What's the difference between an interactive running story and an audiobook?

An interactive season reacts to your pace and the ground you cover. An audiobook plays as it was recorded and does not react.

Does Choose The Run work without a signal / offline?

A finished run is saved to the device before any network call is made, so a dead zone never costs you a run. It syncs on its own once a connection returns.

How do I get Choose The Run?

Choose The Run is coming to the Apple App Store and Google Play. Leave your email at choosetherun.com and we will send you the link the day it lands.

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Choose The Run — turn your run into a story that moves with you. An audio story running app for iOS and Android.

Choose a story, coach, pacer or race companion currently shown in the app. Review the details, then decide when and how you want to begin.

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Still frame: A short film showing Choose The Run in use

Choose The Run home screen — a real capture from the app, showing a season in progress above a row of other stories

The stories shelf listing interactive seasons, with filters for free, demo and pack titles

A season detail screen describing what the story leaves you with and who performs it

A distance picker for a season, with the chosen distance highlighted

The recorder waiting to start, with run, bike and walk offered and a five kilometre target showing nothing counted yet

A season's chaser described in full, with the box that arms it left unticked and marked off unless you turn it on

The run recorder showing distance, a map and a bar naming the story chapter currently playing

A recorder screen showing sharing switched off and an emergency card that prepares a message without sending it

A runner on a suburban street at sunrise. The road behind her breaks apart into a mountain kingdom of towers and waterfalls, with two riders on the path below.

A kingdom in the mountains

The street stays where it is.
Everything else moves.

You are on the same road you always run. The story is the part that changes — it arrives in your ears, anchored to the ground you have covered and the pace you are holding.

How it works

Four steps.
Then you are outside.

A season is written in chapters and cut for the distance you pick. Choose both before you leave the house, then go and find out what happens.

01
Pick a story
Six seasons are on the shelf, and they are not the same kind of story: a village murder mystery, two supernatural thrillers, a time-loop mystery, a voyage nobody explains and an elimination drama. Four are finished arcs; the other two say DEMO on their own card.
Every season states its own status before you start it.
02
Choose your distance
Then say how far you are going. A season is authored as a set of cuts, one for each distance, so a 5K plays a tighter cut of the same chapter — never a thinner one. The story condenses; it is never stretched to fill the ground.
Every distance on the card has its own cut, written for that length.
03
Run
Headphones in, phone away. Nothing has to be read, tapped or watched while you are moving: the app talks, and the screen is there if you want it rather than because you need it.
Your pace, distance and route are recorded the whole time.
04
The story reacts
To your pace, and to the ground you have covered. Lines are anchored to real moments in the run — a kilometre done, an easing off, a push — so the next thing you hear arrives because of something you did.
That reaction is the whole of what interactive means here. An audiobook plays, and does not.

Home picks up where the last run stopped.

Four steps, and then it is just you, the road and whatever the story does next.

Running stories

Run into the plot.

An interactive season reacts to your pace and the ground you cover. Every one states on its own card how much of it a run of your length will play.

A road marker beside an empty highway at dawn with hills behind

FreeInteractiveComplete arc

Kilómetro 41

In Spanish

Kilómetro 41. Everything that matters happens after it.

8 chapters

2K · 2MI · 5K · 5MI · 10K · 10MI · 20K · HALF · 20MI · 40K · MARATHON

A flooded water meadow under a grey sky, a brick sluice with an iron winding wheel standing open in the channel, and a single grey rose lying on the wet lane in the foreground

FreeInteractiveComplete arc

La última rosa de Blackwood

In Spanish

Ninety-one years of rose shows, one flooded meadow, and a sluice hatch someone wound open from the bank.

8 chapters

2K · 2MI · 5K · 5MI · 10K · 10MI · 20K · HALF · 20MI · 40K · MARATHON

Three wooden ships beached on a grey shingle shore, with crew carrying jars toward the boarding plank

FreeInteractiveComplete arc

Nobody's Crew

The war is over, you sign on last, and a storm takes the fleet off the chart.

8 chapters

2K · 2MI · 5K · 5MI · 10K · 10MI · 20K · HALF · 20MI · 40K · MARATHON

A weathered park bench beside a foggy path, with an opened tin and a cassette lying on the ground below it

FreeInteractiveComplete arc

Someone Ran This Before

Someone left recordings along this route. The dates on them are still ahead of you.

8 chapters

2K · 2MI · 5K · 5MI · 10K · 10MI · 20K · HALF · 20MI · 40K · MARATHON

A grand dark house behind bare winter trees, one upper window lit

FreeInteractiveComplete arc

The Last Rose of Blackwood

A house, a family, and a rose that only blooms the year someone dies.

8 chapters

2K · 2MI · 5K · 5MI · 10K · 10MI · 20K · HALF · 20MI · 40K · MARATHON

An empty floodlit running track at night, one lane marked with tape

FreeInteractiveComplete arc

The Last Ten

Ten athletes, eight places, and a selector who has already decided.

8 chapters

2K · 2MI · 5K · 5MI · 10K · 10MI · 20K · HALF · 20MI · 40K · MARATHON

A rain-slick cobbled harbour street at dusk, terraced houses on both sides and masts in the mist beyond

FreeInteractiveDemo

The Names on Harbor Street

Twenty-four names. One killer. The case turns on how you run.

8 chapters

2K · 2MI · 5K · 5MI · 10K · 10MI · 20K · HALF · 20MI · 40K · MARATHON

A wet path at dusk leading toward a distant mast with a red light, one figure walking ahead in the half dark

FreeInteractiveComplete arc

The Other Side

A voice reaches you mid-run. It only holds while you move.

8 chapters

2K · 2MI · 5K · 5MI · 10K · 10MI · 20K · HALF · 20MI · 40K · MARATHON

A shuttered coastal house above a grey beach, its terrace furniture stacked and covered

FreeInteractiveComplete arc

The Summer House

He drowned here twenty years ago, and everybody agrees about it.

8 chapters

2K · 2MI · 5K · 5MI · 10K · 10MI · 20K · HALF · 20MI · 40K · MARATHON

A small crashed plane half-buried in a snowfield at dusk, a trail of footprints leading toward dark spruce trees, and one lit cabin window at the treeline

FreeInteractiveComplete arc

The White Envelope

A plane down in the Alaskan interior, a voice saying stay exactly where you are, and a cargo you were told not to touch.

8 chapters

2K · 2MI · 5K · 5MI · 10K · 10MI · 20K · HALF · 20MI · 40K · MARATHON

A narrow lane at first light with a stone gate ahead and frost on the verge

FreeInteractiveComplete arc

The Witness

She wrote down what happens on this route before it happened.

8 chapters

2K · 2MI · 5K · 5MI · 10K · 10MI · 20K · HALF · 20MI · 40K · MARATHON

Five kinds of story: a village murder mystery, two supernatural thrillers, a time-loop mystery, a voyage nobody explains and an elimination drama.

Kilómetro 41 sits on the shelf in Spanish, alongside the English seasons.

Every distance a season offers has its own cut, written for that length. Pick 5K and you get a 5K story, not a longer one thinned out.

Audiobooks

A book, performed.
You set the pace.

A full performance rides with you: the story carries itself while you choose the route, the pace and the effort. Books and interactive seasons each carry their own word on the shelf, so you always know which one you are starting.

The recording, respected

You hear the book as it was performed.

The chapter plays exactly as it was recorded — the reading, whole. Everything of ours sits around it, and the coach for your splits stays off until you ask for it.

Your workout, your options

The chapter is fixed. The run is yours.

A season asks how far you are going; a book asks the opposite, so you say how you are covering the ground — walking, running or riding — and how hard. Before you start you see how long the chapter runs, about how far it will carry you, and where to turn around.

Audiobooks sit on Home in their own row, tagged AUDIOBOOK and by chapter count and running time.

AudiobookHorror

Dracula

Bram Stoker · 1897

AudiobookHorror

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 1818

AudiobookHorror

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886

AudiobookSolve

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · 1901

AudiobookSolve

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892

AudiobookSolve

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Gaston Leroux · 1908

AudiobookAdventure

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883

AudiobookAdventure

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas · 1846

AudiobookAdventure

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Emma Orczy · 1905

AudiobookEscape

The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan · 1915

AudiobookEscape

The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells · 1898

AudiobookEscape

The Time Machine

H. G. Wells · 1895

Twelve recordings are shown here. The shelf in the app shows the current catalogue and each title's availability today.

On your wrist, too.

See every watch

Garmin Wear OS Apple Watch

Inside the app

Every screen, at full size.

Real captures from a real phone — the shelves, the races, the boards, your body, your badges. Tap any screen to see it up close.

Release status

Lace up. Choose the run.

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Release targets

Current catalog

Content source

Your choice

Before every start

Choose your run

Every run is a different kind of run.

A murder mystery this morning, a coach on Thursday, something chasing you at the weekend. You decide what you are running into before you put the headphones in.

Story runs

Pick a season off the shelf and run inside it — chapters, voices and cues arriving while you move.

Zombie companion

Put something behind you. It closes when you ease off, and the only way to lose it is to run.

Coaches and pacers

Pick the voice that runs with you — a coach talking about your effort, or a pacer calling the gap.

Race-code entry

Type the race code and the app opens that race's companion, ready for the morning you line up.

Fuel and reminders

Set a fuelling nudge before you leave and hear it at the kilometre you asked for, not at the one you forgot.

Friends and activities

Run the same seasons as your friends, and cheer the runs they put up.

Pick your distance and the season plays the cut written for it — 2K, 5K or 10K here, 5K chosen.

Race companions

Enter the code.
Choose the run.

Get the code from the organiser, type it in, and the race you entered arrives with its real course, its climbs and a voice to run it with.

One code

Type the code and the whole race is on your phone.

Read the course now, run it on the day, and press play when you are ready.

What a race listing carries

Course: Distance and route supplied by the catalog
Companion: Available narration, coach or race guide
Access: Publisher, price and download details

Open the race in the app and every one of those figures is the organiser’s own.

A race listing shows the real course map, elevation profile and distance before you commit.

Running now

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Chasewater

3 runners · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Brauhaus Afrika

3 runners · 🇿🇦 South Africa

+10 MIN

Berwick Springs

Lucía · 🇦🇺 Australia

Challenges

Three ways to take the map.

Build distance, defend your zone, or claim cities across the monthly world.

Distance

Turn every kilometre into progress and keep moving toward the target.

Zone capture

Run inside the territory, strengthen it, and hold the border with your team.

Monthly campaign · Live

Conquest

Open Conquest

Loading the live Conquest map…

Cities: 16
Castles: 21
Rulers: 7

Routes and courses

A course is a place.
A race is a date.

One you can run any morning you like. The other happens once, on a day, with everyone else on the line beside you.

Course

Somewhere to run, with no date on it.

Race

An event, with a date and an entry.

A route shows the mapped loop, its lap count and a QR code to open it on another phone.

Who can see a route

Private: Only you. Nobody else sees the route or where it starts.
Friends: People you have both accepted as friends can open the route and run it, with your name on it. They see where it starts, unless you set a privacy zone.
Public: Anyone signed in can find the route and run it. They see where it starts — often your home if you run from your door — unless you set a privacy zone, which hides both ends. Your name is hidden, but the route is not moved.

The same three choices for every route you own, whatever it was made from or wherever it came from.

Your units, everywhere

Set metric or imperial once and every distance follows it. Every figure arrives in the unit you think in.

Choose The Run — turn your run into a story that moves with you. An audio story running app for iOS and Android.ChoosehooseTheheRunun

The street stays where it is.Everything else moves.

Four steps.Then you are outside.

Pick a story

Choose your distance

Run

The story reacts

Run into the plot.

Kilómetro 41

Kilómetro 41

La última rosa de Blackwood

La última rosa de Blackwood

Nobody's Crew

Nobody's Crew

Someone Ran This Before

Someone Ran This Before

The Last Rose of Blackwood

The Last Rose of Blackwood

The Last Ten

The Last Ten

The Names on Harbor Street

The Names on Harbor Street

The Other Side

The Other Side

The Summer House

The Summer House

The White Envelope

The White Envelope

The Witness

The Witness

Nobody's Crew

The White Envelope

The Last Rose of Blackwood

The Summer House

The Names on Harbor Street

A book, performed.You set the pace.

You hear the book as it was performed.

The chapter is fixed. The run is yours.

Dracula

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Treasure Island

The Three Musketeers

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Thirty-Nine Steps

The War of the Worlds

The Time Machine

On your wrist, too.

Every screen, at full size.

Lace up. Choose the run.

Every run is a different kind of run.

Story runs

Zombie companion

Coaches and pacers

Race-code entry

Fuel and reminders

Friends and activities

Enter the code.Choose the run.

Type the code and the whole race is on your phone.

Running now

Three ways to take the map.

Distance

Zone capture

Conquest

A course is a place.A race is a date.

Somewhere to run, with no date on it.

An event, with a date and an entry.

Choose The Run — turn your run into a story that moves with you. An audio story running app for iOS and Android.

The street stays where it is.
Everything else moves.

Four steps.
Then you are outside.

A book, performed.
You set the pace.

Enter the code.
Choose the run.

A course is a place.
A race is a date.