u/JohnSnow986

Hey everyone,

Six months into kickboxing, training a heavy bag at home between gym sessions. The round timers I tried kept making me unlock the phone or tap through ads to switch rounds — which means gloves off, focus broken, every couple of minutes.

So as a fairly new iOS dev (about a year in), I built one for the way I actually train.

The whole point: set it up once, hit start, train.

Custom work / rest / prep, chain multiple exercises (bag → shadow → ropes) in a single session, and the timer keeps running on the Lock Screen — so you don't touch the phone, never mind take your gloves off, until the session's done.

Sharing it here because I'd love feedback from people who actually train. What's missing, what feels off, what's overengineered? Beginner so I'll have missed obvious things.

Free to try, no sign-up. 🙏

Hi r/apps,

https://apps.apple.com/app/runarc-gps-running-tracker/id6762566949

Solo iOS dev here. I got tired of running apps stuffed with social feeds, training plans, gear shops, and subscription paywalls in front of basic stats — so I spent the last months building RunArc, a stripped-down alternative.

The pitch is simple: open it, tap Run, and it tracks. No account, no onboarding wall, no notifications begging you to come back.

Core is free and ad-free — accurate Kalman-filtered GPS, voice cues for splits and pace, weekly stats, HealthKit sync, Apple Watch support, and a long-term challenge system to stay motivated. Premium unlocks cloud backup, full history, GPX export, and the harder challenge ranks — but the tracker itself doesn't get crippled if you don't pay.

There's also a 5-rank challenge ladder — from beginner-easy to genuinely brutal — that you climb over months as you keep running.

Built it mobile-first, dark-first, privacy-first. No data leaves your device unless you opt in.

Would love honest feedback from this community — UI, naming, anything that feels off. And if a few of you give it a try on your next run, that genuinely means a lot. 🙏