you came to look at.
• **Five sections instead of four.** Year, Form, Records, Routes, History. Trends and Archive answered the same question and are now one section.
• **Records has a screen of its own.** Your fastest continuous segment, personal bests over every standard distance in both kilometres and miles, indoor times, race predictions, and how each best has been rewritten over the years. It used to be reachable only through the home screen.
• **History now reads by Years, Months, Weeks and Habits.** Habits — the year day by day, consistency, rest intervals, your typical week, times of day, run lengths — used to sit at the bottom of a page where nobody found them.
• **More is free.** The line with Runner Pro has been redrawn: the **numbers** are free, the **readings** are paid. How far you've run, your personal bests, the loops you repeat and today's form are facts, and facts are everyone's. How you run, where you're heading and what follows are interpretations, and those stay Pro. No section is walled off any more: each one opens on your real data.
• **Larger text actually works.** Almost none of the app's text responded to "Larger Text" in Settings. Now it does, charts included: at large sizes the axes drop ticks rather than overlapping them.
• **Opening is instant.** The app now opens on your numbers instead of "reading your runs": the last known list is already there, and the refresh happens behind it.
• **First launch has been rebuilt**, and is shorter and clearer about what the app reads and why.

### 1.2 — 2026-08-25

• **Indoor runs are now recognised.** Treadmill sessions finally count toward your yearly total and training load, with a dedicated marker in the run list and a summary built for indoors: duration, distance and heart rate, without map or elevation.
• **Best indoor times in a separate table.** Indoors the treadmill estimates the distance and you set the pace, so these times stay out of your records and race predictions — but they are no longer lost.
• **Trends filtered by run type:** all, outdoor only or indoor only. The filter does not appear on pace metrics, because indoor pace is not comparable.
• **More accurate splits and records.** Each run's kilometres now come from the distance series recorded by Health rather than from the GPS track alone: truer splits and more reliable personal records, even when GPS is poor.
• **Privacy.** The Health permission request now lists in full every data type it reads, and the analyses stored on device are excluded from iCloud backup: they really do stay on your iPhone only.

On first launch after updating, Runner Lab reprocesses your history to apply the new split calculation — this can take a few minutes if you have many runs.

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