Your run on the watch is clearer. Start a free run from your wrist without picking a route or interval first. During any run you now see big time, distance and live pace, with a heart rate zone bar at a glance, and free runs get a map page too. Ending a run is a calm press and hold, so a stray tap never stops you, and voice cues move to your headphones on their own. When you finish, a new summary draws the line of your run.

Cleaner loops: far fewer odd side trips that leave a street and come straight back to it. A route a friend sends you opens in a calmer panel, and when its start is far away you can save it for later. Out of free routes? You first get one chance to share a loop for a free month of Pro. Also fixed: a new loop in miles could lose its distance.

Share a route with a link. Send any loop to a friend from Discover or from a saved route: they open it straight in RunRoutes, or on the web if they do not have the app yet. A route you receive never uses one of your free routes. When a friend opens a route you shared in the app, you get a month of Pro for free, and a notification lets you know the moment it lands. See your free month and when it ends in Settings, and stop sharing a route whenever you like.

Greener loops. When there is a park, a wood, a river or a lake near you, your new loop now runs through it instead of along busy streets. No setting needed: RunRoutes looks at the green around you and takes it when it is close. Your first two routes are free. And if you sign in with Apple on the welcome screen, you still get to pick your distance and see your first loop before anything else.

You're in control of your data. Settings has a new Privacy section with a switch for sharing usage statistics. Every account, also one you never signed in to, can now delete all its data from Settings, Account, or ask for a copy with Request my data. Permission prompts now appear in your language. When you save or share a route you like, RunRoutes may ask what you think, and Settings has a Rate RunRoutes link. Also fixed: the week widget refreshes again, you stay signed in when you open the app offline, and a new loop's distance appears once the route is drawn. On Apple Watch, music playing on your watch now carries on after a spoken direction, and the Route tile opens your routes straight away.

Discover is one screen now. Pick a distance, make your loop and start running, all without leaving the map. Your last loops stay on the map for a week, each in its own colour, so you can open one again with a tap. The whole app has a new look, from your routes and progress to the run screen and settings. On Apple Watch the controls now have their own page, like the Workout app, so the numbers have room to breathe. Your loop now starts from where you really are, also when you open the app somewhere new. With headphones paired to Apple Watch, turn cues now play there. New loops prefer roads over narrow paths, and RunRoutes now speaks Japanese and Chinese.

Drawing your own route is rebuilt. Every point lands right on a street or path, you can drag a point to move it, tap it to remove it, or tap the line to add one in between. Close the loop or turn it into an out and back with one tap, and undo works for every change. Voice guidance now only tells you about real turns, also on routes you saved before: no more "arrived at the destination" halfway through a drawn route. Already on a subscription or a free trial? You can now switch to lifetime from Settings.

Routes are now made right on your phone, so a new loop appears in seconds instead of making you wait, and it works wherever you are in the world. Discover is redesigned around distance: slide the ruler or type any distance you like, and the route settings sit behind one button. Asking for another route keeps your card on screen, and your Apple Watch now shows the right turn arrow in every language.

New prices for RunRoutes Pro: a yearly plan, a lower monthly price and a lower one-time price for lifetime. Both subscriptions start with 7 days free, so you can try every feature before you pay.

New: the road switch next to the route options. Turn it on and your routes stay on roads, away from footpaths, park paths and fields. Handy now that it gets dark early. Voice cues during a run on your Apple Watch now play through the AirPods connected to your iPhone, alongside your music, instead of from the watch speaker. Fixed a route that was created but not drawn on the map, which could happen after making a few routes in a row. Routes come faster and closer to the distance you ask for, and generating a few in a row means much less waiting. New here? Your first route is free, so you can see what RunRoutes makes before you choose a plan.

A clearer Pro screen: start with a 7-day free trial, or pay once for lifetime and save compared with a year of monthly. The route counter on the generate button is gone, and Restore Purchases now sits right next to the privacy and terms links.

Buying Pro is more dependable: when the App Store payment screen does not open, RunRoutes tries again on its own, and if it still cannot open it tells you so, so you know you were not charged. New here? You can start your free trial of Pro right after the first questions.

Routes you save now show up on your Apple Watch on their own, and starting a saved route from your iPhone always brings its map to your wrist. Also fixed: switching to another tab and back no longer makes a new route and uses up one of your free routes. The watch app no longer closes on launch when you have many saved routes.

Spoken directions now come through when your phone is locked, and your music turns down for each one, so you hear every turn without looking at the screen.

RunRoutes Pro is simpler now. Unlock it once for life, or go monthly and try it free for a week first. Existing subscriptions keep working as before.

Hear spoken turn directions, off-route warnings and interval cues on Apple Watch. Turn voice cues on or off before your workout, or mute them while you run. This update improves turn timing, prevents missed alerts near the start of a loop and improves guidance on return paths. Older saved routes use directional cues based on their saved path.

More ways to explore. Start with two free routes, then choose weekly, monthly or yearly Pro for unlimited route generation. No free trials or weekly route refills. Existing purchases, lifetime access and purchased route balances remain valid.

The app has a new name. RunLoop is now RunRoutes. Your routes, your runs, your program and your Pro unlock are all exactly where you left them. What changed is the name under the icon and the address of the website, now runroutes.app. Same app underneath. The route generator, the guidance on your wrist, the run walk intervals and the 9 week program work the way they did yesterday. If you had Pro, you still have Pro.

Your run starts on the map. Today now opens with a route from your own door. Pick a distance, one tap, and you are looking at where you will run. Your training plan rides along on the same screen instead of hiding one tab over. Start on your phone, run from your wrist. Tap Start on the phone and the workout begins on your Apple Watch: turn alerts, pace and wrist taps where you feel them, while the phone mirrors the run live on the same full-screen map. A sleeping watch gets woken first, and without a usable watch the phone simply runs it itself. The map, now on your wrist too. Swipe down during a route run and the watch shows the whole picture: the route as a quiet line, your travelled path in orange, and the map turning with you as you run. Drag, zoom and the compass are right there. The run screen is the map. On a route run the map now fills the screen edge to edge, with six numbers over it: time, distance, pace, heart rate, calories, and the length of the loop you are running. Progress, one week at a time. The Progress tab opens on your week: which days you ran, what the week adds up to, and your streak as a small flame beside the title. Flip back through earlier weeks, tap any run day, and your runs list right below. Simpler Pro, with a week on us. Pro is now one clear choice: a yearly plan that starts with 7 days free, or lifetime, pay once and done. And if buying ever felt broken: it was, for some of you, and we are sorry. The purchase sheet now appears reliably, every time.

Tell us about the route, and the app keeps your week. After a run on a generated loop, say how the route was with one tap, and why if it was not. In the generator, a flag on the route opens the same question. Settings has a Send feedback form for everything else. What you tell us shapes the next release. Runs now count in weeks, not days. Set how many runs a week is a good week for you, and Today shows how this week is going. A finished run asks when the next one is and reminds you on that day. Your farthest, longest and fastest are on the Progress tab, and round numbers get a moment on the finish screen. Reminders only ask permission when you ask for one. Take a route with you: the share button on a route hands it over as a GPX file, for any watch or running app you already use.

A new icon. The R now stands in relief on black, and the badge on a shared run card carries the same mark. Same app, same place on your Home Screen.

Your first run, in the right order. New to RunLoop? The app now shows you what it does before it asks you anything. One question, how far you usually run, and your first loop draws itself from your front door. Fewer waits, and honest ones. Generating several loops in a row used to end at a locked button. Now the map simply waits when the route service needs a moment, counts down, and finishes your loop. Regenerate right after a route and you often get a loop that was already found, instantly.

Watch your route being born. Generating is no longer a progress bar: the orange line draws itself across the map while RunLoop searches, street by street. Directions that do not work out fade away, and the loop that wins inks itself to the finish. Every retry explores somewhere new. Generate again and RunLoop deliberately looks the other way: opposite direction first, then the flanks, sweeping the whole compass instead of offering the same loop twice. Blocked directions are remembered and skipped. One wait instead of two. After several routes in a row the button no longer locks you out. Your route starts right away, and if the search needs a short breather you see exactly how long, live on the map. Smoother loops, closer to your distance. Little dead-end detours are trimmed before the route reaches your screen, whenever the distance allows it, landing the total closer to what you asked for.

Your run starts on the map. Today now opens with a route from your own door. Pick a distance, one tap, and you are looking at where you will run. Your training plan rides along on the same screen instead of hiding one tab over. Start on your phone, run from your wrist. Tap Start on the phone and the workout begins on your Apple Watch: turn alerts, pace and wrist taps where you feel them, while the phone mirrors the run live on the same full-screen map. A sleeping watch gets woken first, and without a usable watch the phone simply runs it itself. The map, now on your wrist too. Swipe down during a route run and the watch shows the whole picture: the route as a quiet line, your travelled path in orange, and the map turning with you as you run. Drag, zoom and the compass are right there. The run screen is the map. On a route run the map now fills the screen edge to edge, with six numbers over it: time, distance, pace, heart rate, calories, and the length of the loop you are running. Progress, one week at a time. The Progress tab opens on your week: which days you ran, what the week adds up to, and your streak as a small flame beside the title. Flip back through earlier weeks, tap any run day, and your runs list right below. Simpler Pro, with a week on us. Pro is now one clear choice: a yearly plan that starts with 7 days free, or lifetime, pay once and done. And if buying ever felt broken: it was, for some of you, and we are sorry. The purchase sheet now appears reliably, every time.

Routes you can hold us to. A route that doubles back over itself is never quietly delivered anymore. When your start point offers nothing rounder, RunLoop shows you what it found, says honestly that part of it goes out and back, and lets you decide: use it, or try again. Your doorstep learns. RunLoop now remembers, on your device only, which direction gave you a clean loop from each starting place. The next route from the same door starts there, so repeat generations land right almost instantly. Your pace, on your screen. Live pace joined time and distance on the run screen, for interval runs and free runs alike, both screens now sharing one clean layout. Standing at a crossing reads as no pace, never as a wild number. The map is yours when you grab it. Zoom out to read the route ahead and the map now stays where you put it; one tap on the arrow brings it back to following you.