Is RunPlan free?
Yes. Every plan, the whole Apple Watch app, no account, no ads — here’s the full picture, including what happens if that ever changes.
What you get
- Every training plan: 5K, 10K, half marathon, marathon — beginner to advanced, plus maintenance and speed-development plans.
- Training paces built from a race you’ve actually run, not generic tables.
- The complete Apple Watch app: every workout runs from your wrist — live intervals, target pace windows, haptic taps at transitions. The phone can stay home.
- Progress tracking with your training calendar and activity history.
- Nine languages.
- Under work right now: mid-plan recalibration (the app offers to adjust remaining weeks when your fitness changes, with a before/after view), richer progress charts, widgets, Live Activities and monthly recaps — all coming in the next updates, still free.
No trial that runs out, no locked weeks, no ads, no account. And there’s no premium version sitting above this one — you’re looking at the whole app.
No ads, no data selling
There are no accounts — your training data stays on your phone and in Apple Health, so there’s nothing to sell. The app collects standard anonymous crash and usage stats; the privacy policy has the details. The longer version — where your data lives and why we couldn’t sell it if we wanted to — is on the privacy page.
Will it stay free?
We haven’t planned every step of the future — here’s why we refuse the subscription model. But two things are settled: RunPlan will never be a subscription, and if a paid tier ever appears, it’ll be a one-time purchase for extras — everything you get today stays free. Running is the cheapest sport there is. We intend to keep it that way.
Why is it free?
The training science in every running app, paid or free, comes from the same published books — Daniels, Higdon, Pfitzinger. Renting it back to runners for $120 a year never sat right with us, so we built the coach we wanted and put the plan engine on GitHub for anyone to read. If you’re comparing apps, our roundup of the free options covers when another app is the better pick.
Common questions
Practical how-tos (watch sync, moving workouts, adaptation) live on the full FAQ page.
Is RunPlan completely free?
Yes — the whole app: every training plan (5K, 10K, half marathon, marathon, plus maintenance and speed plans), the full Apple Watch app, paces built from your own race results, progress tracking. No trial, no locked weeks, no ads, no account.
Will RunPlan stay free?
We haven’t planned every step of the future, but two things are settled: RunPlan will never be a subscription, and if a paid tier ever appears it’ll be a one-time purchase for extras. Everything the app does today stays free.
Is there a catch — ads, data selling, an account wall?
No ads, no accounts — your training data stays on your device and in Apple Health, so there’s nothing to sell even if we wanted to. The app collects standard anonymous crash and usage analytics, described in the privacy policy.
Why is it free when competitors charge $100+ per year?
The methodology inside every running plan comes from the same published books, and renting it back to runners as a subscription never sat right with us. We built RunPlan as the coach we wanted to exist — and the plan engine is open source, so you can read the exact logic that builds your training.
What do I need to use it?
An iPhone. An Apple Watch makes it much better — workouts run entirely from the wrist with live intervals, pace targets and haptic cues — but plans, calendar and progress work on the phone alone.
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