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A one-time purchase. You buy it once and own it, with no subscription and no recurring fees. I keep shipping updates for as long as I reasonably can; if there is ever a big enough leap, there may one day be a version 2 at a new price.

None. Runara has no account and no cloud. Your workouts are written to Apple Health and stay on your own devices. Nothing about your training is sent to a server or to me.

An iPhone and an Apple Watch. Runara is a native iOS and watchOS app: the iPhone is the configurator and the watch is the live workout surface. See the App Store listing for the exact minimum system versions.

Zones are anchored on your real heart-rate data read from Apple Health, not a generic guess. You pick the formula in Settings: Tanaka (the default, which estimates your maximum heart rate from your age and needs no resting heart rate) or Karvonen (which uses your heart-rate reserve, so it also needs your resting heart rate, and is more personalised).

By default the HR-zone band runs from a cool colour to a hot one. If that red-to-green ramp is hard for you to read, you can switch on an optional palette whose brightness climbs steadily from zone to zone, so it stays legible for deuteranopia, protanopia and monochromacy alike. It is a single toggle in Settings.

Yes, that is the core idea. On the iPhone you compose swipeable watch screens from seven layouts and a large set of widgets, drag the metrics you care about into each slot, and preview everything at true watch size. The configuration syncs straight to the watch over a direct device-to-device link.

No signal needed. On the iPhone you export the map tiles for a region, they sync to the watch over the direct link, and the watch then draws the map and your route itself, even with no connection at all. Nothing goes through the cloud.

Runara covers a broad set of sports, including running, trail running, treadmill, walking, hiking, cycling, mountain biking, rowing, pool and open-water swimming, skiing and more.

Counter-current pools are handled too. In simulated-lanes mode you do one reference swim so the watch learns your distance per stroke; after that it counts your strokes and buzzes your wrist when a virtual length is done, your cue to swim out of the current, make a real turn at the wall, and push back in for the next lane.

Yes. You build structured plans on the iPhone from warm-up, work, recovery, cool-down and freeform steps, each with optional pace and heart-rate-zone targets. During the run the watch shows a slim interval header, and optional spoken audio cues (in English or German, generated on the device) can announce splits, zone changes and interval boundaries. Audio cues are off by default.

Yes, completely. When you finish, Runara writes a full workout back to Apple Health: the route, heart-rate samples, distance, active energy and per-segment splits. Because the data lives in Apple Health rather than a Runara database, it stays even if you delete the app.

You control the trade-off. GPS accuracy is a setting with Best, Balanced and Battery Saver tiers, so on a long run you can loosen the accuracy and update rate to finish with charge to spare.