Set your cadence and Run The Beat builds a Spotify playlist from your own library where every track lands on your tempo — so the rhythm pulls you forward instead of fighting your stride. Plus a metronome to lock the pace in.
Pick the effort that matches today’s run, or dial in an exact BPM.
1 Pick your effort
2 Fine-tune the tempo
Tip: match the BPM to your target cadence (steps per minute). One footstrike per beat — most runners land between 150–180.
From cadence to a saved Spotify playlist in under a minute.
Choose an effort from easy jog to sprint, or set an exact BPM. Your cadence — steps per minute — maps straight to song tempo.
We surface songs whose tempo lands on your target, including natural half and double-time, so every beat keeps you on pace.
Order the set by tempo, run the metronome to lock your pace, then save the playlist straight to your Spotify. Lace up and go.
Your running cadence is measured in steps per minute (spm). When you run in time with music, one footstrike lands on one beat — so a 170 BPM song naturally pulls you toward 170 spm. Most runners sit between 150 and 180 — the right cadence is personal (it depends on your height, pace and build), so pick what matches your natural turnover rather than chasing a magic number.
To find and save songs, yes — Run The Beat matches tracks from your own Spotify library, so you connect Spotify to build a playlist. You sign in on Spotify’s own page and we never see your password. The metronome and cadence detector work without connecting.
Streaming APIs stopped handing out tempo to new apps (Spotify retired its public audio-features endpoint in late 2024; Apple Music and YouTube never exposed BPM). So Run The Beat looks up each song’s tempo from GetSongBPM’s open catalogue and uses Spotify to find your tracks and save the playlist.
No — Run The Beat builds the playlist and saves it to your Spotify, and you listen in the Spotify app. Each song has a “Play on Spotify” link, and the built-in metronome ticks at your target cadence so you can lock your pace while you run.
Set a beat, build a playlist, and let the tempo carry your run.
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