myRowPro vs RowHero
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
myRowPro
Enhance your indoor rowing experience with this companion app for Concept2 rowers. Create custom workouts, track progress, and access professional training plans tailored to your goals. Automatically log every row to your online logbook for detailed analysis.
- Connects to Concept2 PM5 via Bluetooth
- Create custom rows and training plans
- Track progress onscreen during workouts
- Auto-saves rows to online logbook
- Access hundreds of professional training plans
- Wizard to tailor plans to user physiology
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If you have a Concept2 Indoor Rower with a PM5 or later, then myRowPro is your key to getting the results you want. Check out these great features: • Runs in your iOS phone or tablet. • Create and row set pieces, training plans or custom rows. • Connects to your Concept2 PM5 via Bluetooth. • Just tap your screen to set up a row. • Track your progress onscreen while you row. • Auto-saves each row in your online logbook. myRowPro is the perfect companion for your Concept2 Indoor Rower. It connects to your Concept2 PM5 via Bluetooth - just turn on Bluetooth on your PM5, then pair it to myRowPro. Then use myRowPro to set up the row you want on the Concept2 PM5, and start rowing. While you row, myRowPro shows an onscreen rowing course, plus a handy PM twin and a dual stroke-by-stroke chart that tracks your pace and heart rate. myRowPro automatically captures every stroke while you row, and when you finish it uploads the row to your myRowPro online logbook. There you can see splits and charts of your performance, and you can analyze your progress vs. previous rows. You can also export your rows to your Concept2 online Logbook. myRowPro has a professional training system with hundreds of training plan templates for weight, fitness, and competition from beginner to elite, all created by training guru Jon Ackland of Performance lab International. There’s even a wizard to accurately tailor each training plan to your intentions, abilities and physiology, so it’s just right for you. Training plans make a big psychological difference to your rowing. We all intuitively get the difference between ‘will I row today’ and ‘what am I scheduled to row today’. It’s much more likely you’ll actually do the row if it’s part of a training plan. You can see what training workout you’re scheduled to do each day, and myRowPro sets it up directly onto your Concept2 PM5 for you to row. And of course, your results are logged automatically stroke by stroke so you can analyze them later. Welcome to myRowPro, and all the best with your rowing. If you have any questions, please contact us at assist@digitalrowing.com.
RowHero
This app provides stroke-by-stroke rowing performance data for athletes and coaches, storing results indefinitely. It offers insights into technique and fitness to help users improve their rowing speed and performance.
- Stroke-by-stroke erg results
- Wireless Concept2 PM5 connection
- Permanent workout storage
- Stroke length and potential split metrics
- Personalized improvement insights
- Team performance comparison
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Coaches: get 100% accurate, stroke-by-stroke erg results for your team, stored forever Here's how it works: • Before a workout, every athlete quickly connects RowHero to their Concept2 PM5. It's all wireless. • Every piece/interval result then gets sent directly to your app at the end of every piece. • You get access to everything you're used to, plus stroke-by-stroke breakdown of every piece, and new metrics like stroke length and potential split. And because workouts are saved forever, so you get to see your team's progress over time without trying to put together the right set of spreadsheets every single time. Rank results by raw speed or performance improvement to provide opportunities for everyone to shine. Athletes, find personalized ways to get faster As a former youth coach, my goal is to help you be the best competitive rower you can be. Here's what RowHero can do for you: • Never have to wonder about your 2K or 6K PR again. It's all right in the app for you. • Getting faster is all about understanding where you have the biggest area to grow: technique, fitness, and mindset. RowHero can help you identify where to focus based on its stroke length and potential speed metrics. • When you row with a team you can automatically you see how you stack up against others, so you can use your teammates as motivation to keep pushing for more. Stats are only part of the equation, but if you're driven to improve, you can build your confidence tremendously with what RowHero shares with you. Are you in? Questions, feedback, suggestions? Check out our website https://rowhero.com or contact us at support@rowhero.com. We are very open to helping you create the rowing data solution you need!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: RowHero at 100% against myRowPro's 15%. RowHero also leads on rating (4.6 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). myRowPro's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RowHero holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RowHero has 19 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 15% of myRowPro's written reviews are positive against 100% of RowHero's.
myRowPro ships an update every 3 months, RowHero every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | myRowPro | RowHero |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.6 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Digital Rowing Inc. | RowHero, LLC |
Customer experience
myRowPro
RowHero
In-app purchases
myRowPro
No in-app purchases
RowHero
No in-app purchases









