Vanoor

Turn your Apple Watch into a serious running watch

Apple Watch

Health & Fitness

Running

Hi Product Hunt, I'm Felix. I'm a developer from Budapest, and Vanoor is my first app of my own. I wrote it alone, mostly evenings, and ran almost every build on my own wrist before it shipped. Why I built it. I run with an Apple Watch. Apple's Workout app is clean but can't follow a route or pace a race. The apps that can tend to cram every metric onto one screen. I wanted something that looks like Apple made it and still does what a proper running watch does. A few decisions that shaped it: Battery comes first on the Watch. All the heavy work happens on the iPhone before the route syncs: finding the turns, simplifying the line, preparing the map overlays. The Watch only draws what's already prepared, so a long run doesn't drain it. Turn cues were the hardest part. The first version said "continue straight" when a right turn came right before a left, and "bear left" on roads that were straight. I rewrote turn detection after my own test runs: it smooths the route, merges turns that sit close together into one "turn right, then left" cue, and times each cue by your running speed. The iPhone speaks the cues, not the Watch. When the Watch talks, your AirPods jump over to it and your music stops. So the phone speaks and the music keeps going. No account, no server. Runs live in Apple Health and your own iCloud. That's also why it's 7 days free and then a one-time purchase. With no server to run, I don't need a subscription. What it does today: GPX routes with turn-by-turn taps and spoken cues, race pacing split by split, structured workouts with pace or heart-rate targets (build them in the app or import a plan from your AI assistant), fueling reminders during a race or workout, a score for how closely you ran the plan, a profile with your records and streaks, and the whole app in 11 languages. It's built natively in Swift and SwiftUI, with HealthKit and WatchConnectivity, and no third-party SDKs. Vanoor isn't trying to be a social fitness network or an outdoor app with the richest offline maps. It's a running app, built by a runner around what runners actually need on the road. I'd love to hear what's missing for the way you run, and I'm happy to answer anything about how it's built. I'll be here all day.