Skiing App for Apple Watch
Custom Skiing screens on Apple Watch, live with GPS, heart rate, and your real zones.
On the mountain, track descent and speed with an offline map background, even where coverage is thin. The full run records to Apple Health.
No season pass for your own data: heart rate, speed, descent, and the map are all part of the app, with no premium tier and no account. Sync the resort’s region as offline tiles the evening before, and the watch carries the whole ski day itself.
The screen is yours to compose, a huge speed numeral for the descents, descent metres accumulating beside it, heart rate for the legs’ honest opinion, all glanceable between turns.
The mountain, measured honestly
A ski day records as one workout: GPS track across the resort, speed, live altitude with ascent and descent accumulating separately, and continuous heart rate. Descent metres are the day’s real scoreboard, and they build on screen run by run, while the height diagram afterwards draws the day as a saw blade of lifts and descents.
Runara does not auto-detect lifts and runs, and says so plainly. If you want per-run numbers, tap New Segment at the top of each descent: every run becomes its own split with distance and average speed, and the lift rides simply live between them. It is one deliberate tap per run for numbers you can trust.
Offline maps for resort valleys
Resort coverage is famously patchy, so the map does not depend on it: sync the region on the iPhone beforehand and the watch renders its own tiles all day, position, trail, pan, and Digital-Crown zoom included, with gloves staying on. The day saves to Apple Health as a Downhill Skiing workout with the full route, and snow days collect their own achievements.
- Speed
- Current speed big enough to read mid-descent, with per-run averages when you bracket runs as segments.
- Descent & altitude
- Descent metres accumulating live and separately from ascent, current altitude, and the day’s height diagram afterwards.
- Offline map
- The resort on tiles stored on the watch, with your position and trail, independent of the valley’s coverage.
- Heart rate
- Continuous through descents and lift rides, the recovery on the chair visible in the diagram at the end of the day.
- Runs as segments
- One tap per run turns the day into a list of descents, each with distance and average speed.
- GPS route
- The whole day’s track across the mountain, saved into Apple Health with the workout.
Offline Maps
Export map tiles on iPhone and the watch keeps mapping your route on the worst trail, no cloud needed.
→Live Workout Engine
Your configured screens render on Apple Watch with real-time metrics, GPS, and haptics, legible at a glance under load.
→History & Splits
Browse every saved workout with route maps, per-segment splits, and full metric detail.
→Achievements
A trophy room of eighty achievements across sixteen workout types, with engraved cups and a celebrating parrot.
→Does Runara count runs and lift rides automatically?
No, and it does not guess. Descent metres accumulate automatically, and for per-run numbers you tap New Segment at the top of each descent, one tap, one honest split. The GPS track and height diagram show the full day either way.
Does Runara track descent metres and piste kilometres?
Descent metres, yes, live and separate from ascent. Distance is the full GPS track, lifts included; bracket your runs as segments and the splits list gives you clean descent distances per run.
Is heart rate or anything else behind a premium tier?
No. Heart rate, offline maps, descent tracking, history, everything on this page ships with the app, no subscription, no account, and the day’s data stays in Apple Health on your devices.
Does it work with gloves on?
The workout runs in the foreground all day, so a raised wrist shows your screen without any touch, and the map zooms with the Digital Crown. Only the optional per-run segment tap wants a fingertip, or a glove that works on touchscreens.