Press kit
For coverage of RunBattle: a running app with a game on a shared map, where a closed loop becomes the runner’s zone and a zone changes hands only to a faster run of its contour. Coins and Mystery Boxes are not for sale. Below: descriptions in three lengths, facts checked against the code, and screenshots.
Description, short
RunBattle is a free running tracker for iPhone and Android where a closed loop becomes your zone on a map shared by every runner.
Description, medium
RunBattle is a running tracker for iPhone and Android with a territory game on top. A run that finishes within 100 m of its start turns the area inside into the runner’s zone on a shared world map. Another runner takes the zone only by covering at least 90% of its contour faster than the owner. Mystery Boxes on the map can’t be bought, and their odds are shown before opening. The app is coming to the App Store and Google Play.
Description, long
RunBattle is a running tracker for iPhone and Android with a territory game on top. It records distance, pace, splits, calories and the route, and saves each run to Apple Health. A run that finishes within 100 m of its start turns the area inside, from 0.01 to 5 km², into the runner’s zone on a map shared worldwide. Zones never overlap.
To take someone’s zone, a runner covers at least 90% of its contour within 30 m and finishes faster than the owner’s record, with a navigator leading the way to the start. Mystery Boxes on the map hold coins or cosmetic items; they can’t be bought, and their odds are shown in the app before opening. Missions, special places built from open map data and a map that follows the real sky give reasons to run on any day. Other players’ replays hide the area near a runner’s start and finish and the time of day. Coins and Mystery Boxes are not for sale.
Fact sheet
Coming to the App Store and Google Play. Price: free; coins and Mystery Boxes are not for sale.
Every number below is checked against the app’s code and server configuration when this site is built.
How zones workHow take-overs workMystery Box oddsRoute privacy
Screenshots
Screens come from a test build, and the players on them are demo accounts. Map frames keep the Mapbox and OpenStreetMap attribution; please don’t crop it out.
Using these materials
The descriptions and screenshots on this page are free to use in coverage of RunBattle, credited “RunBattle”.
Press contact
Write to hello@runbattle.io. We answer in English and Russian. Partnerships and commercial offers go to business@runbattle.io.
Key numbers
- Tracker
- The tracker records distance, time, moving time, pace (live pace covers the last ~45 s), per-km splits, calories and the route; heart rate shows when Apple Health has it.
- Zones
- A loop is ready once you are within 100 m of your start; the server rejects loops not closed within 100 m.
- Zones
- A zone can be from 0.01 to 5 km², and the route needs at least 8 points.
- Take-over
- To take over a zone, cover at least 90% of its contour within a 30 m corridor, with at least 50% of your route on the contour, and finish faster than the owner.
- Mystery Box
- Mystery Box rarity at spawn: common 70%, rare 22%, epic 7%, legendary 1%.
- Mystery Box
- The odds are on a screen in the app before you open a box, and they are the same for every player. Mystery Boxes are free and cannot be bought.
- Shop
- The shop sells looks only: runner markers, trails, zone styles with patterns and map themes (First Snow, Graphite, Neon). 18 items, 300 to 5000 coins. Nothing in the shop makes you faster.
- Living map
- Day, dusk and night on the map follow the real sunrise and sunset at the place on screen. Weather (clear, rain, snow) comes from MET Norway and refreshes about every 15 minutes.
- Privacy
- In other players' replays, everything within 300 m of your start and finish is cut, plus a fixed extra of up to 150 m per zone (the circle's centre is shifted too), so the hidden reach is 300 to 600 m depending on direction. The zone itself is public: its contour is the route of the loop, and the loop's start lies on it.
- Safety
- The app is open from the calendar year you turn 13; chat (messages and zone cards) from the calendar year you turn 14. Your birth year can be changed only once, and that change cannot open chat.
Numbers checked against the app code
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play