FueledRuck is a rucking tracker for iPhone and Apple Watch. The live map is the hero, and every number under it comes from load-carriage physics the US Army uses to plan marches, so calories, pace and training load reflect what was on your back.
Load-aware energyHeading-up mapReal standardsFuel coachSafety linkRucks without the phone
A 30 lb pack changes what a mile costs, and sand or brush changes it again. FueledRuck runs the Pandolf load-carriage equation (USARIEM, 1977), with the Santee downhill correction, on every GPS fix. Body weight, load, speed, grade and terrain all count.
The same number drives everything downstream: the energy total, the fuel and hydration plan, training load, and the guardrails that flag a week that jumps too fast.
M = 1.5W + 2.0(W+L)(L/W)² + η(W+L)(1.5V² + 0.35VG)W body mass · L load · V speed · G grade · η terrain factor · M in watts
What does your load cost?
Same walk, no pack
—kcal/h
This ruck
—kcal/h
Flat ground. The app also counts grade, second by second, and the downhill correction. Estimates, not lab measurements.
A tour
Built for the ruck, before, during and after.
See how it went
Fly the ruck back in 3D.
Every ruck replays as a pitched flyover on real terrain, with distance, time and heart rate ticking along and the elevation profile underneath. It stops at the photos you took and exports as a vertical video for a story.
Photos from your library pinned on the route where you took them, even with Camera location off
Share cards with the route, your best three photos and the numbers
Where it got hard
The route, painted by effort.
Each map colors itself by heart-rate zone, pace, grade or elevation. Splits carry heart rate and grade, personal bests are kept by load class, and a weekly load-mile trend shows the real training volume, because a mile at 45 lb isn't a mile at 20.
Five heart-rate zones by max, reserve or your own numbers, live on the phone and wrist
Grade-adjusted pace, cadence and step length
Fuel and hydration
Pack the right water.
Before you step off, FueledRuck estimates your sweat rate from the load, the pace and the weather, and tells you what to carry. On the ruck, drink and carb cues arrive on your wrist and in your ear. At the finish, it says what you lost and what to put back.
Grounded in ACSM fluid and carbohydrate guidance
One tap logs each drink, so the refuel math is yours, not a guess
Solo rucks
Someone should know.
Set a back-by time and FueledRuck checks in with you. Share a live link that anyone can open in a browser, no app needed: route so far, distance, time and check-in time. It turns red if you're overdue and deletes itself a day later.
Add 30 minutes or mark yourself safe right from the notification
Text your location to your check-in contact in one tap
Train for the real thing
Plans that bend to your log.
Pick a standard or an event and FueledRuck builds the weeks to get there. It raises work no more than ten percent a week, steps back every fourth week, and repeats a week when life gets in the way. A ten-second check-in after each ruck (effort, shoulders, feet, blisters) tunes the next one.
Ranger 12-miler, British CFT, Norwegian Foot March, the FueledRuck ladder, and events on your calendar
A live ahead-or-behind clock on the map while you ruck a standard
Apple Watch
Leave the phone at home.
The Watch app rucks on its own: its own GPS and heart rate, load-aware energy in place of Apple's walking estimate, and the workout saved to Apple Health with the route. Turn the Digital Crown to set the load. When the phone is along, the Watch mirrors it instead, with pause and finish on the wrist.
Also in 1.0
The rest of the kit.
Community
Crews
Private groups on iCloud with a weekly board and a live map of who's out.
Community
Monthly challenge
A load-mile leaderboard, first names only, with hide and report.
Gear
Packs, vests, sandbags
Your gear and its plates, one tap to load, with mileage per item.
Routes
GPX in and out
Import or save a loop, follow it with off-route alerts on phone and wrist.
Indoors
Treadmill mode
Speed and incline from the belt, into the same energy model.
iPhone
Live Activity
Lock Screen and Dynamic Island with pause and resume.
iPhone
Widgets and Siri
Week ring on the Home and Lock Screens, Action Button and Control Center start.
Health
Apple Health
Hiking workouts with route and load-adjusted energy; readiness from resting HR and HRV.
Privacy
Yours, on your phone
No account, no ads, no tracking. Rucks, health data and photos stay on the device.
Free
A complete ruck tracker
The live map, load-aware energy, splits, the log, one pack, live heart rate, safety check-ins and live links, photos on the map, the recovery check-in and widgets.
FueledRuck Pro
A training system
$29.99/year with a 7-day free trial · $4.99/month · $59.99 once · Family Sharing
Adaptive plans, every standard, heart-rate zones, the fuel coach, 3D replay and video, share cards, Apple Health workouts, the Apple Watch app, unlimited packs and crews.
Status
In beta on TestFlight now.
FueledRuck 1.0 is in its first TestFlight round ahead of the App Store. It's made by Apex Made, a family studio in Florida.