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(July 20,2022) Over four years and still my go-to fitness app. It’s great.
Update three (March 1, 2019): still my daily go-to fitness app but some performance issues have slowly crept back in. They are annoying but I'm leaving my rating at five stars for now because it's still a great app. Updated again (Sep 22, 2018 - after v5.0 release): the inaccuracies and performance problems have been resolved. This is now my go-to app for fitness. Updated review (Jul 12, 2018, after two years of use): it's getting better. There is still a major issue with duplicates but accuracy has improved. Increased one star. I've been using the paid version for a couple months now and there are some major issues. I've been using a very accurate heart rate monitor with it. One issue is that the calorie count is grossly inaccurate. A 45 minute high-intensity workout with average heart rate at 150 is usually accurately measured as 800 calories whereas a 22 minute walk with heart rate in the warm-up zone the entire time chalks up over 2000 calories! It also frequently doesn't sync with Apple Health. I feel like I wasted $10.Show lessPrimeCipher
Mostly good
I use this app a lot and most of the time it’s decent but occasionally it does get hung up when I’m in the middle of an exercise. I’ve also noticed that I can’t use this app in conjunction with another fitness app to maintain tracking stability. If I’m using the Nike run app, for example, I can’t also use this app to see what my heart rate and other indicators and metrics are. I almost always get an error message that ends up closing this app down. And there have also been a number of times when using this app, that it seems to restart in the middle of me doing an exercise. It’s not always clear whether it was tracking the entire exercise session or if it actually restarted the entire session. It’s frustrating to have to stop the exercising in the middle of the workout to determine whether or not this app is working properly. I would prefer an app that consistently worked properly that didn’t end up interrupting my exercise events.Show lessKoKo Poddy
Gr8 *BUT*…. please…
Use this app all the time. For all exercises.
BUT PLEASE PLEASE …
Can you make this one change…
When initiating a GPS workout the app notifies with a green-for-go coloured screen saying “starting workout” … this is NOT true… the next screen is a manual start button.
I’ve started running. I’m now fifteen minutes into the workout. Again. Checking progress on my opening 2k … and the app is waiting for me to press the start button…. FFS!!!
*PLEASE* change the message to something more intuitive to understand like “preparing” or “manual start” or “acquiring GPS” frankly anything that doesn’t give the impression that the workout is starting and makes it very clear that further intervention from the user is required before user cracks on.
I’ve been asking for three years and more.
Please, team.Show lessBarneyRJ
Developer Response
Hi, thank you for your suggestions! We understand how the GPS starting message can be confusing, we can certainly change this to be more user-friendly. We would love it if you could send us more information about the speed history issues you're seeing, could you please send us an email with more details to support@fitiv.com with more details? We would love to make any improvements that we can!How accurate is the calories burnt?
I’ve been using the app for a few workouts, and love it. Seeing my heart rate on the chart has motivated me to work harder. When comparing the calories burnt to my Apple Watch workout app, it’s significantly higher, double in some cases. I’ve looked online but there isn’t much information about this. I’m not fussed too much about this, but I cannot stream data from my watch to phone, it’s connected and have followed the instructions.Show lessNeetu88
Very nicely designed but unfortunately not picking up heart rate
This app has a beautifully designed user interface and loads of user options but despite religiously and repeatedly following the instructions and the help page it will not show the heart rate from my Apple Watch on the iPhone app. Since this is the main reason for using the app I have to conclude it is failing at its primary function. Other apps are giving live heart rate data so the problem seems specific to this app. All necessary permissions granted in the health app.Show lessJpkexeter
Account problems not sorted
Love this app and have used since 2017. Recently bought a new phone and updated my phone. The app downloaded from my iCloud backup. The app on my phone does not recognise my Apple subscription acc and has made a new acc. I have lost all my workout logs since 2017. I have emailed FITIV with screen shots etc but to no avail. Very disappointed. The fitiv app on my iPad that I also use in the gym is still my old acc which has all my workouts after paying for the annual subscription.
Don’t know what else to do. Just have to look at other HR monitor apps. May just go over to polar app.Show lessEw-Ok
Developer Response
Could you please send us an email to support@fitiv.com? We are investigating the cause fo these crashing issues and have a potential fix available in the beta version of the app.I love this app!
I've used this app for three years and I love how it works with my heart rate strap and programmed zones from my metabolic assessment at Life Time. I wish I could input calories per zone but the edit feature for adding workouts and the tracking features are all great. I've used the Polar app and a few others and none come close to this. Easy to read while working out, easy to add specific workouts, organized. It's my fav. Two things to note is it can be sensitive and close the workout before you're actually done. Or if you take your monitor off without finishing the workout you lose your data. I'd love if those things could be addressed.Show lessNBinMPLS
Family registrations are messy through iPhone
Great app but messy registration process. Initially I started off with an individual rego. Then my wife also started using the app so I registered a family license. After changing to a multiple user family license it now shows activation only after next year when my individual license expires. So currently my wife only has access to the app and not I. Will lodge another support email. Hopefully I’ll get a response this time.Show lessgorrygarry
One glitchy feature keeps this from 5 stars
This application is great, barring one feature - a major one, in my case - that puts this at 2 stars instead of 5. I worked with Support on this problem and at this point it’s a known, unresolved/unresolvable issue, not a config problem or user error. If the following feature is unimportant to you then definitely give this app a go! The “bad” feature: - Streaming workouts to your phone: This is the promoted feature that made me choose this app. The watch-to-phone connection is lost very often, causing the phone to display an error and not show the live data. Sometimes the connection is restored quickly, sometimes not for 5+ minutes The good/great working features: - Voice notifications: Great - you can choose which stats to be notified of & when you’re notified. Huge list of selectable stats - Live graphs are great - Tons of config options to customize your watch, individual workouts, HR zones etc.Show lessjp_east
Awesome app!
I’m using an old F45 monitor with this app and it works a treat. So worth it! Absolutely recommend. Make sure you keep your phone close so you don’t lose Bluetooth connection but otherwise great.Mchouts
