Runners mid-stride at speed, motion-blurred in low light

When the beat matches your stride,
you just go

Lock your stride to the beat and the run changes. The effort fades, the song carries you, and you ride the tempo.

Built around tracks curated for running: punk, metal, hip-hop, EDM... whatever moves you.

FREE ON iOS & ANDROID

The Rungroove app showing a 170 BPM steady run with hand-picked songs

01 / SPM, meet BPM

Run with
the music,
not just to it

Most of us run to music. Far fewer run with it. When your running cadence and your music's tempo line up, something clicks, and you lock in. Every step lands on a beat, the rhythm holds your pace, and your legs just follow.

When a song is moving through your body at the speed of your run, you hear it differently. The pounding drum intro, the bass holding a moment on its own, the riff that just keeps driving. You feel all of it in your legs. The run carries the music, and the music carries the run.

02 / how it works

Shape your run,
then go

Choose the shape of your run and the music you like. Rungroove generates the playlist for you.

  1. Tempo

    Pick the beats per minute you want to run to. New to it? Start around 170 and feel it out.

  2. Genres & intensity

    Punk, hip-hop, metal, house, whatever you want in your ears. Then dial the intensity, easy cruise to all-out sprint.

  3. Run duration

    Set how long you'll be out, and the playlist fills to fit, every song locked to the tempo you set.

  4. Take it with you

    Send your finished playlist to the music app you already run with, and head out the door.

03 / run modes

Steady,
or by split

Run the whole way at a single tempo, or break it into splits and give each its own, easy on the warmup and quicker when you want to open up the finish.

9:41RUNGROOVE
Race day · 45 min
4 splits · 155→188
Warmup 155–162 BPM
Steady 163–172 BPM
Push 173–182 BPM
Sprint 183–188 BPM

04 / the catalog

Songs that earn
their place

Legend Has It
Run the Jewels · Hip-Hop
158 BPM
Intensity
Bulls on Parade
Rage Against the Machine · Rap Metal
160 BPM
Intensity
One Armed Scissor
At the Drive-In · Post-Hardcore
162 BPM
Intensity
No One Knows
Queens of the Stone Age · Alternative Rock
164 BPM
Intensity
Holiday
Turnstile · Hardcore
166 BPM
Intensity
New Noise
Refused · Hardcore Punk
170 BPM
Intensity
All My Life
Foo Fighters · Alternative Rock
172 BPM
Intensity
Blitzkrieg Bop
Ramones · Punk
174 BPM
Intensity
Danny Nedelko
IDLES · Punk
176 BPM
Intensity
Sabotage
Beastie Boys · Hip-Hop
178 BPM
Intensity
Hate to Say I Told You So
The Hives · Garage Rock
182 BPM
Intensity
Master of Puppets
Metallica · Metal
188 BPM
Intensity
Legend Has It
Run the Jewels · Hip-Hop
158 BPM
Intensity
Bulls on Parade
Rage Against the Machine · Rap Metal
160 BPM
Intensity
One Armed Scissor
At the Drive-In · Post-Hardcore
162 BPM
Intensity
No One Knows
Queens of the Stone Age · Alternative Rock
164 BPM
Intensity
Holiday
Turnstile · Hardcore
166 BPM
Intensity
New Noise
Refused · Hardcore Punk
170 BPM
Intensity
All My Life
Foo Fighters · Alternative Rock
172 BPM
Intensity
Blitzkrieg Bop
Ramones · Punk
174 BPM
Intensity
Danny Nedelko
IDLES · Punk
176 BPM
Intensity
Sabotage
Beastie Boys · Hip-Hop
178 BPM
Intensity
Hate to Say I Told You So
The Hives · Garage Rock
182 BPM
Intensity
Master of Puppets
Metallica · Metal
188 BPM
Intensity
Holiday
Turnstile · Hardcore
166 BPM
Intensity
New Noise
Refused · Hardcore Punk
170 BPM
Intensity
All My Life
Foo Fighters · Alternative Rock
172 BPM
Intensity
Blitzkrieg Bop
Ramones · Punk
174 BPM
Intensity
Danny Nedelko
IDLES · Punk
176 BPM
Intensity
Sabotage
Beastie Boys · Hip-Hop
178 BPM
Intensity
Hate to Say I Told You So
The Hives · Garage Rock
182 BPM
Intensity
Master of Puppets
Metallica · Metal
188 BPM
Intensity
Legend Has It
Run the Jewels · Hip-Hop
158 BPM
Intensity
Bulls on Parade
Rage Against the Machine · Rap Metal
160 BPM
Intensity
One Armed Scissor
At the Drive-In · Post-Hardcore
162 BPM
Intensity
No One Knows
Queens of the Stone Age · Alternative Rock
164 BPM
Intensity
Holiday
Turnstile · Hardcore
166 BPM
Intensity
New Noise
Refused · Hardcore Punk
170 BPM
Intensity
All My Life
Foo Fighters · Alternative Rock
172 BPM
Intensity
Blitzkrieg Bop
Ramones · Punk
174 BPM
Intensity
Danny Nedelko
IDLES · Punk
176 BPM
Intensity
Sabotage
Beastie Boys · Hip-Hop
178 BPM
Intensity
Hate to Say I Told You So
The Hives · Garage Rock
182 BPM
Intensity
Master of Puppets
Metallica · Metal
188 BPM
Intensity
Legend Has It
Run the Jewels · Hip-Hop
158 BPM
Intensity
Bulls on Parade
Rage Against the Machine · Rap Metal
160 BPM
Intensity
One Armed Scissor
At the Drive-In · Post-Hardcore
162 BPM
Intensity
No One Knows
Queens of the Stone Age · Alternative Rock
164 BPM
Intensity
Master of Puppets
Metallica · Metal
188 BPM
Intensity
Hate to Say I Told You So
The Hives · Garage Rock
182 BPM
Intensity
Sabotage
Beastie Boys · Hip-Hop
178 BPM
Intensity
Danny Nedelko
IDLES · Punk
176 BPM
Intensity
Blitzkrieg Bop
Ramones · Punk
174 BPM
Intensity
All My Life
Foo Fighters · Alternative Rock
172 BPM
Intensity
New Noise
Refused · Hardcore Punk
170 BPM
Intensity
Holiday
Turnstile · Hardcore
166 BPM
Intensity
No One Knows
Queens of the Stone Age · Alternative Rock
164 BPM
Intensity
One Armed Scissor
At the Drive-In · Post-Hardcore
162 BPM
Intensity
Bulls on Parade
Rage Against the Machine · Rap Metal
160 BPM
Intensity
Legend Has It
Run the Jewels · Hip-Hop
158 BPM
Intensity
Master of Puppets
Metallica · Metal
188 BPM
Intensity
Hate to Say I Told You So
The Hives · Garage Rock
182 BPM
Intensity
Sabotage
Beastie Boys · Hip-Hop
178 BPM
Intensity
Danny Nedelko
IDLES · Punk
176 BPM
Intensity
Blitzkrieg Bop
Ramones · Punk
174 BPM
Intensity
All My Life
Foo Fighters · Alternative Rock
172 BPM
Intensity
New Noise
Refused · Hardcore Punk
170 BPM
Intensity
Holiday
Turnstile · Hardcore
166 BPM
Intensity
No One Knows
Queens of the Stone Age · Alternative Rock
164 BPM
Intensity
One Armed Scissor
At the Drive-In · Post-Hardcore
162 BPM
Intensity
Bulls on Parade
Rage Against the Machine · Rap Metal
160 BPM
Intensity
Legend Has It
Run the Jewels · Hip-Hop
158 BPM
Intensity

Hundreds of songs and counting. Each one is hand-picked for running and its tempo checked by hand, so what you get is real songs that sit at the BPM they claim, not a scraped list padded out with filler.

05 / every BPM verified

Tempo you
can trust

Spotify is full of "170 BPM" running playlists. Run to a few and you'll feel it, songs that don't actually sit at the tempo on the label, because automatic BPM detection misses more than you'd think. When a number looks off here, we check it by hand against a metronome. What you run to is the BPM it claims.

What does proper running tempo feel like?

170 BPM
Steady Push Sprint

06 / WHY THIS EXISTS

Running to the beat
is the unlock

When I began running, it was a grind. Like anyone starting out, I wanted to do it right and stay in one piece. So I read up on technique, and the advice kept circling back to one thing: cadence. Keep it in the right range and your form holds, the pounding eases, and you greatly reduce your risk of injury.

And then I came across the term: steps per minute. SPM. I immediately thought: SPM? BPM! Wait, could I match my songs to my steps and let that guide my cadence?

So I tried it, and next thing I knew, I was locked in. It started to feel like a game, and running went from a grind to something I looked forward to. I started collecting songs that were in the right BPM range, and I got hooked.

I built Rungroove to share the thrill of that locked-in feeling with runners who love music the way I do.

Read the whole story →

Find your groove

Free on iOS and Android.