Orunning vs Volkano Active
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Orunning
This app pairs with a sport smartwatch to provide real-time performance monitoring, including steps, distance, calories, sleep quality, and heart rate. It supports multiple activity types and delivers smartphone notifications directly to your wrist.
- Real-time performance monitoring
- Step, distance, and calorie tracking
- Sleep quality analysis
- Heart rate monitoring
- Multi-sport activity support
- Smartphone notifications
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Orunning App together with our sport smartwatch provides you with the best set of information straight from your wrist. Without compromising your style, our sport smartwatch is not only a traditional smartwatch but a powerful sport computer to monitor your performance in real time, and also let you receive text message and notifications from your smartphone. A built-in pedometer tracks your steps, distance, and calories burned. A built-in sleep monitor tracks your quality of sleep. A built-in heart rate sensor tracks your heart rate. Integrates with iOS Health App. Powered with multi-sport functionality, our sport smartwatch lets you choose from a series of activity types such as running, biking, walking, hiking, trail run etc… In addition to its training functions, our sport smartwatch will also notify you when receiving incoming calls, text messages or social networks notifications.
Volkano Active
This app syncs with your iOS Health data and a compatible smartwatch to track sports performance. It also provides notifications for calls, texts, and social media, and enables sending/receiving messages and calls directly from your watch.
- iOS Health integration
- Smartwatch sport performance monitoring
- Incoming call notifications
- Text message notifications
- Social network notifications
- Send/receive SMS messages
- Make/receive phone calls
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Volkano Active APP integrates with iOS Health App. It works with our smartwatch to monitor your sport performane. It notifies you notify you when there are incoming calls, text messages or social networks notifications. It also allows you to send and receive SMS messages and phone calls with our smartwatch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Volkano Active at 100% against Orunning's 23%. Volkano Active also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.0). Orunning's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (123 vs 12). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Volkano Active holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Orunning has 123 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 23% of Orunning's written reviews are positive against 100% of Volkano Active's.
Orunning ships an update every 3 weeks, Volkano Active every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Orunning | Volkano Active |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (123 ratings) | 4.7 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 23.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 123 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 231 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Synergy Technologies Limited | SMD Technologies Pty LTD |
Customer experience
Orunning
Volkano Active
Bugs and requests
Orunning
Reported bugs
3 issues- Frequent app crashes
- Syncing problems between watch and app
- Inconsistent step/activity tracking
Requested features
3 requests- Custom watch faces
- More detailed health/fitness tracking
- Improved notification support
Volkano Active
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Orunning
No in-app purchases
Volkano Active
No in-app purchases
