V.O2 vs Runvas
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Runvas
Transform words into custom running routes. Explore new areas and share your fitness journeys on social media. Keep your workouts engaging and exciting with unique, word-generated paths.
- Create running routes from words
- Explore new areas
- Share routes on social media
- Engaging fitness journeys
- Customized running paths
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Your run. Your canvas. Runvas turns running into an act of expression. Sketch any shape, trace a word, or let the app compose a route that fits your pace, then go run what you drew. This isn't another tracker that just counts miles. Runvas is the first running app built for people who want their route to mean something. Paint a heart through your neighborhood. Spell your kid's name across the park. Sign the city. — WHAT YOU CAN DO — • DRAW ANY SHAPE Tap, drag, or trace freehand. Runvas snaps your sketch onto real streets using walkable, runnable routes, with no illegal shortcuts through buildings. • WRITE WITH YOUR FEET Type a word and Runvas plots each letter across the map, sized to your target distance. • CHOOSE FROM A LIBRARY OF SHAPES Hearts, dinosaurs, lightning bolts, peace signs. Pick a shape, drop it anywhere, and it auto-sizes to hit your goal mileage. • TRAIN FOR YOUR RACE Pick a race (5K, 10K, half, marathon, or ultra), set your date and experience level, and Runvas builds a week-by-week plan. Each workout is a real route, drawn as the shape you'll trace. Skip a day and it redistributes the mileage across the week. Run two plans at once if you're training for more than one race. • SURPRISE ME Out of ideas? Tap once and Runvas drops a random shape on your city, then turns it into a route. • ADAPTIVE MUSIC Pace-matched soundtracks that follow your cadence as you run. Speed up and the BPM rises with you. • CINEMATIC RUN PREVIEW Watch your planned route animate before you step outside, with a globe-to-street flyover and a few camera modes. You'll know where you're going and how long it'll feel. • GPX EXPORT One tap sends your route to Strava, Garmin Connect, Apple Health, or your watch. Your art, your stats, everywhere you want them. • LAYERS Design a whole session. A warm-up letter, a main-event shape, a cool-down loop, stacked, saved, and runnable in any order. — WHY RUNVAS? — Most running apps ask you to care about splits. Runvas asks you to care about what you leave behind. Every route you run is a brushstroke on a map that nobody else will ever run the same way. You're not logging miles, you're making something. And when you're done, you've got a shareable piece of your city, traced in your own footsteps. — BUILT FOR — • Runners who've plateaued on the same 5K loop and want variety • Strava artists who want the drawing tool as good as the run itself • Anyone who runs for fun more than for finish times • Parents, couples, and friends who want to run meaningful routes for each other • Coaches and trainers looking for a creative way to hit weekly mileage — FREE. ADS BETWEEN GENERATIONS. OPTIONAL ONE-TIME UPGRADE. — Runvas is free to use, forever. A brief ad appears between every few generations. If you love it, a single one-time purchase removes ads for the lifetime of your account. No subscription. No surprises. — PRIVACY — Your routes live on your device and sync to your account, and that's it. We don't sell your location and we don't share your data. You can run Runvas without creating an account at all. — START PAINTING — Your city is waiting to be drawn on. Download Runvas, sketch something, and go run it. It's that simple. Questions, requests, or a cool route to share? Reach us at hello@runvas.app or @runvas on Instagram and TikTok.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Runvas at none against V.O2's 17. V.O2's advantage is ratings volume (6.3K vs 4) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, rating, ads 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. V.O2 sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Runvas asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for V.O2 against 5.0 for Runvas. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: V.O2 has 6.3K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of V.O2's written reviews are positive against 60% of Runvas's.
V.O2 ships an update weekly, Runvas monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | V.O2 | Runvas |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (6.3K ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.0% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6.3K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 142 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Run SMART Project, LLC | Ryan Temple |
Customer experience
V.O2
Runvas
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
Runvas
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
V.O2
- Adaptive Training Subscription14 Days trial2 variants$12.991 Month
- Adaptive Training - Annual14 Days trial$99.991 Year
- 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
Runvas
No in-app purchases









