COROS vs Complete Runner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
COROS
Enhance your fitness journey with detailed daily data, activity summaries, and advanced navigation tools. Customize your devices, download training plans, and seamlessly sync with popular third-party health platforms.
- Daily data tracking (sleep, steps, calories)
- Activity summaries for all sports
- Map and route management
- Device and personal settings customization
- Third-party app integration
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The COROS app is your tool to help improve your fitness, download training plans, navigate with confidence, customize your devices, and more. The app will help you to track, and view: - Daily Data such as Sleep, Steps, Calories and more - Activity Summaries for all sports recorded on your watch - The Explore Page to manage maps, routes, and saved locations - Profile Page to customize your watch and personal settings - Connect and sync to 3rd party apps like Apple HealthKit, Google Health Connect, Strava, and more Note: - Sync steps, heart rate and other data to Apple devices using HealthKit - Continuous background use of GPS can decrease battery life
Complete Runner
This app offers a personalized training plan, running-specific strength workouts, and mobility routines to enhance performance and prevent injuries. It includes guided yoga flows, quick strength sessions, and access to expert coaches and physical therapists.
- Personalized training plans
- Running-specific strength workouts
- Mobility routines
- Yoga flows for runners
- In-app community access
- Progress tracking
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The Complete Runner is an all-in-one running performance app that guides you with a personalized training plan, strength workouts that are specific to running, and mobility routines to keep your joints healthy. Our goal is to help you improve your running performance while preventing injuries. Combining science, strength, and a training plan that fits your goals and lifestyle, you will be able to run stronger and faster with less injuries. With the Complete Runners you have access to: • 3 strength workouts a week that improve running specific movement patterns with videos and descriptions for each exercise (modifications and progressions available) • A personalized training plan designed by a physical therapist and run coach that fits your goals and weekly schedule (designed on the app VDOT) • In app community access • Follow along yoga flows designed for runners • Follow along strength workouts for when you are short on time • Follow along mobility routines for pre and post run • Access to 2 physical therapists that specialize in treating runners and 2 run coaches • Track your weights, progress, speed and mileage all in one place Join us as we teach you how to train smarter so you can improve your running performance! Sync with Health app to update your metrics instantly
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Complete Runner at 100% against COROS's 54%. Complete Runner also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3). COROS's advantage is ratings volume (788 vs 4). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Complete Runner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: COROS has 788 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of COROS's written reviews are positive against 100% of Complete Runner's.
COROS ships an update every 2 weeks, Complete Runner every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | COROS | Complete Runner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (788 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 788 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 825 MB | 403 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | COROS Wearables Inc. | Movement Works LLC |
Customer experience
COROS
Complete Runner
Bugs and requests
COROS
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes frequently
- Inability to log in or sync data
- Inconsistent data between watch and app
- Elevation/GPS tracking issues
- Strength training mode not working properly
Requested features
5 requests- Add more watch face options
- Improve sleep tracking accuracy
- Integrate with Apple Health app
- Add ability to edit/delete activities
- Provide more customization options
Complete Runner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
COROS
No in-app purchases
Complete Runner
No in-app purchases









