Best 5K Track Apps

4.6😊(4.7K ratings)

$4.99

#9in Health & Fitness

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This app guides new runners from a sedentary lifestyle to completing a 5K race. It offers a structured nine-week training plan with virtual coaches and audio cues. Track your progress, map routes, and log workouts to achieve your running goals.

What We Love

🚀 Great for beginners
👍 Gradual progression
🚀 Effective training program
🚀 Helps build endurance
👍 Motivating coaches
👍 Integrates with music
👍 Easy to use

Room to Improve

🐛 Glitches and crashes
🔋 Drains battery
🔇 Audio issues with music volume
🤖 Annoying coach voices
🧭 Inaccurate GPS tracking
🧭 Lacks treadmill support
🧭 Apple Watch integration issues

None to Run: Beginner, 5K, 10K by UniqueBits, LLC

Training Plans & Tracker App

Strong Contender

4.8😊(5.1K ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

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This app offers structured training plans designed for absolute beginners to build a sustainable running habit. It provides gradual progression, audio cues, and strength routines to help users start running safely and consistently, even if they've never run before.

What We Love

🚀 Gradual and achievable program
👍 Supportive and welcoming community
🚀 Seamless integration with Apple Watch and music
👍 Excellent customer service and support
🚀 Customizable and flexible program
👍 Comprehensive training plans (None to Run, 5K, 10K)
🚀 Detailed workout tracking and statistics

Room to Improve

🐛 Occasional syncing issues between phone and watch
🐛 Distance tracking inaccuracies on treadmill
🐛 App crashes or bugs after recent updates

iRun. Couch to Runner : Run 5k by Lumos apps

Start running & feel better

Worth Considering

Simple. Reliable. Private.

4.8😊(5K ratings)

FreeAdsIn-App Purchases

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This app guides beginners to run a 5K in eight weeks with personalized training plans. Workouts combine walking and running intervals, lasting up to 30 minutes, three times a week. Track progress or use an audio coach for guidance.

What We Love

🚀 Great way to ease back into running
👍 Excellent helpful app
👍 Well paced and easy to use
👍 Helpful training app
👍 Easy to use and kept me motivated
👍 This is really helping me with my fitness
👍 Successful first run in a year
👍 Excellent app for beginners
👍 Awesome app!
👍 Motivating as h*ll
👍 So Helpful
👍 Great app

Room to Improve

🐛 Some good, some bad
🐛 Keeps wiping data
🐛 App pauses workout
🐛 Lacking features
🐛 App issue
🐛 Profile recovery
🐛 Not sure why it won't progress
🐛 Too soon
🐛 Keeps pausing in the middle of my running and walking sets
🐛 So frustrated after completing level 6 workout 2 my profile was deleted with no way to recover it
🐛 Not great for beginners too much running to start with for the unfit
🐛 Keeps wiping all of my data, progress & logged runs twice now

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