Cadence CoachFind your cadence.Hold it.
Cadence Coach is a precise running metronome that listens back. Set a step rate, run to the beat, and let the app, your Apple Watch and an on-device coach keep you on target — outdoors, on the treadmill, or back from injury.
Everything you need to change your step rate — and keep it changed.
A cadence change only works if you can feel it, hold it and see it over time. Every part of Cadence Coach is built around those three steps.
A metronome made for running
From a slow walk to a full sprint, with a clean, loud beat that cuts through traffic and treadmill noise.
- Precise step rate from walk to sprint, adjustable one step at a time
- Tap Tempo to capture the rhythm you are running right now
- Pace presets — Walk, Jog, Slow Run, Fast Run, Sprint
- Accent beats, sound styles and haptic feedback Premium
Intervals that shift the tempo for you
Each segment sets its own step rate and duration, so progression is built into the workout — not left to memory.
- Preset workouts for runners and for returning after injury
- Build, save and reuse your own sessions
- Pause anytime — time, Health and Strava stay accurate
Measure how you move Premium
Motion analysis estimates cadence, ground contact, vertical oscillation, symmetry and left/right balance from your iPhone — trends for your own running, not a clinical assessment.
- Live gait and symmetry metrics while the metronome runs
- Session insight compared with your own baseline
- A shareable PDF summary for your physiotherapist
Train by heart rate — with any strap
Connect Polar, Garmin, Wahoo, COOSPO, Magene or any standard Bluetooth chest strap. Zones come from your own data, and spoken cues step in when you drift into hard zones.
- Live heart rate on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch
- Zones from Health or your own tested max Premium
- Voice coaching for threshold and maximal zones
Your treadmill, your strap and your watch — on one screen.
Put an iPad on the treadmill console, or turn your iPhone sideways. Studio combines speed from the treadmill with cadence and heart rate into numbers no single device shows: live stride length, pace against heart rate, and a five-minute cadence graph.
Leave your phone at home.
Run with the metronome on your wrist. A gentle tap tells you when you drift from your target, and every run is saved to Apple Health with a summary — duration, average cadence, time on target and heart rate.
Haptic coaching
Feel the correction instead of hearing it.
Health & Strava
Finished runs sync automatically.
Small changes in step rate, measurable changes in load.
Raising cadence by 5–10% shortens each step and changes how the hip and knee absorb load. It is one of the most studied running-form cues — and one of the easiest to practise with a metronome.
step rate was enough to reduce energy absorbed at the knee in 45 recreational runners.
Heiderscheit et al., 2011peak patellofemoral joint force when step rate was raised to 110% of preferred.
Lenhart et al., 2014studies in a 2022 meta-analysis: strong evidence for reduced knee flexion, limited evidence for injury outcomes so far.
Anderson et al., 2022Your training data stays on your devices.
On-device coach
Coaching cues are generated on your iPhone with Apple Intelligence — or by built-in templates on devices without it. Nothing is sent to an AI service.
No account
No sign-up, no profile on a server. Heart rate, cadence and speed never leave your devices unless you connect Strava or Apple Health.
Yours to export
See what is stored, export it as JSON or CSV, or delete it — in Settings → Your data.
Start free. Unlock everything once.
The metronome is free to use. Premium is a single in-app purchase — no subscription — and one purchase unlocks iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
Free
Everything you need to find your cadence.
- Running metronome with Tap Tempo and pace presets
- Guided interval workouts to get started
- Live Activity, Lock Screen and Home Screen widget
- Apple Health saving and Strava sync
Everything in Cadence Coach
One purchase · iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch · no subscription
- Studio: treadmill, heart-rate strap and Apple Watch live on one screen
- AI running & rehab coach — private, on-device voice tips
- Insights: session curves, trends and analysis against your own baseline
- Any Bluetooth heart-rate sensor, with zone coaching
- Apple Watch live workouts with heart rate and cadence
- Motion analysis: cadence, symmetry and running-form metrics
- All preset workouts and unlimited saved intervals
Run to your own beat.
Free on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.