Everything you need to know

Challenge friends in fitness.

Q: Is OutPace free?

Yes. OutPace is free to start, and there’s no credit card needed to join your first challenge.

Q: Which devices and apps work with OutPace?

Direct connections today: Garmin, Apple Health, Google Health, Oura, WHOOP, and Polar. Strava is built and working but paused at Strava’s athlete cap until they approve wider access, so new Strava connections aren’t available yet. Almost everything else, including Samsung Health, Coros, Withings, and Amazfit / Zepp, can reach OutPace through the Apple Health (iPhone) or Health Connect (Android) bridge. Full details — including which sources count toward which challenge types — on the Gear Check tab.

Q: What’s a “pacer”?

Your pacers are the people you follow. People you are pacing are your followers.

Q: Will you ever sell my data?

Never. Not now, not ever. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone. Your information is not our product. It is only ever used to show where you stand in the challenges you join.

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What is OutPace?

OutPace turns your everyday movement into friendly competition. Connect the watch, app, or phone you already use, invite your friends, and let your steps and workouts sync automatically onto a live leaderboard. No manual logging, no spreadsheets. Just show up, move, and see where you stack up.

We built OutPace to make staying active feel like a game you play with the people you actually know.

Everything syncs itself

Your totals update as your devices sync. No manual entry, ever.

Any brand on your wrist

Garmin, Apple, Google, Oura, WHOOP, and Polar connect directly, plus a bridge for almost everything else. Strava is coming soon.

Free to start

No credit card to join your first challenge.

Devices and apps we support

OutPace meets you where your data already lives. Activity gets in one of two ways: a direct connection to a platform we integrate with, or a bridge through Apple Health (iPhone) or Health Connect (Android) for everything else. We’re always working to add more devices where we can.

Direct connections

These connect in a couple of taps from Settings, then Connect Accounts. Once linked, OutPace pulls your steps and activities automatically and keeps your leaderboards current.

Garmin Connect

Link your Garmin account to sync daily step totals and activities from any Garmin watch or device.

Apple HealthiPhone

On iOS, OutPace reads your steps and workouts straight from Apple Health with your permission. This is also the easiest bridge for any device that writes to Apple Health.

Google HealthAndroid

The modern home for Android and Fitbit data. Connect once and OutPace reads your steps and activities through Google’s health platform.

StravaComing soon

Strava support is built and working, but Strava caps new apps at a small number of connected athletes until they approve wider access. We’ve hit that cap, so new Strava connections are paused while we wait on their approval.

Oura

Link your Oura account and your ring’s workouts, daily steps, and sleep sync straight in — no bridge needed.

WHOOP

Connect WHOOP and your strain sessions count toward duration, calorie, and heart-rate-zone challenges automatically.

Polar

Link Polar Flow and your workouts, daily steps, and sleep flow in from any Polar watch.

Don’t see your device? Use the bridge.

If we don’t integrate with your device directly, there’s a strong chance it can still feed OutPace through Apple Health (iPhone) or Health Connect (Android):

Most fitness wearables and apps, including Samsung Health, Coros, Withings, and Amazfit / Zepp, can write their data into Apple Health or Health Connect.
Once that data is in Apple Health or Health Connect, OutPace reads it just like any direct connection.
Amazfit / Zepp: enable Zepp to Apple Health (iPhone) or Zepp to Health Connect (Android) in the Zepp app, and your Amazfit steps and workouts will reach OutPace through that bridge.

The simple rule: if your device can sync to Apple Health or Health Connect, it can almost certainly count toward your OutPace challenges.

Device or app	Direct connection	Bridge route
Garmin	Yes (Garmin Connect)	·
Apple Health (iPhone)	Yes	·
Google Health (Android)	Yes	·
Strava	Coming soon — at Strava’s athlete cap	·
Oura	Yes	·
WHOOP	Yes	·
Polar	Yes	·
Fitbit	Retired by Google — use Google Health	Google Health
Amazfit / Zepp	·	Apple Health or Health Connect
Samsung Health	·	Health Connect
Coros, Withings, and most others	·	Apple Health or Health Connect

Verified and working today: Garmin, Apple Health, Google Health, Oura, WHOOP, Polar. Strava is built and working but paused at Strava’s athlete cap until they approve wider access. Fitbit’s platform is being retired by Google — Google Health is its replacement, and your existing Fitbit history in OutPace is preserved.

What each source counts toward

Challenge types depend on what each platform shares with partner apps. Steps, distance, and duration work almost everywhere; the newer types vary by source. Here’s the honest picture:

Source	Steps	Distance	Duration	Elevation	Calories	Sleep	Avg HR	HR Zones
Apple HealthHeart-rate metrics need a heart-rate source like Apple Watch	✓	✓	✓	—	✓	✓	✓	✓
GarminHeart-rate zones are recomputed from your watch’s own heart-rate series against your personal max	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Google HealthHeart-rate zones come from Google’s own zone model, so they’re close to but not identical with a watch-measured split	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	—	✓	✓
StravaComing soon — new connections paused at Strava’s athlete cap. Strava doesn’t share calories with partner apps	—	✓	✓	✓	—	—	✓	—
Oura	✓	✓	✓	—	✓	✓	✓	✓
WHOOP	—	—	✓	—	✓	—	✓	✓
PolarBuilt and ready — we haven’t had a Polar user connect yet. Elevation needs a barometer-equipped watch; heart-rate zones use the limits set in your Polar Flow account	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Health Connect bridge (Android)Heart-rate access for Android bridges is still under review by Google Play	✓	✓	✓	—	—	—	—	—

Sleep counts synced trackers only (no manual entry), at most 12 hours a night. Avg HR powers Average HR Tier Points — one tier per workout from its average heart rate, and a workout with no heart rate still counts at Tier 1. HR Zones is the finer-grained one: your minutes split across five zones, with harder minutes worth more. Some trackers hand us their own zone split rather than the raw heart-rate readings, so zone minutes can differ slightly between devices even for identical effort — we record which method each activity used.

A dash isn’t forever. We’re always working to incorporate as many data sources as possible, and we pay close attention to each platform’s API and webhook access — where a source opens a way to bring this data into OutPace, we work to add it.

Don’t see your device anywhere? Tell us what you’re on and we’ll add it to the queue. We’re always working to add more, where it’s possible.

Frequently asked questions

Grab a cup, catch your breath. The quick answers to what everyone asks.

Is OutPace free?

Yes. OutPace is free to start, and there’s no credit card needed to join your first challenge.

Do I need a fitness watch to join a challenge?

No. On iPhone, OutPace can read your steps and workouts straight from Apple Health with your permission, so no watch is required. And in private challenges you can log activity manually, so nobody in your group gets left out because they don’t have a device.

Which devices and apps work with OutPace?

Direct connections today: Garmin, Apple Health, Google Health, Oura, WHOOP, and Polar. Strava is built and working but paused at Strava’s athlete cap until they approve wider access, so new Strava connections aren’t available yet. Almost everything else, including Samsung Health, Coros, Withings, and Amazfit / Zepp, can reach OutPace through the Apple Health (iPhone) or Health Connect (Android) bridge. Full details — including which sources count toward which challenge types — on the Gear Check tab.

My device isn’t listed. Am I out of luck?

Probably not. The simple rule: if your device can sync to Apple Health or Health Connect, it can almost certainly count toward your OutPace challenges. And if you don’t see your device anywhere, tell us what you’re on and we’ll add it to the queue. We’re always working to add more, where it’s possible.

How does scoring work?

Whoever creates the challenge picks the metric, so everyone is measured on the same scale: steps, distance, duration, number of activities, elevation gain, calories, sleep, or heart-rate zone points. Everyone’s totals update automatically as their devices sync. No manual logging, no spreadsheets. The leaderboard runs for the challenge window, and results are final at 6:00 PM the day after it ends — that grace period is there so a watch that syncs the next morning still counts.

When are results final? What if my watch syncs late?

A challenge ends at midnight on its last day, but the standings are not final until 6:00 PM the next day, in the timezone of whoever created it. That gap is deliberate: plenty of watches and apps only upload the previous day’s activity the following morning, and that activity should still count — you did the work inside the window.

So if a challenge ends Sunday night, anything that syncs by 6:00 PM Monday counts. Anything later doesn’t. Once the deadline passes the result is locked, which is the whole point — nobody should see a winner announced and then watch the leaderboard change afterwards. The same rule applies to the Weekly Relay, so the champion is crowned at 6:00 PM Monday rather than the moment the week ends.

If you know your device syncs slowly, opening OutPace is usually enough to push it through.

What’s a “pacer”?

Your pacers are the people you follow. People you are pacing are your followers.

Does OutPace track my location?

No. OutPace reads the numbers that decide a leaderboard, like your steps, distance, active minutes, and activity type. We don’t store your GPS routes or coordinates, we don’t map where you’ve been, and we don’t track where you are.

Will you ever sell my data?

Never. Not now, not ever. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone. Your information is not our product. It is only ever used to show where you stand in the challenges you join.

How do I invite friends to a challenge?

Share the invite link by text, Messenger, WhatsApp, or anywhere else, or invite people in app if you already pace each other. They tap the link and they’re in. Friends only need to connect their device once, and it carries across every future challenge.

What if the notifications get noisy?

Every notification type is yours to turn on or off: nudges, high fives, weekly recap, leaderboard movement, got outpaced, and the Weekly Relay. You can mute a single challenge without touching the rest, keep in-app alerts while turning phone push off (or the reverse), and fine-tune whose activity you hear about in My Pacers.

I use Fitbit. What happened to the Fitbit connection?

Google is retiring Fitbit’s own developer platform, so the direct Fitbit connection in OutPace has been sunset — Google Health is its replacement, and connecting it takes a couple of taps. Everything your Fitbit already contributed to past challenges is preserved exactly as it was.

Do all trackers count toward every challenge type?

Not yet — each platform shares different data with partner apps. Steps, distance, and duration work almost everywhere; newer types like elevation, calories, sleep, and heart-rate zones depend on what your tracker’s platform makes available. The Gear Check tab has the full source-by-type table. We’re always working to close the gaps where a platform gives us a way to.

Can I keep an eye on a challenge without opening the app?

Yes. On iPhone there’s a home-screen widget with your live leaderboard, and an iMessage app for sending a challenge card straight into a group chat. You can also share image cards of your week or a challenge standing anywhere you like.

Can I disconnect a device or delete my data?

Any time. Connect a source in a couple of taps and disconnect it just as fast. You can delete your account and your data whenever you want, and there’s a public data deletion page for exactly that.

Your data stays yours

We only ever use your activity data to power your challenges, and we take protecting it seriously.

We don’t track your location. OutPace reads the numbers that decide a leaderboard, like your steps, distance, active minutes, and activity type. We don’t store your GPS routes or coordinates, we don’t map where you’ve been, and we don’t track where you are.
We will never sell your data. Not now, not ever. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone. Your information is not our product. It is only ever used to show where you stand in the challenges you join.
You stay in control. Connect a source in a couple of taps and disconnect it just as fast. You can delete your account and your data whenever you want, and there’s a public data deletion page for exactly that.
Free to start. No credit card to join your first challenge.

Your movement should count toward a little friendly competition with the people you know. That is the only thing we use it for.

Staying in the loop

A challenge is more fun when you can feel it moving. OutPace sends a small set of notifications to keep the friendly competition alive. A nudge from a friend, a high five on a good day, or a heads up when the leaderboard shifts under you. We work to keep them meaningful instead of noisy, and every one of them is yours to turn on or off.

What we send

Nudges and high fives. When a pacer cheers you on or pokes you to get moving.
Weekly recap. A Sunday heads up that your week is ready to share, with your miles, your best day, and how you stacked up against last week.
Leaderboard movement. The big moments only. When you take the lead, lose it, or move in or out of a challenge’s top 3. At most once per challenge per day, never a ping for every tiny change.
Got outpaced. A heads up when a friend passes you on a challenge leaderboard, so you know it’s time to reclaim your spot.
Weekly Relay. A Sunday wrap-up of the community relay, plus a nudge when your team hits its goal.
Challenge invites and updates. When someone invites you, or accepts the challenge you sent.

Our thinking

Accountability is the whole point, and a nudge at the right moment is what gets you out the door. But a noisy app is one you mute and forget. So we cap the loud ones, only fire on moments that actually matter, and leave the quieter channels off by default. If a notification is not earning its place, it should not be there.

You stay in control

Turn any type on or off. In Settings, then Notifications, you can flip each kind on its own: nudges, high fives, weekly recap, leaderboard movement, got outpaced, and the Weekly Relay.

Push is separate. Keep the alerts inside the app and turn phone push off, or the reverse.

Mute a single challenge. Open any challenge and mute just that one, without touching the rest.

Fine tune by pacer. In My Pacers you choose whose activity you hear about.

The story behind OutPace

Where it started.

OutPace didn’t come from a whiteboard. It came from a group chat. Three of us in the same military unit got to trash talking about who could run the most miles over a few months. The other two already had a running group going where they challenged each other. I got cocky and challenged them both at once. They liked it so much they pulled in five more, so it became seven against one. I lost. It wasn’t close.

But nobody wanted to stop.

So we ran it again. And again. A few rounds in, we were fifty people across different units, different watches, and different apps, all screenshotting our totals into a WhatsApp chat and tracking it in a shared Google Doc. We called it the JBMDL and Friends Workout Challenge, JFWC for short (JBMDL is Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst), and we’re on our sixth round now. That messy Google Doc is the reason OutPace exists. It’s the app that should have been there the whole time.

Why it’s built the way it is.

I wanted one rule to hold: your movement should count automatically, no matter what you wear. That’s why so much of the work has gone into connecting Garmin, Apple Health, Google Health, Oura, WHOOP, Polar, and Android wearables like Amazfit, so nobody sits out a challenge because of the brand on their wrist.

The rest of it comes from the part of running I actually care about. The miles I remember aren’t my fastest ones. They’re the ones where I was a few steps off somebody’s shoulder at mile 22, talking them through the part where it stops being fun. Getting somebody to a finish line they weren’t sure they’d reach is the best thing I know how to do, and it’s never once required them to be fast. So OutPace stays friendly, not cutthroat. The leaderboard is there to give you a reason to text your friend, not to rank you against a stranger. You don’t have to be an athlete to belong on it — you have to show up, and the person in last place gets the same nudges and high fives as the person in first.

And your data stays yours.

I’ll say this as plainly as I can, because it’s the part I’d want to know: we will never sell your data. Not now, not ever. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone. Your information is not our product. We read the numbers that decide a leaderboard — steps, distance, active minutes, activity type, and the heart-rate and sleep figures behind those challenge types — and we use them to show where you stand in the challenges you joined. Nothing else. We don’t store your GPS routes, we don’t map where you’ve been, and we don’t track where you are. You can disconnect any source or delete your account whenever you want, and it’s free to start.

Who’s behind it.

I’m a solo founder, an ultramarathoner, and an Air Force Reservist. The whole thing grew out of a military group chat, and the Air Force is a big part of my life. Over the years I’ve run with seven different friends across all kinds of races and distances, from half marathons and full marathons to 50Ks, 24 hour races, and 100 milers, and somewhere in there I realized I have a real passion for running alongside other people and pushing them toward a goal they thought might be too far out of reach.

A few of the ones I’ll never forget: lining up for four friends’ first 50K at the USMC 50K in 2024, pacing a buddy through his first marathon in Columbus, running my brother in law’s first and second marathons with him (USMC 2025 and USCG 2026), a good friend’s first half marathon in Jersey City in 2025, and one friend who went from his first 50 miler and first 100K at the Hainesport 24 hour in 2025 all the way to his first 100 miler at Blackbeard’s 100 in 2026.

📸 Photos and videos from along the way are coming soon.

The people who made it real.

OutPace looks the way it does because of Amanda. The design is all hers. Every screen, every color, the whole feel of the app came from her, and it’s the reason OutPace is something you actually want to open instead of just another tracker. I can’t thank her enough.

And to the close friends and family who tested the early builds: thank you. You ran the challenges before they were ready, lived with the rough edges, and told me the truth about what was and wasn’t working. You shaped this into something real, and OutPace is as much yours as it is mine.

Where we’re headed.

I want to build a community of people having fun, challenging themselves and each other to run, swim, bike, and train harder and longer. A community where it doesn’t matter what device you’re wearing. We can still line up against each other, and hopefully find each other in the gym, in the pool, or out on the road.

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