Leave a Review iSmoothRun
Great Update to One of My Favorite Apps
iSmoothRun is an app that I use daily for running, biking, hiking, treadmill, bike machine and mountain biking. It is super extensible with a ton of features not seen elsewhere, especially if you dig down. It’s also great on the Apple Watch. There are a few things I’d still like to see – some more metrics for power and intervals and more nuance in structured power workouts – but I contacted the developer and he said both are on the agenda, which is great! Looking forward to many more workouts with this rock solid app!Show lessPitch113
App no longer works on iOS 14.3, refund requested
I hate writing this review bc this app was finally the tool I had been looking for - a app that could track and cue interval running. I downloaded the app and used it exactly one time and it worked perfectly. However, every since that first time it has not worked whatsoever. I can open it and play in the settings, but as soon as I press Start Your Run, the app freezes.
I've tried all the troubleshooting I can do: closed and restarted the app, deleted and reinstalled the app, made sure my iOS is up to date, and restarted my phone. I even thought I may have overlooked some limited use clause when I downloaded it, so I paid to upgrade to Pro. Nothing has fixed this issue.
At this point, I've submitted a refund request to Apple bc the app is broken. Which, as I said in the beginning of this review, is a shame bc I was really really excited to have finally found an app that allowed for interval running programs.
If I can't find an alternative, I may try this again in the future on the chance the issues have been resolved.Show lessAndrew Electric
Phone app works well; watch app falls short
This app has all the interval features I want for complex time/HR-based interval workouts. The phone app executes these well, albeit in a dated-looking interface.
BUT when I first started using it, I tried to start my runs with the watch app like I would with other apps. DON’T DO THAT. The watch app does all sorts of weird behaviors and would not run the selected workout. The watch app is best used as a basic readout that autostarts after you’ve done everything to get the run set up and going on the phone app.Show lessrf1520
Greet App
I love this app for running. It does everything I could ask for in a running app.
I started using ISmoothRun to get back into running after two decades of not running. I’ve been using it along GTN’s Couch to 5K program. I have the Nike IWatch and was looking for something useful from Nike in the couch to 5K running program and they had nothing. The ISmoothRun is awesome. Ever run I go on I can customize how many run/walk intervals I perform. The customization is endless. I really like the metronome feature. I have it set so it only plays during running sessions and stops during walks. I also use Pandora during my runs and while running it allows the music to still play in the background while the app it giving running queues and reporting on running pace.
I so happy I found this app.Show lessscott253
No longer in active development and poor accuracy
First off, do not buy this if you are on iOS 14, it freezes and does not operate at all.
Secondly, it doesn’t do particularly accurate distances or paces. When paired with Strava, it is off by a decent amount over. I enjoyed using this app a few weeks back (before upgrading my OS) but quickly realized it was reporting me at much faster paces.
I love all the features — metronome for cadence, pacing, both distance and time intervals, audio cues for slower and faster—but so many bits don’t work (like Apple Watch HRD) and the app is incredibly clunky and frustrating to use.Show lessPsychotic Venom
Absolute best running app I have used for Apple Watch
I came over to the Apple Watch from the Garmin ecosystem. I loved Garmin for its fitness tracking and the overall fitness app but the watch itself was a bit clunky and the screen hard to read. I sacrificed the battery life and went over to the Apple Watch and was disappointed in many of the running apps that I tried until I found iSmoothRun. It gives me all the data I need including cadence—which many other apps didn’t track— and it’s a simple interface. Talks to the Apple activity app where I log other kinds of workouts.Show lessomegacygni
BEST RUNNING APP HANDS DOWN
For anyone looking for a great running app, I would highly recommend iSmoothRun. It’s $5 but more than worth it for what you get. The great thing about it is being able to set an unlimited amount of custom intervals and specify your goal pace for each interval.
So whenever you are running, the app will tell you if you are X seconds ahead or behind. It will also tell you when you have 800m, 400m, 200m and 100m left, so you know when to pick up the pace or straight up full sprint until the finish. You can set custom rest intervals as well (e.g. after 0.50 miles, you can either walk for 0.25 miles or walk for 3 minutes before the next interval). This is THE APP to get if you’re training for something like a marathon or physical test.Show lessNealius22
Worthless
I was really hoping to replace my Garmin with this app. The Garmin doesn’t do split distance and time while in the interval, which is important to me. iSmoothRun looked really promising and the ability to configure the display was great. The UI on the app and the watch are well thought out.
Unfortunately the app distance is highly inaccurate. I co-witnessed a couple runs with my Garmin Fenix 5X, iPhone 11 Pro Max, and iSmoothRun on my Apple Watch 5. iSmoothRun was short a couple miles on each (as much as 40% short) and the other two were aligned and accurate based on the known distance of the course.
I emailed support and their advice was to not run with my iPhone, or turn Bluetooth off on my phone. I never run without my phone and listen to music, podcasts via Bluetooth headphones. I also followed their advice and set it to use only the watch’s GPS, but it was no better.
If your running use case includes your phone and you expect accurate distance, and therefore pace, this is not the app for you. Save your money and keep your Garmin.Show lessaustintriguy
Love this app
I’ve been using this for almost 2 years and love everything about it other than the maps of my runs with my Apple Watch. It’s horrible. If I use the Apple workout app my run maps look perfect, but on this app it almost never marks the route close to my actual run if I just run using my watch. I’ve tried adjusting the settings in the app and it just doesn’t work. Oddly, my distance is usually close to accurate, but you wouldn’t know it from the map.Show lessMsukicker
Very buggy with distance tracking.
This app often stops tracking my distance. I’ve reported the bug but they think it’s an issue with the iPhone gps. They don’t just use the iPhone location services. They think they’ve got a better system that switches over to the accelerometer if the gps signal is weak. It’s total crap.
All my running is outdoors in the Arizona desert. Clear skys and the gps signal says it’s 5 out of 5. It just stops tracking. If i look at my position on the map inside the app, the blue dot shows exactly where I am but the trace thinks i stopped up to a mile back!
I can sometimes get it to update by shaking the phone madly and they even suggested that as a work around! Really? You want me to take my phone out and shake it just to get a basic function to work.
Gps tracking is a very simple task and they can’t get it right. I had to switch to a different app since over the years and multiple phone upgrades it has only gotten worse. I’d give it zero stars if I could.Show lessjgold1957x
