Run it.
Own it.
Every run you record claims the ground you covered. Your route becomes your territory — yours to hold, and somebody else's the moment you stop showing up.
Three steps, then it is yours to defend
Record a run
Start the app and run. It tracks you in the background with the screen off, and tells you afterwards exactly how much of the route it captured — not just that it finished.
The ground becomes hexes
Your route is mapped onto a fixed grid of hexagons about 130 m across. Cover one and you score it — faster running and longer runs are worth more.
Hold it, or lose it
Scores decay. Ground you claimed months ago fades and eventually falls to whoever runs there next. Territory is a lease, never a deed.
Fresh ground looks like it. So does ground you are about to lose.
The map does not just say what is yours — it says how safe it is. A tile you ran this morning is solid. One you have not touched in a month is barely there, and a rival needs less to take it.
Know what it takes
Tap any hex and it tells you who holds it, how far ahead they are, and roughly how much running through it you would need to take it.
Neighbourhood boards
Hexes roll up into areas of about five square kilometres. Who owns your neighbourhood is a far better question than who owns one hex.
Colour is never the only signal
Yours is a solid outline, a rival's is dashed, ground you have lost is dotted. Around one in twelve men has a colour vision deficiency, and this is the screen the whole app is about.
A map of where you run is a map of where you live
That is not a footnote for an app like this — it is the central risk. These are built, not planned.
Ghost mode
Play under an assigned pseudonym instead of your username. Assigned once and never regenerated, because a name that changed each time could be correlated back to you.
Your GPS traces expire
The detailed route of every run is deleted after 90 days, automatically. Delete your account and they go immediately, along with your name and every device we could notify.
A territory game is only fun if the territory was earned
The phone never decides the score
Your device shows you what it thinks is happening; the server decides what actually did. Nothing a client claims about a score, a tile or a timestamp is trusted.
Runs are screened
Sustained speed, impossible jumps between fixes, and stride length are all checked before a run counts. A bike ride does not become territory.
Nobody is punished for a bad signal
Poor GPS is filtered rather than judged, and a missing pedometer never rejects a run. The gates exist to catch cheating, not to blame a runner for their hardware.
Not out yet
Runzo is in development and testing on real runs. There is no public build to install today — when there is, it appears right here.
when we launch
On your phone
Scan to install, once there is something to scan for.