Comparison

V.O2 vs Sprintcrowd

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

Head to head
About

V.O2

This app provides adaptive training plans and personalized coaching for runners of all levels. It assesses your fitness, offers custom paces, and syncs with popular devices. Train intelligently to achieve measurable improvements and become your best runner.

Highlights
  • Adaptive training plans
  • VDOT fitness assessment
  • Personalized training paces
  • Sync with Apple Health, Coros, Garmin, Strava
  • Real-time guidance on Apple Watch, Coros, Garmin
  • Training adaptation based on improvement
  • Coach communication and training adjustments
Features
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Coaching app for athletes looking to take their running to the next level. How it works Athletes: Get an invite from a coach or choose one coaching option. • Adaptive Trainer (14-Day Free Trial) • Goal Race Plan • Match with a Private Coach Coaches: Start your 30-day free trial and learn how to manage your athletes at https://vdoto2.com/vdotcoach Popular Features • Assess your current running fitness (VDOT) • Built-in personalized training paces • Sync training calendar with GPS data from Apple Health, Coros, Garmin or Strava • Sync workouts/pace targets to Apple Watch, Coros or Garmin for real-time guidance • Adapt your training based on your improvement • Work with your coach, communicate and adjust training Truly Personalized Unlike most running apps, VDOT knows you. It understands the type of runner you are, what you're training for, and how to maximize your efforts. It also gives you more control over your training, leveraging your feedback to deliver real-time data which fine tunes your training and leads to continuous progression. With fully automated, truly personalized and highly-adaptive training, VDOT helps you achieve measurable improvement — all in an effort to make you the best runner you can be. Intelligent Training With a focus on training over tracking and coaching over running, VDOT offers access to the highest quality, Olympic-style training for runners of all levels-right from any mobile device. Designed to help runners train correctly and more intelligently, VDOT elicits maximum benefit while reducing the required effort. These high-quality workouts promote healthy, responsible, and beneficial sessions while simultaneously preventing overtraining. Olympic Pedigree V.O2 was built from the foundation of a scientifically-validated training methodology. Based on former Olympian, author, and legendary running coach Jack Daniels’ exercise science principles, the methodology not only benefits runners of all ages and abilities when it comes to improving their running fitness but it also serves as the best measure of running economy across a variety of runners and events, making it an ideal way to compare performances. High-school, college, Olympic and non-elite runners have all trained, ran, and succeeded with the VDOT methodology. -”Dr. Jack Daniels has had a bigger influence on training-for-running than anyone. He might be considered the Albert Einstein of the sport." - Runner’s World Magazine

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

V.O24 screens
Sprintcrowd4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: V.O2 at 4.9 against Sprintcrowd's 1.0. V.O2 also leads on ratings volume (6.2K vs 3) and review sentiment (71% vs 50%). Sprintcrowd's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 17). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. V.O2 sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Sprintcrowd asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

V.O2 holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: V.O2 has 6.2K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of V.O2's written reviews are positive against 50% of Sprintcrowd's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

V.O2 ships an update every 6 days, Sprintcrowd every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
V.O2 versus Sprintcrowd: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterV.O2Sprintcrowd
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (6.2K ratings) — better1.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews70.7% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6.2K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.615.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size144 MB171 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Run SMART Project, LLCSprintcrowd AB

Customer experience

V.O2

All ratings6,205 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral0.9%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews174 reviews
Positive70.7%
Neutral8.0%
Negative21.3%

Sprintcrowd

All ratings3 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

V.O2

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Apple Watch app issues and lack of functionality
  • Problems with syncing Garmin runs to the correct workouts
  • Inconsistent elevation and GPS data
  • Bugs and crashes when using the app

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to duplicate and edit workouts
  • Improved Apple Watch and Health app integration
  • More advanced adaptive training and automation
  • Expanded cross-training and workout modalities
  • Better user interface and workflow for coaches
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  • Keyword-based search for notes and workouts

Sprintcrowd

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

16 purchases

V.O2

Subscriptions2
  • Adaptive Training Subscription14 Days trial2 variants$12.991 Month
  • Adaptive Training - Annual14 Days trial$99.991 Year
One-time14
  • Base/Fitness - 8 weeks$44.99
  • Half Marathon - 12 weeks$54.99
  • 10 Km - 12 weeks$54.99
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  • 5 Km - 12 weeks$54.99
  • 1500m - 12 weeks$54.99
  • 3 Km - 12 weeks$54.99
  • Marathon - 15 weeks$69.99
  • Half Marathon - 15 weeks$69.99
  • Marathon - 18 weeks$79.99
  • Half Marathon - 18 weeks$79.99
  • Jack's Elite Marathon - 18wks$79.99
  • Jack's First Marathon - 18wks$79.99
  • Jack's Boston Marathon - 18wks$94.99
  • Marathon - 24 weeks$99.99
None

Sprintcrowd

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is V.O2 free?
V.O2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sprintcrowd free?
Sprintcrowd is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, V.O2 or Sprintcrowd?
V.O2 is rated higher. V.O2 averages 4.9 out of 5 from 6.2K ratings, while Sprintcrowd averages 1.0 from 3 ratings.
Do V.O2 or Sprintcrowd have ads?
Neither V.O2 nor Sprintcrowd shows ads.
Which is updated more often, V.O2 or Sprintcrowd?
V.O2 ships an update every 6 days, and Sprintcrowd every 2 weeks. Most recently, V.O2 was updated on September 26, 2026 and Sprintcrowd on September 24, 2026.

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