Motivator: AI Running Coach
Joshua Bolton Health & Fitness iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Motivator: AI Running Coach is a free Health & Fitness app for iPhone and iPad by Joshua Bolton. Requires iOS 18.0. Updated October 21, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 77 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 21
- 2026 · v1.1
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About Motivator: AI Running Coach
Motivator is the running coach for the moments when you want to slow down, stop, or give up. Choose one of seven coaches, then start running. Your coach reacts to what is actually happening: a completed split, a change in pace, a tough patch, a planned workout, or the final stretch. MEET THE COACHES • Sarge, drill sergeant: hard orders, no excuses, keep moving • Maya, supportive friend: warm, perceptive, always in your corner • Josh, playful coach: dry humor, useful advice, always on your side • Kai, elite coach: precise cues that turn effort into performance • Maeve, calm guide: steady breath, quiet confidence, clear miles • Colin, mission control: every run becomes a launch sequence • Wade, fantasy narrator: your local loop becomes a legendary quest COACHING THAT RUNS WITH YOU • Live cues based on your pace, distance, progress, and recent running • Distinct coaching personalities with their own real voices • Useful pacing support for planned sessions and target finish times • Reliable authored coaching when a generated cue is unavailable PLANS BUILT AROUND REAL LIFE • Train for a race on a fixed date • Build comfortably to a chosen distance • Create an easy-running consistency block • Choose the days that genuinely work for you • Keep every ordinary run easy, or opt into faster sessions • See today's session, the weeks ahead, recovery weeks, and taper TRACK THE WHOLE RUN • GPS route, distance, pace, splits, heart rate, and active energy • Automatic pause with truthful moving time and distance • Apple Health workout and route saving • Live Activities while the run is in progress • Detailed run history with routes, charts, photos, and coach moments PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your route, photos, and running history stay on your iPhone. Motivator has no advertising or analytics SDK and does not sell your data. Anonymous usage analytics are off unless you choose to share them. Personalized voice requests use bounded running metrics and an anonymous account; they never include your name, email address, or coordinates. Run tracking, history, Apple Health, training plans, and device-voice coaching remain free. A subscription unlocks unlimited coaching in each coach's real generated voice. Your first three runs include the coaches' real voices free, so you can hear the full experience before subscribing. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 1.1 · Updated October 21, 2026
Smarter coaching that reacts to your actual run. • Live coaching is now written for each moment of your run: your pace, your splits, the hill you are on, the stretch where you want to stop. • Coaches remember earlier moments of the run, like a fast start or a tough mile, and call back to them. • Your coach now tells you out loud when your run pauses and resumes, in their own voice, and gets you moving again after a long stop. • Auto-pause kicks in within seconds when you stop at a crossing. • Splits are called right on the mile, every time. • The big number on your run screen is now your average pace for this mile, so a few slow seconds don't look like falling apart. Your whole-run average sits just below. • Frequent coaching now really talks more. • Pace charts show your running average. • New "How are you feeling?" check-in before you start. Your coach adapts the whole run. • A fresh new look: seven coaches shot as a real team, new type, a floating tab bar and a new app icon. • No headphones? Your coach can speak through the iPhone speaker. • Play any coach moment straight from your run summary.
App privacy
The developer, Joshua Bolton, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Health & Fitness: Fitness
- User Content: Other User Content
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Purchases: Purchase History
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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