Sprintcrowd vs The Program by Bandit Running
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sprintcrowd
This platform connects individuals, coaches, and companies for live health and wellbeing programs. It offers engaging training sessions with real-time statistics and leaderboards, making fitness a fun and collaborative experience.
- Live voice, music, and video streaming
- Real-time statistics and leaderboards
- Training programs by certified coaches
- 12-week packaged health journeys
- Connect and collaborate with others
- Platform for company health journeys
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Sprintcrowd is the world’s first LIVE platform for employee health and wellbeing. We offer companies a range of training programs, created by our certified coaches hosted on our platform. What makes Sprintcrowd unique is our ability to engage employees, making exercising fun and part of our clients DNA. The Sprintcrowd platform provides LIVE voice, music and video streaming. Combined with real-time statistics, leader boards, training programs and professions coaches. Available as 12 weeks packaged health journeys. Sprintcrowd is an “open” platform that allows employees, customers, partners, and coaches to connect and collaborate as part of a health journey. The platform has three value propositions: 1) Designed for individual runners looking to connect with friends and run LIVE. 2) Can be used by professional coaches to connect with their participants. 3) Available as a platform to create health and culture journeys for companies. SPRINTCROWD - MOVE CONNECTED
The Program by Bandit Running
This app offers a free guided training experience for marathon and half marathon runners. It generates personalized training plans based on your race, goal time, and weekly mileage. Get instant answers to training questions with the integrated coach feature.
- Free guided training plans
- Marathon and half marathon focus
- Personalized plan generation
- Interactive training schedule
- Instant coach answers
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The Program is a 100% free guided training experience for marathons and half marathons powered by Bandit Running. Select your race, goal finish time, and weekly mileage, and an interactive training plan will be automatically generated for you. Plus, access Coach for instant answers to all your fundamental training questions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: The Program by Bandit Running at 3.9 against Sprintcrowd's 1.0. The Program by Bandit Running also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 50%) and ratings volume (112 vs 3). 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.
The Program by Bandit Running holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Program by Bandit Running has 112 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Sprintcrowd's written reviews are positive against 75% of The Program by Bandit Running's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sprintcrowd | The Program by Bandit Running |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (3 ratings) | 3.9 (112 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 75.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 112 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 171 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sprintcrowd AB | Bandit Running |
Customer experience
Sprintcrowd
The Program by Bandit Running
Bugs and requests
Sprintcrowd
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
The Program by Bandit Running
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
- Account creation problems
Requested features
2 requests- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
In-app purchases
Sprintcrowd
No in-app purchases
The Program by Bandit Running
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Sprintcrowd free?
Is The Program by Bandit Running free?
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Do Sprintcrowd or The Program by Bandit Running have ads?
Which is updated more often, Sprintcrowd or The Program by Bandit Running?
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