Junk
If you’re downloading this app, chances are you have a Bowflex or Schwinn product. My condolences. This app is awful.
The small manageable problem: every time it loads, it tells you to perform maintenance on your equipment. Manageable, if not for the other problems.
Such as the app refusing to transmit to an external monitor. I use one. The problem isn’t my device or the monitor. I play my own music from my device to the monitor and it’s better speakers with no problem. But the app freezes and disconnects every time.
Next problem: the recent update. Johnson appears to have eliminated all interval scenes from the app. Those were the only ones I used. All gone.
I shouldn’t be surprised. I bought the C6 in January 2026. The magnetic resistance failed twice in the first six months. Total downtime waiting for Johnson to come fix it? Seven weeks.
Do yourself a favor. Don’t walk, don’t even run. Get on a bike and pedal as fast as you can from Bowflex/Schwinn. Just use a different bike or you won’t get far.
The small manageable problem: every time it loads, it tells you to perform maintenance on your equipment. Manageable, if not for the other problems.
Such as the app refusing to transmit to an external monitor. I use one. The problem isn’t my device or the monitor. I play my own music from my device to the monitor and it’s better speakers with no problem. But the app freezes and disconnects every time.
Next problem: the recent update. Johnson appears to have eliminated all interval scenes from the app. Those were the only ones I used. All gone.
I shouldn’t be surprised. I bought the C6 in January 2026. The magnetic resistance failed twice in the first six months. Total downtime waiting for Johnson to come fix it? Seven weeks.
Do yourself a favor. Don’t walk, don’t even run. Get on a bike and pedal as fast as you can from Bowflex/Schwinn. Just use a different bike or you won’t get far.
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Out of sync motivation
This app was really good until recent version got updated and now motivation with video is so much out of sync. Bring back the old version asap.
New update
Attempted to use my IPad but it won’t support new update since not IOS 18 or later. Used iPhone 16 for first time and completed the Galway 30 minute triple peak pedaler as I’ve done many times before but voice was 5 minutes ahead of the ride. Not in sync. Never had this happen before.
Will not connect to m5
Will not connect to m5
No longer supports M5. Probably will not buy or recommend this brand again for that reason.
No longer supports M5. Probably will not buy or recommend this brand again for that reason.
Velocore
Love the bike but the workouts haven’t been refreshed in years. Very disappointing considering the annual subscription fees. They need to step up with newly refreshed training
Mostly Great
I’ve really been enjoying the rides and especially the adaptive workouts but there is definitely a major lack of non-bike workouts available with the subscription. Especially in Pilates- there are only 30 minute max workouts and a few of the 30 minute ones are only actually 23 minutes. The instructors can be a bit tough to follow because they stop doing the movements during the workout. Would really like to see an improvement on that area considering the cost of subscription and what is offered on Peloton.
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Incomplete
For over 6 months whole sections of the app have almost no workouts. I’m simply told “we’re working on it”. Horrible way to treat a customer.
Best
Best app to use for workout been using it for years dropped 80 pounds!
Crashes constantly
Absolutely terrible. I paid £3500 for a exercise machine and have to pay another £20/month for the app and it crashes AT LEAST once a week. Cant even finish a workout without it just timing out.
Great app. Needs more and newer content.
I’ve used the JRNY app with my MaxTrainer for almost 2 years. The app itself, its tracking features, and the adaptive workouts are great. The lacking element is new content. It seems Bowflex has never had a content update. A real shame. They ought to let other people develop new content that could be posted to the app. If they did so this would be a fantastic feature.
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Some fixes
Should make it easier to search by exercise types. Integrated smart watches easier for HR tracking
Frustrated
This app is useless. The entertainment section is not working and I have rebooted both my schwin recumbent bike and my iPad. There is no customer service. The online help does not provide a phone number or link. I am really disappointed. The app had been working until yesterday. It worked for 15 minutes, then shut off the music turned off. How disappointing
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Meh
has potential but for the price they ask. not worth it
Not fully able to use
I can’t fully give the best review because I can only seem to use the app on my treadmill and it’s BXT6 model and I just learned about the JRNY app when I was looking for indoor bike so I decided to do the trial and purchased a BowFlex Velocore and I can’t use it on the BowFlex Velocore it says upgrade and it won’t allow me mirror from my phone, can’t get the Zwift app to work on it either so my trial is not working as I had hoped
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Maintenance Reminder
The Bowflex JRNY maintenance reminder pops up every single time, every single time! Every time that it connects to Bluetooth. No associated schedule or timetable in which you need to see just what actually needs maintenance to be done. It’s just a redundant annoyance that you have to acknowledge before the program can run.
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Awesome
Refreshes me and my day. Improvement is visible.
Shouldn’t be an app
The app is fine and mostly does what it claims to, but there’s no way it should cost $13/month. All the functionality should be included either on the machine or in a free app that is bundled with the original purchase price. Paying an expensive subscription so I can use basic functionality on piece of equipment that cost $1,000 is insane.
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Doesn’t work for m7
I am very frustrated that I can no longer use the bowflex app to track my workouts with my M7. This new app no longer supports the older machines. That’s very frustrating that I can no longer track my workouts.
Will not record workouts
Contacted support and told them watch data not going into JRNY. JRNY not recording workouts since the first one. Support said Apple Watch does not work with JRNY. I mean who knew? What a joke. Only records if I don’t use watch
Bring back select tech
How can you do this.... we buy the weights. We had an app. I had my exercises in the app and boom. Gone
