What we’ve built and what’s coming
No dates, because we would get them wrong. This page is the honest order we are working in, and it changes when what we learn from you says it should.
- In the app now
- Building
- Next
- Later
Arranging a run with someone you know
Everything needed to stop coordinating runs over text. Invite the people you already run with, and the app handles the asking, the confirming and the inevitable change of plan.
Find
Pick a day, a pace and a window. See who in your city has that morning open, and why they came up. When nothing matches, we tell you which filter is the problem instead of showing you an empty page.
Your week and your pace
Set the days you run, which are hard, your long one, and a pace range. Once.
Ask a bud to run
One ask to whoever fits that morning. First to accept has the run.
Talking about a run
A thread inside each run, so nothing gets lost in an inbox. It disappears with the run.
Today
What needs an answer, what you’ve committed to, and where your week is still open.
Moving the time
Ask to shift it. The run holds at the old time until the other person agrees.
Post a run to whoever fits
Skip browsing entirely. Put Thursday out there and let the first person who works take it.
Group runs
A third person joining, which the long run wants most.
Adding a bud after a run
If it went well, say so. You only become buds if you both want to, and neither of you finds out otherwise.
Who’s free on your open days
We name the people, not the gap in your week.
Running with people you haven’t met
The part that turns Run Bud from a scheduling tool into a way to find someone. It ships city by city, once there are enough runners in one place for a search to come back with real names.
Safety, before any of it opens
First runs with someone new happen on checked, public routes. Your neighbourhood shows as an area, never an address, and blocking someone is one tap and tells them nothing.
A look at someone's week
Their days, their pace, the shape of their week — enough to know if you'd run well together before you ask.
Match with your own gender
Off by default. Turn it on and Find shows you only runners of your own gender — and only they can reach you. Nobody sees why they didn't come up.
Doing the noticing for you
Flexible or strict pace. Say whether you hold pace or ease off when someone's struggling, so the other person knows what they're in for before they say yes.
Routes you add yourselves. Checked before strangers get sent to them.
Same time next week. Repeat a run that worked, in one tap.
More cities, and more of your city
Matching by neighbourhood. Six miles means something different in every city.
No more ghosts in Find. People who stopped answering quietly stop appearing.
Your city, if it isn’t open. The waitlist decides the order, so a zip code is a vote.
Clubs and crews. A standing group with a regular run — once one-off group runs show people actually want one.
Races in your area. Local races worth showing up for, surfaced so you've got something to point the training at.
Things we’re not going to build
Worth saying out loud, because people ask for these and we would rather be clear than vague.
Tracking your runs
You already have a watch or an app you trust. We arrange the run and get out of the way.
Streaks and leaderboards
They reward opening an app, not going for a run, and they punish anyone injured or busy.
A feed to scroll
Find answers who is free on Thursday. It is not there to be browsed for its own sake.
Chat that never ends
Messages live inside a run and leave with it. That is what keeps the app quiet.
Something missing?
The order on this page has changed twice already because of what runners told us. If the thing you need isn’t here, say so — it is read by the people building it.
Updated 12 September 2026