What is Runsense?
Runsense is a running coach for iPhone built around a coach you message. You tell it your goal race, your history, how fit you are today and the days you can run, and it designs the training from now to the goal and the recovery after it. Then it reads what you actually do and how you slept, checks in when something looks off, and reworks the plan. It calls itself a coach with judgment, not a workout library or a pace calculator. The coaching responses are generated by AI, through OpenAI.
It reached the App Store on June 30, 2026 and updates often, with version 3.6 out on October 28.
Key Features
A plan for the whole build
Base, economy and speed, volume and race-specific work, laid out in build weeks, cutback weeks and a taper. Goals run from a first 5K to a hundred-mile ultra. When a week falls apart through travel, a cold or a missed session, the coach changes the plan and tells you the reason.
A coach you message
Ask about a sore knee, a hectic day or the theory behind a workout, at any hour. It reaches you by in-app notification or, if you choose it and have a US mobile number, by text. It keeps your history and what you've told it. Sessions no device saw, like a mobility routine on the floor, count if you tap them done or tell the coach.
Reading your runs and recovery
It takes in distance, pace, heart rate and elevation, plus sleep, heart rate variability and resting heart rate, and how you said a run felt. Fitness, fatigue and form trends show the work adding up.
Your plan on your wrist
Each day's workout arrives on your Apple Watch with the warm-up, intervals and targets, and updates when the plan changes. Suunto users get the next week's sessions written to their Suunto account as SuuntoPlus guides.
What comes in from Strava
Connect Strava under Connected apps & watches, sign in on Strava's page, and your runs arrive on their own, including the history you already have there. The privacy policy spells out what it collects for each activity: type, times, distance and elevation, average and maximum heart rate, cadence and power, the title, laps, the segments and personal bests it counted towards, the second-by-second record and the route, which it uses to see the terrain and the weather along the way. If you also grant write permission, it may update the description of an activity you completed. It says it doesn't create, delete or otherwise change your activities, and it doesn't read anyone else's.
Who It's For
- Runners who want reasons with the changes, not only a new number on the calendar
- Ultra runners, since the goal range goes past the marathon
- Anyone who records on Strava, or on Suunto, Polar or COROS, and wants to link once and forget it
- People who'd rather have a text in the morning than open another training app
What it doesn't do
It's iPhone only. There's an Android waitlist on the site, with no date. Garmin doesn't connect directly: a Garmin watch reaches Runsense by setting the Garmin Connect app to share with Apple Health, or through Strava if the watch already sends runs there.
Its terms say Runsense is not a medical professional or a substitute for medical advice, so the answer on a sore knee has that limit. There's no free tier after the 14 days. Text coaching needs a US mobile number.
What happens to my history if I disconnect Strava?
New activities stop arriving, but the training history already in Runsense stays, because the coaching is built on it. If you want it erased, the privacy policy says to email support and they will.
Will my data train AI models?
Runsense says not. Its site says your training data is used to coach you and not to train AI models, and the privacy policy lists OpenAI as real-time processing only. It says your training data isn't sold or handed to advertisers.
What if a run reaches it two ways?
The privacy policy says that when the same workout arrives from more than one source, it keeps one copy and marks the others as duplicates. That covers a run that comes through both Strava and Apple Health.
