Apex turns your runs and rides into a hand-drawn storybook for two. Run toward your partner across Verona, or a friend along the Cinque Terre, and meet in the middle.
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Free. No ads, no subscription, no in-app purchases.
Works with Apple Health
Private by default
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Apex is a gift to women who run, and everyone who runs with them. Every story, plan and feature is for everyone: nothing locked, no premium tier, no trial that runs out.
How it works
It takes about a minute. No forms, just a few taps. Then every run moves your story forward.
Your partner, or a friend or family member. Each answer opens its own story. Switch any time in Story settings.
Choose a cartoon runner. This little one jogs along your map every time you head out.
Every minute moves you along. Hit your weekly goal and a new storybook scene unlocks.
Two stories
Your story has its own tab, with a card on Home, and moves with every run or ride: yours, and theirs. One chapter for every week you reach your goal.
Couples
For you and your partner. You start on opposite sides of Verona, on the real map. Every minute either of you runs pulls you closer. Reach your shared weekly goal and you meet in the middle.
A real map of Verona, street by streetYou meet when your shared weekly goal is doneThey see your first name and weekly minutes, nothing more
Duo
For a friend, a sister, your mum: anyone you'd run with. Bea starts in Riomaggiore and Juno in Monterosso, at opposite ends of the Cinque Terre. Every week you both run, each of you moves along your own stretch of real coast path, trading voice notes, photo contests and snack reports, until you high five on the terrace in Corniglia.
A real map of the Cinque Terre, village by villageOne shared weekly goal, just like CouplesSix chapters, and you meet in the last one
Everything else
GPS tracking, training plans, routes, sensors and your crew, wrapped in crayon instead of charts. Four tabs, Home, Story, Club and Training, and one round Record button in the middle.
Pick a cartoon avatar and watch them jog your real route, every run. Swap looks whenever you like.
Plans built on proven training methods, paced to you, with rest days that count.
Distance, pace and elevation outdoors, with a split for every kilometre you run.
Tap the map and Apex snaps your route to paths, closes the loop or doubles back. Follow it with a gentle off-route alert, and see everywhere you've been on a heatmap only you can see.
Let your partner, a club friend or anyone with a private link follow a run live. It's off until you start it, you can stop any time, and it switches itself off.
Bring in the workouts your watch saves to Apple Health, pair Bluetooth heart-rate straps, foot pods, bike sensors, power meters and smart trainers, and send workouts to your Apple Watch.
Turn a favourite stretch of your own run or ride into a segment and race your past self, your club or your partner. Public boards only if you opt in.
Start a club or join one with an invite code, and be in as many as you like. Members get a private feed of run cards, photos and cheers, a weekly club leaderboard and club challenges. Non-members see nothing.
Tap Record to set up a run or ride: sport, place, route, workout, sensors and weather on one screen. Hold it to start straight away with your last setup.
Finished? Post to a club right from your run summary, or from Home. Your club sees the distance, time and pace, never the route.
Home shows your activity grid, from one month to all time, your story's progress, today's workout and your personal heatmap. Tap your avatar for the You hub: records, achievements, routes and settings.
Meet Sunny
Sunny shows you around when you start. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, an AI coach answers questions about your training. It runs on-device, so your runs never leave your phone.
Safety & privacy
Apex is made for women who run. So the protective choice is the default one, not a toggle buried three screens deep.
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Only join clubs run by people you know. You'll see the club's name and who invited you before you join.
You're joining Trail Sisters
Hills, views and a flask of tea.
Members see your display name, your avatar and what you post in this club.
Never your routes, start or end points, or location.The weekly board shows your minutes and distance for the week.
You can leave any time.
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Not now
Apex never shares your location unless you start a share. You pick who sees it, you can stop any time, it switches itself off, and live points are deleted 24 hours after it ends.
Apex trims the first and last 200 m of every route on your iPhone, and cuts back to the edge of any privacy zone you set, like home or work.
Only you see the runs and rides you record, and your heatmap is drawn on your phone for your eyes only. A planned route you share with a club or your partner goes with its ends trimmed, unless you choose otherwise.
Segments are private by default. Share one with a private club or your partner to race them. Public boards are opt-in, and show only a first name and avatar.
In Couples and Duo, the other person sees your first name and your weekly minutes in 5-minute steps. Your location only if you start a live share and pick them.
There's no public feed. Only members you've let in see a club. Non-members see nothing, not even that it exists.
Use the ••• menu on any post, comment or person. We review reports within 24 hours, and club admins can remove members.
No analytics or advertising tools in the app, no advertising ID, and no cookies on this site. The site counts visits without cookies.
Support
Yes. No ads, no subscription, no in-app purchases and no premium tier. Every story, plan and feature is for everyone.
Not unless you choose. The runs and rides you record are private, and Apex never shares your location unless you start a live share. Then you pick who can follow: your partner or club friends in the app, or anyone you send a private link to. You can stop any time, and it switches itself off. Your partner otherwise sees only your weekly minutes and first name, club boards run on a 2-hour delay, and segments can never start or end inside your privacy zones.
Only its members. Clubs are private and invite-only: you join with an invite link from someone inside. Non-members can't see the club, its feed or even that it exists, and there's no public feed.
Not a romantic one. Duo is for a friend, a sister, your mum: anyone you'd run with. And you can start by yourself: recording runs and rides, training plans, routes and clubs all work for one. The stories are made for two, so chapters start unlocking once the person you invite has joined. You can invite them later, from Story settings.
In Couples and Duo they see two things: your first name and your workout minutes for the week, rounded down to 5 minutes, counting only workouts since you paired. Not your routes, pace or location, unless you start a live share and pick them. Either of you can leave any time in Story settings.
Yes. Workouts your Apple Watch, Garmin or other watch saves to Apple Health can be brought into Apex. Apex also pairs Bluetooth heart-rate straps, foot pods, bike sensors, power meters and smart trainers, and sends structured workouts to your Apple Watch. There's no direct Garmin cloud connection, because Garmin's partner programme is closed to new apps.
It's made for women who run, and the people who run with them. Everyone 18 and over is welcome.
iPhone only for now.
Apex is a free passion project by Mohan Prakash Jeyasankar, a runner and tech builder in the UK, making the app he'd want for the running community. Not a company, no investors, no ads.
In the app: tap your avatar (top right) → Settings → Delete Account. Everything stored with your account goes with it. Step by step.
Something else? Visit Support or read our Consumer Health Data Policy.
Free on iPhone. Bring your partner, or bring a friend.
Apex is in its last round of testing. Want to try it first? Join the free iPhone beta, limited to the first 100 testers, and we'll send you a TestFlight invite.
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