Relive every run.
A route coloured by pace, splits for every kilometre or mile, heart rate, elevation and running form from your watch. Similar runs show whether you are getting faster.
From numbers to a story
A run page in most apps is a table. Runtile's run page tries to answer the question you actually have: was that a good run?
It starts at the top with the distance, big and rounded, and a line that places the run in your week and month. Then a single sentence: "Negative split, fastest 5 km since March" or "Hard run. An easy day next keeps the balance."
Below it, the pace card answers the main question: your average pace on a bar against your usual pace for runs of that distance. Time, heart rate and climb follow, each with a short note like "Longest this week" or "-14 bpm vs usual". If you stopped along the way, the time row says how long you were paused or how long you were actually moving. Tap a row to jump to the card behind it.
The cards
- Route. Your GPS track drawn as a path in pace colours, with distance markers, a green start dot, a white finish ring and a mark wherever you stopped for 20 seconds or more. A dot moves along it as you scrub the timeline. Tap it to open the route full screen.
- Timeline. Pace, heart rate, elevation, cadence and power on one shared time axis. Drag a finger across it and every card updates to that moment.
- Splits. Each kilometre or mile as a bar, coloured with the same pace scale as the heatmap, with the altitude drawn behind. Even, negative or positive split is named.
- Heart rate zones. Time in each of five zones from your maximum heart rate, and a sentence about drift: how much your heart rate rose for the same pace in the second half.
- Running form. Cadence, stride length, vertical oscillation, ground contact time and power, each shown as a dot on a typical range with a plain label. No coaching jargon.
- Bests in this run. Your fastest 1 km, mile, 5 km, 10 km, half or marathon segment inside this run, and whether any of them was a personal best.
- Similar runs. The last few runs of about the same distance, with the pace and heart rate difference. This is the "was it good for me" card.
- Shoes. Which pair you wore. Tap to change. A guessed assignment is marked until you confirm it.
- The footer. Elevation, weather when the recording app stored it, source app, max heart rate.
Replay the run
Tap the route to open it full screen. Press play and a dot runs your route again, with the time, distance, pace and heart rate following along and the tiles under the line lighting up as the dot reaches them. Drag the slider to jump to any moment.
The line sits on a grid of tiles by default, with no map and nothing loaded. Switch to Map or Satellite if you want the streets under it.
Scrubbing
Put a finger on the timeline and slide. The route dot moves, the splits highlight, the zone bar shows the zone at that moment. It is the fastest way to find out what happened at kilometre 7. As you scroll down, the route shrinks into a strip under the top bar, so the dot stays in view while you read the splits.
What is free
The whole run page is free for every run, because understanding a single run is where every runner starts. Similar runs, the card that compares this run with your recent runs of the same distance, is part of Runtile Pro.
Questions
Do I need an Apple Watch for the running form metrics?
Cadence, stride length, vertical oscillation, ground contact time and power come from Apple Watch Series 8 or later, or from other watches that write these types to Health. Without them the cards simply do not appear.
Is the route shown on a map?
By default Runtile draws the route as a line coloured by pace, with no map underneath: you see the shape, the loops and where you slowed. Open it full screen to replay the run, and switch to Map or Satellite if you want the streets under it; only then does Apple Maps load the map of that area. To name the place, only the start and finish points of the run are sent to Apple Maps.
Where does the story sentence come from?
From the run itself. A negative split, a personal best segment, a heart rate drift, a hot day. Runtile picks the one fact that matters most and says it in a line.
Related guides
- Training2 min read
Cadence, stride, vertical oscillation and ground contact time explained
Your watch records running form metrics. Here is what each one means in plain words, what typical values look like, and which ones are actually worth changing.
- Training2 min read
Reading a pace heatmap: fast days, easy days and the 80/20 rule
A year of runs as coloured tiles tells you more than any list. How to read the colours, what a healthy pattern looks like, and why most of your tiles should be dark.
Start with your last year of runs.
Runtile reads what is already in Health. Your history appears in seconds, no account needed.