Pretty terrible
This app used to be great, but is now terrible. It stays open on the watch for hours after finishing a workout, and if you have the watch app you must play music from the watch to hear the voice commands. Seems that they stopped developing or improving the app years ago. I will be moving to a different platform.
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Great simple app
Fantastic easy to use good prompts
App used to be good
But it’s not anymore. Every single session now gets recorded twice in the health app. One with all the data but a incremental workout number (e.g. week 1 day 1 records as workout “0” while day 2 is “1”), and another, useless one, with only the time, though it does indicate week/day.
This app hasn’t been updated in years, so just find a newer app at this point.
This app hasn’t been updated in years, so just find a newer app at this point.
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Has potential but has issues
First off, it’s great to have a program with no ads AND no subscription fee. But two glaring things make it disappointing
1- The app doesn’t announce the “run/walk” times when my phone is locked! Why?? It will only interrupt my music and narrate properly when I have the phone unlocked in my pocket. So there’s a workaround but it’s still annoying.
2- Even when I do the above and get all the way to it announcing “workout complete” it won’t actually record my stats and complete the workout for me in the app. I have to open the app again, and if I don’t do that right when the workout is over, it doesn’t save my stats. Since I usually go from my cooldown straight back to my family or to work, this is annoying.
Fix these and my rating would go from 2 to 4 stars. Add GPS and a map of my workout and it would be a 5.
1- The app doesn’t announce the “run/walk” times when my phone is locked! Why?? It will only interrupt my music and narrate properly when I have the phone unlocked in my pocket. So there’s a workaround but it’s still annoying.
2- Even when I do the above and get all the way to it announcing “workout complete” it won’t actually record my stats and complete the workout for me in the app. I have to open the app again, and if I don’t do that right when the workout is over, it doesn’t save my stats. Since I usually go from my cooldown straight back to my family or to work, this is annoying.
Fix these and my rating would go from 2 to 4 stars. Add GPS and a map of my workout and it would be a 5.
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Got me to my mileage
Wonderful app! Got me to running my 5K!
Don’t Waste Time/Money
Won’t work with other apps or talk to you with cues when to walk or run. Unless you don’t listen to music or use other apps & want to hold your phone so the screen isn’t asleep, don’t waste your time with this app.
Great!
I’ve been running on and off for years, and this app is always great at helping me get back on track and work up my strength again.
Recently got an Apple Watch and was thrilled that this app worked well with it out of the box, even when I leave my phone behind at home.
Great stuff! Keep it up, Felt Tip! I appreciate you!
Recently got an Apple Watch and was thrilled that this app worked well with it out of the box, even when I leave my phone behind at home.
Great stuff! Keep it up, Felt Tip! I appreciate you!
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Similar to original
Had the original C25K app RunDouble by CoolRunning for many years but they were bought out by a more expensive company that takes up a lot of memory over 100 MB. This app is only 15MB has all the original functionality and simplicity of RunDouble. I can still listen to Pandora as I run. It cost $2.99 but so did RunDouble in 2016. It will take a little time to find because the bigger apps appear first in App Store. It doesn’t break down the stats as well as the original and doesn’t show a map of your run but stretching feature is nice.
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Great
I love the simplicity and effectiveness of this app. Now I am using the apple watch version and there is a little annoying bug. The app comes back on by itself even after I close it, and I cant see the clock because it’s always on the screen.
This app works!
I walk every day for exercise but do not run. I have a personal goal of running a 5K. A year ago I downloaded the app and followed it faithfully. And it worked! I can now run 3 miles, albeit not very quickly! I run 3-4 times a week now. The pace of the program is great. I have not been able to run an actual
5K yet due to pandemic, but I will. Best money I have ever spent on an app.
5K yet due to pandemic, but I will. Best money I have ever spent on an app.
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Disappointing
Purchased today to start my to5k journey again. This only talks to activity in Apple and not Workouts. I was hoping to export to another social running app but it doesn’t talk to much. I’ll be requesting a refund and going back to Couch to 5k as I can run an Apple workout in the background.
Great running app
Love this app. Appreciate the 5k and 10K are not identical.
Potentially-great product, marred by buggy Watch interactions and poor support
Since they offer a Watch app, I’ve been running just with that. Everything is great until it can talk to the phone, and then I end up with duplicate workouts, both differently-incomplete and neither able to be imported into Strava.
My support query was met with a response of “you should stop running with your phone” (even though I’m not) and nothing else despite repeated messages.
Would have gone on to buy the bundle to get me to a half marathon if it had worked, but instead I’m deleting.
My support query was met with a response of “you should stop running with your phone” (even though I’m not) and nothing else despite repeated messages.
Would have gone on to buy the bundle to get me to a half marathon if it had worked, but instead I’m deleting.
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Very Basic, Buggy with Apple Watch
I’m on week 6 and I’m now running more than 20 minutes straight, which is a first for me. I was able to complete each workout and didn’t have to repeat any so far, so I feel like the progression is good. It’s good as far as the program and the stopwatch go, but otherwise it’s very basic and has some bugs. I use it on my Apple Watch and it regularly fails to announce the run/walk intervals when they start, so I have to keep checking my watch while I run which is annoying. The app on my phone does not store any of the data from my runs (distance, pace, HR, etc) so you can’t compare those to previous runs. So the only real improvements you can see are your increased times.
If the app stored your run data and the Apple Watch bug was fixed I would give it 5 stars. Kid if frustrating that people have been complaining about the watch bug in the reviews for a long time and it’s still an issue.
If the app stored your run data and the Apple Watch bug was fixed I would give it 5 stars. Kid if frustrating that people have been complaining about the watch bug in the reviews for a long time and it’s still an issue.
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Does not work on lock screen
Very frustrating as if your Apple Watch locks screen.. it stops working.. so you miss prompts..
Useless
Useless
Not worth the money
So the good things are the warm and cool downs. They are pretty good, all round body warm up and stretches for when you’re done.
Bad things are, it’s not any better than the couch to 5k app (which is free) it says when to run but this one is a robotic voice (I’m happy with). But it also didn’t always seem to work when I lock my screen, meaning I missed parts when it said to jog so just keep walking for ages.
I thought it would say my speeds on the jogs and walks as it says it has gps. No ... no it does not. It didn’t even have a map to show the route. Literally just says how far I ran.
I’m going back to using couch to 5k and my gps app (Runkeeper), I hoped this would have been both so was happy to pay. I regretted it.
Bad things are, it’s not any better than the couch to 5k app (which is free) it says when to run but this one is a robotic voice (I’m happy with). But it also didn’t always seem to work when I lock my screen, meaning I missed parts when it said to jog so just keep walking for ages.
I thought it would say my speeds on the jogs and walks as it says it has gps. No ... no it does not. It didn’t even have a map to show the route. Literally just says how far I ran.
I’m going back to using couch to 5k and my gps app (Runkeeper), I hoped this would have been both so was happy to pay. I regretted it.
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Excellent
Very simple. 5/5
I used to love it
I have recommended this app to many people and find myself using it over and over when I have fallen off the exercise ‘wagon’.
However...
My current dilemma: it has stopped tracking my average pace and distance consistently. Some runs it will, some it won’t. I use the app the same way every time so I don’t understand what’s wrong. Same when I use the app on my Apple Watch. No distance, no pace, no heart rate reading.
Also, I’ve had runs where it resets itself...like, I start my 3 minute run and after what feels like FOREVER, I glance at my phone and see that it has gone back to the warmup. Weird. And frustrating.
However...
My current dilemma: it has stopped tracking my average pace and distance consistently. Some runs it will, some it won’t. I use the app the same way every time so I don’t understand what’s wrong. Same when I use the app on my Apple Watch. No distance, no pace, no heart rate reading.
Also, I’ve had runs where it resets itself...like, I start my 3 minute run and after what feels like FOREVER, I glance at my phone and see that it has gone back to the warmup. Weird. And frustrating.
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No after run report
The functionality of the app is fine. The notifications work. Having the stretches is nice. I will not be using this app again and will be deleting it. There is no after run report. Nothing that says your over all pace, your distance, or your average heart rate. You can see it all during the run but once it’s finished it’s gone. Having that run history would be nice to see the progress and distances changed. Waste of $5.
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So many bugs for a purchased app
Voice commands won’t work if you leave the app.
Stretching workout will sometimes randomly start playing mid run which you can’t turn off.
It makes the phone very hot when using, probably because you have to leave the app open if you want it to work.
I bought this app so I could store stats but I can only see stats for the run I just completed. I wanted it for comparisons etc. I’m going back to my free version because at least I don’t have to keep checking the phone every 90 seconds during the run.
Stretching workout will sometimes randomly start playing mid run which you can’t turn off.
It makes the phone very hot when using, probably because you have to leave the app open if you want it to work.
I bought this app so I could store stats but I can only see stats for the run I just completed. I wanted it for comparisons etc. I’m going back to my free version because at least I don’t have to keep checking the phone every 90 seconds during the run.
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