Vamo vs Strava
Strava is the social layer most athletes already upload to, and the analytics behind a subscription are deep. It is not a coach.
Its own running plans have gone to Runna, a separate subscription, and its cycling plans are fixed four-week blocks sent by email. Vamo builds the plan from your 5K time or your FTP, adjusts it from your check-ins, plans your food, and uploads the session to Strava when you are done.
Facts checked 2 September 2026. Sources at the foot of the page.
Price
What each one costs
Vamo
£7.99a month
- Yearly
- £95.88, twelve months. No separate yearly plan.
- Free, always
- Logging, history and charts, any programme you already have, recipes.
- Free trial
- 14 days, or 30 with a friend's code.
Strava
£8.99a month
- Yearly
- £54.99, or £119.99 bundled with Runna
- Free
- Recording, the feed, clubs, basic routes and the strength log.
- Free trial
- A 30-day preview for some accounts. The app says if you are eligible.
UK prices from strava.com/pricing and the UK App Store, September 2026. In the US, $11.99 a month or $79.99 a year. Runna on its own is £15.99 a month or £99.99 a year. Checked 2 September 2026 against the sources at the foot of this page. Prices change. If something here is out of date, email support@vamo.fit and we will fix it. Vamo's price is the UK App Store price; the App Store shows your local price before you subscribe. See the terms.
Choose Vamo if
Where Vamo has the edge.
You want a plan that changes when your week does
You lift as well as run or ride, and want one programme that covers both
You want your food planned against your training
You want the plan without a second subscription for coaching
Choose Strava if
Where Strava has the edge.
You want the segments, the clubs and the kudos
You record on a Garmin, Wahoo, COROS or Polar and want it all in one feed
You want the deepest post-ride analytics: Relative Effort, Fitness and Freshness, power curves
You pay yearly: £54.99 a year is £4.58 a month
Side by side
What each one does
Vamo
- Adapts to your week: Yes. Rewrites next week from what you logged.
- Gym programmes: Yes. Gym programmes with sets, reps and working weights.
- Run, ride, swim plans: Yes. Running, cycling and swimming plans.
- Meal plans: Yes. Meal plans and macro targets.
- Barcode food logging: Yes. Food logging with a barcode scanner.
- Pattern insights: Yes. Reads your patterns and tells you what they mean.
- Human coach: No. A human coach.
- Health and Strava sync: Yes. Apple Health and Strava sync.
- Sleep score: Yes. Sleep scored from your watch.
- Rewrites next week from what you logged
- Yes. Check-ins and logged sessions rebuild the week ahead: volume, loads and effort.
- Gym programmes with sets, reps and working weights
- Yes. Periodised blocks. Working weights come from the lifts you have logged.
- Running, cycling and swimming plans
- Yes. 5K to marathon plans, FTP-based rides, swim sets from your CSS time.
- Meal plans and macro targets
- Yes. Targets from your goal, a weekly meal plan, recipes and one-tap swaps.
- Food logging with a barcode scanner
- Yes. Scan a barcode or pick a recipe. Logging is free, always.
- Reads your patterns and tells you what they mean
- Yes. Pulse: one to three patterns from your logs, in plain English, when there is one.
- A human coach
- No. Not at launch. Vamo is the programme, not a person.
- Apple Health and Strava sync
- Yes. Apple Health for steps, weight and sleep. Strava for your runs and rides.
- Sleep scored from your watch
- Yes. Every night scored out of 100, and the score's drift shows up in Pulse.
Strava
- Adapts to your week: Partly. Rewrites next week from what you logged.
- Gym programmes: Partly. Gym programmes with sets, reps and working weights.
- Run, ride, swim plans: Partly. Running, cycling and swimming plans.
- Meal plans: No. Meal plans and macro targets.
- Barcode food logging: No. Food logging with a barcode scanner.
- Pattern insights: Yes. Reads your patterns and tells you what they mean.
- Human coach: No. A human coach.
- Health and Strava sync: Yes. Apple Health and Strava sync.
- Sleep score: No. Sleep scored from your watch.
- Rewrites next week from what you logged
- Partly. Instant Workouts suggests a session for today (subscribers). Plans are not rebuilt from your results.
- Gym programmes with sets, reps and working weights
- Partly. A workout log with muscle maps since May 2026. No programming or loads.
- Running, cycling and swimming plans
- Partly. Running plans now live in Runna, a separate subscription. Cycling plans are fixed four-week blocks by email.
- Meal plans and macro targets
- No. None built in.
- Food logging with a barcode scanner
- No. Not a food app.
- Reads your patterns and tells you what they mean
- Yes. Athlete Intelligence turns each activity into a plain-English summary (subscribers).
- A human coach
- No. No human coaching.
- Apple Health and Strava sync
- Yes. Hundreds of devices: Garmin, Apple Watch, Wahoo, COROS, Polar, Suunto, WHOOP, Oura and more.
- Sleep scored from your watch
- No. Not a sleep tracker.
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The difference
What Vamo does that Strava does not
Vamo writes the session, Strava keeps the record
Connect Strava in Vamo and your runs and rides upload when you finish them. Vamo does the planning that was never Strava's job. Strava keeps the feed you already have.
One plan for the whole week
Strava's coaching is split: Runna for running, fixed email plans for cycling, a log for strength. Vamo writes one week with your lifts, your runs and your rides in it, and rebuilds it from your check-in.
No second subscription
Adaptive running coaching through Strava means Runna, at £15.99 a month on its own or £119.99 a year in the bundle. Vamo is £7.99 a month and covers running, cycling, swimming, strength and nutrition.
Questions
Vamo or Strava?
Does Vamo work with Strava?
Yes. Connect your Strava account in Vamo and completed runs and rides are uploaded to Strava. Your Strava feed stays exactly as it is.
Does Strava have training plans?
For cycling, yes: ten fixed four-week plans that arrive by email, included with a subscription. For running, Strava now points you to Runna, which is a separate app and subscription, or a £119.99-a-year bundle.
Is Vamo cheaper than Strava?
Month to month, yes: £7.99 against £8.99. Paid yearly, Strava is £54.99, which is cheaper than Vamo's £95.88. If you want adaptive running plans through Strava, add Runna: the yearly bundle is £119.99.
Can Vamo replace Strava?
Not for the social side. Vamo has no segments, clubs or leaderboards, and it is not trying to. Use Vamo for the plan and Strava for the record.
Ready? Vamo.
14 days free. Answer a few questions and your first block is built before you put the phone down. It starts changing from the first session you log.
14 days free, then £7.99 a month. Renews automatically through your Apple ID until you cancel, which you can do any time in your account settings. iPhone only for now.