Volata

For runners and walkers

What Volata does

A coach that writes your plan and a tracker that records your runs — in one app, working from the same picture of your training.

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Everything Volata does

A plan that offers to bend around your week

Pick your race — 5K, 10K, half marathon or marathon — and Volata builds a full training plan around it. New to this? Choose a 5K as your first race and Volata offers you a beginner build-up instead of a racing plan: walk-run intervals that grow week by week, and no pace targets at all. Miss a week or come back tired and Volata offers you a reworked few weeks to protect your build, showing you exactly what it wants to change and why. Accept it, or carry on as you were.

Simplified view of the app screen.

Track every run and walk

Record your runs with GPS and watch them come together on the map — your route, your splits, your pace, all saved. On a treadmill, switch to Indoor and Volata times the run instead of tracking it: no GPS and no map, just the clock — and you can type the distance in afterwards if you want it. Run, walk, or mix the two; Volata records it either way.

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Simplified view of the app screen.

A voice in your ear, not just numbers on a screen

Volata talks you through the run: "Start run" or "Go" the second you tap go, your splits called out as they land, and you hear how far off your target you are while you're still running. If today's session calls for 13:50/mi and you're running 13:30/mi, you hear about it mid-run. Pop your phone in your pocket and just run.

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Your history, built in

Connect Apple Health and Volata picks up the runs, walks and rides you've already logged — with the heart-rate data that came with them, if you share it — so your plan starts from where you really are, not from a blank slate. Switch on write-back and the runs you record in Volata are saved to Apple Health too — your history stays in one piece. You choose what to share; the write-back switch lives in Volata, and you can revoke what you've shared any time in Apple's Health app.

Simplified view of the app screen.

Build your own workouts

Want a session that isn't in your plan? Build your own — warm-up, intervals, recoveries, cool-down — or start from a ready-made template and change what you like. Either way it saves to your workout library, ready and waiting whenever you feel like running it.

Simplified view of the app screen.

Sensible limits you can see

The plans Volata builds keep your weekly mileage climbing gently — no more than 10% a week, with a slightly quicker climb only while you get back to where you were after missed weeks. Every week has a rest day, an easier week comes every third or fourth at around 70% of the load, and there's a proper wind-down before race day — three weeks for a marathon. A plan you type in yourself, or one your coach writes, is yours: Volata points out anything unusual but doesn't change it. And whenever Volata wants to change something, it shows you what it would change and why. Nothing happens behind your back, and every change is yours to accept or skip.

Simplified view of the app screen.
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Train with your coach

Already have a coach? They can send you an invite link, and once you accept it they can write your plan and send it to you in the app. You see the whole plan first and choose whether to take it on. You can write to your coach from your Profile. Before you accept, the app shows you exactly what your coach will see — your plan and your runs. You decide whether your coach's assistant can read your plan, and you can change that or end coaching any time from Profile.

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How it works

Three steps to a plan that fits you.

Tell us your goal

Your race and date — 5K, 10K, half marathon or marathon — plus a little about how you run today.

Get your plan

Volata builds a full week-by-week plan around your goal, with the pacing, rest and long runs worked out for you. Beginner 5K build-ups use walk-run intervals with no pace targets.

It offers, you decide

Record your runs and Volata keeps up — suggesting changes to the weeks ahead when training isn't going to plan, and telling you why. Every suggestion is yours to take or leave.

Your plan is yours. Volata never changes it — it only ever suggests.

Ready to run with a plan that fits your life?

Join the public beta on iPhone and help shape Volata.

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Not on iPhone, or want to say more? Tell us about your running — it's optional.

Free during beta — no payment, no ads, and we don't sell your data.