Runbound · iPhone + Apple Watch
0 → 30 minutes.
On your rhythm. Your first 5 km.
One run at a time. 5 km → 10 km.
Without the wall. The same 5 km,
a good bit faster. Running that fits
the week you have. Start running.
Keep running.
Whatever you are running towards, Runbound builds the plan around your life, is honest about the strain before you commit, and guides every step from your wrist. You only need to run.
What Runbound does
The plan
Your plan, your rhythm.
Set a goal with simple sliders. Runbound builds a plan around an every-other-day rhythm and shows the strain on your body before you commit.
The run
Guided from your wrist.
Start runs straight from the watch, no phone needed. Live pace and cadence guidance with a center gauge and haptic cues you can feel.
The reality
Life happens. The plan adapts.
Miss a run and the plan reshuffles itself along your rhythm. No guilt, no broken streaks, no starting over.
The way home
Every run ends where it started.
Your distance changes as the plan grows, and sometimes mid-run. Runbound lays a round-trip path that fits today's run and reshapes when you go shorter or longer, so you always finish at your door. Anywhere, even on holiday.
Progress
See it build, run by run.
Every run you finish becomes a dot on the road to your goal, next to the exact path remaining. No vanity metrics, no streak-shaming. Just the line climbing.
Said a run felt too hard? The next one steps back a level. The chart keeps being honest either way.
Today
One run at a time.
Today shows exactly one thing: your next run, drawn block by block, with what it asks of you in plain words. Keep the run segments easy. You should be able to speak.
Pricing
Your first runs are free, with the full app.
After that, 1.99 a month. Cancel anytime.
Try everything before paying a cent. Less than a coffee once you are running.
Your first 30 minutes start here.
On the App Store for iPhone and Apple Watch.
Questions
Asked before you lace up
Is Runbound a health tracker?
No, and that is the point. Runbound does not sit on your wrist grading your health. It helps you get better health by making runs easier to actually do: your route is planned before you ask, your schedule is built around your life, and the plan keeps the strain on your body comfortable instead of excessive. Heart rate and cadence are used live, on your watch, to guide the run you are in. They never leave your devices.
Where do routes work?
In 10 European countries and across all of the United States. Routes are round trips that end where you start, and they never cross a region border. The exact map, and exactly where a route stops, is on the coverage page. Outside the covered areas everything else in the app works the same; routes are a suggestion, never a requirement.
What does it cost?
Your first three runs are free: the full app, nothing held back. After that Runbound is a small monthly subscription, cancellable anytime in Settings. Come back after six months away and your free runs are waiting again.
Do I need an Apple Watch?
For the guided runs on your wrist, yes: cadence, heart rate and the run's structure live there. Without a watch you can still build a plan, plan routes, and let Runbound recognise runs you record with Apple's own Workout app.
What happens to my data?
Your plan, your runs, your heart rate and cadence stay on your devices. Planning a route sends only the GPS coordinates you start from to our route service, with nothing attached, and they are not stored. The details are in the privacy policy. It is short on purpose.
I started from zero. Is this for me?
It is built for exactly that. Plans start as low as running zero minutes without stopping. The first sessions mix short runs with walking, and the schedule bends around your week instead of the other way round. The gauge shows how much the plan asks of your body before you commit to it.