RunGo - The Best Routes to Run 9+

Great App, Needs Some Improvements

I’ve been using RunGo for three years now and am a paid subscriber. Overall, this is a great app. It’s easy to create and save routes, audio cues work well and it syncs with Apple Health and Strava. I do wish they would make some improvements. When you create a route, at each point you add it often adds unnecessary turns. For example, if I add a point on a straightaway, it will sometimes say, “turn left, now turn right” or “turn around, turn around”. Trying to edit these points often messes up the entire route. For detailed editing and certain features, you need to use a computer. Also, Facebook login no longer works correctly and it took over a week for support to migrate my login. Lastly, if you go off route (which is easy to do when trail running) it won’t let you know for over a 10th of a mile, so it ends up adding about a quarter mile to the run if you have to backtrack. All this said, this has become a vital running app for me and it has many powerful features that don’t seem to exist in any other running app. It filled the gaps that Strava’s routes lack, and if you already have routes in Strava you can import and manipulate them in RunGo. For what it can do, it definitely deserves 4 stars.

Developer Response ,

Hi, thanks for your feedback. These are all valid comments, and we are and have been working on all of them! Please stay tuned for major updates to the iPhone route creator. We are constantly working to improve the extra turn points. Ultimately, to customize the route to its fullest, you may want to use your computer, but it's not always available! We were bummed about the changes to the Facebook login; thanks for your patience as we had to manually jump through some hoops to make some individual migrations. We welcome your feedback, and your support means a lot to us as we work on these things!

Close, just needs some tweaking

I travel a lot for work, 14 days out of the month I’m in a different city and different hotel. I love the fact that I can look up or create a route the night before and then go run it the next day. The turn-by-turn directions are great and exactly why I use RunGo.

The one thing I’d like to see tweaked is Off Route. For example, I was running on Frank Sinatra Dr in Rancho Mirage, the road is two lanes in both directions with a center island with a sidewalk on only one side. RunGo kept telling me I was Off Route because (I assume) I was on the wrong side of the road compared to what I had created.

The other Off Route issue is a lack recalculating of the route, or at least an option to. For example, same run as above, I had unwittingly created a route that went through a private gated community. No big deal, I’ll just go around and come back the same way I came, pick it up on the other side. Voice prompts were reminding me every 30 seconds that I was off route. Annoying to the point I had to quit the app. Hopefully they can get this fixed, every GPS in the world automatically recalculates when you’re off route.

Not for people who move to new areas

I had one run with this and directions were wonky. A lot of turn right then immediately turn left no really make a uturn in place of simple right or left turns. I eventually got to where I was going. Decided to subscribe and give another shot. Made a simpler map and thought less complicated. This time it had me completely loss following directions. Would tell me turn on non existent street names or make turns when there was no place to turn…….. If you need turn by turn to run a loop around your block works as expected. If you are in a new area and want to take a run longer than 1000ft that maybe goes outside your neighborhood plan to spend hours loss or trying to find a Main Street to get back home. App is a great college project but not ready for production. At 3.99 maybe you get just enough out of it but no HR integration. I’m sticking to NRC.

Update: Tried again this morning without a map, just run, it turned down my music as if it were going to say something . I paused it to get my music back then when I unpaused I didn’t think to check again. 10 minutes later deeper into run I noticed the app had crashed. No run saved. This app is officially trash deleting from devices. Don’t waste your money or time on this app.