vsteps vs Runmo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
vsteps
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What if walking became a game? vsteps turns your daily steps into a friendly challenge. Connect with your friends, compare your steps in real time and climb the leaderboard, one step at a time. Whether you aim for 6,000 or 15,000 steps a day, vsteps keeps you motivated with healthy, good-natured competition. WHAT YOU CAN DO Track your steps automatically through Apple Health, nothing to enter by hand Set your daily goal and follow your progress as a percentage, day after day Compare yourself with friends on the leaderboard: today, yesterday, this week or this month Invite friends with a single link and build your walking circle Share your leaderboard as an image, ready for your stories THE LEADERBOARD, RIGHT ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Add the vsteps widget (small, medium or large) and keep an eye on your rank and your friends' without even opening the app. It refreshes smartly throughout the day. GO FURTHER WITH GROUPS (PREMIUM) Create private groups to challenge your family, your coworkers or your sports team. Manage your groups and follow a dedicated leaderboard for each one. Perfect for keeping everyone motivated over the long run. YOUR PRIVACY MATTERS Simple, secure Sign in with Apple. vsteps only reads your step count from Apple Health, with your permission. Your health data is never sold. vsteps is free: the friends leaderboard is free forever. The vsteps Premium subscription unlocks creating and managing groups.
Runmo
This app analyzes your past running data from Apple Health to provide personalized training plans and insights. It offers detailed performance metrics and adapts to your progress and health status. Designed for runners of all levels, it acts as an intelligent coach to help you achieve your goals.
- AI-powered personalized training plans
- Reads running history from Apple Health
- Detailed post-run analysis
- Advanced physiological and performance metrics
- Adaptable plans for injuries or missed sessions
- Annual goal tracking and progress visualization
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The smartest, most personal running companion. You've already done the running. Runmo reads that history out of Apple Health and turns it into something you can use: progress worth tracking, analysis worth reading, and a coach that actually understands you. Whether you're a complete beginner or an elite athlete. ——— WORKS WITH THE DEVICE YOU ALREADY RUN WITH Runmo doesn't ask you to change anything about how you run. Keep using your Apple Watch, your Garmin, your COROS or your phone. If it writes to Apple Health, Runmo reads it. Full history, every run: heart rate, splits, elevation, route, sleep, HRV, running power and effort score. ——— ACTIVITY. YOUR YEAR, AT A GLANCE. - Annual goal wheel with an editable target. Drag to adjust, tap to commit - Stats bar with total distance, run count and average pace - Top Locations showing where you actually run - Weekly Overview, intensity-colored - All Runs with details, track replay and a shoe log ——— COACH. YOUR PERSONAL TRAINING PARTNER. Coach knows your runs, your readiness, your health log and even your weather. And uses all of it to talk to you like a real coach. - Daily briefings that guide you into today's session - Post-run analysis. How you ran, whether you're on plan, what to watch - Custom plans built around your history and your goal, from 5K to marathon - Adaptability. Log an injury or skip a session and Coach proposes a one-tap plan change ——— LAB. THE METRICS OTHER APPS DON'T SHOW. Fourteen cards spanning physiology, performance and pattern, built from real HealthKit data. - Cardio efficiency: average HR, max HR, VO2 max, resting HR - Power and terrain: total power output, calories, elevation gain - Running form: cadence, ground contact time, stride length - Environment: time of day, temperature, monthly distance - Trends: cardiac efficiency, pace-at-effort, paired runs, trajectory and more. Adjusted to show what actually matters ——— PRIVATE BY DESIGN. Coach only ever sees aggregated numbers and short labels, through a stateless proxy. Never your name. Never your coordinates. Never your run IDs. Everything else stays either on device or securely in your iCloud. Invisible to us. ——— RUNMO PLUS Runmo is free to read your history and explore Lab. The full AI Coach with daily briefings, post-run analysis and custom plans, Advanced analysis and more, are part of Runmo Plus. Start with a free week on us. Then $9.99/month, or even less on annual. ——— Runmo reads your running history from Apple Health. It does not record runs itself. You'll want an Apple Watch or another device that writes workouts to Apple Health. Runs on iPhone with iOS 26 or newer. Made for runners, by runners. ——— Runmo Plus is an auto-renewable subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled. Terms of Use: https://runmo.app/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://runmo.app/legal/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Runmo at every 3 days against vsteps's every 3 weeks. vsteps's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. vsteps sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Runmo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
vsteps ships an update every 3 weeks, Runmo every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | vsteps | Runmo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Danny Albuquerque Ferreira | Runmo Labs |
In-app purchases
vsteps
- vsteps Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
- vsteps Premium Yearly$17.991 Year
Runmo
- Runmo Plus Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Runmo Plus Yearly7 Days trial$79.991 Year









