BetterRunning

Health & Fitness

Free · In‑App Purchases

BetterRunning is an AI running coach for iPhone and Apple Watch. It doesn't hand you a generic 12-week plan — it builds one around your body, and adjusts it every morning based on how you actually slept, how your heart is recovering, and how the weather looks for today's session. HOW IT WORKS When you set a goal — a 5K, 10K, half marathon, or just getting fitter — BetterRunning reads your recent runs, last night's sleep, your heart-rate variability and resting heart rate, and your weekly volume from Apple Health. Your AI coach turns that into a multi-week plan. A new plan, sized for you. Every morning, before you lace up, BetterRunning reads back from Apple Health. - HRV (heart rate variability) — your nervous system's readiness signal - Sleep — duration and stages from your watch - Resting HR and recent training load - Today's weather, the moment you open the app Those inputs become a readiness score, a short explanation in plain language, and — if needed — an adjusted version of today's session. If your HRV is suppressed and you slept poorly, tomorrow's tempo run becomes today's easy 25 minutes. If you're firing on all cylinders, the coach tells you to go. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT Most running apps adapt after your run. BetterRunning adapts BEFORE it. The difference between reacting to your body and actually listening to it. After each run, the app celebrates your good ones from your real performance — not vague benchmarks. The AI gives specific feedback referencing your actual numbers: pace, heart rate, the elevation you ran through, the conditions you ran in. Watch complications show your readiness score and next session at a glance. NEW IN 1.2 - Plan revision in plain language. Tell your coach "I'm travelling next week" or "make it easier this block" — get back a clean, confirmed change to your remaining sessions. - Tempo blocks inside long runs. Opt-in for advanced runners (half-marathon + goals, or a serious volume base). The coach can layer a tempo, pickup, or fast-finish segment inside your long run when the timing makes sense. - Cycle-aware coaching. Opt-in for female runners. The coach quietly tunes tone, intensity, and recovery emphasis to where you are in your cycle. Phase is inferred on-device — no dates leave your phone. - External-app runs show up. Whether you ran with Strava, Garmin Connect, Workout, or BetterRunning itself — every running workout in Apple Health appears in your plan view, counted as part of your total effort. - Share your readiness card — a square card themed to your readiness tier, ready for the socials. ON THE WATCH Start a tracked run from your wrist. Live pace, heart rate, distance. Interval mode shows the rep you're in and the recovery left. Long-run mode shows the tempo block coming up. Strong split haptics at every kilometre. Workouts, GPS routes, and energy save into Apple Health as first-party data. Plus race time projections (Riegel-based) for every distance, refreshed daily as your fitness changes. PRIVACY AND TRUST No account, no email collection, no third-party analytics. Your training plan and history sync via your own iCloud Private Database — only you can read it. Coaching prompts go to a single endpoint we operate; no other servers, no trackers, no ads All HealthKit data stays in HealthKit. GPS routes never leave Apple's ecosystem. We send the coach summaries and aggregates — never raw timelines, never your location, never your menstrual flow data even when cycle-aware coaching is on. Free 30-day trial. After that, two subscription options. Cancel any time. Requires iPhone running iOS 17.6+ · Apple Watch (Series 5 or later) running watchOS 10.6+ recommended for live workout tracking. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Run segments, a smarter coach, and a cleaner plan editor. • Track segments on your run. Tap the new Segment button on your Apple Watch — or use Double Tap (Series 9 / Ultra 2 and later) — to mark a stretch mid-run, just like the Action button. Each run then shows a Segments table with distance, time, pace and average heart rate, right next to your splits. Runs you record with Apple's own Workout app show their segments here too. (Beta — we're still polishing it.) • Ask your coach to extend your plan. Running out of runway before your goal? Tell the coach "add a week so I can target a sub-50 10K" and it appends the weeks and moves your goal date — without rebuilding your plan or touching your completed runs and history. • The coach can move today's run to a better day. Beyond softening or resting a session, the coach can now postpone today's run to a smarter day this week — and it never drops it right next to another hard run. • A heads-up when your load spikes. Your daily readiness now flags when your training load is climbing fast, so you can ease into the session before it bites. • One place to adjust your plan. "Adjust plan" and "Edit plan" are now a single screen — rename the plan, ask the coach to reshape it, or extend the timeline, all in one place. • Tidy up your history. Delete a run straight from its detail screen, and accidental 0:00 "phantom" runs no longer clutter your plan or all-time history. • Reliability fixes. Editing a plan's end date no longer wipes its history, a run lifted out of a plan keeps its type (tempo / interval / long), race day always shows the race — even across time zones — and tapping a heart-rate-zone update notification now takes you straight to your zones.

The developer, Jan Willem van Zweeden, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

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    Seller
    • Jan Willem van Zweeden
    Size
    • 11.4 MB
    Category
    • Health & Fitness
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
    • Apple Watch
      Requires watchOS 10.6 or later.
    Languages
    • English and Dutch
    Age Rating
    9+
    Copyright
    • © William van Zweeden-de Visser