What's New

If you run in kilometers, the whole app now speaks kilometers.

• Every page: the dashboard and its calendar, activities and their splits, plans, races, race strategy, analytics, injury alerts, weekly reports, preferences. Numbers and the units beside them now agree everywhere. Before this, some pages showed you kilometers with "mi" written next to them, and others showed you miles with "km" next to them.
• Your emails too. The weekly report, injury alerts, the workout reminder and the mid-week check-in were all still writing in miles.
• A race you finished is no longer listed as a DNF. If the distance you covered matched the race, we were comparing it against a converted number and getting it wrong.
• Paces were reading a full minute per kilometer too fast in a couple of places. A 5:35/km showed as 6:35/km.
• Weekly goals, race distances, planned runs and day rules: type a number in kilometers and that is the number that gets saved.

A runner wrote in this morning and pointed at the dashboard. Thank you. It went a lot deeper than the dashboard.

Still in miles, on purpose: your splits and the race-day pace band. Your watch recorded those at mile markers, and renaming them would promise kilometer splits while handing you mile ones. The iPhone app is still miles-only, and that is next.

If you run in kilometers, the number you type is now the number NavRun keeps.

• A runner wrote in this morning about kilometers and miles being mixed together, and he was right. Thank you. It turned out to be worse than the labels: several boxes asked you for kilometers and then saved what you typed as miles. Type 40 into your weekly goal and NavRun stored 40 miles, which is 64 km. This is fixed.
• The same fix covers race distance, race elevation, and the distance and pace on a planned run. All of them asked in your units and saved in mine.
• Your weekly goal ring on the preferences page was reading about 60% high, because it was comparing a number in kilometers against a goal in miles.
• Distances are now kept precisely enough that a round number stays a round number. Typing 40 km and coming back to 40.07 was NavRun losing your number in the rounding.
• Nothing you have already saved was changed. If your weekly goal looks too high for what you meant, set it again and it will stick this time.

The rest of the app still shows miles in a lot of places when you have chosen kilometers. That work is underway and it is the next thing.

The jobs that run in the background now get switched on by the deploy, not by somebody remembering.

• Voice messages in a live session are deleted after 30 days, audio and text together. That was already true and the daily job doing it was already running. It is now switched on by the deploy itself, so it stays true even if the job is ever removed by hand.
• Behind all of this: NavRun has a set of jobs that run on a timer, and each one used to be turned on by hand, one time, in one place. Nothing checked. A job nobody remembered simply never ran, and looked exactly like a job with nothing to do. Every deploy now turns them on, and a new one cannot ship without being on the list.
• One job is still switched off on purpose: the one that emails you a blog post. If you turned blog emails on, you have not been getting them, and you still will not for now. I would rather read the first one myself before it goes out than send it because a deploy did.

A message that gets pulled now leaves your screen too, not just everyone else's.

• If the safety check comes back against a voice message after it has already gone out, it is taken off every screen in the session. The share page did that. The app did not, so the one screen it stayed on was yours, still there and still playable until you closed the app and opened it again. It goes now, on the next check, whether you are looking at the screen or not. If it was playing, it stops.
• Same for a message somebody else reported. You do not have to be the one who reported it for it to leave your screen.
• If your phone cannot reach NavRun, nothing is removed. Being out of signal is not a reason to empty your messages.
• Names that get caught by the filter are now recorded where I read them. The name is still just replaced and the message still arrives, but somebody using the name field for abuse over and over is no longer invisible.

The safety pages now say you can cut the link, because now you can.

• The privacy policy and the community rules both used to stop at "end the session". That was right when there was no button. There is a button now, so both pages name it: "Turn the link off" sits next to "Share your link", it closes the page for everyone holding the link, and your own tracking carries on.
• Both pages also say the part that is easy to miss: ending the session closes the link too, and so does the 48 hour cap.
• The privacy policy is straight about the limit. Turning a link off is final for that session. There is no way to switch the same link back on, and starting a session again makes a fresh link.

The same controls the share page has, now on your phone.

• Every message in Out Here has a control beside it. Tap it and you can report the message, or stop hearing whoever sent it. A reported message comes off the screen for everyone right away, and a person reads it. Stopping somebody is quiet: they are not told anything.
• Whatever you report or silence leaves your screen. Silencing somebody takes everything they already sent with it, not just the message you were looking at.
• Anyone you have stopped hearing is listed under your profile, with a way to hear them again. Worth knowing: they can still open your link, their messages just do not reach you, and somebody opening it in a different browser arrives under a new name.
• "Turn the link off" sits next to "Share your link". Your tracking keeps going, and you can share a new link whenever you want.
• Typed messages show up properly. A typed note used to blank the whole message list on the phone, so one person typing instead of recording could quietly take everybody's messages away.
• Your profile has Get help and Community rules in it, and the address that reaches me is printed there too.

The privacy policy now says what the app actually does, and there are community rules for a live session.

• The privacy policy had one sentence about location, and it only mentioned Strava. It now covers live sessions properly: what a position point contains, that it is collected with your phone in a pocket and the screen off, that it is about one point every 25 minutes, and that outside a live session the app does not ask for your position at all.
• New sections for the microphone and voice messages (60 seconds a clip, deleted after 30 days, audio included), for what a share link shows and when it stops working, and for the people who follow your run without a NavRun account.
• New page: community rules, at navrun.app/community-rules/. What is not allowed in a live session, what happens to a message that breaks the rules, and how to report one. It is linked from the share page, from the footer, and from the profile sheet in the app.
• The iOS privacy manifest now declares audio, which it should have done the day voice messages shipped.
• A share link no longer goes to Google. Analytics was loading on every page, including the ones whose web address contains your private share link, so the link itself was being sent to Google along with the visitor's IP. Live pages and crew sheets now run no analytics at all. Ordinary pages are unchanged.
• The policy now says that voice messages are transcribed and checked automatically before they reach the runner, and that the audio and that text go to our AI provider for that check and nothing else.
• The Sign in with Apple section is gone. NavRun does not offer it, and the policy should not claim to collect something it never receives.

Your Settings screen names Apple Health, whatever phone you are on.

• The Apple Health section used to disappear entirely on a device that cannot do Apple Health, so there was nowhere left in the app that mentioned it. It is always there now. Where the phone cannot do it, the row says so.
• The section heading reads "Apple Health" instead of "Data Sources", and there is a line under it saying what NavRun does with it: it reads your running workouts, and it never writes anything back.
• It no longer greys out while the rest of Settings is loading.

Delete Account is on your Profile screen.

• Tap your photo, and the ACCOUNT section there now has Delete Account in it, alongside The Crew, Strava and Apple Health. It was only in Settings before, which is a tap further in.
• It is the same thing either way: the same two confirmations, the same warning about cancelling an App Store subscription first, the same deletion.

Out Here says what it costs your battery.

• There is a line under the Start Out Here button now saying that your phone keeps finding you with the screen off, which uses a lot more battery than a usual run. Nothing about how it works changed.

Out Here tells you when the microphone or your location is switched off.

• Tapping Record with the microphone off for NavRun used to do nothing at all, with no way to find out why. It now says what is off and takes you to Settings. If you have only just turned it down, it says nothing: you answered that question a second ago.
• Turning your location down completely used to leave the card saying only "Tracking is paused." It now says location is off, and that everything else about the session keeps working. That is true: your link, your voice messages and the messages coming back need nothing from location.

Answering a revised week tells you it landed.

• Tapping "Use this week" or "Keep what I had" closed the sheet and changed nothing you could see. There is a line at the top of your week now confirming what you chose, and it goes away on its own.
• Turning one hard run into an easy one gets the same confirmation, naming the new distance.

A typed message from your crew reaches you, and 50K is a distance you can hold.

• Someone opening your Out Here link on a phone that cannot record, which is what happens inside the Instagram and Facebook browsers, could only type. Those typed messages were not just missing: one of them stopped every other message in the session from reaching you too. They arrive now, and you can read them on the same list as the voices.
• The 50K card on your records screen could never be earned. It is computed now, and it counts trail runs and courses that measure long, which is what a 50K usually is.

Everyone on your Out Here link goes by a name now, and anything on the page can be reported.

• The share page asks for a name before the message box opens. It used to be optional. Whoever is out there at mile 80 should know who is talking to them, and a room where everyone is named is a better room.
• Every message on the page has a Report control. Reporting takes the message off the page for everyone straight away, and a person reads it afterwards. Your own messages are the exception: nobody holding your link can take your voice off your own run.
• You can stop hearing a sender for good. It carries across to your next run, not just this one, and it takes down what they already said.
• Voice clips get a few seconds for a check before they land, and are never held back by a slow one. A message from home going missing is worse than a message from home arriving unchecked, so the clip always goes.
• Typed messages and display names are screened the same way, and the same way round: if the check cannot run, the message still goes.
• You can cut the share link whenever you want. The page closes for everyone holding it, including pages already open, and your run carries on.
• Reports reach a person at [email protected], and that address is on the share page.

Forgotten your password? There is a way back in now.

• Until today, a forgotten password meant emailing me and waiting for me to fix it by hand. There was no other route in. "Forgot your password?" now sits under the Log In button in the app and on the website, and it sends you a link to set a new one.
• The link lasts an hour and works once. If yours has run out, ask for another and a fresh one comes straight back.
• Whatever address you type, you get the same calm answer. Nothing on that screen will ever tell you that you got your own email address wrong.
• Setting a new password signs out everything that was signed in, including the app on your phone, so it will ask you to log in again with the new one. That is the point: if you are resetting because someone else got in, this is what puts them out.
• You also get an email telling you your password changed. If that was you, ignore it. If it was not, it says exactly who to write to.
• Everything you built is untouched by any of this. Your runs, your plans, and your races are exactly where you left them.

Entering a race opens the race.

• Adding a race used to hand you back to the list of races. It opens the race you just entered now, which is where the aid stations, the race day list, and your goal time live. Setting the thing up is the next thing you were going to do anyway.
• Cancelling out of the form leaves you exactly where you were, same as before. Editing a race you already have still returns you to that race.

"View my week" on the today card opens your week.

• The line along the bottom of the Do Today card looks like a button, and tapping it did nothing. Tapping anywhere else on the card opened your week, so the one spot the card pointed you at was the only spot that was dead.
• "Start workout" on a training day had the same problem. Both open the card's week now, and so does the rest of the card. Wherever you aim on it, you land in the same place.
• The small buzz those two buttons used to give is gone. It was what was eating the tap, and the screen opening is the better answer anyway.
• "View my week" also picks up the same rust fill as "start workout", so the two look alike as well as behaving alike.

The small print on the Out Here button is readable now.

• The line under the button that tells you what tapping it makes was dimmed slightly, which took it under the contrast level small text has to meet. It is at full strength now. Nothing else about the button changed.

The people who have been out there with you are on the screen before you go.

• Open Out Here and the voices who have talked to you on a run before are sitting above the button. A face and a first name each, most recent first.
• Names, never a number. No count, no badge, and no order of merit.

Out Here opens on the trailhead.

• The tab you start a live run from used to be four lines and a button. It is dusk on a ridgeline now, and sitting on it is the exact sentence the people you send the link to are about to read, with an empty slot underneath where the link will go.
• The button says what it makes. It used to tell you to send your link before there was a link to send, which was backwards. The small print under it now reads "This is what makes your link."
• It stays dark even if your phone is in light mode. That is deliberate. The tab bar reads whatever is behind it, and on a pale screen this one tab would stop matching the other four.

One sentence about signal, said the same way on every screen that says it.

• While a session is running, the panel that explains Out Here now reads "Voices land whenever your phone finds signal." It is the same fact it always stated, in the wording the rest of the screen uses. Two near-identical sentences were living in one feature and only one of them can be right, so now there is one of them.

Your people can say something the moment they open your link, named or not.

• The page you share while you are out there used to ask for a name before it would show anybody the record button or the message box. Someone opening that link at 11pm with you at mile 80 had to fill in a box before they could say a word. Both are on the page from the first second now, name or no name.
• The name field is still there, under everything they came for, with a line saying what it does: it puts their name on anything they send, so you know who is talking. Sending works either way.
• Anyone who has already told the page what to call them is not asked again. They see who they are signed as, and a way to change it.

Groundwork for Out Here: the app can ask who has been out there with you.

• NavRun can now hand the app two things it never could before: the people who have talked to you on a live run before, and when the sun goes down where you live. Nothing on your screen changes yet. The screen that shows them is next.
• Names only. NavRun sends the people, never a number of them, and never in the order of who said the most.

The sheet behind your photo closes with a button now, and Sign out looks like the rest of NavRun.

• Tap your photo in the top right and the sheet that slides up has a title and a Done button. Before, the only way out was dragging a thin grey handle, which is almost invisible in light mode, and the sheet covers the tabs while it is open, so there was nothing else on screen to press.
• Sign out is a plain row at the end of the list now, in NavRun's own red, sitting on the page the way a last action usually does. It used to be a bright bar stuck to the bottom of the screen with a third of the sheet empty above it.
• Sign out in Settings is the same word in the same red as Sign out in the sheet. They are one tap apart and they used to look like two different things.

The card with your day on it belongs to the same app as everything under it.

• In dark mode the day's card was the last thing in the app still painted charcoal and cream, sitting on a screen where every other card had gone pine. It is pine now, both halves: a deep band carrying your race countdown over the same card surface your week and your training load already sit on.
• It has an edge now, all the way round, and the same line between its two halves. Every other card on that screen had one. This one did not, so it floated.
• The start button reads properly at night. Its label was white on rust, which is not enough contrast to be comfortable, and the button never told the app which colours it wanted. Both halves are named now.
• The countdown line above the week is a lighter rust, so it clears the readability bar on the deeper band instead of sitting just under it.
• The same card is the run header on an activity, the week header on a plan, the header on a race, and the race strategy poster. All of them moved together, in light mode and dark.

Finish your run and the card at the top of the app moves with you.

• The big number on your dashboard is what you ran, not what the plan asked for. Under it: the kind of day it was, your pace, and what tomorrow holds. The planned number leaves the card once the day is done. Putting 3.0 next to 3.1 only invites a comparison, and there is no reading of that comparison worth handing you.
• The card waits for the day, not for the first run of it. Jog a mile with the dog at 7am on an 18 mile day and the 18 is still there: the target, the pace range, the note and the button, plus a line saying what you have on the board. It reads the same at 8pm as it did at 6am. Nothing softens, nothing counts down at you.
• Your watch and the course will never quite agree, so the day counts as run at 95% of the distance. 17.1 covers an 18. That is us admitting we cannot measure it more precisely than that, not us deciding what is close enough.
• Two runs in a day add up, and the card says so: "Two runs. 4h 12m on your feet." No blended pace, because the average across a 1 mile jog and an 18 mile long run is a pace you never actually ran.
• Run in the morning and walk in the evening and both are on the card now: your run's own pace, and the whole day on your feet.
• The dot above the card and the card underneath it now say the same thing about the same day. They used to read from different places, so some weeks the dot filled in while the card kept telling you to go run.
• If you're on your first week of the walk/run ladder, the card moves too. Those weeks are deliberately never graded on our side, which used to mean the card never noticed you'd been out.
• The week strip shows your whole week. It was drawn from your five most recent runs, so if you go out twice in a day the earlier days came back blank and read as days you did nothing.
• A walk or a hike on a run day gets named as time on your feet. It does not fill the run, and nothing says a word about that either way.
• A run on a rest day is stated and left alone: "Logged today: 3.1 mi." Nothing more.
• A ride, a swim, a lift still marks the day on the strip. Time on your feet and everything else each get their own mark now, and the month calendar uses the same marks and the same words as the week.
• Bring the app back from the background and the dashboard catches up on its own, instead of waiting for you to pull down.

Your records are tappable again, and rating a run no longer leaves you staring at a blank sheet.

• On Achievements, the records that came from a single run now show an arrow on the right and open that run when you tap anywhere on the card, including the edges. Records that cover a whole week have nothing to open, so they carry no arrow. Before this, all four looked the same and two of them did nothing.
• After you say how a run felt, NavRun now shows you it is working on reading the run back: your run is saved, a line about what it is looking at, and a way out. Closing the sheet is fine, the read-back lands on the run either way.
• If the read-back does not arrive while you are waiting, you get one calm line saying it is still being written rather than an animation that never stops. It is not an error and there is nothing to redo.
• How long NavRun waits before saying that is unchanged. Waiting longer is a separate question from showing you something is happening, and we would rather not quietly ask you to look at a spinner for twice as long.

The app opens with why NavRun exists, before it asks you for anything.

• Open NavRun for the first time and you get four screens before any sign-up form: who built this and why the craft is given away, what the plan does, how your people stay with you out there, and what race day looks like. Then you decide. If you already have an account there's a link straight to logging in, on the first screen and the last.
• The race-day screen says plainly that race planning is the part NavRun charges for. It sits right after a screen that ends "Free. Always.", and we would rather tell you which is which than let you find out later.
• Signing up asks one question now instead of four: what you're training for. Your experience, your rest days and your long-run days were all questions you could answer later in Settings, so they no longer stand between you and the app.
• If your runs aren't here yet, NavRun asks roughly how far you go in a week, at the point it's about to build your first week. Runners who've said they're not out there yet are never asked for a mileage number, and if you skip it, nothing is recorded as your goal.
• If you've been logged in before, none of this replays at you. Logging out, or a session timing out, takes you to the login screen the way it always did.

When NavRun writes you another way through the week, you can answer it from your phone.

• NavRun has been writing you a revised week for a while now, and on your phone you could only read it. You can take it, keep the week you had, or change a single day before you take it, all from the plan screen. Ask for a fresh one whenever you want, too.
• If two ways through are on offer, both are there side by side, with the one NavRun leans toward named in a sentence. Either one is yours to take.
• Tapping the notification about a revised week now opens that week, instead of dropping you on the plans tab to go find it.
• Any hard run still ahead of you can become an easy run: same day, no pace to hit, nothing else in your week moves. No banner, no reason asked for.
• If you change a day and then take a revision that was written before that change, NavRun stops rather than quietly putting your change back. It says so and offers you a fresh one that matches.
• After you rate a run, NavRun writes the run back to you: what went well, what the numbers say, what to try next. It was already doing this on the website and the app had no way to ask for it. You can close the app while it works.
• Asking for a revised week when you have already had a few that day now tells you so straight away. Before, it looked like it was working and never came back.

The app looks like the rest of NavRun now.

• Dark mode is pine. The website and the posters moved to it a month ago and the app
  did not, so the thing in your pocket has been a different colour from everything
  else with NavRun's name on it. Every screen moved, and the big cream type on them is
  the same cream the posters use.
• The card you share after a run is pine with cream type on it, whichever way your app
  is set. It looks like NavRun now, because that is what a runner posts.
• Light mode keeps its cream paper. The only things that moved there are the display
  type, a shade darker on the page, and the amber below.
• Amber warnings are darker. The old one sat under the contrast that text needs to be
  read comfortably, which is a real problem for anyone reading a phone in daylight, and
  it is above it now.
• Cards have a thin edge around them. A card used to be a slightly lighter patch of the
  page. Now it has a line around it, on every screen, including all the settings and
  list screens where it never had one.
• On race day in light mode, your planned finish time was dark type on a dark panel and
  there was nothing to read. It is cream on that panel now, the way every other card
  like it in the app already was.

Race week works on your phone now, and the race day list is free for everyone.

• Your race day list used to sit behind a race strategy. A strategy needs a paid plan,
  so a runner who hadn't paid had nowhere to put a packing list at all. Headlamp, spare
  socks, the thing you always forget. That was never a decision anyone made, it just
  fell out of where we happened to store it, and it's fixed. The list lives on the race
  now, it's on the race screen and one tap from the start line in Race Day Mode, and
  every list anyone had already written moved across on its own.
• You can build your race plan from the app. Open a race, tap build, and NavRun works
  through your own running, the course, and the forecast for that morning. Long races
  take a few minutes, and you can leave the screen or put the phone down while it runs.
  Before this, the app told you to go and find a laptop.
• Aid stations are yours to edit on the phone. Add one, fix a mile marker, mark where
  your crew can reach you, note what's in the drop bag. Changing one thing leaves the
  rest alone, and they live on the race, so rebuilding your plan never loses them.
• Per-mile notes for your crew and pacer can be written on the phone too, and they
  still come out on the crew and pacer sheets you print from navrun.app. Race notes
  can be edited there as well.
• If a plan takes longer than it should, or doesn't come through, the app says so
  plainly and gives you the button to try again.

You can now see who can see you, and turn any of it off.

• The small disc moved to the top right of every screen, and it opens your profile instead of dropping you straight into settings. Your Strava photo is on it if you have one, your initial if you don't. Full settings are still one tap away, under "All settings".
• Under "Who can see you" is everything you currently have out. A live session says when you started sharing, not how long you have been out there, with Stop next to it.
• A race plan link you sent your crew shows up there too, including one from a race two years ago, because that link still opens. Revoke turns any of them off, and you can send a new one whenever you want. Until now there was no way to see a link you had already sent, let alone take it back from your phone.
• "Log Out" is called "Sign out" now, in both places you can reach it.
• Swiping between tabs from Out Here works every time now. It used to stop working once you had opened settings from there.

Your plan now knows which run was the run.

• A day you ran used to sit on your plan with nothing next to it. NavRun links your run to the day it was for now, on its own, whether it came from Strava or from your watch. Two runs in one day both count, and the pace is the pace of the whole day rather than whichever one happened to land first.
• A walk or a hike is credited as time on your feet. It does not turn into run miles, because it is not run miles, but it is time out there, and your plan says so instead of leaving the day blank.
• A trail run is a run. It used to read as a day you skipped, which could pull the rest of your week around for no reason. Trail miles now count toward your week, your streak, your records and your climbing, everywhere road miles already do.
• A day NavRun has not looked at yet says exactly that. It never says you missed it.
• Your plan is built from what you did on your feet. Rides used to go into the same pile NavRun read your week off, which quietly made your running look bigger than it was and set your paces off a bike. They still reach your plan as cross training, because that is what they are.
• If everything synced so far is a ride, NavRun starts you with a first week now instead of building you a running plan off your cycling. If you are further along than that week, one tap tells it so.

Tapping a best effort opened the same run several times over.

• Open a best effort from the Achievements screen and it opens that run, once. Before, a single tap stacked up several copies and you had to back out of all of them.
• On a run, the summary card, the map, and the splits now line up down one edge instead of each sitting at its own margin.
• The pace chart is a line now, and the whole run fits on one screen whether it was three miles or a hundred. You can see where you faded instead of scrolling sideways through a hundred slivers, and the mile labels thin out instead of piling on top of each other.

A subscription you just paid for could sit there saying it was still finishing up.

• Right after you subscribe, Apple sometimes needs a moment before it can confirm the purchase to us. We were asking once, giving up, and leaving you looking at "we're finishing up" with the button switched off. We ask again now, a few seconds apart, which is all that gap ever needed.
• If Apple genuinely cannot confirm it yet, we no longer treat that as a no. Before, we could quietly close out a purchase that had not been confirmed, which meant you had paid, nothing had unlocked, and Restore Purchases could not find it either. Your purchase stays open until it is confirmed.

Your Claude connector sometimes said your link was invalid when there was nothing wrong with it.

• Connect NavRun to Claude, leave it a while, come back, and it could tell you the link was invalid or start asking you for an OAuth Client ID. Your link was fine. The connector quietly lost its database connection while it sat idle, and it read that as a bad link. It reconnects first now, so a quiet spell costs you nothing.
• Your connector link is a password, so it no longer ends up in our error reports. It gets blanked out before anything leaves the server.

Your first week now looks like a week, and NavRun asks where you're starting from.

• A walking and running day used to show up in the app looking like a rest day, in the same grey, with a distance next to it. It has its own look now, and it tells you the thing that actually matters: how long you're out, and what to do while you're there. Walk five, run one, walk ninety seconds, eight times through. No distance to chase, because most of that week is walking and the number would only get in the way.
• Before it builds you a first week, NavRun asks one thing: whether you're starting from nothing, getting out here and there, or already running and just haven't pointed us at your runs yet. One question, no quiz, and you can change your answer whenever. If you've already got runs synced, you'll never see it.
• Connecting Apple Health from the plan screen used to close the screen on you. It now does what connecting Strava always did, and carries straight on to your plan.

"Plan my week" used to need a run behind you first. Now it doesn't.

• No connected Strava, no Apple Health, nothing logged yet? Tapping "Plan my week" used to hand you "Connect Strava first" and stop there. It now hands you an actual week: a few days of walking and running, laid out in minutes instead of miles, with a run day never sitting right next to another run day.
• Nobody has to figure out where to start. Tell NavRun roughly where you're coming from and it builds from there, then keeps building on what you show it, easing off quietly on a week that was hard rather than pushing through it. Once you have runs of your own on the books, your plan reads from those instead.
• Apple Health now works everywhere Strava does, plan generation included, on the app and on the site. Connect either one and "Plan my week" works the same way.