Quite amazing; but be aware that updating may mean re-downloading Vault items
Years on and now with a fast broadband connection, this is still one of my favourite apps. It just works. I can use it with treadmill or rebounder at home, and on holiday have sometimes just jogged on the spot! At the gym I just balance a phone or iPad in front of me on any equipment. You can ignore the rest except to demonstrate that I have been loving this app for years and it keeps getting better! [previous reviews … The app still works best for me if I download rather than stream, but that is my awful broadband! Also, the company response was great and they offered me a beta version that would download on 3G. So I am a happy bunny! I love this app. I would buy an ipad just to use Bitgym. Previous review: I was upset when I updated and it lost the 10 tracks I had downloaded to my vault as it will not download on cellular data and our broadband is so slow and flakey that downloads always timed out and streaming just didn't work. I worked round this by downloading 10 tracks on holiday while staying in a place with excellent wifi so I was devastated to lose them. However, I got excellent help from the team who offered me a beta version with cellular download and then also found that I didn't need it - they have made the download/streaming a lot slicker somehow so it works even with my steam-powered internet. The new version has some features that I love as well as some I hate (in an app that tries to make virtual exercise like reality, why introduce google glass style graphics that turn it back into a computer screen experience?) but overall it is clearly improved. So do upgrade, but be aware of the need to re- load tracks if you rely on the vault for use at the gym etc. also, there is another upgrade out - it would be great if the blurb could state whether or not existing downloads will persist. Thanks!! Original review: I'm giving this 5 stars even though I'm sure they will be improving it in various ways in the future, because this is just a killer app as far as I'm concerned. This is what computers should do. I can't believe how accurate it gets my RPM - spot on by the exercise bike's read out. I have always found using an exercise bike very boring, but the last two evenings I have gone way beyond the time I intended, just because I wanted to see what was round the next corner and get to the end of the trail. I haven't tried it on the treadmill yet. I think we've got a bit spoiled by expecting every app to cost 69p. Remember when Palm Pilot program's were £30 for not very much? My preference, I think, in an ideal world would be to have a pay-per-trail like in the virtual active app, only less, maybe 2.50. I'd probably buy a new one every week, so I'd actually pay more than the monthly thing, but maybe have some months when I would just repeat stuff. But hey, this app has transformed a used ebay bike purchase into a state of the art interactive machine! I could pay the monthly sub for years before I ended up paying what another reviewer paid for his iFit bike! I'm truly in awe of this app, and I really hope development continues and new tracks keep coming. Love it!
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