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 | RunKeeper |
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| Links to apps | Link | Link | Link |
Business | |||
Positioning on the market | Creating an eco-system of runners and people who have recently been keen on sports activity | Concentrated 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 athletes | Attention 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 month | The essential goal is to involve people in the company eco-system and push them to buy their main products | Paid subscription for a month or year |
Price | 35,99$ (7 days for free with auto-renewal), 9,99$ per month | Huge amount of available functionality with no charge | (9,99$ per month, 39,99$ per year) |
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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 | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |