BirdRunner
Pick your days and a goal, from short walks to a marathon. BirdRunner builds the plan and talks you through each session with voice cues. For iPhone.
Coming soonto the App Store
Requires iOS 17 or later. Sending plans to Apple Watch needs watchOS 10 or later. Which devices?
No account No ads No tracking Your runs stay on your iPhone
Goals go from short walks and walk-jog sessions to a 5K, a 10K, a half, or a full marathon. Choose beginner, intermediate, or advanced. Walk 1 to 5 days a week, or run 3 to 6.
Your sessions for the week show up on Today, each with a time and, for runs, a distance.
Start a session and the timer talks you through each step while GPS tracks your distance.
Guided runs
The timer steps through warm up, reps, and cool down, and reads your target pace aloud. Your music gets quieter while a cue plays.
Private by design
No account to make. No server keeping your runs. No ads or trackers watching. BirdRunner keeps your plan, runs, routes, and steps on your iPhone.
Check it yourself: turn on App Privacy Report in Settings › Privacy & Security. BirdRunner doesn't contact any server of ours.
Read the privacy policyReal training
Half marathon plans run the full 21.1 km before race day. Marathon plans build to 30 to 35 km, three weeks out. In between: hills, fartlek, tempo, intervals, race pace, and time trials to check your fitness, all set for beginner, intermediate, or advanced.
Garmin
Connect Garmin once, through Apple Health. After that, runs from your watch land in your journal and tick off the session they match, usually within minutes of Garmin Connect syncing. No Garmin login in BirdRunner.
Share cards
Finish a run and make a card: a pass like the ones in Wallet, a poster, or your own photo from the run with your numbers on top. Add your note if you want. Save it to Photos in one tap, text it, or post it. Each card says how the run was recorded, by GPS, a watch, or by hand. Photos you add stay with the run, so you can look back at them in your journal and calendar.
Your flock
Every bird has a goal: your first walk, a tempo run, a 7-day streak, a half marathon. Pick any bird you've earned to run with you, on Today, in the timer, and on your app icon. Birds come from activities BirdRunner timed or recorded, or that a watch measured, so nobody can type their way to a phoenix.
Widgets
Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for your next session, the week so far, the weather and the best time to run, today's steps, the countdown to race day, and a one-tap quick start.
Just go
Tap Run or Walk on Today and the timer starts, GPS and all, no plan needed. Or start from a widget, Control Center, the Action button, or Siri: “Start a walk with BirdRunner.” Rather skip plans altogether? Choose No plan in setup and BirdRunner just keeps track.
Seasons
Leaves in fall, snow in winter, petals in spring, and sunlight in summer, following the season where you are. Prefer it plain? Turn it off in Look.
Plans
Add a race date and the plan builds week by week, then eases off before race day. Race coming up soon? If you already run enough, you get a short block that sharpens what you have. See every day in week or month view. Press and hold or drag to move a missed run. No race? Pick 8, 12, or 16 weeks, or any length from 4 to 24.
New to running
Pick walking or walk and jog in setup. Sessions are timed, 5 to 30 minutes, and walk-jog mixes 30-second jogs with walking breaks. Walk your neighborhood or a trail and GPS maps the route and distance.
Indoors
Choose Treadmill before you start. GPS stays off and the voice cues still play. Add the distance when you finish, or save just the time.
Progress
Pick runs, walks, or all activities, then a time range. See distance or time, with separate colors and totals for each activity type, or switch to Steps for your daily steps against your goal. Tap a bar for a closer look. The activity history below follows the same filters.
Make it yours
Care more about steps than streaks? Press and hold a card on Today or Progress to move it up or down, or hide it. Arrange lists every card with a switch and a handle, and one tap puts it all back.
Daily steps
Today's steps from Apple Health and your iPhone, a goal ring, and your week against the goal line. Reach your goal and BirdRunner sends a note, then celebrates when you open it. Hourly notes show your count and how many steps are left.
Weather
Turn on the weather and Today shows what it's like now, the high and low, the next few hours with little icons for sun, clouds, rain, or snow, and the best time to head out: dry, comfortable, and ahead of the storm. A widget does the same on your Home Screen or Lock Screen. Only a rounded area is sent for the forecast.
Easy setup
One screen says what each permission is for before your iPhone asks. Pick a text size that suits you, and find each setting under one plain row in You.
Lock Screen
Time, distance, pace, and the next step stay on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Pause without unlocking.
Voices
Pick from your iPhone's voices, American, British, Australian, Irish, and more, female or male, at the speed you like.
Your own cues
Record a few words for the start, each mile, or the finish. They stay on your iPhone, and only you hear them.
Plan length
8, 12, or 16 weeks, or any length from 4 to 24. Every fourth week is lighter.
Paces
Training paces from a recent race or your quickest recent runs.
Apple Health
Import Watch runs with available routes, heart rate, calories, and more. Send planned sessions to the Watch’s Workout app, including intervals. No separate watch app needed.
Feedback
Something off? You → Feedback opens a ready email in the app you use, Gmail, Outlook, or Mail. Nothing sends until you press Send.
Adjustments
After a missed week or a few tired runs, BirdRunner suggests easing back. Nothing changes until you tap Adjust.
Step trends
Pick Steps in Progress for every day of the last week or month, or the daily average over six months or a year, against your goal.
Shoes
Add your shoes, pick a pair when you log a run, and watch the distance add up toward the limit you set.
Notifications
Run day reminders, a step goal alert, and step check-ins every 1 to 4 hours, only between the hours you pick. One switch pauses them all. Off until you turn them on.
Start with five birds. Earn 38 more as you train and play: intervals for the hummingbird, a half marathon for the swan, a full marathon for the phoenix. Locked birds show what they take.
Pick an accent color and an appearance to see the Today screen change. These are real screens from the app.
Train safely. BirdRunner gives general training guidance. It isn't medical advice and doesn't diagnose or treat any condition. Check with a doctor before starting a new training plan, especially if you have a health condition or injury, or are pregnant. Stop and get help if you feel chest pain, dizziness, or unusual shortness of breath. Stay aware of traffic and your surroundings, and keep your eyes off the screen while you run.
