Rucker, the rucking app

Mike RC

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About this app

Rucking doesn’t stop when your screen locks, and neither should your route recording.

Rucker is built for rucking, weighted walking, ruck marches, and hikes with a backpack, rucksack, weighted vest, or plate carrier. Start a session, lock your phone, and move. During an active ruck, background GPS tracking records your route, distance, pace, and elevation while your screen is locked or the app is not visible. Tracking stops when you end the ruck.

Every mile feels different with weight on your back. Add your pack weight to see load-aware effort, your Rucker Score, and optional calorie estimates based on what you actually carry.

REVIEW EVERY RUCK IN 3D

• Open any completed session on an interactive 3D map. Tilt, rotate, and zoom to see how terrain and elevation shaped your pace.
• Analyze speed-colored and altitude-colored paths to reveal fast sections, slow climbs, high points, and low points.
• Inspect distance splits, your elevation profile, and markers for the fastest, slowest, highest, and lowest parts of the route.
• Replay the entire route with a moving marker. Pause, scrub the timeline, change playback speed, follow the camera, or hide the controls for a clean recording.

SAVE WAYPOINTS AND FIELD NOTES WHILE YOU RUCK

• Create saved points without ending your session: water, camp, views, hazards, junctions, checkpoints, or personal memories.
• Add a title, field notes, trail-condition tags, photos, and videos.
• Save your current GPS position or adjust the waypoint precisely on the map.
• Revisit saved points in the completed-session review and watch them appear at the right moment during route replay.
• Reuse points from previous rucks or import GPX and KML waypoints as route context.

TRAIN WITHOUT STARING AT YOUR PHONE

• Use the Cadence Coach’s audible cues to settle into a steady rhythm and keep moving.
• Choose manual cadence, minimum-speed, average-speed, or distance-and-time coaching.
• Get configurable distance, time, and hydration reminders during your ruck.
• Change your alerts from the current point without stopping or restarting the session.

BUILT FOR THE WEIGHT YOU CARRY

• Track distance, time, pace, GPS route, elevation, steps, and pack weight.
• Save different pack and weighted-vest load setups so they are ready for your next ruck.
• See how body weight, carried load, speed, grade, and terrain shape your effort and optional active-calorie estimates.
• Go beyond pace with the Rucker Score: Power, Work Capacity, and Resilience.

SHARE THE FULL STORY OF YOUR RUCK

• Create an expiring web link to a complete session review that opens in any browser, no Rucker account required for the viewer.
• Share the route, key metrics, heart-rate review, and the saved points, photos, or videos you choose to include.
• Protect sensitive locations by hiding the beginning and end of your route.
• Choose how long the link remains available, extend it when needed, or delete it immediately.
• Prefer an image? Create a shareable route or photo card with your distance, time, pace, pack weight, and location.

SEE YOUR RUCKING PROGRESS ADD UP

• Explore a rucking heatmap of the areas you have covered.
• Review weekly, monthly, all-time, or custom-range workout history for distance, time, calories, load, and Rucker Score.
• Review heart-rate traces and zones, including comparisons with speed or altitude.
• Earn milestones tied to distance, speed, and carried weight.
• Ruck with your dog and track your companion’s mileage and completed sessions.

No social feed. No clutter. Just your route, your training, and the work you put in.

Privacy Policy: https://rucker.debloat.us/policy

Ratings and reviews

Seems promising, but it's not usable on a Pixel 7 without switching to gesture navigation, because it doesn't recognize the safe area of the screen and puts UI elements underneath the three button navigation. The features of it seem like what I'm looking for, it's just not usable. While I could switch to gesture control, a premium app (subscription) shouldn't have a compatibility (and potential accessibility) issue with a common phone.

Overall fantastic app. UI is quite good. However, there is no option to punch in my weight and height; two perimeters which play a significant role in providing any kind of data. It would be highly recommended to add that option. I have already purchased the subscription, and would enjoy it more once the issue gets resolved. Otherwise, excellent work!

I love how this app checks the weather for the next six hours right where I am. It totally saved me from getting soaked on my rucking the other day. I did a quick one instead and saved the long run for the next day. Super cool feature!.