WorkRateA readiness score that means something
Every morning WorkRate reads your resting heart rate, HRV and the last weeks of training load and tells you how hard to go today — green light, hold steady, or back off.
iPhone beta — opening soonKnow how hard to go today.
Know how hard to go today.
Build your capacity.
WorkRate reads your Garmin and Apple Health data every morning, scores your readiness, and hands you today’s session — analysed and planned by a coach that has read every run you’ve done, with targets on your phone and your watch.
Free to record and sync. Pro is $9.99/month or $59.99/year, cancel any time.
1 score
every morning, from HRV, resting HR and load
7 plans
from First 5K to Ultra 50K
Voice cues
for every interval, phone in your pocket
On your wrist
targets on Garmin via Connect IQ
Built for endurance athletes
Everything a running app should do — and the part it never did.
Most apps store your workouts. WorkRate reads them, scores you, and tells you what to do next.
A coach that has read every run
After each session the coach explains what the numbers say — pace control, heart-rate drift, where you faded — and writes your next workout with exact pace and HR targets.
Record on your phone, or sync your watch
GPS runs with pause and resume, route maps and server-computed splits. Or keep recording on Garmin or Apple Watch — WorkRate imports it all through Apple Health.
Programs that survive real life
Seven plans from First 5K to a 50K ultra. Skip a day or move a long run and the calendar reshuffles instead of guilt-tripping you.
Guided runs, hands-free
Warm up, work, recover, cool down — each step announced with voice and haptics, with live "too fast / on target" cues while your phone stays locked.
Targets on your Garmin
A WorkRate data field for Garmin's native Run activity shows today's pace and HR window, time in zone and drift on the watch face. No second app to start.
How it works
Sync. Score. Train. Repeat.
01
Sync
Record a run in WorkRate or keep using your Garmin or Apple Watch. Workouts, heart rate, HRV and resting HR flow in through Apple Health.
02
Score
Each morning your WorkRate Score combines recovery, training load and consistency into one number — and shows the three signals behind it.
03
Train
The coach turns the score, your program and your history into today’s session, with targets delivered to your phone and your watch.
AI coach
Coaching that reads your numbers, not a script.
After every run the coach writes up what happened and what to do next. The metrics come from your recorded data on our servers — the AI explains them and plans around them; it never invents them.
- Post-run analysis: what held up, what slipped, and why
- Next workout with exact pace and heart-rate windows, step by step
- Program-aware: today’s session bends to your score, not the other way round
- Numbers come from your data — the coach explains them, it never invents them
Post-run analysis
Strong tempo. You held 5:09 /km across the middle 5 km with only 3% heart-rate drift, so the aerobic work from the last three weeks is landing. You faded to 5:24 in the final kilometre with HR at 171 — that’s the end of your current threshold, not a bad day. Tomorrow’s score will likely dip into the 50s: take the easy day easy.
Pace control
±4 son target
HR drift
3.1%steady
Time in zone
84%Z4
Next workout · Thursday
Warm up
10 min easy, build to steady
5 × 3 min
2 min jog recovery between reps
Cool down
8 min easy
Pricing
Free to run. Pro to train smarter.
Recording, syncing and history never go behind a paywall. Pro unlocks the coach, the story behind your score, and the full program library.
Free
$0
forever
- Unlimited GPS run recording with route maps
- Import from Garmin, Apple Watch and Apple Health
- Today’s WorkRate Score
- Post-run summary from the built-in coach
- Two starter programs: First 5K and Run Consistently
- Garmin data field with live pace and HR
Pro
$9.99/ month
or $59.99 / year ($5 / month) · 7-day free trial · billed via the App Store, cancel any time
- Everything in Free
- AI coach: full post-run analysis and next-workout plan
- WorkRate Score breakdown and 90-day trends
- All seven programs, 5K to 50K, with adaptive rescheduling
- Guided runs with voice and haptic cues
- Coach targets and time-in-zone on your Garmin
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Do I need a Garmin or an Apple Watch?
No. Your iPhone records GPS runs on its own. A watch adds heart rate, HRV and resting heart rate, which is what makes the WorkRate Score and the coach’s heart-rate targets sharp. Any watch that writes to Apple Health works.
What is the WorkRate Score?
A 0–100 readiness number computed each morning from three things: recovery (today’s HRV and resting heart rate against your own baseline), training load (the last weeks of work versus what you are used to), and consistency. It needs about five days of data to build your baseline before it is meaningful.
Does the AI make the numbers up?
It cannot. Pace, heart rate, drift, splits and load are computed from your recorded data on our servers; the coach only sees those structured metrics — never raw GPS — and its job is to explain them and turn them into a plan. If the AI is unavailable, a rule-based coach answers instead.
Do I need Pro to record runs?
No. Recording, importing, history, maps and today’s score never go behind a paywall. Pro unlocks the AI coach, score trends, the full program library, guided runs and coach targets on your Garmin.
Which Garmin watches work?
Any Connect IQ–compatible watch — recent Forerunner, Fenix, Epix, Venu and Enduro models — paired with the Garmin Connect app on your iPhone. You keep using Garmin’s own Run activity; WorkRate adds a data field to it.
Is there an Android version?
iPhone first. Android is on the roadmap once the iOS app has settled; join the waitlist and we will tell you when it ships.
How do I cancel Pro?
Pro is billed through the App Store, so you cancel in your iPhone’s Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions, any time. You keep Pro until the end of the period you paid for.
Your next breakthrough is already in your data.
Join the iPhone beta. Sync your watch, get your score, and let the coach take it from there.