Every Run, Straight to Strava

Random Run is for runners who don't want to think about where to run. You shouldn't have to think about logging it either.

Starting today, Random Run connects to Strava. Link your account once — every finished run uploads by itself. No tapping "share," no switching apps, no exporting a GPX file and hoping it lands in the right place. Finish the run, stretch, get water. Your run is already on Strava.

Connect once. Forget it exists.

Head to Settings, tap Connect Strava, authorize in the official Strava sheet, and you're done. From that moment on, every run you finish in Random Run — on iPhone or Apple Watch — posts to Strava automatically the second you tap End. Route, time, pace, distance, elevation. The whole thing, already there.

If you'd rather not post a particular run, open it from history and pull it back. If you'd rather not do this at all, don't connect — Random Run works exactly like it always has.

Why we built it

We watched ourselves use Random Run for a year and noticed a pattern: every run ended with the same three-step ritual. Tap Share. Tap Strava. Wait for the upload sheet. Add a title you didn't care about. Post. It was five seconds of friction at the worst possible moment — when you're sweaty, breathing hard, and just want to be done.

Five seconds isn't much. But it's five seconds between you and a shower, multiplied by every run you'll ever do. Software should absorb that, not add to it.

Still private by default

A few things worth saying clearly:

• The Strava connection is opt-in. Random Run will never post anywhere without you explicitly connecting an account.
• We don't run a server in the middle. Your phone talks directly to Strava. We don't see your runs, your routes, or your activity.
• You control what Strava sees. Use Strava's privacy zones, activity visibility, and default privacy settings — they work exactly like they do with any other app.
• Disconnect anytime. One tap in Settings revokes access. You can also revoke from Strava's own app-permissions page.

Random Run still requires no account. Still has no analytics. Still doesn't know who you are. Connecting Strava adds a doorway to one specific place — nothing else changes.

For the "not on Strava" crowd

If Strava isn't your thing, nothing changes for you. The one-tap share menu on the summary screen still exports to Messages, Apple Health, GPX, or wherever you want to send a route. The default Random Run experience is, as always, run and done.

Still free. Still simple.

Update Random Run, open Settings, and tap Connect Strava when you're ready. Then go run something new — and let the upload happen without you.