Start With Yoga User Reviews

Name: Start With Yoga
Rating: 4.1 (42 reviews)

Start With Yoga

I/O Assembly

🌟 Lifestyle

💪 Health & Fitness

Customer Experience

Positive experience50.0% of reviews

Neutral25.0% of reviews

Negative experience25.0% of reviews

~ Based on 16 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Start With Yoga Safe?

Start With Yoga appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Start With Yoga is 78/100.

This assessment is based on 42 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.1/5.

Safety Analysis

73.8% of ratings point to a safe experience

16.7% of ratings suggest some concerns

9.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 42 App Store ratings for Start With Yoga.

Is Start With Yoga Legit?

Start With Yoga appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Start With Yoga is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

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Super appli mais vraiment rajouter un signal sonore entre les poses

Il faut vraiment un petit signal sonore (bip, etc.) entre les poses de yoga car ça empêche de se pleinement se concentrer durant la séance, ce qui entame le plaisir.

Si fait, je rajoute la 5ème étoile !

Hazemo1963

5 years ago

Response from developer

Salut merci pour les commentaires - nous l'ajouterons dans la prochaine version.

Simple, yet effective

This app is great if you are already familiar with the poses. The preset routines are great for beginners and quick lunchtime stretches.

The illustrations are cute and easy to follow. I also really like the vibration indicating it’s time for the next pose and the music playing directly from my watch.

I haven’t created my own routine yet, but that looks easy and intuitive. You can also set how long you want each pose to last.

TofuRose

5 years ago

I want to like it!

I really like that this is a watch yoga app. I like the animations and the music. But I really wish there was some kind of announcement about position changes or some kind of guide to walk me through the poses. It feels like a very abrupt shift between poses and then I have to look at my watch the whole time so I can’t focus on my breath or movements or anything except the stress about getting to the next movements, which is less than ideal for a type of exercise specifically for de-stressing.

captainthundercunt

5 years ago

Exactly what I wanted.

It lets me quickly put together my own routine, and gives me visual, audible, and haptic cues at each step. It doesn’t yet have all the poses I use (low lunges, pigeon pose), but it’s easy enough to find one close enough to tell me what I’m doing. And it records the workout in HealthKit.

I had the same problem some have mentioned with naming custom routines, till I figured out that pushing “return“ at the end of the name solved everything. There are no instructions for the poses, so a total beginner would want to start with an app that had those, or even better, a live class. But for my purposes it’s close to perfect.

K4TY1975

6 years ago

why won’t it work!

can’t get it to work on my watch? keeps saying it’s not paired in the app. but it is paired and connected to bluetooth. so frustrating

Cathryn0404

6 years ago

Response from developer

Hi, sorry you’ve had trouble connecting. One customer had this problem before and restarted their watch and the app connected. Email us if you like us to try and help hello@ioassembley.com. Geoff

Pretty good but current bug

This is a nice app for the Apple watch. However, as another commentator mentioned, I can no longer add names to the custom workouts. This really needs to be fixed

Mark_a_listener

6 years ago

Response from developer

Hi, Sorry you had trouble entering names of workouts. If you’d like to email us we can try and help you get it working. Hello@ioassembley.com Geoff

Great concept but misses important features

I find the idea and the simplicity of the app great. I also like that you have to pay once and not monthly.
However, it would be great to add a voice saying the name of the yoga positions in order to be aware of a change in the series.
Also, my iPad tries to go to sleep mode after a certain time. Could it be possible for the app to force the wake mode? Thanks. Keep up the good work!

Gawel13

6 years ago

Response from developer

Hi, Thanks for your review - great suggestions we’ll see if we can build those. Thanks!

Not what i was expecting

It is off to a great start of being an app. Not what i was expecting. How do I get a refund?

Laura Alexis

6 years ago

Response from developer

Hi Laura, Thanks for your review, if you go to the customer service / account section in the App Store you can request one there. Thanks! The Start with Yoga team

Pretty good

This app has real potential. There appears to be a bug not allowing me to change or add the names of workouts. Would be nice to be able to highlight the workouts I like best. Also if the watch app could announce the name of the next pose as the time to change positions happens then looking at the watch would not be required. I’m hoping there will be continued improvement because this app is what I have been hoping for for some time. There appears to be no volume control on the watch app when I’m using AirPods to hear the audio. The sound is not loud enough for me.

Willfont

6 years ago

Response from developer

Hi; Thanks for your review - we’ll check that bug, thanks for letting us know. If you click on the text does it work? Would you mind emailing a few details across to hello@ioassembley.com so we can look into it. Thanks very much for the missing features feedback, they are great ideas will try to add those in in the future. Thanks! Start with Yoga

Horrible don’t waste your money

Was hoping for a more calming, relaxing, organized yoga workout app and this is basically a DIY. Terrible

Josieeee16

6 years ago

Response from developer

Hi, thanks for your feedback sorry to hear that. We tried to keep the design really simple. If you follow our Instagram start_with_yoga we post new routines each week that you can download for free. You can download more at our site ioassembley.com/all-routines. You can request a refund if your not happy. Geoff

Love the idea but lacking poses

Please include more poses!

I love the app and use it almost daily but with the limited number of poses available to create a routine with it makes it difficult to get a well-rounded yoga routine set. Please include more beginner to intermediate level poses ASAP!

aagarrett

6 years ago

Response from developer

Hi, thanks for the feedback - we’ll try and bring some new poses out for the next release! Geoff

I had high hopes, but I cannot recommend this app.

I had really high hopes for this app; however, I can not recommend this app.
I intended to use this app to build a modified yoga routine to use as a cool down at the gym. My hope was that I could build and save a routine (or few). Then, after my workout, I could start the app and then it would prompt me through the routine after specified intervals (30 seconds). Unfortunately, the app fell short.
My first complaint is the limited number of poses available to compose into a routine. Many of my standard poses were not included in the list so I couldn’t “include” them in my routine. It would be nice if there was an option to add a custom pose (even if it is just in text format).
Second, while using the app through the Apple Watch, there is no audio prompt to identify the next pose. You have to be able to see the face of the watch to see the pose, which is impossible in most poses.
Lastly, I really wish there was a trial period for this app. I know the cost is not substantial, but if I had the opportunity to try the app even for one day, I would have realized that the app would not meet my intentions and I would not be out $2.99 for an app that I will not be using in the future.

Me998760789482873920

6 years ago

Response from developer

Hi, Thank you for your feedback, sorry to hear you weren’t happy with the app. If you turn on Taptic notifications the Watch will give you a Haptic Tap each time the positions change. If there are any positions you’d like included please drop us an email at hello@ioassembley.com and we’ll see if we can add them. Geoff

Nice, but clearly not a finished product

Start With Yoga is decent for what it is: a simple yoga app geared towards beginners. The main UI needs a lot of work, as it is ugly and unintuitive. I get they were going for a clean look, but it’s downright spartan and takes some time to figure out how to actually do the handful of things you can do.

Once you start a routine the display is very clean and easy to read. They don’t give any direction other than a cartoon image of the position and its name, which works and looks pretty, but you may need to look up some of the positions to get a better idea of what to do.

The integration with the watch is top notch and is the killer feature imo. You can use this app entirely from your watch with no loss in functionality, which is great.

Edit: The sharing function looks like it’s working again. This is a pretty nice feature, so happy to see that working. The developer adds new routines on occasion, but being able to share between users is even more awesome.

There is currently no integration with HealthKit which is a dealbreaker for many these days. Hopefully this can be added in at some point. (Edit: developer says it’s on the way)

All in all it’s good enough that I’ll keep using it but it’s hard to recommend paying for an app that is clearly unfinished.

Edit: Glad to see the developer very involved with the community here, I will be updating my review as the new features come out.

mdolton

6 years ago

Response from developer

(Edit) Hi - thanks again for the feedback, we’ve just released the Health Kit update, workouts on Apple Watch now send data to Apple Health, and the app now lets you see active calories as well as heart rate after a workout - Geoff Hi, thank you for your review and your detailed feedback. Our next release is going to connect the app with Apple Health so your watch will send data across for each workout you do. I’ve just put up a new routine on the website you can find it here ioassembley.com/all-routines/ We’ll put more up over the next few weeks - glad to know you’ve been using them. If you have trouble downloading this one please drop us a note and we’ll try and help. Thanks for the feedback on the iPhone user experience - we’d like to improve that later this year. Thanks again. Geoff

Updated review.

They’ve updated the app so now you can do the sequences and the timer will run for each pose you hold and alert/buzz you when it’s time to switch to the next pose.
Much much better and I am now able to enjoy the app.

The biggest issue: You have to look at watch for it to work.
When you start the app you have to look at your watch the whole time so that it counts the seconds for each pose you do. If you do the pose and are not looking at your watch the watch goes to sleep so you can be in a pose for a minute and it won’t alert you to move to the next pose. Which doesn’t make sense because you can’t look at your watch while doing some poses.
Also the screen will clear and then you have to click back in to the app so progress to the next pose.
Would not recommend this app at all.

MichelleMock

6 years ago

Response from developer

Hi, thanks for downloading a copy, sorry you’ve had trouble with it. Do you have a Series 5 watch? The Series 5 shows the time and blurs the background app - you just need to raise your arm or glance at the watch to see the next position when you receive the haptic tap. If you’d like further information on how to use the app check our site ioassembley.com

Doesn’t teach anything

Descriptions talks about beginners and learning yoga... it doesn’t teach anything, not even a few words or video on how to do each pose. It’s just a single picture of each pose while you do the “routine”, worthless if you don’t already know the poses.

wombatsoldier