Vanoor vs StartRunning

Vanoor turns your Apple Watch into a serious running watch. Follow GPX routes with turn-by-turn cues, pace your race split by split, and run structured workouts built by you or your AI assistant. No phone in your pocket, no subscription, no account. TURN-BY-TURN ROUTES ON YOUR WRIST Import a GPX on your iPhone or draw a route tap by tap. It syncs to your Watch with an offline map, so navigation works where reception drops. The Watch taps you about 60 m before each turn and again at the corner, and with headphones it says "In 60 metres, turn left." Two close turns come as one cue, and where a route crosses itself it tells you to go straight. Raise your wrist and the map turns with the compass; lower it and your running direction points up. The off-route alert taps you the moment you drift, and Back to Start takes you home. A RUNNING PACER FOR RACE DAY Pick the distance and goal time, choose a negative, even or positive split, and shape the pace curve by hand while the finish time stays fixed. On race day the Watch shows the split you are in, its pace band and where you sit inside it, with a buzz before every change of pace. No arithmetic at 35 km. STRUCTURED WORKOUTS Build intervals, tempo and threshold sessions: splits by distance or time, pace bands, heart rate zones, repeat blocks, rests and fuel reminders. Or ask your AI assistant for a plan and import the file it writes. The Watch announces every split and counts down the end of each recovery. One pace band setting, adjustable to the second, applies to every pace split. SEE HOW WELL YOU RAN IT After a planned run, every split with a target gets a score: the share of its time you spent inside the band. Open a split to see your pace drawn over the band and where you left it. Home shows your weekly score next to your distance. SPOKEN CUES, MUSIC KEEPS PLAYING Kilometre, split, turn and fuel cues come as a tap, a short spoken line, or both. With headphones on your iPhone the cues play there, and your music only gets quieter for a moment. A WATCH SCREEN BUILT FOR RUNNING Configurable pages (Classic, Big Metric, Pace, Heart Rate, Elevation, Map, Metronome) with cadence, power, stride length and ground contact time. All controls fit on one screen, including a Lap button. Auto-pause stops the clock only when your steps and your distance both stop, so a lost GPS signal does not pause your run. Walks and hikes can be recorded too. YOU DECIDE WHAT GETS SAVED At the end you rate your effort and choose Save or Discard. Save sends the run to Apple Health with route, heart rate, pace and elevation, and uploads it to Strava if connected. Discard sends nothing, and the run waits in Recently Deleted for 7 days. Export any run as FIT or GPX. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no tracking. Routes and runs sync through your own iCloud and never touch our servers, because there are none. ONE-TIME PURCHASE Seven days free with every feature, then buy it once. No subscription, ever. In English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Hungarian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, spoken cues included. Requires an iPhone (iOS 17 or later) and an Apple Watch with GPS (watchOS 10 or later). Try every feature free for 7 days. If Vanoor earns a place on your wrist, buy it once and keep it.

From the couch to thirty minutes of continuous running in nine weeks. No experience needed, no gear, and no prior idea of what "interval training" means. StartRunning takes you through 27 workouts, three a week. Each one opens with five minutes of brisk walking and ends with five minutes of cooling down. In between, running and walking alternate — at first one minute of running, ninety seconds of walking. By week nine you run for half an hour without stopping. WHAT GUIDES YOU • Spoken coaching tells you when to run and when to walk. You never have to look at your phone. • Tones and vibration for every change — even with music in your ears and the phone in your pocket. • A screen you can read in one second: one huge number, two buttons, nothing else. • GPS records your route and works out distance, pace and kilometre splits. • Your history shows every run with its map; the progress grid shows the whole plan at a glance. THREE LEVELS OF COACHING Voice and tones, vibration only, or nothing at all. Switchable mid-run — for the day you run with someone and still want to feel the interval change. YOU SET THE PACE All 27 workouts can be started and repeated at any time. Nothing is locked, nothing pushes you. If a week feels too fast, run it again. If you end a workout early, the time you ran still counts — only the plan doesn't move on. CUSTOM WORKOUTS You set total duration, run interval and walk break; the app works out the rest. For after the plan, or for the day you have something else in mind. WHAT THIS APP DOES NOT DO No ads. No subscription. No sign-up. No account. No tracking, no analytics, nothing shared with anyone. Your data stays on your device. What you export, you export yourself — as a backup file or as GPX. If you want, the app writes your workouts to Apple Health; that is off by default. Training and all your data work completely offline. Only the map view loads tiles from the network. ACCESSIBILITY Every interval type is signalled by word, icon, colour and vibration pattern — never by colour alone. The app holds up at triple system text size and respects the reduce-motion setting. WHAT IT COSTS The first 9 workouts are free — about three weeks of training, with everything included. After that you unlock everything once: all three plans, custom workouts, for good. No subscription, no follow-up costs. Your history stays open either way, unlocked or not.