Free runners get AI coaching for the first time. Your daily session has always been yours to see: the rung, the intervals, the Start button. Now the reasoning behind it can be too. Tap the card, watch a short video, and Stride tells you why today's session is what it is. Pro removes the videos, upgrades your daily coach to our most capable model, and adds surface progression: road, trail or treadmill. As always, listen to your body and seek medical attention when needed.

Behind-the-scenes improvements to help us keep Stride running smoothly.

TODAY'S SESSION, ALREADY DECIDED Your next run is now waiting when you open the app: the exact intervals, the sets, and the reason behind them. A new 22-step ladder carries you from short run/walk intervals through to continuous running, advancing only when your recent sessions and symptom scores say you've earned it, and easing off when they don't. STRIDE NOW KNOWS WHAT YOU RUN ON Log the surface behind each run and Stride watches how treadmill, road, and trail affect your symptoms. When you're ready to try a harder surface it starts you shorter, because new ground is its own kind of load, and if it doesn't agree with you it holds off for the rest of the week. Set the surface you're training toward in onboarding or Settings. A CLEARER WEEKLY COACH The weekly review now sticks to what your data actually shows: how symptoms and training load moved together, and what's worth raising with your PT. Decisions about what to run next come from the ladder, which sees your day-to-day detail. RICHER PT REPORTS Reports now include which ladder steps you trained at and the surfaces you ran on. ALSO IN THIS RELEASE - Elevation from Apple Health feeds your weekly review, so hilly weeks read differently from flat ones - Bike and hike sessions import from Apple Health and are tracked separately from running mileage - Tapping a check-in reminder opens that day's check-in directly - Post-run and evening reminder cards on the Home screen - Stride is now supported by ads on the Journal and Progress tabs; Stride Pro removes them, alongside the AI coaching and PT reports

Before your first run, Stride now asks you to confirm a quick health & safety disclaimer — a reminder that Stride is an educational training tool, not medical advice, and that you should check with your doctor or physio before returning to activity after an injury. Train smart out there.

New features - "What's New" popup — after updating, the app shows a modal of what changed, grouped by version. It never appears during onboarding, only after a real update. - Automatic Pro restore on reinstall — subscribers who deleted/reinstalled the app or moved to a new phone previously opened the app looking unsubscribed (the anonymous RevenueCat ID died with the app container). It now silently restores entitlement on first launch, and Settings gained a "Restore Purchases" row while unsubscribed. Bug fixes - AI coach no longer flattens your plan on a REPEAT — a REPEAT verdict ("hold and redo this week") was overwriting the upcoming weeks with a copy of the current one; repeated REPEATs collapsed weeks 1–4 into identical weeks. REPEAT now leaves the future plan untouched. - Week auto-advances — the home screen now moves to the next week automatically once you've completed the week's sessions, instead of requiring a manual bump. - Workout timer no longer drifts — the countdown was drifting 6–10s behind your watch/treadmill over a session because it counted setInterval ticks as exact seconds. It now tracks real wall-clock time and self-corrects; count-up/count-down rounding was also fixed.

NEW: Connect Apple Health (Garmin works too, via Apple Health) to automatically import your runs, walks, and hikes — no more manual logging. Stride detects gaps and offers to backfill any workouts it missed. NEW: PT progress reports now export as a real, shareable PDF — perfect for bringing to your physical therapist. NEW: Choose exactly how far back your PT report goes, right from the Progress tab. IMPROVED: Knee pain scores now use the standard 0–10 clinical scale (0 = no pain, 10 = worst pain), matching what your care team already uses. Existing entries are converted automatically — no action needed. IMPROVED: Your progress chart now shows a clean, fixed 8-week window, so a quiet week doesn't distort your recent trends. IMPROVED: Tap into any past workout for full detail, with the option to delete it. Bug fixes and reliability improvements, including more reliable Apple Health syncing after app restarts and fewer duplicate imports. Thanks for using Stride on your comeback. We'd love your feedback anytime from Settings.

New features - Data backup & restore — a new "Data" section in Settings lets you export all your local data to a file and restore it anytime. - Home Exercise Program (HEP) tracking — a new Exercises tab for logging PT/strength exercises, grouped into weekly workouts, now factored into your weekly AI analysis and PT reports. - 5-minute warmup phase added to workouts. Redesigned - The Programs tab is now "Run" — choose your Standard or AI-Personalized plan right there instead of during signup; onboarding is now just profile questions. - Home and Workout are now one tab — Home takes over full-screen during an active workout (5 tabs total instead of 6). - PT reports can now be opened and read in full in the app, not just shared out. - Clearer PT report language: durations no longer cite raw seconds, and "Areas to Discuss" is now "Takeaways." Fixed - Workout timer and voice cues now keep running through screen lock. - Duplicate post-run reminder notifications. - A navigation bug that showed the raw route name (tabs) on the back button. - A subscription/entitlement recognition bug affecting some Pro users. Policy change worth noting - PT report generation now requires Stride Pro (previously 2 free reports were allowed) — consistent with how weekly AI analysis and AI plan generation already worked. Already-generated reports remain viewable either way.