Privacy

The short version: Running Habits keeps your runs on your iPhone. Only if you join Friends does a small summary of each run go to the friends you add. Last updated 8 November 2026.

There are no ads, no analytics and no tracking. Without Friends there is no account and nothing leaves your phone.

What the app reads

With your permission, it reads your running workouts, their routes and workout details (heart rate, calories, power, cadence, stride and steps) from Apple Health to show your distances, records, map and run details. It never writes to Apple Health.

Where it's kept

Your runs stay on your iPhone. The map comes from Apple Maps. Your routes are drawn on top of it on the phone. To name the cities you've run in, the app asks Apple for the name of one point in each. Apple sees those points and the map areas you view, but not your routes or runs. Health data isn't used for advertising and isn't sold or shared.

Notifications

When Apple Health gets a new run, the app can read it in the background, and if you've allowed notifications it tells you about a new best. That's worked out and shown on your iPhone. If you've joined Friends, the run's summary is shared with your friends, along with a note if it was your longest run or a new best, so they can be notified.

Share cards and photos

You can make a card from a run and add a photo you pick. The photo is copied into the app on your iPhone and stays there until you remove it. If you tap Save, the app adds the card to your photo library; it can't read the rest of your library. A card only goes where you choose to share it, and its route leaves out the first and last 300 metres.

Friends (optional)

Off unless you sign in with Apple on the Friends tab. Then our server, which runs on Cloudflare, keeps:

• your account: a random id, Apple's anonymous user id for this app, the handle and name you choose, and an emoji. We don't receive or store your email address.
• for each run from the last 60 days: when it started, its distance and its duration. Never the route, the place, heart rate or anything else.
• your friends, friend requests and the kudos you give and get.
• if you allow notifications: your iPhone's push token, so we can tell you when a friend finishes a run, gives you kudos or sends a request. Each kind can be switched off in Settings; signing out removes the token.

Only friends you've both accepted see your runs and kudos. Others can find you only by typing your exact handle, and then see just your handle, name and emoji. You can turn off "Share my runs with friends" in Settings, which removes your runs from the server, or delete your account there, which removes everything we keep about you right away (database backups age out within 30 days). Sign-in sessions are stored only as one-way hashes.

The optional AI agent link

Off unless you turn it on. If you enter your own agent's address in Settings, the app sends that address a short message about each new run: distance, time, average heart rate, start time and this year's total. No routes. You choose where it goes, and clearing the address stops it.

Your choices

• Change what the app can read: iPhone Settings, Privacy & Security, Health, Running Habits.
• Delete the app to remove everything it keeps on your iPhone. Your workouts stay in Apple Health.
• If you joined Friends: Settings, Friends account, Delete account removes your account and shared runs from our server.

Health

Running Habits shows your training history. It isn't a medical device and doesn't give medical advice.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be on this page with a new date.