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Learn To Run: Couch to 5K Plan Live

Riccardo Dal Foco3 apps · 742.5K installsHealth & FitnessFree · contains adsIn-app purchases: $2.49 per itemit.LearnToRun

Couch to 5K in 25 days. Walk-run training plan with audio cues. No subscription.

Total installs
711,316
exact · Play shows 500,000+
Installs / day
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measured after our second crawl (about a day)
Rating
4.5★
3.5K ratings · 421 reviews
Released
9 Aug 2011
15.2y ago
Last update
4 Apr 2026
v8.0.13 · 6mo ago
Countries
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not checked yet

Install history

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Permissions

6 in 2 groups
0 Sensitive2 Notable4 Routine
Wi-Fi connection informationRoutine1

Access to details about Wi-Fi networks your device sees or uses

  • See whether Wi-Fi is on and details of the network you are connected toview Wi-Fi connections · ACCESS_WIFI_STATE
OtherNotable5

Access to miscellaneous device features that don't fit other categories

  • Start itself automatically as soon as your phone finishes turning onrun at startup · RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED
  • Keep your phone's processor or screen from going to sleep, which can use more batteryprevent device from sleeping · WAKE_LOCK
  • Check whether you are online and whether you use Wi-Fi or mobile dataview network connections · ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
  • Connect to the internet to load content and send datafull network access · INTERNET
  • Check with Google Play that you got this app legitimatelyGoogle Play license check · com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE

Sensitive = can reach personal data, location, camera/mic or act on your behalf. Notable = changes how your device behaves. Routine = normal for almost every app. Source: Google Play's permission list for all versions of this app.

Store listing

Full description
🏃 FROM COUCH TO RUNNER IN 25 DAYS You've been thinking about starting to run. Maybe you tried before and gave up. Maybe you've never run a day in your life. That's exactly who this app is for. Learn to Run is a structured walk-run interval training program that takes complete beginners from zero to real running in just 25 days. Every day, the app tells you exactly what to do: when to walk, when to run, and for how long. You just press Start and follow along. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 3 PROGRAMS, YOUR PACE Not everyone starts from the same place. Pick the beginner running plan that fits you: • Easy Start — Short, gentle sessions for total beginners. Peak workout: ~30 min of running. • Balanced — The classic C25K-style progression. Builds you steadily to ~60 min of continuous running. • Advanced — For those who want more. Pushes you to ~120 min at your peak. Each program spans 25 workouts. Walk a little, run a little. Day by day, the running gets longer and the walking gets shorter — until you're running the whole thing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 PHONE IN POCKET, JUST RUN No need to stare at your screen. Start the workout, put your phone in your pocket, and listen for the bell. • Audio cues tell you when to switch between walking and running • 3 bell sounds to choose from (Classic, Soft, Sharp) • Works alongside your music or podcast • The timer keeps running even with screen off — no missed cues ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 SEE YOUR PROGRESS After every run, you see a summary of your minutes walked and ran. On the home screen, a progress bar shows how far you've come through your 5K training plan. Simple and motivating. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💰 FREE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. EVER. The full app is free. All 3 programs. All 25 days. If you like it, you can make a one-time purchase to remove ads — but that's entirely optional. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT ✓ Built for real beginners — not runners who already know what they're doing ✓ A complete couch to 5K program: 25-day structure means you always know where you are ✓ Start running today — no account needed, just open and run ✓ No GPS tracking, no routes, no complexity — pure walk-run interval training ✓ Audio running coach built in — cues work reliably with screen off ✓ Available in 18 languages ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 RUNNING FOR BEGINNERS, IN YOUR LANGUAGE Learn to Run is available in 18 languages including English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and more — so you can start your running journey wherever you are. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📅 YOUR 25-DAY RUNNING SCHEDULE Week 1–2: Short walk-run intervals. Build the habit, not the pain. Week 3–4: Intervals get longer. You'll surprise yourself. Week 5: Longer runs, less walking. You're becoming a runner. No guesswork. No complicated running schedule to figure out. The app lays out every session from Day 1 to Day 25 — all you do is show up. Whether your goal is to run 5K without stopping, finish your first race, lose weight, or simply get off the couch — this beginner running program meets you where you are. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❓ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Do I need to be fit to start? No. The Easy Start plan is designed for people who have never jogged before. Do I need a GPS or heart rate monitor? No. Just your phone and a pair of shoes. Can I repeat a day if I struggle? Yes. The app lets you redo any session at any time. Does it work on a treadmill? Absolutely — audio cues work the same indoors. Is it really free? Yes. All 3 programs, all 25 days, no subscription, no paywall. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Your running journey starts with a single walk-run interval. Download Learn to Run and take that first step toward your 5K goal.

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