Tekan Buddy
Pick a trainer. Press start. Get tekan.
Tekan Buddy is an AI running coach that talks to you while you run. Your trainer commentates live on your actual pace, distance and milestones, straight through your headphones. GPS tracking, Apple Health sync, Spotify controls, personal records. The works.
- Install TestFlight from the App Store if you haven't already. It's Apple's free app for beta-testing new apps.
- Come back and tap the link again. TestFlight will install Tekan Buddy.
- Feedback welcome. Tell us what your trainer said to you.
Free during beta. iPhone only.
Seventeen seconds with the trainers. Sound on.
Sunrise by Marina Bay. Meet the trainers!
Contains full uncensored Hokkien. Headphones recommended at the office.Headphones in. Trainer on. Every step gets a comment.
Pick a trainer
Warm and encouraging, playful, or a full-volume Hokkien scolding. Your call. There's even a duo mode where two of them argue about you.
Press start
Set a distance, time or pace target if you like. Lock the phone, put it in your pocket, and go.
Get coached, live
Your trainer reacts to what's actually happening: your pace, each kilometre, your splits, and the moment you beat a personal record.
Six voices. Some of them sibei vulgar.
Every trainer is a distinct personality with its own voice. Four of them are extremely vulgar, in full uncensored Hokkien. Kanina, chee bye, lan jiao, the whole dictionary. You've been warned.
Angry Ah Beng
Extremely vulgar. You have been warned, chee bye 🔞
Positive Ah Beng
Same mouth, zero anger. Your loudest fan, kanina 🔞
Ah Lian
Ah Beng's equal. Zero patience, kanina 🔞
Ah Long the Loan Shark
You owe him money. He's right behind you 🔞
Coach Christine
Warm, relentless encouragement.
Coach Cassie
Playful, teasing, a little too charming 😏
A proper running app underneath the shouting.
Live GPS tracking
Distance, pace, speed and your route on a map. Kilometre splits and your fastest split, every run.
Apple Health sync
Heart rate and active calories read from Apple Health during the run, and your workouts saved to your own history.
Spotify controls
Connect Spotify and control what's playing from the run screen. The trainer talks over the music, not instead of it.
Personal records
Your fastest 1K, 5K and 10K, tracked automatically and called out the moment you beat them. Lifetime stats included.
Targets and auto-pause
Set a distance, time or pace target. Progress call-outs at every milestone. Auto-pause when you stop at the lights.
Friends and shoutouts
Follow friends, see their runs in a feed, and send a shoutout that their trainer reads out mid-run.
Background audio
Lock the phone and keep it in your pocket. The commentary keeps coming.
Treadmill mode
No GPS indoors? Run to a time target and your trainer still keeps you company.
Coach chatter dial
Turn the talking up or down. From the occasional check-in to non-stop commentary.
It's the voice in your ear, not a new tracker.
Tekan Buddy runs happily alongside Strava, Apple Watch, Garmin, WHOOP, anything. It saves its own run history too, but your usual tracker stays your usual tracker.