Stop running backwards with these original running apps.
After making the decision to start running, the hardest part is yet to come: find the motivation and do violence to start your first session. If the thought of sticking your nose outside and feeling the wind whipping your face as you run painfully scares you, you might want to consider using a running app to help you with pain, but more importantly. give you a goal.
Seen as real motivation catalysts, there are many tracking applications for running and most of them offer all the same features: follow training plans to achieve a goal, share your performance with friends, or even keep a history of its performance to follow its development.
To spice up your races, it is quite possible to opt for more original applications that will transform your sports session into a game or, even better, into an educational moment. Some apps offer to accompany you in your runs and motivate you by participating in challenges to win vouchers or gifts, to play a fictional character to flee, or to take advantage of your race to make one. tourist circuit.
The editorial staff of Telecharger.com has selected for you the best free applications to run while having fun.
Urbanr
Urbanr takes running to another dimension. Like a Pokémon Go, the application offers to carry out missions in the real world, by following the GPS of your smartphone. Taking into account your level and your build, the app lets you choose the scenario depending on the type of physical activity you want to practice.
To turn sports into a game, Urbanr doesn’t just track your performance. The proposed missions are structured around virtual objects that you must collect at different locations indicated on a map. It’s up to you to establish a route to collect all the items in the allotted time.
To the sound of music stored on your device, Urbanr turns your running session into a virtual treasure hunt. Successful missions allow you to accumulate points that can then be redeemed for real gifts.
Download Urbanr for Android (Free)
Download Urbanr for iPhone (Free)
Runnin’City
While some have gotten into the habit of running while listening to audiobooks or podcasts, others can take advantage of this moment to do some sightseeing. Runnin’City offers to combine effort and culture through an audio guide dedicated to runners.
Depending on where you are, and the distance you want to travel, the application generates tourist routes for you through which you can discover local monuments and buildings. Operating in a hundred cities around the world, Runnin’City shows you the direction to take at each stage of the route.
The application generates routes that are as informative as they are enjoyable, far from the usual lake or park tours that you usually do. Headphones screwed into your ears, the Runnin’City audio guide describes the monuments you pass and informs you about the history of the place.
If you plan to use it abroad, Runnin’City allows you to download maps and audio guides in advance, so that you can use your run to play tourist.
Download Runnin’City for Android (Free)
Download Runnin’City for iPhone (Free)
SquadRunner
Those who dread going for a run alone will find some solace in SquadRunner. This application offers to run as a team and challenge other runners from all over the world. Whether you join an existing squad or choose to build your own, SquadRunner gives you the freedom to run where you want, when you want, and with the people you want.
Each running session you take part in with the app earns you points that allow your team to move up the world rankings. SquadRunner is fun and includes instant messaging to encourage you to communicate with others, while it is possible to get some extra points for your team by answering the quizzes that are submitted to you.
At the end of each month, your squad is rewarded with a medal according to its position in the world ranking.
Download SquadRunner for Android (Free)
Download SquadRunner for iPhone (Free)
Zombies, Run!
Zombies, Run! invites you to play as one of the rare survivors of a zombie invasion. Faced with this crisis, you must join by your own means a camp of survivors who need your help to survive by providing resources, helping other survivors but above all helping them to defend their shelter.
If the adventure is virtual, Zombies, Run! makes you run well in the real world by listening to a story and following the directions given to you, all orchestrated by the music stored on your device.
Like any other tracking application, Zombies, Run! allows you to view your route on an online map and to synchronize your data. During your missions punctuated by ambient noises (helicopters, howls and moans, etc.), you must collect food while dodging the zombies launched after you. Follow the instructions you hear to the letter, change direction, catch your breath, and above all, don’t stop!
Several dozen missions that are unlocked as you race are offered in Zombies, Run !. If you don’t want to wait, it is always possible, via an in-app purchase, to unlock them all but also to access additional training missions. The “story” mode is not an obligatory passage and it is quite possible to start by following training plans to reach a specific objective (5km, 10km, half-marathon, etc.).
In addition to making you run, Zombies, Run! should allow you to significantly improve your level in English, the application is only available in the language of Shakespeare.
Download Zombies, Run! for android (Free)
Download Zombies, Run! for iPhone (Free)
Running Heroes
For some, going for a run is a waste of time. Based on this principle, why not motivate yourself by participating in challenges to try to win gifts?
Running Heroes is not a tracking app but a companion app, which uses running data collected by your regular running app to calculate your score at the end of each session. Compatible with the most popular tracking applications such as Nike + Run Club, Strava, Runkeeper or Runtastic, the application converts your statistics into points which are accumulated on your account. Running Heroes gives you the choice as to which challenges you wish to register for, these being aimed at athletes of all levels.
All the points obtained in Running Heroes can then be redeemed for gifts: discount vouchers to purchase your equipment, free registrations to certain races, free vegetable baskets at the local organic store, etc.
Download Running Heroes for Android (Free)
Download Running Heroes for iPhone (Free)