On The Right Track
I don't necessarily understand some of the more negative reviews of both the fitness tracker or the app. The Moov devices, in my opinion, do exactly what they were advertised to do. So far I have tested running, cycling, boxing, and the body workout routines, all of which work great. Sleep tracking is close to being accurate, but not quite perfect; and without a heart rate monitor or skin temperature sensor I doubt it's going to get any better. It simply gets a good estimate, which is fine by me.
I really like the Moov Now for what it is, a coach, and a great one at that. It forces me to push myself just a little harder than I normally would. It corrects my form when I start feeling tired on a long run. It motivates me to stay active by constantly reminding me in the app to get at least 30 active minutes every day.
So why only four stars? There are no social features as of now. I bought one for both myself and my parents so we could keep each other motivated to keep doing better (we're all fairly active people with competitive personalities). Also, I would LOVE the ability to export GPS and fitness data to third party apps/sites such as Endomondo. I like having a centralized hub that keeps track of all my workouts (since the Moov app doesn't necessarily track all of them).
Overall though, it's a great device with a very streamlined app that had a nice user interface. I imagine it will only get better from here.
I really like the Moov Now for what it is, a coach, and a great one at that. It forces me to push myself just a little harder than I normally would. It corrects my form when I start feeling tired on a long run. It motivates me to stay active by constantly reminding me in the app to get at least 30 active minutes every day.
So why only four stars? There are no social features as of now. I bought one for both myself and my parents so we could keep each other motivated to keep doing better (we're all fairly active people with competitive personalities). Also, I would LOVE the ability to export GPS and fitness data to third party apps/sites such as Endomondo. I like having a centralized hub that keeps track of all my workouts (since the Moov app doesn't necessarily track all of them).
Overall though, it's a great device with a very streamlined app that had a nice user interface. I imagine it will only get better from here.
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Great app with lots of programs
I like this app and my moov now a lot, it's by far more useful then many step tracking apps.
Moov is able to successfully track motion during the short workout sessions the app offers and gives a really neat insight for me to look at when I'm running. I hope this will enable me to avoid injury and run longer over time.
It's pity that the app has not correctly been updated for larger screen iPhones. Text looks too large and the keyboard is stretched. If these issues were fixed I would give 5 stars
Moov is able to successfully track motion during the short workout sessions the app offers and gives a really neat insight for me to look at when I'm running. I hope this will enable me to avoid injury and run longer over time.
It's pity that the app has not correctly been updated for larger screen iPhones. Text looks too large and the keyboard is stretched. If these issues were fixed I would give 5 stars
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Would not recommend after 50+ hrs of use
Initially I really enjoyed using my Moov to record my swims. While Moov used to have a dedicated app for swimming/running etc. it has recently merged these apps into one cluttered, unintuitive, and frankly obnoxious app. Perhaps coincidentally at the same time as the app switched my Moov went from misreading ~5% of my flip turns to misreading 10-25%! This means that it counts many of my laps as taking twice as long, having twice the number of strokes essentially rendering all of the data it collects useless. Instead of adding features like the ability to go in and manually edit swims, however, Moovs new app instead attempts to sell me new products and suggest career options at their company. Perhaps worse is that when you attempt to use the "leave feedback" your options are to leave a 5 star review or to send them a message without ranking. This feels overly manipulative from an app that already has so many problems. Would not recommend until they've fixed these major issues.
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😒 this is not the tracking device you are looking for
Very disappointed by the product.. If I have knowned that the "coach" voice couldn't be disabled and would go over my music during training I would never had bought this thing... All I wanted was something to monitor my activities and then at the end tell me how I did but the little voice over is just to invasive and like I said, no way to turn it off...
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Not there yet
The software is great. If only the rubber strap was better designed ! The Moov hardware falls out of the strap after a few days of hard use! Mine is lost forever
Terrible
I got an error saying service unavailable error code 503 when I tried to register my account. So if I can ever make an account then maybe I can use this product. Something's wrong with the app.
Indoor cycling ?
Overall the app works well, but why was the indoor cycling option taken out?
Great Start for a brand new product!
I refuse to get an Apple Watch for the mere fact I have an iPhone that can do the same. Ive tried fitbits, pebble but this product kicked it out of the water. Absolutely love the voice guided training, especially for someone who is just starting with more intense cardio routines. It's great support for when that little bit of knowledge is needed like proper range of motion when running. I think as more experience is gained from my end the voice guidance should be allowed to be reduced or even turned off, although for now I welcome it. Also eagerly awaiting the indoor spinning app since It's where most of my cardio is concentrated. Until then I'm rating this 4 stars. A great beginning for a wider range of possibilities. Excited to see what's next!
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Has potential but currently not all it is promoted as
I thought the new moov now tracker sounded like a worthwhile purchase to help me work on my running technique plus it offers some additional activities that seemed to make it worthwhile. However I am finding that the moov app is very limited in functionality and content. One example - the training modules for running are broken into intervals that require you to swipe the phone to go up a level - not so easy when phone in arm band and You don't want to stop running. Integration with headphones control would be good. Also to try and do this I have to set the phone to stay on which eats up battery. The coaching voice making technique suggestions seems programmed rather than a realtime response as they occur at similar times each run rather than being related to what I am doing - essentially they act as reminders not realtime feedback.
There are no plans in the app to work up to specific distances and minimal capacity to customize the training modules by time or distance or number of intervals. Once finished it will keep counting intervals but you can't set the number you want before the run. It is total hassle to pause or end the session once you have started and no ability to choose the warm up time.
Detailed stats and some feedback are provided on completion of a run and a brief comparative progress summary but you cannot extract the stats to compare the same type of run for progress. Each activity, whether running or the other activities moov offers, is listed in a history list one after the other by date but no way of collating them according to activity.
The moov app designers could learn from looking at a running app such as runmeter which even has a choice of voices in specific accents and they sound like people - not a voice out of a b-grade sci-fi movie!
The 7+ workout relies on you doing the very limited number of exercises using arm movements exactly as the 'coach' says so, for example, you can't hold a weight when doing squats. This function is sort of OK for a motivational challenge but really not all it appears from the promotions and 'reviews'. If you do the reps faster it loses count - again bringing into question its capacity to 'coach' in realtime.
For daily tracking purposes any activity you do outside of those in the programs do not register as activity except walking around. This might be ok if there was a way of manually recording that you did other activities throughout the day eg., weight training as you can in other fitness apps such as myfitnesspal. I didn't really buy it for daily activity tracking but I liked the focus on activity rather than steps, however it is limited in actually capturing all your activity except walking and the moov app activities.
If you do proper boxing training as opposed to boxercise aerobic classes the boxing function is a fun novelty value cardio workout but pretty useless for form training or even proper shadow boxing.
I can't comment on the swim or cycling functions as have not used them.
I am beginning to think I got a bit carried away by the promotional hype with moov now and it's companion app - probably ok purchase for motivation and times when you want some structure for workouts but not so good if you already train regularly and already do regular conditioning workouts. Think I will be using it in tandem with my old running app and eventually replacing with a decent running watch and I won't be deleting my Virtual Trainer workout apps anytime soon as they are many times better for creating home workouts with body weight exercises and whatever training equipment you might have.
I think moov now maybe offers a look at what fitness tech wearables will do in the future so in that way its interesting to use.
Having said all this I am hoping for improvements in the functionality of the moov app which would help make the moov now much more useful NOW and I would feel happier that I spent money on it.
There are no plans in the app to work up to specific distances and minimal capacity to customize the training modules by time or distance or number of intervals. Once finished it will keep counting intervals but you can't set the number you want before the run. It is total hassle to pause or end the session once you have started and no ability to choose the warm up time.
Detailed stats and some feedback are provided on completion of a run and a brief comparative progress summary but you cannot extract the stats to compare the same type of run for progress. Each activity, whether running or the other activities moov offers, is listed in a history list one after the other by date but no way of collating them according to activity.
The moov app designers could learn from looking at a running app such as runmeter which even has a choice of voices in specific accents and they sound like people - not a voice out of a b-grade sci-fi movie!
The 7+ workout relies on you doing the very limited number of exercises using arm movements exactly as the 'coach' says so, for example, you can't hold a weight when doing squats. This function is sort of OK for a motivational challenge but really not all it appears from the promotions and 'reviews'. If you do the reps faster it loses count - again bringing into question its capacity to 'coach' in realtime.
For daily tracking purposes any activity you do outside of those in the programs do not register as activity except walking around. This might be ok if there was a way of manually recording that you did other activities throughout the day eg., weight training as you can in other fitness apps such as myfitnesspal. I didn't really buy it for daily activity tracking but I liked the focus on activity rather than steps, however it is limited in actually capturing all your activity except walking and the moov app activities.
If you do proper boxing training as opposed to boxercise aerobic classes the boxing function is a fun novelty value cardio workout but pretty useless for form training or even proper shadow boxing.
I can't comment on the swim or cycling functions as have not used them.
I am beginning to think I got a bit carried away by the promotional hype with moov now and it's companion app - probably ok purchase for motivation and times when you want some structure for workouts but not so good if you already train regularly and already do regular conditioning workouts. Think I will be using it in tandem with my old running app and eventually replacing with a decent running watch and I won't be deleting my Virtual Trainer workout apps anytime soon as they are many times better for creating home workouts with body weight exercises and whatever training equipment you might have.
I think moov now maybe offers a look at what fitness tech wearables will do in the future so in that way its interesting to use.
Having said all this I am hoping for improvements in the functionality of the moov app which would help make the moov now much more useful NOW and I would feel happier that I spent money on it.
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Good start
I've had my Moov and the app for a week now and I'm mostly satisfied. I know there are people out there disappointed with the lack of step counting but this is not a step tracker. 2 running workouts provided great detail post run. I paired it with a Bluetooth hrm which was great. I am a little disappointed with the lack of tracking for bicycle trainers. I tried it once and while I could see my heart rate and cadence on my phone during the workout # there was no detail afterward. I'm hopeful this feature will be added soon. Sleep taking is actually the most impressive thing for me so far. It's automatic and trouble free. Best I've seen so far because most didn't track sleep before midnight. This one does and it's pretty accurate. Syncing is not automatic at least it hasn't been for me. That needs to be improved.
Overall I'd say this is a goodstart. There's a lot of promise here.
Overall I'd say this is a goodstart. There's a lot of promise here.
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