Best Beginner Running Apps

Strava: Run, Bike, Walk

Suivez vos activités sportives

Free

Track all your activities, from runs to yoga, and share your progress with friends. Discover new routes, get AI-powered insights, and join challenges. Stay motivated and safe with real-time location sharing.

C25K® 5K Running Coach & Map

Run Training - Couch to Runner

Free

This app guides beginners from being inactive to running a 5K in 8 weeks. It uses a structured plan with audio coaching and alerts, gradually increasing running intervals. Users can map their runs and join a supportive community.

Runna: Running Plans & Coach

5k to Marathon Training

Free

This app provides tailored running training plans designed by world-class coaches for all levels, from beginners to marathoners. It offers personalized programs, run tracking, strength training, and a supportive community.

Start Running For Beginners

Couch to 5K - for weight loss

Free

This app guides beginners into running with a structured plan designed to increase jogging time gradually. It offers personalized coaching, detailed tracking, and voice feedback to help users achieve their fitness goals, including weight loss.

Map My Run GPS Running Tracker

5K 10K, Half Marathon Training

Free

Track your runs with GPS, get personalized training plans, and real-time stats. This app offers coaching tips, community motivation, and supports over 600 activities. Improve your performance indoors or outdoors.

ASICS Runkeeper—Run Tracker

Running App and Training Plans

Free

Track your runs, set personalized goals, and follow guided workouts to improve your fitness. This app offers GPS tracking for various activities, progress monitoring, and motivational features to help you achieve your running ambitions.

Running Walking Tracker Goals

Run, Walk & Jog Mile Distance

Free

Track your running, walking, and biking activities to achieve fitness goals like weight loss or calorie counting. Monitor distance, speed, elevation, and calories burned with voice control and Apple Watch integration. Offers various activity types and customizable goals.

Zombies, Run!

Epic Running Adventures

Free

Transform your workouts into epic audio adventures. This fitness app uses immersive storytelling to motivate you to run, walk, or jog anywhere, at any pace. Integrate your music and track your progress with GPS, unlocking new story elements as you go.

Running Slimkit - Lose Weight

Distance Tracker and Fitness

Free

This app offers a comprehensive approach to weight loss through running and nutrition. It provides personalized training plans with interval workouts and balanced meal plans, along with features to track progress and stay motivated.

iRun. Couch to 5K running app

Start running & feel better

Free

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.

Couch to 5K® - Run training

by Active Network, LLC

$4.99

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.

Running Trainer: Tracker&Coach

Run Coach: 5K & 10K Runner

Free

This app provides accurate running tracking, including pace, distance, calories, and heart rate. It offers voice feedback, music integration, and a history of your running activities to help you improve.

Run With Hal

Coach-Led Run Plans

Free

This app provides personalized, adaptive training plans for various running distances, from 5K to 50K. It's guided by legendary coach Hal Higdon and adjusts to your progress, schedule, and goals. Features include GPS tracking, daily tips, and progress summaries to help you achieve your running ambitions.

adidas Running: Run tracker

From Walk to Marathon training

Free

Track your runs and fitness activities with personalized training plans for all levels. Connect with a global community, join challenges, and monitor your progress with detailed stats and expert guidance.

Joggo - Run Tracker & Coach

Weight loss running plans

Free

This app provides personalized running programs and meal plans to help users achieve their fitness and weight loss goals. It offers features like treadmill training, progress-based plan adjustments, educational content, and motivational rewards. Track your runs, monitor progress, and stay motivated with this all-in-one fitness companion.

RUN interval - Running Timer

Interval running made easier.

Free

This app simplifies interval and Fartlek running by allowing you to set custom targets for time or distance during hard, easy, and rest efforts. It offers detailed post-run summaries, audio and visual feedback, and an Apple Watch app for enhanced training.

Runmeter Running & Walking GPS

Run, Ride, and Walk Tracker

Free

This app transforms your iPhone into a powerful fitness computer, tracking a wide range of outdoor activities with detailed stats, maps, and graphs. It offers voice commands, live tracking, and training plans, with advanced features available through an upgrade.