# The Run This app: your whole race in your pocket > One free app for directors and runners: run your race from your phone, and give runners a fast way to register, follow friends and keep every finish. - **Author:** Kelby Dover, Founder, Run This - **Published:** 2026-10-20 - **Category:** Run This News - **Topics:** Run This app, Race director app, Race registration app, Running app, Running community, Race day, iPhone and Android, Run This - **Reading time:** 6 min - **Article:** https://runthis.run/articles/the-run-this-app-your-whole-race-in-your-pocket Run This is the race director's best friend, whether you're putting on your first fun run or a race with thousands of runners. And it fits in your pocket. The Run This app for iPhone and Android puts your whole race on your phone. Not a stripped-down version. The real thing. It's also the app your runners use. One free app for everyone at your race: you, your co-directors, and every runner who signs up. ### What's in the app - **Your race dashboard.** Registrations, money and page views at a glance. - **A push for every signup.** Know the moment someone registers. - **Edit and share from anywhere.** Fix a detail, copy the link, show the QR code. - **Register in a few taps.** Apple Pay or Google Pay, the whole family in one cart. - **See who's running.** Friends on the Start Line, in The Feed and on your calendar. - **Race news as a push.** Your announcements land on your runners' phones. - **Every finish, kept.** Results and trophies on every runner's profile. ### One app for the whole race There's no separate director app to hunt for. Everyone downloads Run This. If you direct a race, its page in the app has a Director Dashboard button that only you and your co-directors see. Everyone else sees your race. That's the point. Your runners are already in the same app as you, so what you post reaches them right where they are. And it's the same account as runthis.run, so anything you change on your phone is live on the website, too. ### For race directors ### Your race, at a glance Open your race and tap Director Dashboard. At a glance shows how many runners have registered, your net revenue and your page views. This week shows your new registrations and any new questions on your wall. Tap any of it for the details. Below that are your race's tools, grouped like the website: Registrations and Volunteers, Charts and insights, Finance insights and Payments, Edit event, Director announcements, Emails and Messages. Your whole race, on one screen. ### Know the moment someone registers Every new registration sends you a push with the runner's name. So do volunteer signups, with the role they picked. Run This even celebrates your milestones: 10, 25, 50, 100 runners and up. Busy race buzzing all day? Tap Alerts on your dashboard and turn it off for that race. Your co-directors keep their own settings. A push for every new runner. On by default. ### Every runner and every dollar, in your hand Look up any runner from the parking lot. Add a walk-up registration at the table, comped or paid in cash. Answer a runner's question from Messages. Finance insights shows registration revenue, donations, gross collected, checkouts and your average order, for this year or any past year. And on race morning, tap Check in: Run This opens Race Check In, our free check-in app, with your crew's code ready to paste. Your roster and your money, same app. ### Edit and share your race from anywhere Start time moved? Fix it on the spot. Copy your race link for a group text, or pull up its QR code for a flyer or the start-line sign. Brand new to this? You can create your race in the app, too. Need to tell everyone something? Post a director announcement from your phone. Everyone who registered or saved your race can get it as a push, and it stays on your race page. Change it, share it, announce it. From anywhere. ### For runners ### Register in a few taps Find the race, tap Register, pick your distance and pay with Apple Pay, Google Pay or a card. Signing up your kids or your partner? Add them to the same cart. One payment, one receipt. The price you see is the price you pay. The processing fee is already in every total, so there's no surprise at the last step. From race page to registered in a few taps. ### See who's running Every race page has the Start Line: everyone who's registered, with the people you follow marked Following. Follow your training partners, and their races show up on your calendar and in The Feed. Favorite your closest crew to get a push the moment they sign up for a race. Then message them and pick a race together. Your friends, right on the start line. ### Never miss race news Register for a race or save it, and you'll hear from the director. Announcements arrive as a push and stay on the race's page, so parking, packet pickup and a new start time are all in one place. Straight from the race director to your lock screen. ### Race morning, sorted Your check-in pass lives in My Registrations, with a QR code the check-in crew scans. Add it to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet and it's one tap away. Add the Run This widget to your Home Screen and it counts down to your next race. On race day, one tap opens your pass. Your pass, ready at the table. ### Every finish, on your profile Check in, cross the line, and a trophy lands on your profile. When the race posts official results, your time and place fill in on their own. Run the same race every year? You get a trophy for each one. Your profile becomes your race resume. One trophy for every race you run. ### Better together Here's what one app gives you that two never could. Every race has a Community Wall where runners post, ask questions and cheer each other on. When you post, your post carries a Race director tag. When you answer a question, it's marked Answered, so everyone can see it's covered. Runners find their friends. Friends bring friends. And when someone shares your race in The Feed, a club or a community, it shows up as a card with a Register button. That's how a race grows. Your race's community, between race days. ### Get started in five minutes **Race directors** - Download Run This and sign in with the account you use on runthis.run. - Allow notifications, so registration pushes can reach you. - Open your race and tap **Director Dashboard**. - Tap **Copy link** and send it to last year's runners. **Runners** - Download Run This and sign in, or make a free account. - Find your race under **Events** and tap **Register**. - Follow your friends, so their races land on your calendar. - Allow notifications, so race news reaches you. ### Get the free app Search "Run This" in the App Store or Google Play.Free for iPhone and Android: [Download on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6743798022) or [get it on Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.runthis.runthis). Running race day with a crew? Race Check In and Run This Stopwatch are free apps for your volunteers. Read about [Check In](https://runthis.run/articles/the-new-run-this-check-in-faster-race-day-check-in) and [the Stopwatch](https://runthis.run/articles/the-new-run-this-stopwatch-accurate-race-timing-from-any-phone). ### Ready? Putting on a race? [Create your race](https://runthis.run/create-event). It takes a few minutes. Want a tour first? [Book a walkthrough](https://runthis.run/demo). Every detail lives in the help center: [Get the Run This apps](https://runthis.run/help/getting-started/apps), [Director notifications](https://runthis.run/help/directors/notifications), [The event wall and announcements](https://runthis.run/help/directors/event-wall) and [Race history and trophies](https://runthis.run/help/athletes/race-history-and-trophies). Something you wish it did? [Tell me](https://runthis.run/contact). 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