A Catholic running tracker for iPhone
Palma records your runs with dependable background GPS — and weaves in the feast day, a daily word from your coach Sebastian, and Palms shared with the friends running alongside you.
Records in the background with your screen locked. Syncs with Strava and Apple Health.
What's inside
A serious GPS tracker at its core, with a life of faith woven through it — not bolted on.
Start a run, lock your phone, go. Background GPS keeps recording with live distance, duration, and pace. Bad fixes are filtered out — and if iOS kills the app mid-run, Palma picks the run right back up.
The road you've covered: every activity with its route map, plus the Ledger of what it all adds up to — streaks, weekly mileage, and your whole year at a glance.
A six-week Base Building plan and a daily coaching word written for your actual day — your streak, your miles, today's workout, today's feast.
Your friends' runs in a shared feed. When someone shows up, give them a Palm — encouragement with some meaning behind it.
The feast day on your Today screen, daily readings and meditations a tap away — and any run can be offered for an intention.
Finished runs upload to Strava, which stays the source of truth. Runs recorded on your Apple Watch come in through Apple Health.
Meet your coach
Most training plans are a spreadsheet. Sebastian is a coach: a structured six-week base plan — three runs a week, with a cutback week when you've earned it — and one short message each morning, written fresh for where you actually are.
He knows your streak, your weekly miles, today's workout, and today's feast. One word a day. No noise.
"Twelve days without missing — that's not luck anymore, that's a habit. Today asks for forty easy minutes. St. Bridget managed eight kids and a religious order; you can manage four miles."
Sebastian · this morning
Run with intention
Palma treats a run the way a runner of faith already does — as time that can be given away.
The liturgical calendar lives on your Today screen, not in another app.
Attach an intention to any run — for a person, a petition, a thanksgiving.
The day's readings and a short meditation, right where your morning starts.
A Palm says more than a thumbs-up. Hand them to friends who showed up.
Works with
The app is in active development and testing on the road right now. Want in early, or just want to say hello? Get in touch.
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