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Plan a guided workout in IQ Plan
Pick run or walk, a goal and a pace: your own, or one the app predicts from your workout history. Go as it is, or shape the session segment by segment, or let a built-in template lay it out in one tap.
A private coach in your ear.
One honest screen afterwards.
PaceIQ is a running and walking app for Apple Watch and iPhone that puts the personal experience first. You can share a workout if you want to, but there is no feed, no leaderboard and no PaceIQ account.
Made by Sagi Gal, PaceIQ's solo developer. Apple Watch and iPhone only.
How it works
Plan it on the iPhone. Run it with the coach.
Three steps, and the coach talks to you from the first kilometre.
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Send it to your Apple Watch
One tap syncs the plan to the Watch, where it waits for you. Or start it on the iPhone alone (iOS 26 or later) and the coach speaks through your headphones.
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The coach guides you in real time
Speed up, ease off, back on track: spoken cues that follow your own drift, correcting you once you have really left your pace, not at every wobble. The screen shows where you are inside your pace window.
Strengths at a glance
What PaceIQ does well
A two-minute read. Everything here is in the shipping app.
Planning
- Quick and flexible. Pick run or walk, a goal and a pace: your own, or one the app predicts from your own workout history.
- Shape the session segment by segment, or let a built-in template lay it out for you: intervals, tempo, Yasso 800s, run/walk.
- Save and share. Keep plans to reuse, and share them as a file with a friend, a group or a coach who also has Elite.
During the workout
- A coach that talks to you in real time (speed up, ease off, back on track) and follows your own drift: it corrects you once you have really left your pace, not at every wobble.
- An effort ceiling. Set one and the coach tells you to ease off when your heart rate goes above it, even if that means falling behind your pace target.
- It learns your stride during your first outdoor workouts and keeps refining it. It speaks 17 languages.
- The Watch works on its own. Start a quick free session straight from the wrist, with no pace guidance, no finish goal and no iPhone. Or, once a plan is on the Watch, start it again and again with no iPhone around.
After the workout
- Any app's workouts, deeper with PaceIQ. PaceIQ also analyses runs and walks that other apps save to Apple Health. Workouts recorded with PaceIQ go deeper: plan versus actual for every segment, weather snapshots along the session, the Watch's own climb and descent measurement, heart-rate recovery.
- On your own devices. PaceIQ analyses your workouts on your own devices; there is no PaceIQ server. You choose whether to share a workout or paste its briefing into an AI assistant.
- Honest cards. The analysis cards explain how their scores are computed, and say so when the data is missing instead of inventing a number. The running-form and fluid-loss explanations link to the published research they draw on, by DOI.
- A briefing for the AI assistant you already use. Elite copies a briefing of one workout, or of up to 30 recent workouts as a trend, to your clipboard. Paste it into any AI assistant, free or paid. PaceIQ charges no AI fee, and the briefing goes nowhere unless you paste it.
Price
$34.99 a year for Elite, the full tier (US store)
A year, not a month. Pro is $9.99 a year: full workout history, the advanced workout calculator and the detailed heart-rate graph. Elite adds the personal coach on your Watch, the physiological and running-style analysis, and the AI briefings. The free tier shows your last workout.
What it is not
No multi-week training plans and no social network. It is built for Apple devices only. An Apple Watch gives you the complete experience. An iPhone alone, on iOS 26 or later, gives you the full guided, spoken workout, with a Live Activity card on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and a Bluetooth heart-rate strap adds the heart-rate analytics. Running-style analysis needs the Watch, and the app says so instead of showing numbers it does not have.
Example plans
Four staple sessions, ready to run
Each session comes in three pace tiers. Pick the tier closest to your current race times, download the file on your iPhone, and PaceIQ opens it as a plan. Warm-up, recoveries and cool-down are free segments with no pace target.
Tier A
- Recent 10K
- 39:20
- Half marathon
- 1:27
- Marathon
- 3:02
- Easy
- 4:53 /km
- Marathon pace
- 4:18 /km
- Half-marathon pace
- 4:08 /km
- Threshold
- 4:04 /km
- 5K pace
- 3:44 /km
Tier B
- Recent 10K
- 42:04
- Half marathon
- 1:33
- Marathon
- 3:14
- Easy
- 5:12 /km
- Marathon pace
- 4:36 /km
- Half-marathon pace
- 4:25 /km
- Threshold
- 4:20 /km
- 5K pace
- 3:59 /km
Tier C
- Recent 10K
- 45:16
- Half marathon
- 1:40
- Marathon
- 3:28
- Easy
- 5:34 /km
- Marathon pace
- 4:57 /km
- Half-marathon pace
- 4:45 /km
- Threshold
- 4:38 /km
- 5K pace
- 4:16 /km
Training paces follow the Daniels VDOT tables (VDOT 53, 49 and 45). The paces are in the file; you can change any of them in IQ Plan before you run.
Cruise intervals
5 × 1 km @ T pace w/ 200 m jogThe weekly threshold staple. 2.5 km warm-up, five 1 km reps at threshold pace with 200 m jogs, 1.5 km cool-down.
VO2max 1000s
5 × 1000 m @ 5K pace w/ 400 m jogThree-to-five-minute reps with a recovery shorter than the rep. 2.5 km warm-up, five 1000 m reps at 5K pace with 400 m jogs, 1.5 km cool-down.
Marathon-pace long run, fast finish
21 km: 10 km easy → 6 km @ M pace → 2 km @ T paceRace-specific endurance: finishing faster than marathon pace when tired. 2 km warm-up, 10 km easy, 6 km at marathon pace, 2 km at threshold pace, 1 km cool-down.
Half-marathon race-pace repeats
3 × 4 km @ HM pace w/ 800 m jogGoal-pace rehearsal about eight weeks out. 2 km warm-up, three 4 km reps at half-marathon pace with 800 m jogs, 1.5 km cool-down.
For reviewers
Facts, materials and a direct line
Everything a review needs, in one place. If something is missing, write and it will be added.
- App Store
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Bundle: com.audiospot.PaceIQ
- Contact
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Sagi Gal, solo developer. Replies personally.
- Prices (US store)
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Elite $34.99 / year · Pro $9.99 / yearFree tier: your last workout.
- Requirements
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iOS 17.6 or later · watchOS 10 or laterA guided workout on the iPhone alone needs iOS 26 or later.
- Languages
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17 languagesInterface and spoken coaching, with a language switcher inside the app.
- Data
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No PaceIQ account, no PaceIQ serverWorkouts live in Apple Health and on your devices; sharing is your choice, each time.
Press kit
Download the press kit (zip, 1.2 MB)Icon with transparency (1024 px) and ten screenshots, or pick single files below.
- App icon, transparent background1024 × 1024
- Start tabiPhone
- IQ Plan tabiPhone
- Calculator tabiPhone
- Post-workout view 1iPhone
- Post-workout view 2iPhone
- AI Analyst cardiPhone
- AI Trend Analysis cardiPhone
- Live Activity, Dynamic IslandiPhone
- During a guided runApple Watch
- Plan ready to startApple Watch
- IQ Plan screen recordingMP4, 27 s, silent, 1 MB
