Rivea Run
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Live tracking for the 2026 running season: Berlin Marathon in September, Hella Half Marathon & every run. Family and friends watch live in the browser — no app.
Marathon Guide is your companion for Hamburg's 2026 running season — and every training run in between.
— How it works
1. Create a session in the app — race or training.
2. Share a link with your family and friends.
3. They watch live in any browser. No app required. No signup.
While you run, voice messages from home play on your phone. Reactions arrive in real time. Your Apple Watch shows who's there with you.
— Hamburg Season 2026 —
HELLA HALF MARATHON · June 28
21.1 km through Hamburg city center starting on the Reeperbahn. Past Speicherstadt, Landungsbrücken, the Außenalster. Course map, pacing guidance, prep tips in the app.
ALSTERLAUF · September 6
10K around the Außenalster. Opens the Hamburger Laufcup series. Course details and pacing strategy for your first 10K of the season or a personal best chase.
INT. AIRPORT RACE · September 13
10 miles (16.1 km) with views of the runways. Course highlights include the Krohnstieg tunnel and the parking-deck climb. Hamburg's most unusual race.
PSD BANK HALF MARATHON · September 20
Fast and flat through Wandsbek. Pacers for 1:30, 1:45, 2:00, and 2:15. Built for personal bests.
BERLIN MARATHON · September 27
One of the six World Marathon Majors. Course map, fueling stations every 5 km, pacing strategies for the iconic Brandenburg Gate finish. Preparation tips for the final 12 weeks.
— Training year-round —
Marathon Guide isn't just for race days.
Every long Sunday run can be shared live. Tempo sessions, warm-weather training camps, your first 30K before the marathon — your family can be there, wherever they are.
Voice messages and reactions work for every training run. What proves itself on race day proves itself in everyday training.
— What stays after the run —
Every session gets a permanent Memory Page with all voice messages, reactions, photos, and statistics. A digital keepsake you can share — with parents, friends, yourself in five years.
— What's coming next —
Marathon Guide is built in the open. What we're building, what comes next, and what you can request: rivea.run/roadmap
— Requirements —
iPhone with iOS 16 or later.
Apple Watch supports real-time reactions on your wrist.
Free for the entire 2026 season.
Successfully used at Hamburg Marathon 2026.
Made in Hamburg.
more Prepare in three tabs
The prepare screen is now cut by the moment you need it: Setup for the rules, Prepare for the hours and days before the run, Start for the last ten minutes. Recording and heart-rate source sit right next to the start button.
Your plan is back
A sentence or two about today's run, shown on your page under the card and read by your coach after the run. Speak it, type it, or record a short video with the front camera — the spoken words land in the text field for you to check before you save. One plan video per run; your page shows it as the newest moment.
Lock Screen for Watch starts
Start the run on your Apple Watch with the iPhone in your pocket, and the Lock Screen shows the run from the first time you unlock the phone.
Also: cleaner wording on the prepare screen, a link to your own page, and after a training run your page returns to the parked race with its countdown.
1.21.1 3d ago
Plan a race and a training run side by side
The Run tab now holds both at once: a race from the calendar and a training run for today or tomorrow. They sit as two cards, the nearer one on top. A training run takes three taps, distance included.
Pick your race from a search list
Setting up a race day opens a searchable list — by name or city, sorted into Recent, This week, This month and Later. Picking one fills in name, date, start time and the real race distance.
Your official time counts
After a race, enter your official time from the results list. It becomes the run's main time and counts towards your personal best, while the watch time stays alongside it.
Also: link a run to a series edition, show yourself on the shared race map on race day, races are scored as races by your coach, and your channel now shows followers.
Behind the scenes: coach feedback fails less often, and a weak GPS start no longer draws a stray line across your route map.
1.20.1 5d ago
Quick Check after your run
Tap how hard it felt, and your coach pulls one more question from your data within seconds — the card waits briefly for it instead of closing too early. A line tells you how long your coach still waits for your answer. And swiping the card away now counts as an answer instead of losing it.
When there is no feedback, we say so
If the analysis fails, or the run was too short to analyse, the app tells you — instead of "your coach is analysing" forever. Your effort still counts towards your training load.
Take the photo right in the clip editor
When "one more photo, while you are still there" arrives, you can now shoot it without leaving the editor.
Also: runs whose server statistics are not ready yet still get coach feedback.
1.19.0 Sep 4
Your followers, in one place
A new Follower Center in your profile: confirm or decline requests, see who follows you, invite people with your link, and check what followers can see. Requests open again from your inbox, too.
Hide start and finish
A switch on each run hides the first and last 200 meters of your route from everyone else — live on your page and afterwards in your history. Set it before the start or flip it later on the run. It replaces the privacy zones on the map.
Run videos, sharper
Pick a photo you just took for your clip right after the run, even while it is still uploading. The avatar style now always uses the photo you chose. And in photo mode you can zoom and move the picture.
Also: your run type (Easy, Long run, Tempo, Intervals) is finally saved the way you set it, and there is a newsletter opt-in in your profile — off by default.
1.18.0 Sep 3
Small release, smoother everyday
Tap the "Last run" card on your training home and the run opens — full detail, media and coach insights included.
"What's new" now really is new: it only appears when there is something fresh for your version, swiping it away counts as read, and its entries come straight from each release.
1.17.0 Aug 31
Your avatar, the way you want it
The cut-out avatar now fills the card by default instead of sitting in a corner — sized to your photo automatically. Move it anywhere, and set its size with the buttons or two fingers. Position and size are remembered per run.
Monotony, at a glance
The training load card now shows how varied your week was as a band — varied, usual, flat — instead of a bare number. The separate strain tile is gone: it was just weekly load times monotony, two numbers already on the card.
Fixes
Dragging your photo into place no longer jumps to a different photo. And a run you set to "only me" now disappears from your public archive and link previews too, not just from its own page.
1.15.0 Aug 30
Run setup: now two tabs
Setup holds everything you configure — visibility, challenge, time window, tracking, heart rate. Start holds what you share with your followers, plus the start button.
The challenge gets its own window
Goal distance on a slider, start on a date and time wheel. Nothing on this screen is typed any more.
Your map is back in Apple Health
The route your iPhone records during watch runs is attached to the workout again. In three situations it used to be dropped without a word.
Also: km laps in Apple Fitness are now marked as beta.
1.13.0 Aug 21
This update makes run tracking a lot more resilient:
• If the watch stops responding mid-run, your iPhone now takes over tracking and lets you know — runs no longer end silently or lose their second half.
• A run that ended but never made it into Apple Health is rescued the next time you open the watch app, and you're notified right away if a workout wasn't saved.
• Restarting after a crash starts a clean new session — the interrupted attempt is kept as its own run.
• Dictating your training note now keeps every sentence, even when you pause between them.
• New in session settings: kilometre laps for Apple Fitness (off by default for now).
• Heart rate, coach insights and your pre-run note on your public runner page are now visible to approved followers only by default. Sharing settings let you open them up any time.
1.10.2 Aug 9
Effort now reaches Apple Health
Your rating from the post-run check-in is now written to the workout as Effort and shows up in the Fitness app right on the run. It still arrives even when a watch-recorded workout takes minutes to reach your iPhone. Skip the check-in and the field stays empty.
Per-kilometre laps in the Fitness app
Runs now show a lap table with distance, time and pace for every kilometre. Pauses are handled properly: stop at a traffic light and the kilometre is split right there, instead of one meaningless 17-minute kilometre. Brief stops under 20 seconds stay part of the running stretch.
GPS routes on Apple Watch runs
Runs recorded on the Watch were missing their map in the Fitness app. The route is now attached reliably. Older runs cannot be repaired after the fact — their GPS points remain fully intact inside Rivea.
Cleaner tracks, no stray points
Stray GPS fixes that shoot off the route and snap back are now filtered out. This was never just a cosmetic problem: the recorded distance was affected too, and is now more accurate.
Post-run check-in after races
Races were missing the check-in on the finish screen. Now every run gets one.
Kilometre marks survive interruptions
If watchOS suspended the app mid-run, every kilometre mark set until then was lost. That no longer happens.
Also fixed: the German wording of the Health permission prompts.
1.10.1 Aug 1
Neu:
- Rebranding Marathon Guide -> Rivea Run
- Überarbeitete Apple Watch Oberfläche
1.9.0 Jun 24
New:
- Nutrition tips
Fixes:
- Filtering improved in the Knowledge library
1.8.0 Jun 2
New:
- Send back reactions from the Apple Watch
- Knowledge database
1.7.0 May 29
Features:
- Coach feedback
- Session history
Bug Fix:
- Auto-Pause
- Stop der Session
1.6.8 May 24
Bugfix:
- Fix sync bug in Apple Watch
1.6.5 May 12
Features:
- Pair a Bluetooth chest-strap heart-rate sensor (Polar H10, Wahoo Tickr, Garmin HRM-Pro). Auto-reconnects on launch and takes priority over the watch when delivering fresh data. Battery shown in Profile.
- New "Heart Rate Source" row on the prepare screens shows where your heart rate will come from before you start.
- Confirmation step before starting an iPhone-only run, so you don't trigger it by accident next to the tab bar.
- Refreshed Rivea Run look across the Prepare and Live Tracker screens — cleaner typography, calmer colours, better contrast.
- Race prepare now uses a paged layout for share info, countdown, and race details.
- Voice playback simplified to a single Off / On switch.
- Streamlined onboarding — info slides folded into the profile-capture steps so the flow completes itself.
- New Permissions card in your Profile for Location and Health, with one-tap grant.
Bugfixes:
- Taking photos or videos during a run no longer ends the watch workout.
- GPS now restarts correctly when you resume on the watch after pausing on the phone.
- Stopping the run on the phone now reliably ends the workout on the watch.
- The splash image no longer re-downloads on every launch when it hasn't changed.
- After a cold launch, an active watch workout is recovered via HealthKit instead of being lost.
- The "Apple Watch" tab on the race prepare screen is now legible when selected.
1.6.4 May 12
Feature:
- New onboarding: product story is now embedded directly into profile capture — tighter and faster (8 slides instead of 12).
- Profile: new Permissions card for Location and Health — grant access or jump to Settings with one tap.
- Splash screen: more robust layout across devices; invisible whitespace from remote config is trimmed automatically.
Bugfix:
- Watch run-tracking now survives long pauses — the session is restored automatically when the app re-opens.
- The iPhone no longer immediately ends a paused watch session if the watch briefly suspends (8 s grace window).
- The long-pause warning on the watch now fires after 9 min instead of as a confusing "Extended Runtime expired" message.
- Consistent German menu labels ("Über uns", "Intro", "Über Rivea Run").
- Channel tips copy refined (mail at run start, live reactions + voice messages in real time).
1.6.3 May 9
Features:
- New "You" tab — A new "You" tab in the bottom navigation with identity card, channel summary, and quick access to Profile, History, and Settings.
Channel Detail screen — Tap your channel summary to view its live status (Dormant / Prepared / Live / Recently Ended), unique visitors, and subscribers, with a three-tip carousel for sharing your channel.
- Redesigned Profile screen — Refreshed Rivea Run identity surface with avatar (tap to replace), role-colored stroke, social handles (Instagram, TikTok, Slug), edit-in-place rows, and a copy-to-clipboard slug.
Feature tips carousel — Reusable auto-rotating tips (5s rotation, pauses on swipe, respects reduced motion) on the session type picker and channel detail screens.
- Full German localization — Live run tracker, session type picker, settings sheet, training/race setup, slug onboarding, sharing step, and video feed are now fully localized in German and English.
- Channel visitor count now shows lifetime unique visitors instead of the 30-day window.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed inverted German/English translations — The English UI was showing German strings and vice versa for ~150 keys (Profile, WhatsNew, EventView, SplashView, Feedback, TravelView, etc.). Apple's standard convention is now restored.
- Fixed missing translations on the You tab and Channel Detail screen — 54 keys were rendering as raw identifiers (e.g. YouTab.Title) instead of localized text.
- Fixed crash when loading sessions — Sessions containing date or timestamp fields no longer trigger a hard crash; corrupt/test sessions are now silently filtered.
- Fixed Prepared status always showing "Delayed" — Training sessions now correctly show "Ready" when the event is not in the future.
- Fixed proper nouns in TravelView — "HVV" and "MOIA" are no longer mislabeled as "Info" in the German version.
1.6.2 May 7
Feature:
- Brand-new onboarding flow — guided 12-step setup walks you through nickname, birthday, photo, social handles and your runner slug. Skip steps and come back to them later.
- Smarter feature gating — tapping a locked feature now drops you back into onboarding exactly where you left off, instead of starting over.
Bufix::
- Fixed an issue where a finished run could reappear in the run tracker days later when reopening the app.
- Improved Apple Watch handoff — runs you finish on the watch are now reliably marked done on the phone, even after a force-quit.
- Stale "active" sessions older than 24 hours are now cleaned up automatically on app start, so you always land on a fresh session picker.
1.6.1 May 6
Features:
- Spectator reactions now arrive on your iPhone with haptic feedback during runs — feel the energy from your supporters in real time.
- In Apple Watch mode, spectator reactions and voice messages are now reliably delivered to your watch, even when the screen is off.
- Voice messages from spectators now play through the Apple Watch speaker during workouts.
- In Apple Watch mode, the run is started directly from your wrist — the iPhone shows "Start from Watch" to guide you.
Bugfix:
Fixed a race condition that could prevent a run from being marked as finished in the backend when stopping from the Apple Watch.
Fixed an issue where the Apple Watch could be suspended during workout pauses, potentially ending the session prematurely.
Improved cold-launch recovery — if the iPhone app is restarted while a watch workout is active, the session reconnects automatically.
1.6.0 May 1
New Features:
- Full video onboarding: 7 short videos walk you through every feature before your first session
- Video feed accessible anytime from the session launcher and settings
- Automatic language fallback: English users see German videos until English recordings are available
- Sign in with Apple is now required before setting up your tracking link
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where reserving a slug could fail silently, leaving orphaned entries
- Slug reservation now uses an atomic transaction to prevent duplicate or conflicting claims
- Previously claimed slugs are cleaned up automatically if you re-claim a new one
- The "Claim" button is now disabled until availability has been fully verified
- Non-URL-compatible characters (accented letters, special characters) are now stripped from slug input in real time
- Availability check no longer returns false positives on network errors
1.5.7 Apr 24
FEATURES
- Video Guide: Swipe through short video clips explaining every Rivea Run feature — Pre-Race Room, Voice Messages, Locked Moments, Live ETA, and Memory Pages. Available from the session launcher and the main menu.
- Interactive Onboarding: A 4-slide carousel introduces new users to the key features before their first session.
- New typography and refined color palette across the onboarding experience.
FIXES
- Resolved an issue where the session launcher card could overlap with other UI elements.
- Improved video playback reliability on first launch.
1.5.6 Apr 21
New:
- Hamburg Half Marathon is now available
Improvements:
- Profile pictures now sync to live tracking
Bug fixes:
- Login is now required before setting up a live session
1.5.5 Apr 20
Bug fixes:
- Voice messages now play automatically with the default setting. Previously, the toggle had to be switched once for the setting to take effect.
Improvements:
- GPS is no longer throttled.
- Music playback now resumes automatically after you finish a recording.
1.5.4 Apr 18
Features:
- Apple Watch standby support
1.5.3 Apr 16
Features:
- Improved video and photo upload
1.5.2 Apr 13
Prepare in three tabs
The prepare screen is now cut by the moment you need it: Setup for the rules, Prepare for the hours and days before the run, Start for the last ten minutes. Recording and heart-rate source sit right next to the start button.
Your plan is back
A sentence or two about today's run, shown on your page under the card and read by your coach after the run. Speak it, type it, or record a short video with the front camera — the spoken words land in the text field for you to check before you save. One plan video per run; your page shows it as the newest moment.
Lock Screen for Watch starts
Start the run on your Apple Watch with the iPhone in your pocket, and the Lock Screen shows the run from the first time you unlock the phone.
Also: cleaner wording on the prepare screen, a link to your own page, and after a training run your page returns to the parked race with its countdown.
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