GHOST RUNNER

For iPhone and Apple Watch

Race your last run.

Same streets · same distance · your own time

Turn your Apple Health runs into Routes and race the ghost of your best time on Apple Watch.

Join the TestFlight beta

iPhone with iOS 18 · Apple Watch with watchOS 11 · via TestFlight

Your Health data stays on your iPhone.

Mid-race, on your wrist.

Up to six ghosts, or a course to follow. Leave the iPhone at home.

Every run, explained.

Open any run for splits by the kilometre, pace on the map, best efforts against your records and time in each heart-rate zone.

Run page on iPhone for Parque Tejo Loop, 11 Oct 2026, a 14.2 km Free Run, P2 of 5 on this Route: the map coloured by pace with kilometre markers; time 1:15:34, distance 14.20 km, pace 5:19 per km, average heart rate 148, climb +41 m, fitness 5:31 per km; highlight: fastest 10 km in 3 months, 52:39.
  • Splits tab: pace, heart rate and climb for each of 14 kilometres, a negative split of 10 s/km, km 10 fastest at 4:55 and km 9 slowest at 5:50.
    SplitsEvery kilometre, fastest marked.
  • Chart tab scrubbed to 9.00 km at 48:58: 5:30 per km, 157 bpm, 28 m, with the same point marked on the map above.
    ChartDrag for pace, heart rate, climb.
  • Efforts tab: 1 km 4:55, 0:20 off the record; 5 km 25:32, best in a month; 10 km 52:39, best in 3 months; then the Route’s five full runs, this one second.
    EffortsBest 1, 5, 10 km vs records.
  • Full-screen map of Promenade Out & Back along the Lisbon riverside: the way out and the way back drawn as two lanes side by side, each coloured by pace, slower out and faster back.
    Two lanesOut and back, side by side.

Are you getting fitter?

Every run as pace at the same heart rate, hill-adjusted. Plus records from 1 km to the half.

Fitness line: 5:39 per km now at 150 bpm, 90 s/km faster than 3 months ago, 344 runs since Aug 2023.
Records: 1 km 4:43, 5 km 24:34, 10 km 53:30, half 2:11:08.

Race past you.

Race how you’d have run this Route on any day in the last 12 months, hills and all.

Add Ghost sheet on Riverside 5K: Past you on 6 Sep, predicted finish 27:01, hill-aware.

Race your friends.

Send a run as a challenge. Friends race it on their own Apple Watch.

  1. 01Send

    Create Challenge on iPhone: Riverside 5K drawn along a riverbank on a satellite map, 5.00 km, time to beat 25:52, with the publishing consent ticked.

    Open a saved run, tap Create Challenge. Its time is the one to beat.

  2. 02They race

    Apple Watch in a race against a past run: 20 s ahead of the ghost You · 27 Sep, elapsed 3:09, heart rate 142.

    The link shows a preview first. Joining takes a separate tap.

  3. 03The board

    Season week board for Lisbon Night Runners, week 3 of 6: post by Sun 11 Oct at 23:59 season time; this week Rita 24:37 for 2 points, Joana 24:58 for 1 point.

    Best posted times, ranked. Finishes stay private until posted.

Then make it a season.

Groups of up to 50 race one course, weekly or monthly. Points every period, a winner at the end.

Also in Ghost Runner

GPX courses
Import a course and run it.
Goal pace
Race an even-pace ghost.
Offline maps
Save on iPhone; the Watch needs no signal.
Spoken splits
Pace every kilometre or mile.
Free Run goal
Beat a distance and time.
Complication
Your target on the watch face.
Race report
Gap chart against the ghost.
Worked out on your iPhone
Fitness and predictions stay off our server.

Your runs are already in Apple Health.

Join the TestFlight beta

Your Health data stays on your iPhone.No account needed to race. Challenges share course and times, never heart rate. How sharing works

Questions? Support