Stride is a free iPhone app for tracking steps, recording walks and runs, and customizing your experience with collectible shoes, custom app icons, and Live Activities. It works with Apple Health.

Is there a step counter and daily step tracker in Stride?

Yes. Stride counts your daily steps and compares them with a goal you set, along with distance and estimated calories. You can see today, this week, this month, or any selected day.

How does Apple Health integration work?

With your permission, Stride reads relevant movement data from Apple Health, such as steps, distance, and workouts, so your totals reflect what your iPhone measures. Imported Apple Health workouts appear in your activity history, and heart rate shows on activities when it’s available. You can change access anytime in iPhone Settings.

Can I record walks and runs?

Yes. Start a walk or run, follow your distance, elapsed time, steps, speed, and elevation, and pause, resume, or finish whenever you like. Afterwards, review your route and stats. Free includes a limited number of recordings per day; Stride Pro makes recording unlimited.

Can I make a custom shoe in Stride?

Yes. With Stride Pro you can upload a photo of your shoe or paste a product link, and Stride creates a stylized custom shoe collectible. Name it, add it to your collection, and select it to track its mileage.

Can I customize my Live Activity?

Yes. Choose a design and one of seven colors for your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Stride Classic and Shoe Focus are free; Compact, Distance Focus, Stride Dashboard, Dashboard Minimal, and Shoe Spotlight come with Stride Pro.

How do AI shoe collectibles work?

Upload a photo of your shoe or paste a product-page link, and Stride creates a stylized collectible inspired by it. Name it, add it to your collection, and select it to track mileage. This requires Stride Pro, which includes 10 credits per paid subscription month. Generation runs on cloud services, not on your device.

What is included in Stride Pro?

Unlimited walk and run recording, every premium bundled shoe, premium themes, premium Live Activity designs, and AI shoe generation with 10 credits per paid subscription month. Some alternate app icons are marked Pro in the icon catalog. You subscribe and manage Pro inside the app.

Can I use miles instead of kilometers?

Yes. Choose metric or imperial units in Preferences.

Only people whose friend request you’ve accepted. If you choose to share, they see your activity totals — steps, distance, and calories — in rankings for today, this week, and this month. Friend activity syncs periodically, so rankings aren’t live. Friends require sign-in with Apple or Google.

Which permissions does Stride use?

Apple Health, to read relevant health and movement data. Location, to record your route during a walk or run. Motion & Fitness, for supported step and activity tracking. Notifications, only if you turn them on. Stride uses cloud services for your account, friends, and AI features.

Record a run. Keep it simple.

Stride is a simple run tracker for iPhone. Record a run with GPS, follow distance, time and speed as you go, and review your route and stats afterwards alongside your walks.

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Stride recording a run with live distance, time and route map

How to record a run in Stride

Open Stride and start a run recording.
Allow Location access so Stride can record your route.
Run. Follow your distance, elapsed time and speed live.
Pause or resume if you need to, then finish the run.
Review your route and stats in your activity history.

Why use Stride as a run tracker

GPS distance and speed

Follow your run live without setting anything up.

Everything in one history

Runs, walks and imported Apple Health workouts live together.

Distance Focus Live Activity

Lead with distance on your Lock Screen for goal-minded runs (Stride Pro).

Track mileage per shoe

Select the pair you’re wearing to follow each shoe’s mileage.

Frequently asked questions

Can I record a run on iPhone without extra hardware?

Yes. Stride uses your iPhone’s GPS and motion sensors to record your run, so you don’t need extra hardware.

Is the run tracker free?

Free includes a limited number of recordings per day. Stride Pro makes recording unlimited.

Can I see my running route?

Yes. After you finish, review your route and stats in your activity history.