Nuke it and start over
I find the app to be completely useless. It doesn’t really tie in with anything useful either. The board rocks though, and I appreciate you guys for that!!
Videos don’t work
The app videos don’t work
Great Product, Horrendous App
I’ll mirror what other people have said - the app logs your workout time as the length of the tutorial video, despite telling you to do something that takes much longer. If it tells you to do three 20 second sets, but the tutorial video is thirty seconds long? It logs you as working out for thirty seconds.
As for the workouts themselves, you get a list of exercises to do and then a prompt to start the workout. But you never get those instructions again, just the above mentioned tutorial videos.
Come on guys, this is basic stuff. You should have product tested this, anyone would have called it out. The plank board itself is great and I’m loving using it. The app needs a LOT of work though.
As for the workouts themselves, you get a list of exercises to do and then a prompt to start the workout. But you never get those instructions again, just the above mentioned tutorial videos.
Come on guys, this is basic stuff. You should have product tested this, anyone would have called it out. The plank board itself is great and I’m loving using it. The app needs a LOT of work though.
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Identity Crisis
So Pure Plank app, do you want to be a fitness tracker? Or a tutorial library? As it stands, you can’t be both.
The app tracks the time you’re working out by the duration of the tutorial you watch, which is not accurate since the tutorials are under 40 seconds long. Meanwhile, the amount of time it takes you to do your sets/reps/rest could be as much as 90 seconds for the intermediate recommendation. So the app isn’t giving you the appropriate credit.
My current setup is using the provided timer and 2 devices - one for playing tutorials, the other displaying the recommended sets/reps/rest. Not ideal.
Quick solution: the tracker should keep the timer going even after the video is complete. Once the user completes their sets, they click a “workout complete” button and the timer stops and credits the user. Also, the recommended sets/reps/rest should always be visible during the tutorial and after the video ends, until the user clicks “next video.”
Wishlist solution: the user places their device at a distance and the app uses the front facing camera to display your posture superimposed with the tutorial, and the color changes (or audio signal for those that don’t want to watch the screen) based on the accuracy of your posture: Green for perfect posture, yellow for fair posture, red for poor posture. The app guides (and tracks) you through the recommended sets/reps/rest, tallying your total reps and your duration.
The Pure Plank board itself is great - sturdy, simple, easy to store, and doesn’t slide around. Hopefully the app becomes just as useful.
The app tracks the time you’re working out by the duration of the tutorial you watch, which is not accurate since the tutorials are under 40 seconds long. Meanwhile, the amount of time it takes you to do your sets/reps/rest could be as much as 90 seconds for the intermediate recommendation. So the app isn’t giving you the appropriate credit.
My current setup is using the provided timer and 2 devices - one for playing tutorials, the other displaying the recommended sets/reps/rest. Not ideal.
Quick solution: the tracker should keep the timer going even after the video is complete. Once the user completes their sets, they click a “workout complete” button and the timer stops and credits the user. Also, the recommended sets/reps/rest should always be visible during the tutorial and after the video ends, until the user clicks “next video.”
Wishlist solution: the user places their device at a distance and the app uses the front facing camera to display your posture superimposed with the tutorial, and the color changes (or audio signal for those that don’t want to watch the screen) based on the accuracy of your posture: Green for perfect posture, yellow for fair posture, red for poor posture. The app guides (and tracks) you through the recommended sets/reps/rest, tallying your total reps and your duration.
The Pure Plank board itself is great - sturdy, simple, easy to store, and doesn’t slide around. Hopefully the app becomes just as useful.
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I can’t log in!
I have an account, so I can’t register a new one with the same email, but the “Already have an account?” option is grayed out and inactive
App is not good!
This app is terrible designed. The latest update now crashes the app. Stop using cheap developers!
App crashes
Really love the product really love the exercises, except the app craps out all the time and will not open
Sign up screen needs a lot of help
I downloaded the app and I can’t even get through the sign up screen. If you tap a field and have to go back to make a change, the field is locked. Sometimes tapping around lets you type in the field again. The password fields don’t support automatic password generation, it only populates the “confirm password” field, but then both fields are locked out. I’ve tried to go through signup multiple times but can’t get through it. Hard to justify the cost of a Pure Plank board when you can’t even sign up in the app.
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App needs improvements
The board is fantastic but the app could use some updates like having longer videos to workout to instead of short 35 to 40 second clips
The App is dreadful
App does not work at all. Cannot even create an account to verify.
Videos need some work!
Would be helpful in future videos to have a signal that the end of a set is over, instead of just the three beeps when a set starts. It’s hard to watch the video to see where to stop while also doing the exercises. I would also appreciate in future videos to have some text on the screen during the rest time to tell me what the next exercise will be, so I can have time to rotate the board/move the handles/etc
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App needs ALOT of work
The board is great, the app is not. There should be people actually doing the workouts instead of just a tutorial of each movement. There is alot of potential for this app, Hopefully you guys at Pure Plank will listen.
Board expensive but ok app is horrendous
Board is ok and comfortable. App is horrendous. It has no user interface. I am unable to sign in.
The forgot password portion doesn’t sends a code to validate
You can’t see the box or move the screen.
It’s disappointing to say the least.
And that’s a shoot. For you wrestling fans you know that’s the real deal and not a work
The forgot password portion doesn’t sends a code to validate
You can’t see the box or move the screen.
It’s disappointing to say the least.
And that’s a shoot. For you wrestling fans you know that’s the real deal and not a work
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App needs full videos
The board is great, the app could use work. Don’t have 40 second videos of all the stretches. I need like a 15, 20, 25 or 30 minute full workout to follow along with. If they had those the app might be worth using to follow along but I’m not just going to log my time in here for no reason. Basically I’m ready to delete the app in the first week of having this but keeping the board for my planks.
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Unable to even to setup
App screen does not display properly on phone. Stuck on goals screen where unable to click button as not visible. Seems like app was not tested very well. Basically app is not usable
0 Stars
Easily the worst app I’ve ever seen. I wish I could include screenshots. You can’t get past the onboarding for the off screen, required, fields. Devs never tested functionality on a mobile device.
Not worth the Money
The actual board is fine. But the app is garbage. Hasn’t been updated in months. There are a limited number of workouts. The tracking of workouts is horrible. In need of a major update
App set up
Can not get past step 3 as noted earlier on setting up the app. Screen locks and does not show the next button. Unable to get to work, useless
Broken
I am unable to progress past the first step I setup. After reading some reviews, I realize I am not the only one with this issue. This app is broken.
Unbelievable
I love everything about this. I highly recommend it. Just got it a few days ago and already feeling a difference.
