▲Scientifically designed to help you keep running. Through repetition, not performance.
Six real voices to keep you company while you run. Over your own music, at your own pace.
Download on the App StoreCoached Run works alongside your watch and your favourite running app. Your watch captures the run, your app keeps its history, and Coached Run adds the voice on top. It also keeps a history of every session you ran with it, so your record lives on both sides.
The coach calls the session over your own music: when a block starts, when to ease, how you're moving through it. Between cues, silence. So the run stays yours.
The runs you enjoy are the runs you repeat. That's how the habit takes hold: not through discipline, through the feeling. Coached Run is built for the feeling.
Headphones in. Phone in your pocket. You run. The coach tells you the rest. And when the run feels good, you go out again tomorrow.
Not for a race. Not for a number. Not to add one more thing to your day.
Run because it clears your head. Because you feel better when you do. Because the door was hard and you already opened it.
Coached Run exists so it stays that way. A habit you keep because you want to.
Pair any Bluetooth heart-rate monitor (Garmin, Polar, Coospo, chest strap) or an Apple Watch. The coach then reads your heart rate live, and uses it. You never see it. No zones, no graphs, no percentages, no heart rate number on screen. Just a heart beating below the clock, in real time, to yours.
Reads your heart rate, cadence and recovery live. Nudges you when the pace is too hard, when your stride goes long, when you're not recovering. Cheers you when your heart rate drops fast, when the stride finds its rhythm, when you sustain the same effort. Eleven live moments. Nearly half of them, a well done.
Loud music or a noisy treadmill can swallow the voice. A tap on the wrist doesn't. One pattern entering intervals, another leaving them.
Heart rate and calories logged in Health, filling your activity rings like any other run.
Any device is optional. Without one, the app works fully. With a Bluetooth heart-rate monitor the coach sees your effort. With Apple Watch it also taps your wrist and guides your stride.
Every other running app puts the pace front and center. We took it out. It is still measured, still saved. It is just not shown while you run, because seeing the number is the fastest way to start running against it.
"The data is for the coach to use, not for you to watch."
Hover any card to read why. This is the filter every part of the app is designed against.
Not to compete. Not against strangers, not against your own times from last Tuesday.
You don't need a race on the calendar to lace up. Fitness is a byproduct of showing up.
Not to win. Your body cares about consistency, breathing and sleep. None of it comes from a stopwatch.
A place to leave the day behind. Not another task on the checklist, not another notification demanding you.
Adherence isn't discipline. It's pleasure. The runs you keep are the ones you enjoyed.
Your breath already tells you what your body is doing. You don't need a wrist to translate it.
If you're coming back from an injury, from a long break, or from a stretch where running just stopped being fun, this app was built with you in mind too.
Coming back doesn't mean starting over. It doesn't mean chasing the times you used to hit, or the plan you used to follow. It means walking out the door and letting a coach walk with you at whatever pace your body has today.
No goal. No calendar. No comparison. Just a voice that reminds you what you already knew: it's easier when someone's with you.
Real accents, real personalities. Pick your coach for each session.
Warm and precise. Runs like a friend who has been at it a while.
Steady and grounded. Reminds you nothing needs to feel extra today.
Encouraging and calm. For starting again, or starting for the first time.
Melodic and technical. Gives the right cue at the right moment.
Close and clear. Speaks as if she were right there beside you.
Patient and instructive. For beginners or for those coming back.
Sarah and Diego come with the app. Mike, Iris, María and Luis are a free in-app download, about 35 MB each.
Weekly goal, streak and achievements. Everything the app celebrates is about going out. Never about performance.
Set the minutes you want to run this week. The app counts them. Anything under five minutes does not count, so three one-minute runs will not fool your streak.
Consecutive weeks you hit your own goal. Not against anyone else. Just against last week.
Landmarks for showing up: first run, ten runs, first month in a row. Never for beating anyone or the clock.
The reward is for opening the door. Not for what you did once you were out.
Every eight weeks or so, on your own, from the profile. Same twelve minutes as the Cooper test. Opposite philosophy. Your body responds, the app writes it down, and you can compare across tests. The first time, the coach explains the protocol before you start and reads each number back in voice when you finish.
Warm up on foot. Nothing more.
Talk-test easy. Your body finds its natural rhythm.
Walk back. The app watches how fast your heart rate settles.
Minimal on the screen. Everything on the ear.
Onboarding
Pick your session
Choose your coach
RunningThree taps and the coach is with you.
The most robust question in exercise science isn't about performance. It's about what keeps people running at all, over months and years. Coached Run is designed around that answer. Four decades of research point the same way.
The Talk Test (can you speak a full sentence?) is clinically validated against ventilatory and lactate thresholds, and endorsed by the American College of Sports Medicine as a practical way to gauge exercise intensity.
Ekkekakis's integrated model of exercise adherence: the affective response to a workout predicts whether you come back. Discipline and appearance-based motivation don't. The runs you enjoyed are the ones you'll repeat.
Self-selected intensity produces more pleasure and better adherence than prescribed intensity, even when both end up at the same pace. The autonomy is what matters.
"Data anxiety" is a documented phenomenon. The more runners depend on constant feedback from wearables, the more the activity loses its spontaneity, and in some cases its joy.
The dropout curve on fitness apps and beginner programs is remarkably consistent. It's a design problem, not a willpower one. Coached Run is designed to sit on the other side of that curve.
WHO recommends 150 to 300 minutes of moderate activity per week, and running is classed as vigorous, which counts double. Three sessions a week with this app put you inside that range. No fastest anything required.
No. The app works the same without it. The watch adds wrist taps, live heart rate feedback, and logs the session in Health.
No, on purpose. It tells you if you're going too hard for what the session calls for. It never tells you what speed to go at.
Yes. Apple Music and Podcasts too. The music ducks when the coach speaks and comes back after. Silence works also.
Everywhere. Spain and the rest of the EU cleared on 4 September 2026, joining the US, UK, Switzerland, LatAm and the rest of the world. Worldwide, one price.
No. You never run fast. It measures how your body responds to a comfortable jog, not how far you can push.
No. Any Bluetooth heart-rate monitor works: a chest strap costs around thirty euros and needs no setup, it broadcasts the moment you put it on. Apple Watch adds cadence coaching, wrist taps and rings.
Every other app hides how it calculated your score. Ours says it out loud: on how many components, and what changes when you add a sensor.
Adding a sensor can bring your number down. That does not mean you got worse. It means it was measured on less before. The screen always tells you how many components it was calculated on.
When a session ends, the app watches one thing: how far your heart rate falls in the minute after you stop. Week by week that draws a line. It rises as your fitness rises, and it owes nothing to your pace.
Example. Beats your heart rate drops in the first minute after finishing, week by week.
Apple Watch, or any Bluetooth heart-rate monitor: chest strap, armband, sports watch. The measurement is the same.
No test, no button. It comes out of the session you just ran, every time you go out with a monitor on.
A record rewards one good day. This rewards the weeks underneath it. You can improve here on a slow, easy run.
It is the most reliable fitness signal the app can measure. It rises with training, and it does not depend on how fast you run.
It doesn't measure how fast you go.
It measures whether you'll come back tomorrow.
iPhone · iOS 16+ · $0.99 launch offer through 2026, $3.99 afterwards (one-time). Available worldwide.
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