Personal Bests
Markus Kettner Health & Fitness iPhoneiPadiPod touchMac
Personal Bests is a free Health & Fitness app for iPhone and iPad by Markus Kettner. Rated 5.0/5 from 2 ratings. Requires iOS 26.0. Updated October 11, 2026.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 2 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 25 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 11
- 2026 · v1.2
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About Personal Bests
Personal Bests finds the fastest efforts hidden inside your workouts and awards you medals for them, with nobody to compete against but yourself. Your fastest 5K might be kilometers 7 to 12 of a half marathon. Your best mile might be buried in the middle of a long run. Personal Bests looks inside every workout in Apple Health, finds your fastest segment for every distance you care about, and ranks it against your whole history. Just You vs. You Personal Bests isn't a social network. There's no feed, no followers, no leaderboard of strangers and no challenges telling you to go faster. You earn gold, silver and bronze for real work, and the only person you're up against is you. Your Game, Your Rules • Choose the distances that count: 400 m, 5K, 10 miles, a marathon or anything else, for every sport. • Choose what you're compared against: all-time, the past year, or any window of days, weeks, months or years. • Coming back from an injury or a break? Rank against the last three months instead of your all-time best. • Keep the medals you've earned, even after you beat them, or let them move on. • Rank indoor and outdoor workouts separately, so a treadmill run isn't compared with a trail run. Find Your Fastest Efforts • Segments can start and end anywhere in a workout, not just at the start. • Running, cycling, swimming, rowing, paddling, walking, cross-country skiing and more. • Your whole Apple Health history, from Apple Watch, iPhone and other apps. • New workouts are analyzed automatically, even in the background. See Where You Were Fastest • On iPhone, your fastest segments are drawn on the route, each in its own color. • Leaderboards for your fastest times, longest workouts and farthest distances. • A short written summary of any workout, using Apple Intelligence where it's available. Keep Bad Data Off the Podium • Forgot to stop your watch on the train? Segments that are too fast to be true for you are flagged, judged against your own history. • Crop a workout to the part you actually did, or remove GPS spikes with one tap. • Your Health data is never changed. Celebrate Your Progress • Get a notification when a new workout earns a medal. • "While you were away": a recap of your new medals and training when you come back to the app. • Rankings and Recent Bests widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen. On iPhone, iPad & Mac • Your iPhone reads Apple Health and does the analysis. • iPad and Mac show your workouts, rankings and medals, with the list and details side by side. Private by Design • No account, no ads, no tracking. • Analysis runs on your device. • Syncs only through your own iCloud, and you can switch that off. • Read-only access to Apple Health. Make It Yours • Three app icons and three themes. Personal Bests is for anyone who loves earning medals but doesn't need to race strangers for them: runners tracking PRs from 400 m to the marathon, cyclists comparing their best 40K across seasons, swimmers, rowers, and everyone who has ever wondered, "When was I actually at my fastest?"
What’s new
Version 1.2 · Updated October 11, 2026
Personal Bests 1.2 is the biggest update yet. WHILE YOU WERE AWAY • Open the app after a day or more and get a recap of what you've done since your last visit: new medals, workouts, time and distance per sport, how it compares with the stretch before, active days, your longest workout, and near misses. SEE YOUR BESTS ON THE MAP • The workout map now highlights where your fastest segments happened, each in its own color. Tap a segment to show or hide it, or touch and hold to show only that one. • Choose what the map shows by default: your favorite segment, all segments, none, or no map at all. CLEAN UP BAD RECORDINGS • Forgot to stop your watch on the train? Personal Bests now spots segments that are implausibly fast for you and flags the workout, so it doesn't distort your rankings. • Crop a workout to the part you actually did. Segments are recalculated on what's left, and your Health data is never changed. • Remove GPS spikes: short out-and-back GPS glitches can be cut out with one tap. • Pick which distance data a workout uses, or recompute its segments. NEW WIDGETS • Recent Bests: a new widget showing your newest personal bests, newest first, for one sport or all of them. • The Rankings widget supports the new full-page size in iOS 27, showing up to 25 places. • Tap a widget to open that leaderboard in the app, or tap a row to jump straight to the workout. • Widget medals now show their rank number, so they're readable without color. RANKINGS • New option: rank indoor and outdoor separately, so treadmill runs, trainer rides and pool swims get their own leaderboards. • New segments are now automatically calculated for all your existing workouts. • Workouts without segment times now explain why (too short, no distance data, or no segments set up for that sport). iPAD & MAC • Workouts and their details now appear side by side. • On Mac: Previous/Next buttons (⌘← / ⌘→) to move between workouts, delete buttons for segments and timeframes, and clickable Rankings rows. MAKE IT YOURS • New Appearance settings: three app icons and three themes. • Haptic feedback for things like a finished rebuild or an iCloud backup, which you can turn off. iCLOUD • You can now turn iCloud sync off on your iPhone, which also deletes your data from iCloud. • Clearer sync status: Personal Bests now tells you whether iCloud is offline, full, or needs attention, and no longer shows "No backup yet" just because it couldn't reach iCloud. ALSO NEW • Workout summaries now work on every device, using Apple Intelligence where it's available. • Workout dates and times are shown in the time zone they were recorded in. • Segment distances accept either a decimal comma or a decimal point. • Better accessibility: medals show their rank number, plus improved VoiceOver labels and Dynamic Type support. • A clearer path if Health access hasn't been granted. Plus a faster launch and Rankings tab, more reliable new-best notifications (including when your phone is locked or your watch syncs late), more accurate distances for some swims and imported workouts, and many other fixes. Thanks for using Personal Bests!
App privacy
The developer, Markus Kettner, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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