Looking for a free Runna alternative?

Quality Days is for runners who want a real training plan, structured workouts on Apple Watch, and a clear view of what they actually ran against what the plan called for.

I built it because I wanted the plan, the workout on my Watch, and the run I actually did in one place. It’s free for now.

Quality Days plan day showing a 10-mile planned long run, its easy target pace, the On your Watch badge and the completed Apple Health run.
Apple Watch showing the same Long and steady workout, with its pace target and a Start Workout button.

Start with a plan

Pick a plan, set your race day, and Quality Days lays the block out on the calendar. You can see what’s coming, move a workout when life gets in the way, and always know what the week is supposed to look like.

If you already know how you want to train, that’s fine too. Quality Days is meant to help you follow the plan, not replace it with a black-box coach.

Quality Days plan overview: a 12-week half marathon build with weekly mileage bars, the October race date and the first week’s days.

Put the workouts on your Apple Watch

Allow Watch scheduling once and Quality Days can put the upcoming structured workouts into Apple’s Workout app. Warm-ups, intervals, recoveries and cool-downs can all be there at the paces you’re training at.

Right now, Apple Watch is the watch experience Quality Days is built around.

Running plans for Apple Watch

Apple Watch Workout app listing today’s Quality Days workout, an outdoor run called Long and steady.
Apple Watch showing the Long and steady workout opened, with its pace target and a Start Workout button.

Then let your actual running fill the plan in

Your completed runs come in through Apple Health. When a run matches a planned day, Quality Days fills that day in automatically, so the plan stops being a list of intentions and starts becoming a picture of the training you actually did.

No second training log to maintain. No checking off workouts by hand.

Quality Days Week 8 recap: each day’s completed miles next to the planned miles, 38.5 of 38 miles for the week.

Built because I wanted this myself

Quality Days started because I was tired of the plan living in one place, the workout on my Watch living somewhere else, and the run I actually did becoming another thing to reconcile afterward.

It’s early. If you try it, I’d genuinely like to hear what works and what doesn’t.