Built by one runner, for runners who don't want to be a product.

MoveMap is made by one independent iOS developer. There's no venture capital, no team of growth marketers, no analytics SDK quietly phoning home every time you open the app. The whole thing exists because I wanted to see my own running history on one map, and the apps I was paying for wouldn't show it to me.

The five-year problem

I'd been running for about seven years across three different cities. My GPS history was scattered across Strava (the first three years), Apple Fitness (when I switched watches), and Nike Run Club (the year I tried to be a "vibes" runner). I had thousands of routes recorded and zero way to look at them together.

Strava would show me one run at a time. Garmin Connect wanted me to use their watch. The Apple Health app stored everything but rendered nothing. Even Strava's personal heatmap, which is exactly the visualization I wanted, was locked behind a $79.99/year subscription. I was paying to look at data I owned.

What I built instead

MoveMap reads your GPS workout history directly from Apple Health - which is where every major fitness app already stores it - and draws every route on a single map. That's the whole product. No social feed, no segment leaderboards, no daily streak nag. Just your routes, on one screen, going back as far as Apple Health has them.

It does a few things on top of that: a coverage dashboard for countries and cities you've covered, a Ghost Lap mode that quietly overlays your earliest matching attempt when you revisit a route, and a Year in Review postcard you can save to your camera roll. These are the things I wanted for myself.

What MoveMap won't ever do

• No account. No sign-in, no email collection, no password. There's no profile because there's nothing to profile.
• No servers. MoveMap has no backend. Your GPS routes never leave your iPhone. Even the street network used for coverage maps is fetched as anonymous bounding-box queries from OpenStreetMap.
• No analytics SDKs. I don't know how many times you open the app, what features you use, or where you ran today. I don't want to know.
• No advertising. No tracking pixels, no ad networks, no "monetization partners."
• No streaks, no kudos, no goal nagging. If you want a social feed, Strava is genuinely great at it. MoveMap is built for the people who don't.
• No upselling features that should be free. The free tier shows the last 12 months of routes - enough for most heatmaps to look meaningful. Pro extends the time range. That's it.

How the app stays alive

MoveMap is paid software. There's a free tier covering the last 12 months of your history, a subscription that unlocks your full lifetime map (Monthly with a 7-day free trial, or Annual), and a one-time Lifetime unlock for people who'd rather pay once and own the thing forever. See pricing for the current numbers in your storefront.

Apple takes 15% of every purchase (small-business rate). The rest pays for the Apple Developer account, this website's domain, and the time it takes to build new features. There are no investors to please, no growth targets to hit, no "monetization milestone" that turns the app into something it isn't.

Why "no servers" is a feature, not a limitation

Every other running app you've used keeps a copy of your GPS routes on their servers. They have to - it's how their social features work. The trade-off is that your data lives somewhere you don't control, governed by terms of service that can change at any time, on infrastructure that can be breached or sold.

MoveMap doesn't have that problem because MoveMap doesn't have servers. Your data is in Apple Health, where you put it. The app reads it locally each time you open it. If you delete MoveMap, every file the app created goes with it - your routes in Apple Health are untouched. If you stop paying for Pro, your data isn't held hostage; you keep the last 12 months and you can buy back access whenever you want.

This isn't a marketing position. It's just how the app is built.

Who this is for (and isn't)

You'll probably like MoveMap if: you've been running for a few years and want to see the shape of your running life. You like cartography. You don't want yet another app pushing notifications at you. You're skeptical of subscriptions for tools that should be one-time purchases.

You probably won't like MoveMap if: you want segment leaderboards and social interactions while you train (use Strava). You only ever run on a treadmill (there's no GPS data to plot). You want a coach-style training plan (try Apple Fitness+ or a dedicated coaching app).

One last thing

If you find a bug, have a feature idea, or just want to send a screenshot of your lifetime map, you can email hello@getrunmap.com. Replies come from me, usually within a day or two.

Thanks for reading this far. Most people don't.