Set your cadence and Run The Beat builds a playlist where every track lands on your tempo — so the rhythm pulls you forward instead of fighting your stride. Plus a beat-synced metronome to lock it 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 playlist in under a minute — no account required to try it.
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.
Preview tracks, fire up the beat-synced metronome, then save the set 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.
No — Run The Beat works instantly with a built-in demo library so you can try the whole flow. Connect Spotify (Premium for full-track playback) to preview real songs and save your playlist to your account.
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 reads tempo from a dedicated, swappable source — a curated library out of the box — and uses Spotify for search, playback and saving.
The metronome ticks precisely at your target BPM, and “tap to sync” lets you line the click up with any track on a strong beat. Fully automatic phase-lock needs a song’s beat-grid data, which streaming APIs no longer share — it’s on the roadmap via in-browser beat detection.
Set a beat, build a playlist, and let the tempo carry your run.
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