BoatRun
David Macready Sports iPhoneiPadiPod touch
BoatRun is a free Sports app for iPhone and iPad by David Macready. Requires iOS 15.6. Updated October 23, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 52 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 23
- 2026 · v1.1.28
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About BoatRun
Turn your phone into the most advanced rowing performance system available. Mount your phone in the boat and BoatRun measures every stroke you take - stroke rate, split, distance per stroke, and the acceleration profile of the hull itself, whether you're on the water or an erg. No boat computer, no impeller, no extra hardware. ON THE WATER • Live stroke rate, 500m split, distance per stroke, heart rate and a tonne of specialised rowing metrics • Big, glanceable tiles you can read at full pressure • Real-time boat acceleration curve - see your catch, drive and finish as they happen • Overlay 'perfect stroke' templates to fix your stroke in real time • Custom layouts • Custom workouts ON THE ERG • Easily connect to a PM5 erg and quickly create your own workouts or have your coach transmit it directly to your PM5 • Connect your whole squad for ErgRace style racing or squad training sessions UNDERSTAND YOUR STROKE BoatRun reads the boat's motion 50 times a second and turns it into metrics that describe how you actually row: • Precise acceleration measured at every point of the stroke on every session • See our website for clear explanations on your stroke curve and how to fix common errors FOR COACHES Cox and Coach modes are built in. • See your whole squad live on one screen - every boat's position, rate and split updating in real time from anywhere in the world • Tap any crew to open their stroke curve, custom metrics and record live video from the app • Every stroke from every rower on the water or erg - collated for easy access and data logging AFTER THE ROW • Every session saves to your own Google Drive • Squad sessions automatically uploaded to your coach • Detailed analysis of your metrics compared across any session on the water or the erg • Overlay metrics and stroke curve on your video to see where improvements can be made • One-tap upload to Strava • Export CSV, JSON, TCX or FIT - always free, always yours • Full session analysis in the free web Analyser at boatrun.au BUILT BY A ROWER FOR ROWERS BoatRun was built as affordable system for athletes wanting the highest quality data without the premium price. It has been rigorously tested on the water in every boat from single sculls to eights over hundreds of sessions. It's designed for people who want to know why the boat is moving well — not just how fast. FREE TO START Row free with stroke rate, split, distance per stroke and heart rate. BoatRun Pro unlocks unlimited session length, the full metric set, the live stroke curve and Strava sync. Every new user gets 30 days of Pro and Coach free. Requires a phone mount. Works in any rowing boat.
What’s new
Version 1.1.28 · Updated October 23, 2026
NEW - Consistency tile shows how alike your recent stroke curves are, on the water and on the erg, with effort and character variation underneath. - Erg workout board: the Workout tab shows the rep, distance or time to go, your rep split against the target, rate, rest countdown and completed reps in large figures. - Import a session a crew mate recorded for you, using the Import button in the Log. - Offline maps: water you have already viewed now has a map with no signal. - Mixed and Coastal boat types when saving a session. IMPROVEMENTS - Erg stroke curve holds a steady force scale so you can see changes stroke to stroke, and shows Peak At % and Stroke Length in large figures. - Erg force curves are saved more often, so more strokes in a session have a curve. - Session log filter can combine boat type with Mixed and Coastal, for example coastal 2x or mixed 4-. - New Clear filters button in the session log. - The log now opens on Sessions, with Calendar beside it. - The Intervals tab is now called Workout. - Vel Efficiency is no longer a live tile. It's still in the session detail and the analysis. - Updated metric definitions. FIXES - An erg session no longer gets stuck recording if you walk away without ending the workout. A Finish button appears, and the session saves itself after a few minutes of no rowing. - Fixed the Disconnect Erg button overflowing in landscape. - Other minor fixes.
App privacy
The developer, David Macready, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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