Frequently asked questions

Most running apps track your run and show you a chart. Run on Realms turns running into a game: turn the routes you run into realms, hold them against other runners, climb your city’s league and run with your squad. If you want more than pace and distance — a reason to lace up today — it is the best running app for you.

Strava and Nike Run Club are excellent run trackers. Run on Realms adds territory: a route you run can become a realm you hold — until someone out-runs you on it by enough. It is the difference between recording your run and playing for your city. Plenty of runners use a tracker and Run on Realms side by side. (Strava and Nike Run Club are trademarks of their respective owners; Run on Realms is not affiliated with them.)

We launch across India on 11.11 (11 November 2026) — India first.

Runners who are bored of staring at pace charts, anyone who runs better with friends or a bit of competition, and people building a running habit who need a reason to run today. From first-timers to city-record chasers, the game scales to you.

Run on Realms turns the routes you run into realms you hold, with a league each season and squads to run with.

Motivation is the hardest part of running, and charts do not fix it — games do. Run on Realms turns the routes you run into realms you hold, with a league each season and squads to run with, so you have a reason to run today, not just a record of yesterday.

We launch across India on 11.11 (11 November 2026) — India first. Join the waitlist to hear when we open further.

A gamified running app turns each run into a game instead of just a stats chart. On Run on Realms, the routes you run can become realms you hold, and every km counts toward your level and your city’s league.

Yes. After a run, ask for that route as a realm — or draw one you’ve run. We check every request, and once it’s approved the ground you ran is your realm. Free runners hold one realm at a time; Pro holds more.

Until someone out-runs you on it by enough. Points come from distance and how many days you run there over a rolling window. The crown is checked once a day; a challenger has to beat you by a margin, and a tie stays with you.

In spirit, yes — it is a real-world territory game played by running. Your real runs decide who holds each realm. Out-run a holder by enough and the crown moves to you.

No timer takes your realm. Your points age out of the rolling window, so keep running it — if someone out-runs you by enough, the crown moves to them at the next daily check.

Yes. Start a private group free or a public squad with Pro, race your family, plan runs together, chat, and share a run live so friends can watch and cheer. Joining any squad is free.

You can race the holder’s ghost on any realm, overlaid on the map, so you always have someone to chase.

Every realm has its own board, plus city, state and country boards, a squad board and a league each season. Your standing page shows them all.

We smooth noisy city GPS with a Kalman filter and keep recording with the screen locked. We never draw a line we didn’t measure: when the signal drops, your phone’s step count fills in the distance.

It’s built to run for hours with the screen locked. Long runs use battery like any GPS app — start charged.

Yes. Your run is saved on the phone and uploads when you’re back online.

New accounts start with a privacy zone: the start and end of your routes are hidden from everyone else, and you can change its size or turn it off. Your full route is stored privately for you. We never sell your data and show no ads in the app.

Yes — we comply with India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 from day one, including its cross-border rules. Your account data is hosted on encrypted servers in India (Bengaluru); the waitlist is held in Singapore. See our Privacy Policy for details.

A privacy zone that hides where you start and finish (on by default for new accounts), a private profile if you want one, and our Runner Safety guide with a pre-run checklist, in-run awareness tips and emergency guidance.

Yes. Free covers GPS tracking, a realm of your own, private groups, the family race, streaks, a coach plan and every board. Pro adds more on top.

No. Nothing is sold at launch. ROR Pro and ROR Creator are earned through the ROR Creator Collaboration Programme, and nothing is ever charged.

Bring 3 friends who run and apply for ROR Pro. Run a club? Bring 10 friends who run (or 10 members of your group who ran) and apply for ROR Creator. The ROR team reviews every application and decides how many months, from 1 to 12. Applications open on the ROR website on 11 November 2026. You must be 18 or older.

When they join with your link or code (or add your code within a week), sign up in the app with the same email they joined the waitlist with, and finish their first outdoor run of 1 km or more. Installs alone, friends already running on ROR, walks, treadmill runs and fake GPS don’t count. Before launch: join the waitlist, share your link, your friends join through it, and on 11 November everyone gets the launch email.

Yes, it is part of collaborating. Members share ROR in regular Instagram stories and reels (run clubs from the club’s account too); the ROR team shares the details — how often and what works best — after approval. There is no set reward per post: the team looks at your sharing, along with your invites and running, when it decides how many months to grant. Every post puts “Ad” or “Collaboration” up front (on the image or video for stories) and tags @runonrealms.

No. Run on Realms rewards you with realms, levels, trophies and badges — not cash. No money is paid to programme members.

We launch on 11.11 (11 November 2026) across all of India: every city, from the metros to the smallest towns.

Yes — Run on Realms launches on iOS and Android on 11.11 (11 November 2026). Join the waitlist to hear the moment it is live.

Absolutely. The free tier is beginner-friendly, and turning runs into a game (a free training plan, streaks, squad cheers) is one of the most effective ways to build a running habit when motivation is hard.

Join the waitlist at runonrealms.com/waitlist. You’ll hear first at launch on 11.11, and you get your own link to bring friends who run.

Founding member badges went to the first 999 people on the waitlist, in the order they signed up, and they’re all taken. To claim one: install the app, sign up with the same email you joined with and finish your first 1 km outdoor run within 30 days of launch. Any spot left unclaimed passes to the next person in line, who gets their own 30 days — we’ll email you if it’s yours. Everyone on the waitlist hears first at launch.