Every morning, it already knows where you stand.
Staterunner is a small e-paper display for runners. It sits on a shelf, reads your training from Apple Health, and shows the numbers you’re chasing — this week’s kilometres, your streak, the race that’s getting closer. You don’t open it. You just walk past.
Expected price $129 CAD — set when the Kickstarter opens, not final — plus shipping at cost.
The work is happening. The seeing isn’t.
Your phone
Every run is in there. But the app only counts when you open it — and on the days you most need a nudge, you don’t.
Your watch
It answers when you raise your wrist and ask. It never volunteers.
Your shelf
A number that’s simply there, in the room where your morning happens. No taps. No unlocking. The glance does all the work.
Ink that waits for you.
The screen is e-paper — the same calm surface as a reading device. It holds its image without using any power, so the number that greeted you at six is still there at midnight, and the display never glows at you from across a dark room.
Choose from six layouts in the app: the week against its target, an eight-week bar chart, a training-consistency grid, a race-week countdown. Every screen on this page is the display’s exact output, drawn from a real training log.
Finish your run. That’s the whole job.
Whatever records your runs — an Apple Watch, a Garmin, Nike Run Club — writes them into Apple Health. The free iPhone app reads Apple Health and quietly keeps the display current through the day. On battery, the display paces its own updates; plugged in over USB-C, it keeps the display current all day.
Apple Watch · Garmin · Nike Run ClubApple HealthStaterunner
iPhone only. The app is free and included.
Small enough to belong anywhere.
One hundred millimetres wide, eighty-six tall — about the size of a coaster stood on its edge. The shell is warm sintered nylon with a fine matte grain that reads more like ceramic than gadget, leaned back fifteen degrees so the screen faces you on a counter or a desk.
The button and USB-C sit on the back, recessed so nothing presses by accident. Run it plugged in, or on its battery — either way the image stays put, and the room stays dark.
Built by one runner in Ontario.
Hi — I’m Aleksandr. I build Staterunner from my home office in Ontario, usually before my own morning run. The electronics on my desk already do everything this page describes; the enclosure you see here is a render of the part now being made. I won’t take manufacturing money until the campaign funds it. If you have questions, you’ll get me, not a help desk.
— Aleksandr
How the first run happens.
Staterunner gets made in batches. The waitlist is how I know how many people want one, and a Kickstarter campaign funds the first run.
01
Join the waitlist.
An email address, nothing else. You’ll get a note when the campaign opens, and occasional build updates until then. No payment, and no place to lose.
02
Back the campaign.
The Kickstarter sets the final price. $129 CAD is the expected price, not the final one, and shipping is added separately at cost, shown before you pay.
03
The first run ships.
If the campaign funds, the first batch gets made. Kickstarter only charges backers when a campaign reaches its goal, so nobody pays for a run that does not happen.
Join the waitlist
Fair questions.
- What do I need?
- An iPhone (iOS 16 or later), Apple Health, and 2.4 GHz home Wi-Fi. Anything that saves runs to Apple Health — an Apple Watch, a Garmin, Nike Run Club — reaches the display through it. There’s no Android app.
- How long does the battery last?
- We haven’t published a figure, because it has not been measured on real hardware yet — and we’d rather hand you a measured one than a hopeful one. What’s true today: it runs on battery or USB-C, and the screen holds its image without using power between updates.
- How often does it update?
- There isn’t one answer, and any single number would be a promise the product doesn’t make. Plugged in, it stays current. On battery it paces itself, updating when your numbers actually change and resting when they don’t.
- What about shipping?
- Charged separately and at cost — no markup — and shown in full before you pay anything. We ship from Canada.
- What if the campaign doesn’t fund?
- Then the first run doesn’t happen, and nobody pays anything. Kickstarter charges backers only when a campaign reaches its goal.
- I already have a watch. Why this?
- Your watch answers when you ask it. Staterunner is for the twenty times a day you don’t ask — the number is just there, in the room, keeping the race and the streak in front of you.
- Why is the price ‘expected, not final’?
- Because promising a price before manufacturing quotes are locked would mean quietly breaking it later. The Kickstarter sets the final price; $129 CAD is the target.
- Screen
- 4.2″ e-paper, 400×300
- Size
- 100 × 86 × 21 mm
- Power
- battery or USB-C
- Data
- Apple Health, via the free iPhone app
- Service
- included with the one-time purchase
- Made
- designed in Ontario, Canada
Device images on this page are 3D renders of the production design; screen images are the renderer’s actual output.