A Fresh Look for Random Run
Random Run has a new look—and it's the biggest visual update since we launched. We're calling it Clean Sprint: a bright, athletic design language built around one goal—getting you out the door faster.
Light, bright, and out of your way
The old dark interface served us well, but it always felt like the app was asking for your attention. The new design flips that. Bright off-white surfaces, coral accents, and clean typography that stays out of your way so you can focus on the thing that matters: picking a route and going.
Every screen has been rebuilt from scratch. The home screen opens with your city name and a simple choice—distance or duration. Quick-pick chips let you tap 5K or 10K and go. Or dial in a custom distance if you're particular about it. One big coral Generate button, and you're off.
Routes that look as good as they feel
Route selection now shows your three routes on a clean, standard map—no more custom dark tiles fighting for attention. Each route gets its own colour—coral, teal, amber—and selecting one animates the card and polyline so you always know exactly what you're looking at. The whole experience feels faster and more confident.
While routes generate, a new radar animation sweeps the screen with rotating tips and a pulsing locator dot. It's a small thing, but it makes the few seconds of generation feel intentional instead of empty.
A run HUD that respects your focus
Mid-run, the navigation screen keeps it simple: a clean instruction banner with your next turn, a coral progress bar tracking your route, and large, readable stats—timer, distance, pace—on a card that doesn't compete with the map. Pause is warm orange. End is subtle. Everything is where your eyes expect it.
Post-run, done right
Finish a run and you get a proper summary: a big hero distance in monospaced type, your time and pace in clean cards, and one-tap sharing to Strava or anywhere else. We also added a run history screen with aggregate stats—total distance, total runs, average pace—so you can watch your numbers build over time.
A proper welcome
New users now get a three-screen onboarding tour that explains what Random Run does, asks for location, and optionally connects Apple Health—all before they see the main screen. It's quick, it's clear, and it means nobody lands on the app confused about what to do next.
Dark on the wrist
One deliberate choice: Apple Watch stays dark. While the iPhone app went bright, the Watch keeps a dark shell with the same coral, teal, and amber route accents. On a small OLED screen in direct sunlight, dark backgrounds with high-contrast accents are just easier to read at a glance. Same design vocabulary, different execution for the form factor.
Same app. Same price. New everything.
Clean Sprint ships today as a free update. No new subscription, no premium tier, no catch. Just a better-looking app that does the same thing it's always done—generates random running routes so your runs never get stale.
Update Random Run and take it for a spin. We think you'll like what you see.