Fantastic - works brilliantly and great value
Love that I can just head out with my Apple Watch and collect the information on my row. One feature request would be adding a toggle to change terminology. We use stroke side or bow side rather than port and starboard so it was a guess when I was already out on the water. Price for a yearly subscription is good value.
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Great app
Works well for rowing
Sounds lovely, would be great if it worked on my old watch.
It requires watch os 9. Check this first in your Watch app, General, About. If you have e.g. v8.8.1, don’t bother, won’t work.
Best of luck, I may try again when this watch dies and I get a new one.
Installed twice, once with setting “automatically as watch companion apps”. When looking at the Apple Watch app, pocket watch is not listed. Maybe there it’s a requirement of a specific version of Apple Watch, who knows? Nothing mentioned in the forum or in the instructions.
Best of luck, I may try again when this watch dies and I get a new one.
Installed twice, once with setting “automatically as watch companion apps”. When looking at the Apple Watch app, pocket watch is not listed. Maybe there it’s a requirement of a specific version of Apple Watch, who knows? Nothing mentioned in the forum or in the instructions.
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Response from developer
Hi, could you please send me an email at info@pocketcox.com? I‘d love to help you resolve this issue!
Sounds lovely, would be great if it worked
Installed twice, once with setting “automatically as watch companion apps”.
When looking at the Apple Watch app, pocket watch is not listed.
Maybe there it’s a requirement of a specific version of Apple Watch, who knows? Nothing mentioned in the forum or in the instructions.
When looking at the Apple Watch app, pocket watch is not listed.
Maybe there it’s a requirement of a specific version of Apple Watch, who knows? Nothing mentioned in the forum or in the instructions.
Response from developer
Hi, could you please send me an email at info@pocketcox.com? I‘d love to help you resolve this issue!
Great app but could be amazing!
I have been using the unpaid version of pocket cox since the post on Reddit came out and I love it. It is easy to use and feels gives accurate stroke rate and split which is important to me because I do not have a stroke coach. This being said I do have two points of improvement which could make this app perfect for me. Number 1 would be making the app use the active/passive calories feature that the Apple Watch uses for its workouts in Apple health. I find that the pocket Cox app makes calories appear on my move ring solely based on my elevated heart rate and does not give me a sense of active calories burned. The second point of feedback would be to change your sweep side while creating the workout on the go. I row for a club which has people rowing both sides on a given day and when I use pocket cox, I have to set it on my phone before I set a workout. If there was a button to choose which side you were rowing on for sweep, it would make data collection more accurate and make the experience less clunky. Overall, great app and does an amazing duty, but could go the extra mile with a few quality of life improvements!
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Love it!
I tested all the different rowing apps available, and PocketCox is by far the best one by far! The measurements seem very accurate, and the layout makes it very easy to read in a glance on the water.
Great idea but needs some work
This is a good app idea and something I was looking for ever since I got an Apple Watch. The display setup on the watch is good and you can see the most important information with a quick glance. For me the data shown is fine but I’m sure there are some people who would like to customize the screen to concentrate on other values.
The stroke detection seems to work well for sculling but is not so good for sweep rowing. I get a track with lots of holes in it where no strokes were detected. This makes the tracking a bit useless for sweep rowing currently.
The battery on the watch drains very fast while using the app, it seems to be much quicker than when using other workout apps. I understand more sensors must be in use with this app, but hopefully this can be improved.
The stroke detection seems to work well for sculling but is not so good for sweep rowing. I get a track with lots of holes in it where no strokes were detected. This makes the tracking a bit useless for sweep rowing currently.
The battery on the watch drains very fast while using the app, it seems to be much quicker than when using other workout apps. I understand more sensors must be in use with this app, but hopefully this can be improved.
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Response from developer
Thank you. There was a bug in the initial version of the app that resulted in strokes not being detected when wearing the watch on the outside hand during sweep rowing. This should have been fixed in the most recent version (1.1). I'll see if I can improve the battery life in a future update.
