Running apps make things up. You can't tell which bits.
A recovery score with no visible inputs. A readiness number from nowhere. An AI summary that sounds sure about data it doesn't have. If you can't see what's measured and what's guessed, you can't trust any of it.
What you usually get
- One score, no working shown
- Gaps filled with something that looks right
- A plan you're expected to follow
What RunMode does
- Scores that open up into the parts that made them
- "—" when the inputs aren't good enough
- Coaching off your real week, plan-free
Closed apps are a black box. AI chat coaches fly blind. RunMode has your real data, explains every decision — and you can check the maths.
Three steps. No questionnaire.
Connect Apple Health
RunMode reads the runs, heart rate and sleep already on your phone and watch.
Add your race
Date, distance, goal. Everything gets anchored to the race you're actually training for.
Check the working
Tap a score to see what fed it. Ask the coach why. The answer points back at your data.
Real screens from the founder's phone. Not mockups.
A readiness score you can take apart
Built from real training load, resting heart rate, sleep and anything you've logged. Tap it and it breaks into the terms that produced it. Not enough data? You get "—", not a confident guess.
Above: sleep, load and symptoms shown separately, with where each one came from.
Pacing that accounts for the weather
The forecast for race day — temperature, humidity, dew point — turned into an honest pace range for the conditions. A range, never a false-precision target.
Session forensics
Real elevation, pace splits, heart-rate zones, your route with segment detail, personal bests and your own notes. All from your data, in plain English.
Race prep, end to end
A goal estimate from your own recent runs, fuel guidance and course import. No generic plan — the numbers come from you.
Above: the goal shows as a range, with the runs it was built from.
The long view, not a single score
VO2 max, resting heart rate, how much your heart rate drifts on long runs, and your pace at an easy heart rate — trends you can watch build over weeks and months, not one number trying to sum you up.
On your wrist too
Plan a run on your iPhone and start it from your wrist. The Apple Watch app shows the run live, including your pace against the target, lets you lap, pause or lock the screen without breaking stride, and saves the run to Apple Health when you finish. It comes with the iPhone app, not as a separate purchase.
Pre-launch. Nothing here is inflated.
- Built and in active development by a solo founder, tested daily on his own real running data.
- In private testing on the founder's own iPhone and Apple Watch via TestFlight.
- Opening to outside runners once a small number of privacy and store-compliance items are finished. There's no date yet.
Straight answers
Can I download it?
Not yet. There's no public beta and no App Store listing. Leave your email and you'll hear when that changes.
When does it open?
There's no date. It opens once a few privacy and App Store compliance items are done. We'd rather say that than make one up.
What will it cost?
That isn't decided, so we're not putting a number here.
Do I need an Apple Watch?
RunMode reads Apple Health, so it works with whatever writes there. A watch gives it heart rate and sleep to work with. Without those, the numbers that need them show "—" until there's real data behind them.
Does it work with Garmin, Coros or other watches?
Only through Apple Health. If your watch's app syncs runs into Apple Health, RunMode can read them. That hasn't been tested across brands yet, so we won't promise it.
Will it give me a training plan?
No, on purpose. It coaches off what's actually happening in your training and your life, not a fixed schedule it has to defend.
What leaves my phone?
When you use the coach, the training context it needs and your messages go to Google's Gemini API to write the reply. Your location goes to Apple WeatherKit for forecasts (or a race venue's location, if you add one, and what you type to find the venue goes to Apple's place search), and a rough run location (about 1 km) and date go to Open-Meteo for past weather. No analytics, ads or tracking. The privacy policy has the full list.
Who's building it?
One runner, through RunMode Ltd in the UK. Every feature gets tested on his own runs first.
Get told when it opens
No beta to join yet, no download, no date. One email when that changes.
Get told when it opens →Opens your mail app with the message already written. No form, no tracker, no mailing-list service.