Beatpace RUNNING APP

Beatpace is a run/walk coach for iOS that gets you to your goal time and brings the music to match.

It starts with a plan. Pick your race, from a 5K to a marathon or beyond, set a goal time, and Beatpace works out the run/walk intervals and the pace you need to hit it. On run day, [Run Mode] coaches you out loud the whole way, calling your intervals and keeping you on pace so you are not stuck staring at your watch. You can record the people who matter most in app, so your kids, your partner, or your friends can push you through the hard miles.

Then there is the music. Beatpace builds playlists from your own Apple Music library, matched to your running cadence against a tempo database of millions of tracks. Its pacing curves line your steps per minute up with your race plan, including negative-split builds that set you up to finish faster than you started.

Plan it. Run it. Let your stride and your soundtrack carry you past your best.

WHY IT EXISTS

I run for my health, my fitness, and a love of running I found later than most. I am not racing the people around me. I am racing the version of me from my last start line, and I want to beat him.

After my first two half marathons I set my sights on breaking two hours. The next two races came and went and I could not quite get there. So I built Beatpace. In my fifth half (the San Jose Half Marathon) I went sub-2 and took almost ten minutes off my best by using a Beatpace beta, carried along by my kids' voices in my ears and a negative-split cadence curve playlist that held my pace to the line.

It won’t stop there. I recently cut about thirty minutes off my marathon PR, and with this app helping me I am chasing another jump like that on my next one. Maybe even sub-4.

That is the run I want everyone to get to have.

Music and tempo data

Beatpace matches songs to your Steps Per Minute (SPM) using the Beatabase, our own song tempo database. We build and continually refine it ourselves, calculating BPMs and correcting bad data as we go, and we draw on trusted open sources to widen coverage: MusicBrainz, AcousticBrainz, and GetSongBPM.

BPM data provided in part by GetSongBPM. Each source is used under its respective license, and GetSongBPM data is used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0).

Support

Questions, bugs, or feedback? Email me at Matt@sacrificegolf.com.