FAQ
Updated August 2026
RouteRush is an iOS app that turns running and cycling into territorial conquest. Close a loop on a run and the ground inside it becomes your territory, drawn in the shape of the streets you ran on a 3D map of your city. Territory earns Rush Points, Rush Points decide your rank in weekly leagues of thirty, and every claim can be contested by someone running the same streets. RouteRush is free to start, requires iOS 18 or later, and ships in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Turkish.
Record a run or ride with GPS. When your route closes a loop, everything inside it becomes yours — not a circle around your position, but the actual shape of the streets you covered. Where two runners contest the same ground, the newer loop is cut out of the older claim as exact map geometry — the border follows the shape that was actually run, not a grid. Territory carries between runs, so a neighbourhood is something you build over months.
Rush Points are RouteRush's score. Every kilometre earns, a running streak multiplies what you earn, and new ground earns on top — but only ground you did not already hold, so the same loop cannot be farmed. Not step counts, not minutes moved. Rush Points decide your position in your weekly league.
Every week you join a league at your tier of up to thirty runners — Bronze, Silver or Gold, each with three divisions. The top sixth goes up and the bottom sixth goes down — five each way in a full league — and you need three scoring runs that week to be promoted. Your very first week is a placement week that decides where you start, and your first week in a new tier is covered by a newbie shield, so one bad week cannot send you straight back down.
Yes, and it happens in one move rather than by wearing you down: when someone closes a loop that overlaps your territory, the overlap is cut out of your claim the moment their run saves. Running along your streets is not enough — they have to enclose the ground. Territory also fades if you stop: a claim decays over about a month un-run, and running it again resets the clock. One layer never fades — the Atlas keeps every loop you have ever closed, teal for runs and green for rides, even ground a rival has since taken back.
Boldi is RouteRush's AI running coach. He speaks during the run — about your pace, unclaimed ground on the route ahead, and how much you have left — and stays quiet the rest of the time. Boldi also comes attached to structured training plans, from first run to 5K.
RouteRush is free to download and free to play: GPS tracking, territory, leagues and clubs are all included. An optional Pro subscription adds unlimited AI coach chats, territory identities on the map, and a verified badge.
A tracker tells you where you went; RouteRush tells you what you took. Distance and pace are the receipt — the map is the score. Strava is a training log with a social layer. RouteRush turns your city into a game board where every street is claimable, contestable ground. They coexist fine: RouteRush reads and writes Apple Health, so nothing locks you in.
Yes. Tracking is built to survive dropped GPS and no network at all: the recorded line is Kalman-filtered to street resolution, and activities queue on the device and sync the moment a connection returns.
RouteRush is built by Fethi Omur, an independent developer based in Turin, Italy. It is a solo project — design, code, the map engine and the Boldi coach are one person's work.
See the map for yourself — routerushapp.com