Questions

Run is a running app for iPhone and Apple Watch. It tracks your runs and builds a beginner plan that takes you from zero to 5K or 10K with walk/run intervals. The plan adapts every week to how you feel, so you keep improving without getting hurt. On the App Store it is called “RUN — Running Club & Tracker”.

Yes, it is made for them. You can start even if you can only walk 30 minutes: the first workouts are one minute of running and two of walking. The app tells you when to run and when to walk, out loud, so you never have to look at your phone.

Run is free to download, and tracking your runs is free forever. Your first plan workout is free too. The rest of the plan is part of Run Premium, an optional subscription: the price is shown in the app before you subscribe, and you can cancel any time from your Apple ID settings.

Run works on iPhone with iOS 15 or later and on Apple Watch with watchOS 8 or later (the Watch app works together with the iPhone app). It is not available on Android.

Run is rated 4.8 out of 5 on the US App Store from 4,800+ ratings (checked 2026-10-29), and it has helped more than 12,000 people start running.

You answer a few questions (how much you can run today, your age, any injuries, how many days a week you can train) and Run picks your starting level on a 19-level walk/run ladder. Each week has 2 or 3 runs: an Easy Run, a Recovery Run and a Challenge Run. After every run you rate how tired you feel, and at the end of the week how much anything hurts. Run uses those answers to move you up, keep you at the same level, or make the next week easier.

Most beginners reach 25 minutes of running non-stop, the 5K goal, in about 8 to 16 weeks. It depends on where you start, how often you run and how your body responds: the app shows your own estimate when it creates your plan. Try the free plan generator to see yours.

Yes. When you finish the 5K plan you get two easy weeks to hold it, then Run offers to continue to 10K: 60 minutes of running non-stop. If you can already run 30 minutes or more, Run can start you on the 10K plan directly.

Tell the app. If you rate a run as very tiring, the next run gets lighter right away. If the week was tiring overall, Run repeats the level; if something hurts, the next week is easier. You never have to “keep up” with a fixed schedule.

Nothing breaks. You can pause the plan, and when you come back after 2 to 8 weeks Run eases you back in at a lower level. After more than two months it suggests starting a fresh plan.

No. Couch to 5K is a fixed 9-week schedule that is the same for everyone. Run also uses walk/run intervals, but it chooses your starting point and changes every week based on how tired you feel and any pain, so the plan fits you instead of the calendar. See Run vs Couch to 5K.

Yes. Run records distance, pace, time, route, elevation, cadence, heart rate (with a watch) and calories, with a live map and an audio coach. It also saves the weather and your splits, and it works for free runs and for runs with a goal of distance, time or calories.

Yes. Start a free run or your plan run from the watch: it guides your walk and run intervals with haptics and voice, shows your heart rate live, and asks how tired you feel at the end. Complications show your week, month and year on the watch face.

Run saves your runs to Apple Health and reads running workouts from it, including runs recorded by Apple Watch and other apps, so your stats, levels and badges include all of them.

Yes. Your runs, shoes and your plan sync through your own iCloud, so they come back on a new iPhone or after you reinstall the app.

Yes. Run counts your weekly streak (one run a week keeps it alive, and as it grows you earn “freezes”, up to three, that save it when life gets in the way) and has 26 badges, from your first 3 km to running in the rain or at dawn. Your total distance also moves you through 10 Run Levels.

Yes. Make a share card with your route, your stats and a gradient, your own photo or video, then save it or post it straight to Instagram Stories.