Pace Buddy
Voice-guided running plans
$3.99
Set a goal. Get a plan. Let your watch coach every run.
Pace Buddy answers one question every day: why run today? You pick a goal — a 5K, a 10K, a half, a marathon, or just the habit of running more — and Pace Buddy turns it into a training plan where each day is the next step toward it. Your progress is always in front of you.
Then your Apple Watch takes over. It runs each workout hands-free, guiding you by voice. Leave your phone at home.
WHAT IT DOES
• Goal to plan. Choose a race or a habit and get a training plan built around it, laid out day by day.
• Your watch coaches you. Pace, heart rate, distance, and the current step on screen — and in your ears. Pace Buddy speaks each step change, a heads-up before the next one, the halfway point, and every split with its pace.
• Pace nudges. On a pace-target run it tells you when you drift — speed up, ease off — and when you're back on.
• Fully offline on the watch. No phone, no signal needed. Cues play over the watch speaker, AirPods, or any Bluetooth headphones.
• Saved to Apple Health. Every run is saved as a workout with its route and an effort score, so it counts toward your rings.
• Paces that fit you. Your targets come from your recent 5K time — type it in, pick a run from Health, or run the built-in 5K time trial. Run a faster 5K and Pace Buddy offers to update the rest of your plan.
• Just want to run? Quick Start gives you an easy run, a long run, a tempo, intervals, or a fartlek with no setup at all.
• Stays in step. Reminders on training days, a watch-face complication, the Smart Stack, and "ask Siri for today's run." Your plan lives in your own iCloud and reaches your watch automatically.
NO LOCK-IN
No account. No subscription. Your identity is your own iCloud, your health data stays in Apple Health, and a plan someone shares with you opens straight in the app. Pace Buddy is the coach — the goal and the plan are yours.
The run itself needs an Apple Watch: live GPS, heart rate, and voice coaching all happen on your wrist.
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• More accurate pace. The pace on your watch reacts faster when you speed up or slow down, and the pace it speaks now matches your distance.
• Made for big screens. On iPad and iPhone Duo, a workout opens next to Today or your plan, and the list stays in view. Hold the screen upright and Pace Buddy opens on Today.
• Every run shows its map. Fixed runs that opened with no route, or with some of their analysis missing.
• Smaller fixes and polish.
The developer, Marcello Mascia, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Marcello Mascia
- Size
- 19.1 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.6 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.6 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 26.6 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Marcello Mascia
