About
Trail running needs its own numbers.
Trail runners train on climbs, loops they repeat and ground that changes with the weather. Most apps they carry measure a trail like a road. Trailbuddy starts from the trail instead.
Why Trailbuddy exists
Run the same loop every Tuesday for a season and you should be able to watch yourself get stronger. A running tracker makes that hard: it splits at a different spot every lap, files your best climb as your slowest kilometer and forgets the mud and the heat behind a slow day.
Trailbuddy measures the sport the way trail runners run it. It times laps at the trailhead, finds and times the climbs and descents, adjusts pace for the grade and keeps the ground, the weather and the shoes on every run, so a runner and a coach can put this Tuesday next to the last one and see what changed.
Principles
01
Measure the sport the way runners run it
Climbs, loops and routes are the units of trail training. Trailbuddy starts from them, not from kilometers.
02
Context before comparison
Trailbuddy shows every time with its ground and its weather, and compares a lap only with laps of the same loop.
03
The phone stays in the pack
Trailbuddy speaks everything a runner needs mid-run out loud or shows it on the Lock Screen and the watch.
04
Show the workings
Trailbuddy publishes every threshold on the methodology page and links every market claim to its source.
05
The runner decides who sees what
You set each run to private, shared with coaches and clubmates, or public.
Where Trailbuddy goes next
Trailbuddy reads the trail, the runner, the conditions and the shoes today. The runners and coaches in the TestFlight cohort shape what comes next. The goal stays the same: a season of trail running you can read.
Get in touch
Coaches, club organizers, race organizers and runners with a climb they want measured: write to hello@trailbuddy.run. Messages reach Hannes, who builds Trailbuddy, directly.