Spotify Running Mode: How It Works, What It Costs, and How to Set It Up

Spotify Running Mode is a fitness feature that turns your playlist into a session built around your run, matching music tempo, workout structure, and mood to what you’re actually doing. It launched on iOS in late July 2026 and rolled out to Android in mid-August 2026, currently available to Premium subscribers in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Sweden

What it does

• Dynamically adapts playlists to your running pace and workout phase instead of you queuing up a playlist yourself beforehand
• Lets you customize workout type (interval, steady, or pyramid), duration, target beats per minute, and preferred music genre
• Matches track selection to your chosen tempo and moves through songs as the session progresses
• Includes optional audio cues for different stages of your run, though this currently only works in English
• Grew out of Spotify’s Prompted Playlists feature, since fitness-related prompts turned out to be one of the most common ways people used it to find workout music

How to Get it

Running Mode isn’t a separate purchase. It is built into the standard Spotify Premium app, tucked into the Fitness Hub. You just need:

1. A Premium subscription (any tier: Individual, Duo, Family, or Student)
2. To be in an eligible market, currently the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden
3. iOS or Android (both are now supported)

If you meet those, open the app, search “fitness” or go to Fitness Hub, and Running Mode should be there. No extra toggle, waitlist, or add-on fee.

What it costs (US pricing, 2026)

There’s also a…