The step in hand.
One step on screen, the rest a row away.
Describe it once. It walks you through it.
Say what you do. The steps come back.
Routine Run turns a couple of sentences into a routine, then holds one step at a time, does the parts it can, and asks before anything you could not undo. iPhone and Apple Watch.
Free while in beta. After launch, 3 routines stay free forever.
3 routines free, forever.
On the Lock Screen, the run First half hour shows step 2 of 4, Move for three minutes, with 2 minutes 14 left, a Next button to move on, a button to write a note, and Not now, which sends the step to the end and leaves the deciding for later. The same step is on the Apple Watch with a Next button.
Most lists tell you what to do and then stand there.
This one holds the step you are on, knows what comes next, and can act.
Writing one
A sentence, and the routine exists.
Say what you do
Two lines is enough. The steps, roughly in order, the way you would tell somebody taking over from you.
Read it before it is kept
What comes back is a draft. Change a step, drop the ones that are wrong, then keep it. Nothing is saved behind your back.
Whoever writes it, it is yours
The model on your iPhone, where it has one, or the assistant you already use, through the share sheet. Or paste a list you already have, one step a line.
How a run goes
One run, three moments.
A step that does itself.
A timer, a Home scene, an alarm, a note written for you, and on iOS 27 a shortcut.
A press before anything final.
Set what a step does to happen only when you press it, and it waits for you on the phone, the Lock Screen and the wrist.
Where it finds you
Wherever you are when the next step is due.
Lock Screen
Next without unlocking.
Dynamic Island
The step you are on, above whatever else is open.
Widget
The step and what comes after it, on the Home Screen.
Apple Watch
On your wrist, with the phone in a bag.
Action button
One press starts the routine you chose, or moves the run on.
App Clip
Steps somebody else wrote, from a code at a counter, with nothing to install. In the beta, testers open it from TestFlight. For organisations
Start from one that exists
51 routines to begin with.
Add one, and it is yours to change.
First half hour
Water, three minutes of moving, and the one thing today is about.
Into deep work
One sentence, everything else closed, then fifty minutes.
The weekly shop
Look in the fridge before writing anything.
Out of the door
Keys, the thing you meant to take, and the house off behind you.
Whose day this fits
Anybody who does the same thing twice.
The 48 it ships with say it better than a sentence could. And if every planner so far has left you feeling behind, start here.
Mornings and evenings
The first half hour, out of the door, winding down, awake at three. Seven of them.
Home and everyday
The weekly shop, washing end to end, before people come round, the bills this month. Twelve.
Work and focus
Into deep work, a meeting you called, picking it back up, the week looked at. Eleven.
Training and the body
Tabata, run and walk, five sets, physio three times a day. Five.
Learning and making
A post from idea to published, a shoot shot by shot, a chapter at a time. Seven.
Being on call
When something pages you, handing the pager over, after it is fixed. Six, and they can start themselves when another app pages you. How to set that up
Nothing goes through us unless you connect it
Here the privacy is the product.
0accounts
0servers by default
0trackers
No account to make, and no server unless you connect one, because nothing else here needs one. A routine you share travels inside the link itself, so the link keeps working whether or not anything of ours is still running. iCloud sync, if you turn it on, goes through your own private iCloud, and an assistant sees only what you send it. A routine you publish under a code goes to iCloud’s public database, and only when you press Publish. A connection you make, an address a pager or a script can send to, passes through our relay, which keeps the address and never what is sent.
Read the privacy policyFree while in beta. After launch, 3 routines stay free forever. Pro is for more.
3 routines free, forever. Pro for as many as you like.
See pricingQuestions
The obvious ones.
So it keeps a list of what to do?
A list keeps what to do. This keeps how you do it, and then does it with you.
So it is Shortcuts?
Shortcuts runs when you are not there. This one runs while you are, and hands the parts it cannot decide back to you. The two work together: a shortcut can hand a routine to this app, and this app can call a shortcut.
Why does it ask?
Because something that acts for you without asking is only pleasant while it is right. You choose which steps wait for your press. Everything else it does on its own, and all of it can be undone.
Can it write a routine for me?
Describe it in a sentence. The model on your iPhone, or ChatGPT or Claude through a free shortcut, writes it, and you look it over before it is kept. How it works
What if I stop halfway?
A run can be paused and picked up where it stopped, as the same run.
What if I delete something by mistake?
Deleted things stay 30 days in Recently Deleted.
Does it sync between my devices?
If you turn on iCloud in the app's settings, your routines and runs stay in sync between your own devices through your private iCloud. It is off until you turn it on, and nothing passes through anything of ours.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Your routines, your runs and their record live on your phone. It goes online only for what you set up: iCloud sync, a webhook you typed in, an assistant you send something to, a routine you publish under a code, a connection you made, or a code you scan that opens steps kept in iCloud or on an organisation’s site.
What does it collect about me?
Nothing, unless you publish a routine under a code or make a connection. A published routine’s steps are kept in iCloud’s public database with an identifier for your iCloud account, where we can see them. A connection keeps its address and a token for reaching your phone on our relay, and nothing that is sent through it. No account, no analytics, no ads, no tracking. The privacy page says exactly what leaves your phone, and when.
What does it need?
An iPhone with iOS 26.1 or newer, and an Apple Watch with watchOS 26 or newer if you want it on your wrist. Writing a routine on the phone itself needs Apple Intelligence. On iOS 27 a routine can also start from another app's notification, and a step's shortcut runs in the background.
Which languages?
English for now. Your own routines can be in any language you type.