The 10 Best Running Apps for iPhone in 2023

Basic Workout Tracking: Runkeeper

Runkeeper is a great run tracking application for most runners. Serious runners might miss more advanced features, but the app strikes the right balance between power and usability.

Track workouts with pace, distance, and GPS mapping; live voice feedback with multiple voices provides updates on distance and speed. Goals, social challenges, and race training options help you reach your running goals, and a well-designed interface keeps things from getting cluttered.

Route Creator and Tracker: Map My Run

Map My Run's workout tracking includes all the basics like pace, time, distance, and mapping, as well as social sharing and live tracking of in progress workouts. However, the best feature is route discovery and creation. The paid tier can autogenerate routes with Route Genius, and any user can find and run nearby routes.

A Commuinty of Athletes: Strava

With Strava, you can track your duration, pace, and distance, as well as attach photos and share workouts with your friends and family. Create your own routes on Strava.com, then run them with audio guidance from the app. The best feature is the Strava community, a large and earnest group of professional competitors and serious amateurs training side-by-side.

Run to the Beat of Your Heart: Zones

Most runners track their pace based on minutes per mile, but that's not the only way. If you track your pace based on heart rate and oxygen capacity, you can more precisely target specific fitness goals. Zones tracks your heart rate and provides audio feedback to meet your running goals based on pre-designed exertion curves.

Train for Your Next Race: Nike Run Club

Nike Run Club is a workout tracker that helps you get pumped up, with features like end-of-workout encouragement from athletes and voice coaching from famous entertainers. Guided runs provide audio feedback for specific run types, and coaching generates workouts to help you reach your goals.

Real Coaches For Real Improvement: Runcoach

Runcoach provides real coaching services with modern technology, producing meaningful coaching routines with human coaches. It incorporates past workouts to formulate a weekly plan that improves fitness, distance, or speed.

You're connected with a real human expert who creates your training plan for you with Runcoach's tools. The paid service includes a free two-week trial, during which you can test out the service to make sure the coaching is up to snuff.

Run to the Beat: Weav Run

"Running to music is awesome, but running to the beat is magic." That's Weav Run's apt description of itself. The app matches music to your current running cadence by detecting your pace and matching the music by digitally tweaking the tempo or changing tracks. The free service is limited, so full-time users will need to pay for a subscription.

Plan Your Route: Footpath Route Planner

With Footpath Root Planner, you can create running and hiking routes by dragging on a map of an area. Snap to roads and trails for quick mileage calculations, or manually draw your route. With turn-by-turn directions, you'll get live navigation updates that keep you on track, which are crucial if you're off the beaten path.

Get Faster: Intervals

Interval training, or high-intensity interval training (HIIT), is a way of structuring intense and closely timed workouts, alternating brief and intense periods of activity with short periods of rest. With Intervals, you can build structured timers to track custom workouts. With the paid version of the app, you can use interval templates built specifically for runners.