Alternatives
A Runkeeper alternative for iPhone
Runkeeper is one of the longest-established GPS trackers in the sport, and it runs on iPhone and Android. If you are looking for something else to record your runs with, this page describes what Waypath does, in the detail you would need to decide, and where it is thinner than a tracker that has been around that long.
What this page is
A description of one app, not a scoreboard
There is no feature-by-feature table on this page. Building one would mean publishing a claim about somebody else's product that goes stale the week they ship an update, and a table we cannot keep accurate is worse than no table at all. What another app does today is best read on their own listing.
So this page does the half we can stand behind: what Waypath records, what it gives you afterwards, what it costs, and what it does not do. Everything below is checkable by installing it.
During the session
What Waypath records
GPS that does not need a signal
Distance, pace and elevation are computed on the phone from satellites, so recording works with no network at all. The basemap and the trail catalogue do need a connection, and Waypath does not offer downloadable offline map regions.
Apple Watch, with or without the phone
Record from the wrist with a real heart-rate reading, leave the iPhone at home, and the exact sport comes home intact rather than arriving as a generic workout.
Spoken cues, off by default
Splits, pacer alerts, route directions, and the start and finish, each with its own switch. Directions are read off the route's own shape, so Waypath says which way to turn and never a street name. Nothing is announced until you turn announcements on.
A pacer that slows on the climbs
Follow a route and the pacer budgets effort rather than distance, spending less of the clock on the steep kilometres. It appears on the phone, the Watch, the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island.
Somewhere to go
426,029 waymarked trails across 37 countries and 75 curated regions, rebuilt monthly from OpenStreetMap, each carrying dated condition reports from whoever last walked it.
Nobody watching unless you invite them
Activities stay on the phone until you publish one, and you choose the audience each time. Live sharing is a separate, deliberate act, and it is free.
Afterwards
What you get when you stop the clock
Most trackers hand you a time. Waypath tries to explain it, and it says out loud when a number is modelled rather than measured.
Grade-adjusted pace comes from the published Minetti cost-of-running curve, so a slow kilometre with 90 metres of climb in it stops looking like a bad one. Race predictions for 5K, 10K, half and marathon are taken from the fastest efforts inside your real runs, and each one carries its own confidence rather than a single confident-sounding number.
Training load is computed from sessions that had a real heart-rate sensor on them. Readiness comes from sleep, resting rate and HRV, and the app labels it modelled, not measured, because that is what it is. Heart-rate zones need a watch or a chest strap: Waypath will not infer them from pace, and a ride recorded without a strap is reported as unscored rather than given an invented score.
Then there is the part that is purely for showing someone: a 3D fly-through that chases your route over real terrain relief and exports as video. It is free, on every activity.
Moving in
Bringing a history with you
Waypath imports past workouts from Apple Health. If your previous app wrote your runs there, they can come across, which for a lot of people is most of a training history. Whether yours are in Health depends entirely on how they were recorded, so it is worth checking before you count on it.
What does not work is a file archive. Waypath cannot yet read a GPX, TCX or FIT file you hand it, so a bulk export downloaded from another service cannot be loaded in. It is the most requested missing feature, it is on the roadmap, and until it ships this page will keep saying so.
The reverse direction already works and always will: every activity in Waypath exports as a GPX 1.1 file, with no subscription in the way. Leaving is not designed to be difficult.
The money
What free means here
Recording is free and unlimited. So are live sharing, clubs, events, challenges, the trail catalogue and the 3D fly-through. There is no cap on how many activities you keep and no advertisement wedged between them.
A premium subscription adds the analysis layer: every chart, race predictions, the full heat map over your whole history rather than a recent window, and unlimited saved routes. That subscription is the entire business model. There is no advertising, no analytics SDK and no data broker in the app, and there is nobody paying for your attention because there is nobody else in the room.
The limits
Where Waypath is thinner
An app that has been running for over a decade has had a decade to fill gaps. Here are the ones that are still open.
- iPhone and Apple Watch only. There is no Android app today and no web app for recording. An Android version is planned for January 2027, and that is a plan rather than a guarantee, so if you are on Android the honest advice is to wait rather than to hope.
- No guided training plans. Waypath does not write you a programme for a spring marathon. It records, it explains what the hills cost you, and it predicts. The plan is still yours or your coach's.
- No file import. GPX out on every activity, GPX in not yet.
- No downloadable offline maps. Recording works with no signal; the map tiles underneath it do not come with you.
- Other brands arrive indirectly. Apple Watch is supported directly. Everything else comes in through Apple Health, and how complete that is depends on what the other device writes there.
- It is a young app, built by one person. Fewer users, fewer eyes on the bugs, and a ceiling of two active clubs, two events and two challenges per person at a time.
Written on 12 August 2026 and correct to the best of our knowledge on that day. Competitor apps change often, and the fairest thing this page can do is tell you to check theirs. Waypath is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any company named here, and all trademarks belong to their owners.
The one that is different
The reason most people arrive
It is rarely the charts. It is that somebody wanted to watch a race and there was no way to let them. Waypath's live sharing is built for that: an organiser draws a course, runners opt in individually, and anyone with the link watches the field move in a browser with no app and no account. The position is deliberately held back until the runner is 250 metres past it, and the finish is never broadcast. It is a spectator view rather than a timing system, and it is free.
The second reason is where all of it sits. One server in Lauterbourg, France, inside the EEA. Published routes trimmed by a random 200 to 600 metres at each end so a shared run never starts at a doorstep. Start times bucketed to the hour. Messages end-to-end encrypted, with the server holding ciphertext and no key. That case is made properly on why Waypath.
Record the next one here.
Unlimited recording, free. Fifty-six sports, spoken splits if you want them, and a GPX file at the end of every activity.
Requires iPhone. There is no Android app today; one is planned for January 2027.