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Goals

The primary purposes of the analysis are:

  • Evaluate AND discover the core functionality of the apps that are similar to clients.’
  • Compare the approaches of doing business based on a similar idea
  • Figure out the most valuable features in such a market


Name

Adidas running

Nike run club

Nike Run Club

RunKeeper

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Business

Positioning on the market

Creating an eco-system of runners and people who have recently been keen on sports activityConcentrated on involving people in the top-level running community and feeling themselves part of the most famous running teams by voice prompts of star coaches and athletesAttention to a variety of available sports activities, such as running, cycling, walking, and hiking, that can be tracked

Monetization

Paid premium subscription for 1 year or monthThe essential goal is to involve people in the company eco-system and push them to buy their main productsPaid subscription for a month or year

Price

35,99$ (7 days for free with auto-renewal), 9,99$ per monthHuge amount of available functionality with no charge

(9,99$ per month, 39,99$ per year)

Key competitive advantages

  • Different programs for each need, from losing weight to preparing for marathon;
  • Challenging with other people through the app and share your results;
  • Reward system to increase user engagement and motivation.
  • Community;
  • Enormous amount of different sport activities.
  • Audio accompaniment of famous trainers;
  • Running community;
  • Personal records;
  • Difficulty levels;
  • Detailed description of each trainings.
  • Extended statistics;
  • Different variety of available sport activities;
  • Possibility to create a running group;
  • Live translations;
  • Pocket sensor function for walking.

Target market

  • Professional sportsmen;
  • People who have already acquainted with the company (purchased something or used other its apps);
  • Trainers, who are interested in following results of their wards;
  • People who are fond of one of available sport activity in the app.
  • Professional sportsmen;
  • People who have already acquainted with the company (purchased something or used other its apps);
  • Trainers, who are interested in following results of their wards;
  • People, who want to reach sports goals;
  • People who are just keen on running.
  • Professional sportsmen;
  • People, who want to reach sports goals;
  • People who are motivated by different challenges;
  • People who are fond of one of available sport activity in the app.

Strengths

  • Blog inside the app;
  • Running community;
  • Convenient statistics of trainings;
  • Virtual competition.
  • Convenient voice prompts; 
  • Understandable and convenient UI without anything superfluous;
  • In case the user has forgotten to track their race, it is possible to add it, and it will be recorded in their statistics.
  • Ability to track friends races;
  • Setting the volume of voice prompts;
  • Extended statistic for a huge period of time ( up to year statistic ).

Weaknesses

  • Using the app is available only after registration;
  • Presence of the bugs;
  • Сomplex perception of the application due to the abundance of functionality;
  • Difficult procedure of registration;
  • Auto-renewal of subscription.
  • Presence of the bugs (sometimes incorrect tracking the distance);
  • Difficult flow for removing an account;
  • Using the app is available only after registration.
  • Voice accompaniment doesn't stop talking even in case the user has blocked the screen;
  • Sometimes there is a problem with losing GPS signal;
  • Using the app is available only after registration.

Features

✅ - implemented;

❌ - absent;

⭐️ - nice to have in our app.                            

Profile
Diving into the app without required registration in advance

Authentication 

My profile

Notifications

History
Goal setting
Reminders of the trainings
Running
Free run

Training programs

Time&Distance tracker
Audio coach&Voice prompts ( in different languages)⭐️
Results sharing 
Creating notes about trainings⭐️
Different sport activities
Different challenges
Live translation of others races
3rd party devices and connecting to different devices 
Possibility to use the app on the Apple Watch separately from the essential device
Creating an account via Google, Apple, Facebook
Apple Watch support
Sociality 
Blog into app
Subscribing to people you are interested in via Facebook/Contacts
Running community
Creating a team for joint trainings
Ability to view the races of other people
Ability to put comments about trainings and put likes
Treadmill workout
Music and photo 
Making photo through the app
Music player
Auto pause during the race⭐️
Awards
Description of the emotional state after training ⭐️
Awards system for trainings⭐️
Settings  in the app
Night mode⭐️
Lockable screen during the training
Landscape and portrait orientation
Extended statistic⭐️
Pocket sensor
Nice to have features
Shoes tracker
Fluid loss indicator⭐️
Satellite map
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