Running Groove
Music that moves with your run
Only for iPhone
Free
iPhone
Let the music move with your run.
Running Groove is a music player made for runners. Turn on RUN ON and it follows your running cadence, selecting music that fits your current pace. The tempo is adjusted smoothly while preserving pitch whenever possible, helping you stay in your rhythm and keep moving naturally.
Choose the feel that matches your day: Fresh Morning, Speed Rock, Electro Pulse, Pop Run, Night Mellow, Hip-Hop & R&B, or Cinematic Anthem. Original music made for Running Groove moves naturally from one track to the next, taking tempo, energy, and musical character into account. Song selection is also tuned to avoid repeating the same songs and the same order.
New songs can arrive without waiting for an app update. Songs are fetched to your device before they play, and songs you have already fetched play even without a signal. Running Groove tells you about newly added songs on the home screen and in the library, and you can set a limit on how much space fetched songs may use.
Pick how the tempo behaves: Follow adapts the music to your current pace. When you stop, it keeps showing your cadence from just before you stopped, and it follows you again when you start running. Fixed keeps both the music and the runner at a tempo you choose. An estimate of your pace per kilometer and your speed, worked out from your cadence, is shown while you run, and you can adjust your stride in five steps.
After a run in Follow mode, you see your average cadence for the time you were actually running. Time spent stopped, the moments around it, and values far from your usual are left out, so the number stays close to your real pace. The averages of your last 10 runs are in Settings.
With RUN OFF, Running Groove becomes a music player for any moment—not just your workout (it does not change the tempo, and songs play at their own tempo). Tap a song in your library to play it, press and hold to add it to a playlist, and play your playlists in order. The play history lets you go back, repeat one song, or shuffle.
You can also run to free music from Audius, chosen by genre (it replaces the original music while selected).
Before you start, the home screen shows a runner warming up and a short message for the day to get you in the mood.
Features
- Cadence-aware tempo adjustment and music selection (Follow / Fixed)
- Original music created for running, in seven categories
- New songs that arrive without an app update (new-song notices, a storage limit for fetched songs)
- Smooth, musically timed transitions between tracks
- Estimated pace per kilometer and speed, from your cadence, with an adjustable stride
- Average cadence after a Follow-mode run (your last 10 runs are kept)
- Library, playlists (up to five), play history, repeat and shuffle
- Free music from Audius, chosen by genre
- Lock Screen controls, background playback, and headphone controls
Find your pace. Keep your groove.
*Cadence detection can vary with phone placement and running conditions.
*Pace, speed, and average cadence are estimates worked out from your cadence and may differ from the real values.
*An internet connection is required to fetch new songs and for streamed Audius music.
*Running Groove does not record your location or running distance. Your average cadence records stay on your device.
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Fixed some bugs.
The developer, Koichi Izawa, 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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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
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Information
- Seller
- Koichi Izawa
- Size
- 142.3 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Japanese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Koichi Izawa