Runway, Press Kit

Fast facts

App: Runway
Tagline: The FIRE planner built on your country's real tax rules
Developer: Ludyem AS
Category: Finance
Launch date: August 25, 2026 (Norway), August 30, 2026 (worldwide, all 175 storefronts)
Platforms: iPhone and iPad, iOS 26 or later
Languages: English, Norwegian Bokmål, Italian, German and French
Price: Free to download. Your freedom age and number are free forever. Optional Runway Pro: a yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase.
Privacy: No account, no bank logins. Your figures are computed and kept on your device.
App Store: apps.apple.com/app/id6784426559 (worldwide)
Website: runwayfire.com
Press contact: support@runwayfire.com

Descriptions

One line

Runway is the FIRE planner that knows your own country's tax rules: it turns your money into one honest number, the age you could stop working.

Short, about 50 words

Runway is a Financial Independence and Retire Early planner built on real tax rules rather than American defaults. Answer a few questions and it gives you one honest number: the age your money could let you stop working. Then pull the levers that move it sooner. Ten countries are modelled natively, retiring abroad is priced country by country, and everything stays on your iPhone.

Long

Every retirement calculator assumes American rules. Runway is built the other way around, on the rules that actually decide a retirement date where you live. Ten countries can be planned from, each on its own accounts, tax bands and pension rules: Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the United States, Canada and Australia. In Norway that means formuesskatt (wealth tax), the ASK account's capital-first withdrawals, the skjermingsfradrag, NAV and IPS pensions, and the utflyttingsskatt owed on leaving; every other home country gets the same treatment on its own rules. And if leaving is the dream, it prices that too: eighteen countries are modelled and all work as destinations, from Spain to Thailand, from local drawdown taxes to any exit tax on the way out.

The app starts simple, one motivating number from a few questions, then grows as deep as your finances do: a money-over-time chart, a range-of-futures Monte Carlo, a plan-health score, and an opportunity engine that shows exactly how many years each change buys you. An on-device AI assistant (Apple Intelligence) answers questions grounded in your own plan. It ships in English, Norwegian, Italian, German and French, built natively in SwiftUI for iOS 26, and private by design: no account, no bank logins, nothing leaves your phone.

The story

Runway was built by an Italian who moved to Norway and went looking for a way to plan his future. Every retirement app he tried was built for Americans, blind to formuesskatt, to how an ASK account really works, to the exit tax he would owe if he ever moved back home. So he learned the Norwegian rules himself and turned them into the planner he wished he'd had when he arrived. Runway is the result, and it now does the same for nine more countries: a serious financial tool that speaks the rules where you actually live, respects your privacy, and gives you a straight answer to one question: "when can I stop working?"

What makes Runway different

Built on real rules, not adapted to them. Ten home countries modelled natively, down to wealth taxes, shielding deductions, tax-wrapped accounts like the ASK and the ISA, and state pensions with their real earliest claim ages.
Retire abroad, priced honestly. Destination countries from Spain to Thailand, modelled with 2026 figures: local taxes on the drawdown, the exit tax on the way out, spending in local currency.
Adaptive depth. A few questions give a real freedom age in minutes; optional modules let people add only the parts of their financial life that apply, from a beginner's one number to a stress-tested plan.
Honest numbers. Progress is always real, never inflated. Figures carry a plain "estimate, not advice" footing, and the app never paywalls the answer to "when can I stop?"
Private by design. No account, no bank connections, no ads. Every projection is computed on the device.
Modern iOS. An on-device AI plan assistant on Apple Intelligence, home-screen and lock-screen widgets, Siri and Spotlight, Swift Charts projections, iCloud sync, full VoiceOver and Dynamic Type, localized in five languages.

Assets

Logos and illustrations are free to use in coverage of Runway. Right-click to save, or email for the originals.

App icon

Pip (mascot)

Pip, globe

Screenshots

Screens from the app, free to use in coverage. Click any shot to download the full-resolution PNG.

Runway Plan screen showing a freedom age of 40, the freedom number, and plan health — **Your freedom age**The one number that matters.

Runway Levers screen showing the what-if moves that bring your freedom date sooner — **The levers**What pulls your date in, ranked.

Runway's retire-abroad editor with Italy chosen, taxes modelled, and the monthly spend there — **Retire abroad**Country by country, exit tax included.

Runway Projection screen with a money-over-time chart from today to retirement — **Money over time**Your whole journey, year by year.

Runway Grow screen showing the countdown to freedom and financial-independence badges — **Watch it grow**Your countdown and milestones.

Runway Norwegian tax screen explaining wealth tax, shielding, and pension rules — **Real rules, not averages**Norway's wealth tax, shielding and pensions, built in.

Ask Pip, Runway's on-device plan assistant, explaining the plan and comparing moves — **Ask Pip**The on-device assistant, private by design.

An app preview video (English and Norwegian) is available on request.

About Ludyem

Ludyem AS is a small studio that builds focused, privacy-first iOS apps for your health and your money. Each app does one thing well and keeps your data on your iPhone, with no accounts and no tracking. See the rest of the family at ludyem.dev.

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