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RouteRush

Running is how
you take ground.

  1. Step one. Record a run or a ride with GPS tracking that survives lost signal.
  2. Step two. Every hexagonal cell your route passes through is claimed as your territory.
  3. Step three. Claimed territory becomes Rush Points, and Rush Points decide your weekly league rank.
01 — Record

Start a run or a ride. RouteRush follows your line at street resolution, and keeps recording when the signal drops out.

02 — Conquer

Every hex your route touches turns yours. Resolution‑11 cells, roughly 25 metres across, claimed the moment you pass through one.

03 — Hold it

Territory becomes Rush Points, Rush Points become rank, and rank resets every week. The map is only yours while you keep running.

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The difference

A tracker tells you where you went.
RouteRush tells you what you took.

The same run, scored differently. Distance and pace are the receipt. The map is the score — a permanent record of the streets you have actually covered, cell by cell, against everyone else covering theirs.

25 m
Cell edge, roughlyH3 resolution 11. Fine enough that one side of a street is not the other.
3D
Real globeYour territory rendered on a true sphere, not a flat tile sheet.
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Bars of signal requiredActivities queue offline and sync themselves the moment you are back.

Hex conquest

The map remembers every street you have taken.

Your GPS line is matched to a hexagonal grid the moment it is recorded. Pass through a cell and it is yours. Come back a different way and the shape of what you own changes.

Cell-level scoring. Rush Points are awarded per activity from the ground you actually covered, not from a step count.

Contested ground. Cells have a dominance record. Someone else running your route puts your claim under pressure.

It compounds. Territory carries between runs, so a neighbourhood is something you build over months.

RouteRush Map Modes over London: Heatmap, Territory and Routes cards above the 3D city
9:41
Cells1 284
Rush Points8 420
This week+312

Boldi, the in-run coach

A coach in your ear, not a podcast.

Boldi watches the run as it happens — your pace, the cells ahead, how much you have left — and says something when it is worth saying. The rest of the time he is quiet.

Timed to the effort. Prompts arrive at splits and decision points, not on a fixed timer.

Aware of the map. He knows which cells are still unclaimed on the route in front of you.

RouteRush Plans screen: Boldi the coach offering training plans
9:41

Elapsed

32:14

Distance6.42km
Pace5:01/km
Heart158bpm

Nine unclaimed cells on the loop ahead. Hold this pace and they are all yours.

Live Activity & widget

Most of a run happens with the app closed.

Time, distance and pace stay on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and stay interactive — pause and resume without unlocking. Starting is one tap from the Home Screen.

32:14 6.42 km · 5:01
Morning run LIVE
Time32:14
Distance6.42km
Cells+41
Pause Finish
Quick Start
Run · Ride

Home Screen widget. One tap opens straight into a tracked run.

Leagues

Thirty runners.
One week.
Five go up.

Every week you are placed in a league of thirty at your tier. The top fifth is promoted, the bottom fifth is relegated, and everyone starts again on Monday. Bronze, Silver and Gold, each with three divisions.

New to a tier? A newbie shield covers your first week, so a bad one cannot send you straight back down.

Leaderboards

League 30 players • Resets in 3d 22h Silver II

Promotion zone · top 5

1 M. Kaya 84.2 km1 240m ↑ 4 820RP
2 J. Duarte 79.6 km980m ↑ 4 512RP
3 A. Rossi 71.1 km1 415m ↑ 4 140RP

· · ·

12 You 48.9 km615m ↑ 2 986RP
13 L. Novak 46.2 km520m ↑ 2 830RP

· · ·

29 P. Bauer 19.4 km210m ↑ 1 140RP
30 S. Chen 15.1 km145m ↑ 905RP

Relegation zone · bottom 5

Inside the app.

Captured on iPhone, running the shipping build.

RouteRush run summary: route on the map with distance, time, pace, elevation and cadence
The globe you run onHome is a real 3D globe, not a flat tile sheet. Your ground fills in as you cover it.
RouteRush Plans screen featuring Boldi the coach and structured training plans
Boldi and a plan to followStructured plans from first run to 5K, with the coach attached to them.
RouteRush club challenges with a head-to-head card and open challenges
Where you standYour league, live, with the promotion line in sight.

Everything else that ships in the box.

No roadmap items. These are in the app today.

Clubs and a feed worth reading

Join a club, post the run, comment on someone else's. The social feed is built around activities, so there is always something on the map behind the picture.

Head-to-head challenges

Pick someone, pick a metric, set the window. The VS card tracks both of you until it closes.

HealthKit, both ways

Steps, weight and heart rate read in. Workouts written back out.

Verified badge

Premium accounts carry a checkmark across the feed, clubs and leaderboards.

Offline queue

Tracking survives no signal. Activities queue on device and sync when the network returns.

A runner at dusk, silhouetted against a city skyline

Why it matters

The map only moves when you do.

Nothing on your map was given to you. Every cell on it is a street you actually ran.

RouteRush

Go take some ground.

RouteRush is free to start. iPhone, iOS 17 or later. Your first run claims its first cell about twenty seconds in.