Comparison

VBTgo vs Arcus VBT

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

VBTgo

This app uses your phone's camera to track bar speed, power, and displacement during workouts. It provides live feedback, monitors fatigue, and helps you build a personalized Load-Velocity Profile over time. Review lifts with video and trajectory data for enhanced training insights.

Highlights
  • Measure bar speed, power, and displacement
  • Live feedback during training sets
  • Monitor fatigue through velocity changes
  • Build personal Load-Velocity Profile
  • Review lifts with video feedback
  • Measure jump performance
Features
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VBTgo is a phone-based VBT app for bar-speed tracking, LVP archives, and training feedback. Use your phone camera to measure bar speed, power, and displacement. Get live feedback after each set, monitor fatigue through velocity changes, and build your own Load-Velocity Profile over time. With VBTgo, each set becomes useful feedback: - Hear live bar-speed feedback during training - Save training data automatically - Build your personal LVP archive - Compare today's output with your own history - Review lifts with colored trajectory and video feedback - Measure jump performance for explosiveness tracking VBTgo is made for athletes, coaches, and serious lifters who want practical training data without dedicated VBT hardware.

About

Arcus VBT

This app offers precise velocity-based training and jump performance analysis using your iPhone. Measure barbell movement, analyze jump takeoffs, and receive live voice feedback to optimize your workouts and track progress without extra hardware.

Highlights
  • Precise VBT analysis
  • Jump performance measurement
  • Live voice feedback
  • Synchronized movement replay
  • Load-velocity profile building
  • Progress tracking and sharing
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Precise VBT and jump analysis. All on your iPhone. Arcus VBT brings velocity-based training and jump performance analysis together. Record live or import a video to measure performance, review technique and track progress—without an additional wearable sensor. PRECISE VBT. HARDWARE-GRADE ACCURACY AND RELIABILITY. Turn your iPhone into a VBT training tool. Analyze squats, bench presses, deadlifts, snatches, clean and jerks, and more. Track barbell movement with hardware-grade accuracy and reliability to monitor training intensity, understand fatigue and guide load selection. Explore mean and peak velocity, velocity loss, power and range of motion. Review joint angles, bar paths and movement phases to understand both individual reps and overall set performance. PRECISE JUMP ANALYSIS. MEASURE EVERY TAKEOFF. With proper technique, jump height measurements differ from force plate measurements by approximately 1 cm. Choose from five modes: CMJ (countermovement jump), CMJA (countermovement jump with arm swing), SJ (squat jump), DJ (drop jump) and POGO (repeated hops). Review jump height, takeoff velocity, flight time, contact time, time to takeoff, and RSI or RSI-mod where applicable. Explore individual jump replays, consistency, historical trends, same-day arm-swing gain and EUR comparisons. Supported modes also offer estimated peak power. Available metrics depend on the movement and required input data. LIVE VOICE FEEDBACK Choose announcements for velocity, power, rep count or velocity loss. Hear your performance during training and adjust your rhythm as you go. SYNCHRONIZED MOVEMENT AND DATA REPLAY Replay metric cards, velocity curves, joint angles and bar paths in sync with your movement. Rep intervals show the time between repetitions to help you review training rhythm. Supported deadlift variations also display a lower-back contour and curve to help review changes in torso posture. BUILD YOUR LVP. PERSONALIZE YOUR LOADS. Build a load–velocity profile from multiple sets. Personal OMVT calibration supports individualized 1RM estimates. Compare sets, reps and previous sessions to make more informed training decisions. TRACK PROGRESS. SHARE YOUR TRAINING. Explore training history and progress trends. Export videos with metric overlays and training posters, and sync records across devices. Separate Coach plans support athlete and training-record management. CHOOSE YOUR PLAN Lift Pro unlocks advanced barbell features. Jump Pro offers unlimited jump analysis and its advanced features. Ultra includes both Lift Pro and Jump Pro. Monthly and annual auto-renewable subscriptions are available; Coach plans are offered separately. See the app for local pricing and plan details. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account subscription settings. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms: https://api.arcusvbt.com/legal/terms Privacy: https://api.arcusvbt.com/legal/privacy

Screenshots

VBTgo4 screens
Arcus VBT4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Arcus VBT at 89% against VBTgo's 0%. Arcus VBT also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). VBTgo's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. VBTgo sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Arcus VBT sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $6.69 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Arcus VBT holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Arcus VBT has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of VBTgo's written reviews are positive against 89% of Arcus VBT's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

VBTgo ships an update monthly, Arcus VBT weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
VBTgo versus Arcus VBT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVBTgoArcus VBT
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews88.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings17 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size111 MB166 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developer北京维力速特智能科技有限公司夏雯 姚

Customer experience

VBTgo

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Arcus VBT

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

VBTgo

One-time5
  • Weekly$1.99
  • Monthly$4.99
  • Quarterly$12.99
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  • Half-year$24.99
  • Yearly$39.99
10 purchases

Arcus VBT

Subscriptions10
  • Jump Pro Monthly$6.691 Month
  • Lift Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Ultra Monthly$10.991 Month
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  • Arcus Coach 10 Monthly$19.991 Month
  • Arcus Coach 20 Monthly$29.991 Month
  • Jump Pro Yearly$45.901 Year
  • Lift Pro Yearly$54.901 Year
  • Ultra Yearly$75.901 Year
  • Arcus Coach 10 Yearly$149.991 Year
  • Arcus Coach 20 Yearly$229.991 Year

Questions

Is VBTgo free?
VBTgo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Arcus VBT free?
Arcus VBT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, VBTgo or Arcus VBT?
Arcus VBT is rated higher. VBTgo averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Arcus VBT averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do VBTgo or Arcus VBT have ads?
Neither VBTgo nor Arcus VBT shows ads.
Which is updated more often, VBTgo or Arcus VBT?
VBTgo ships an update monthly, and Arcus VBT weekly. Most recently, VBTgo was updated on November 5, 2026 and Arcus VBT on November 10, 2026.

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