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Excellent progress display
Progress is easy to monitor as the display is bright and well laid out. I do wish for one feature: How about a beep when distance/time is reachedBarkdust
Terrible app
They have not taken any suggestions from
feedback and reviews and implemented them.
1. Need ability to delete, sort, edit workouts
2. Connectivity is spotty at best, only works if I manually connect in the app and in Bluetooth
3. There’s actually more functionality on the old school S4 monitor than the iPhone powered app! Frankly this is a glorified color version of the digital LCD stopwatch screen but far more frustrating because of the connectivity problems.Show lessapplehastoomanyusernames
Needs development
I really want to like this app, but it just doesn’t get the job done. The intervals aren’t truly intervals, meaning you can’t see separate splits for each interval, everything is averaged over the total duration of the workout, including the planned rests. Sometimes the app doesn’t start the workout. When it does, and my watch is connected to track HR, Apple records two separate workouts from WaterRower Connect - one with HR and one without. Further, there will often be a dozen 0 minute workouts recorded that I have to manually delete.Show lessSib828
Bluetooth
Developer. Check for Bluetooth access when adding a com unit. Spend 2 hours on 2 separate devices trying manually add it. Finally just pressed start workout and it asked for access.HSLightnin
Poor Strava Integration
Bought the S4 Bluetooth CommModule so I could essentially connect to Strava. Whilst data such as heart rate, stroke rate, min/500mtr splits are recorded, they aren’t passed on to Strava. This is pretty basic stuff and should be automatically passed to Strava. I’ve been told this is in the works but wasn’t told when it would be done.Show lessOriginal Tonestar
Just don’t bother.
The app is bad and the “com module” doesn’t even work. It’s bulky and cumbersome to use and charge. Not worth $20 let alone $65.
Waterrower should be shipping the machines with Bluetooth capabilities and not doing this hackneyed thing. Beautiful rower, great experience rowing. Terrible technology. I’m a hobbyist and rowing for exercise so it doesn’t matter. I’ll turn my Apple Watch on and use that. But it’s just really bull crap they didn’t bother to do this even remotely right.Show lessMatsie
Needs some serious improvements and testing.
I wanted to like this app. The problems are, however, numerous. First of all it is not tested enough. The connectivity is not very stable ( it often takes multiple cycle of restarting the Bluetooth module, the application, etc to connect). Quite often the connection seems established, but the app is not reading the module and The numbers are frozen and not changing (it starts reading abc then stops). The app is not reading the heart rate from the phone. After my 40 min workout the average heart rate (is 50) which makes absolutely no sense. The calories are also not recorded properly. The averages are generally useless if the workout involves power strokes and periods of rest. Basically this app needs some significant improvements and bug fixes to be useful.Show lessOne commuter
Why is a NOHrD account required for Apple Health sync?
I’ve owned my WaterRower for years, and the S4 Bluetooth adapter for the past few months. I have no interest in sharing my usage or other personal details, but like keeping track of my telemetry. Why is it necessary to create an account, and login to a superfluous service, in order to feed my sessions directly into my Apple Health log? It’s unnecessarily intrusive and creepy.Show lessincorrect
Very Disappointed
This is the app made by the company that makes the water rower. You would think it would be maintained and a solid offering. As it is, I can’t even get it to connect to my iPhone since the most recent apple update. I checked their website and now it looks like water rower has jumped into the subscription market with smart row, but that different and far more expensive add ons. It seems they’ve forgotten to keep up with their existing customers.Show lessdger2937
Heart rate monitor
Am I missing something - why doesn’t heart rate show in the app (iPad) if it gets its data from the S4 monitor and Bluetooth connection?mtparnon
