No accountNo sign-up or sign-in. We never ask for your name, email or phone number.
Nothing sent to a serverThere is no Runpop server, and the app has no feature that sends your data over the internet.
No ads or analyticsNo advertising, analytics, tracking or crash-reporting SDKs. We do not track you.
1The basics
Everything the app handles is processed and stored only on your iPhone and Apple Watch. We, the developer, cannot receive or see any of it. The app does not use iCloud sync (it has no iCloud entitlement at all), and your data does not leave your devices.
2Information the app handles
Steps, distance and live cadence
- Source
- iPhone and Apple Watch motion sensors (Motion & Fitness permission). For runs with your Apple Watch, the steps and distance the watch recorded in Apple Health are read instead.
- Purpose
- Measures your real cadence during a run to compare with the target, and to work out stride and pace. The watch shows your current cadence and pace on its running screen.
- Stored
- iPhone measurements are saved as part of the run record inside the app on your iPhone. Watch measurements are only shown on screen and not stored.
Heart rate and active energy
- Source
- Read from Apple Health (HealthKit). During a run, live heart rate also comes from the Apple Watch workout session.
- Purpose
- Heart rate graph, average, maximum, intensity zones and calories in run details, and your current heart rate and zone on your phone and watch during a run.
- Stored
- Only a summary for the run's time window (10-second averages, average and maximum, total calories), saved with that run inside the app on your iPhone.
Date of birth
- Source
- Read from Apple Health (HealthKit) on iPhone and Apple Watch
- Purpose
- Estimates your maximum heart rate to set heart rate zones. A default is used if it can't be read.
- Stored
- Never stored. It is read when you open run details or start a run on the watch, and used only for that calculation.
Location (your route) and elevation gain
- Source
- Apple Watch GPS (Location permission, only while using the app). The iPhone reads the workout route saved in Apple Health.
- Purpose
- Draws your route with start and finish points on a map in run details, and totals the climbing.
- Stored
- When a run ends, the watch saves the route and elevation gain to Apple Health with the workout. The iPhone app keeps a simplified route (up to 500 points) with that run.
Weather and running power
- Source
- Read from Apple Health (HealthKit): temperature and humidity of a workout recorded at the same time, and running power samples.
- Purpose
- Temperature, humidity and average power in run details.
- Stored
- Just those single values (temperature, humidity, average power), saved with that run inside the app on your iPhone. The app does not contact any weather service.
Run records
- Contents
- Start time, duration and active segments, plan name, target and measured cadence timeline, steps, distance, time on target, and when available the heart rate summary, route, elevation gain, temperature, humidity and average power above. Runs shorter than one minute are not kept.
- Purpose
- The Records tab and run details.
- Stored
- A local database (SwiftData) inside the app on your iPhone.
Settings and widget summary
- Contents
- Plan values, click sound, watch haptic style. A widget summary (current mode, and for up to 50 recent runs: start time, duration, average cadence, time on target, plan name).
- Purpose
- Keeping your setup between launches; showing Home Screen and watch widgets.
- Stored
- Inside the app on each device, and in an App Group container shared only by the app and its widgets on the same device.
3Apple Health (HealthKit)
Data read
- iPhone: heart rate, active energy, steps, walking and running distance, running power, date of birth, workouts (temperature, humidity, elevation gain) and workout routes
- Apple Watch: heart rate, active energy, walking and running distance (during the running workout session), date of birth
Data written
- Apple Watch: a run of one minute or longer with the watch is saved to Health as an Outdoor Run workout. If you allow location, its route and elevation gain are saved with it.
- iPhone: writes nothing to Health.
Limits on health data. Information obtained from HealthKit is used only to provide the app features described above. It is never used for advertising or marketing, never sold or shared with data brokers or any third party, and never stored in iCloud. It is not used for any other purpose without your consent.
You can change access at any time in Settings › Privacy & Security › Health › Runpop. The metronome keeps working without it; only heart rate, calories, the map and weather will be empty.
4Motion & Fitness and Location
The app uses step counting on your iPhone and Apple Watch to get steps and distance and work out your live cadence. It measures only while you run. To turn it off, go to Settings › Privacy & Security › Motion & Fitness and switch off Runpop.
Location is used only on Apple Watch, and only during a run. When you start a run on the watch, it records your route with GPS and stops when the run ends. The route is saved to your workout in Apple Health and is never sent to us or anyone else. The iPhone app does not request location access. If you decline, runs work as usual and only the map is empty. To change it, use the Watch app › Privacy on iPhone or Settings › Privacy & Security › Location Services › Runpop on the watch.
5Between iPhone and Apple Watch
Using Apple's device-to-device link (WatchConnectivity), the app exchanges run state (running, paused, target cadence), the ±5 and finish buttons pressed on your wrist, and your current heart rate during a run. This travels only between your own iPhone and Apple Watch and never reaches us.
6What we don't send or use
- Data sent to a developer server or any outside service: none
- Advertising, analytics, tracking or crash-reporting SDKs: none (the app does not ask for App Tracking Transparency permission)
- Account, name, email, phone number: not collected
- Camera, microphone, contacts, photos: not requested (location is used only on Apple Watch during a run, see section 4)
7Retention and deletion
Run records stay on your device until you delete them.
- Delete one run: long-press it in the Records tab and tap Delete, or tap Delete run at the bottom of its details.
- Delete everything: deleting the app removes all of its records and settings.
- Workouts saved to Apple Health are deleted separately in the Health app.
If device backups (iCloud Backup or a computer backup) are on, iOS may include the app's data in those backups under Apple's backup policies.
8Children
The app does not collect personal information from anyone, including children.
9Changes
If what the app handles changes, we will update this page and its effective date.
10Contact
Questions about privacy can be sent to: