Jacfit vs Rowing Workout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jacfit
This app combines fitness with technology, offering interactive workouts through sensors and smart bands. Engage in motion-based games, challenges, and customizable cycling or running routines. It also features a virtual pet that evolves with your activity and a community for connecting with other users.
- Interactive workouts with sensors
- Motion-based games and challenges
- Customizable cycling and running tracks
- Virtual pet evolution through exercise
- Global leaderboards and tournaments
- Fitness calendar and progress tracking
- Community features and clubs
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Jacfit combines fitness and gaming to make every workout more engaging, motivating, and fun. Turn exercise into an immersive experience and build lasting healthy habits with every session. Simply pair your dedicated Jacfit smart fitness device to seamlessly sync your workout data and unlock exciting fitness challenges. Whether you're slow jogging indoors, running on a treadmill, using an elliptical trainer, riding a spin bike, or cycling, Jacfit transforms every workout into an interactive virtual adventure. Immersive Virtual Fitness Experience: • Explore over 17 unique routes featuring a variety of landscapes and distances. • Customize your workout duration and target distance to match your personal fitness goals. • View your workout history and performance statistics at a glance with the built-in calendar. • Join global championships and compete with players from around the world. Create Your Avatar & Raise Your Fitness Companion: • Customize your avatar with a variety of outfits and accessories to express your unique style. • Hatch, raise, and evolve your virtual pet through regular workouts. Let your fitness companion grow stronger alongside you every step of the way. Jacfit is continuously updated with new routes, avatar customization options, pets, events, and challenge modes—bringing fresh experiences and new goals to every workout. Start your virtual fitness journey today and enjoy a more immersive, motivating, and rewarding way to stay active!
Rowing Workout
Track your indoor rowing sessions with detailed stroke analysis and real-time progress monitoring. Compete with yourself and others on leaderboards, and seamlessly export your data to popular fitness platforms.
- Precise stroke and distance tracking
- Real-time iPhone display of metrics
- Automatic workout pause/resume
- GameCenter leaderboards and challenges
- Export to Strava & Concept2 Logbook
- Bluetooth connectivity for rowers
- Detailed performance analytics (subscription)
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Elevate Your Rowing Experience with Rowing Workouts for your Apple Watch. Looking to take your rowing to new heights? The all-new Rowing Workouts app for your Apple Watch is finally here! This isn't just an app for recording your rows; it's a comprehensive tracker for every stroke you take. Features: Precise Tracking: Capture not only your rowing sessions but also track every individual rowing stroke. The measured force is used to estimate the distance covered, providing accurate insights into how many meters you've rowed daily or weekly. Personal Challenges: Challenge yourself by sharing your training data and competing against your own best performances. Witness your personal progress and draw inspiration from your own training. Seamless iPhone and Apple Watch Integration: While you're training on your Apple Watch, your iPhone reflects your current data, serving as a clear display for your progress. Monitor your activity rings, burned calories, heart rate, strokes per minute, speed, and more in real-time directly on your iPhone screen. Convenient Control: Start, pause, or stop your workout at any time directly from your iPhone. Take a short break - the workout will automatically pause and seamlessly resume when you're ready. All your workouts are, of course, stored in HealthKit for a comprehensive overview of your fitness. GameCenter Integration: Compete on leaderboards for the fastest 1000m and 2000m times, longest rowing distance over 14 days, and more. Challenge your friends and compete directly against their times and the global best. NEW! Export your workouts to Strava & Concept2 Logbook Take your training data with you wherever you go. You can now export your completed rowing workouts directly to Strava and the Concept2 Logbook—including distance, time, heart rate, and all essential metrics. Keep your progress synchronized across the platforms you love and stay motivated by tracking your achievements everywhere. Connect Your Concept2 PM5 Monitor or FTMS-Compatible Rowers via Bluetooth: Experience precise and comprehensive data tracking by connecting RowErg with PM5 to the app via Bluetooth. This integration allows you to monitor key metrics such as distance and stroke rate with incredible accuracy. Now, you can enjoy the full benefits of the app without needing an Apple Watch—only when a rowing machine is connected via Bluetooth. This makes the app accessible to more rowing enthusiasts. In addition to Concept2, the app now supports a wide range of rowing machines using the FTMS Bluetooth protocol, including: WaterRowers with ComModule Half Human Air Rowers Many First Degree Fitness Rowers Many Skandika Rowers And other FTMS-compatible rowing machines Introducing Optional Subscription Benefits: Detailed Analyses: Dive deep into your performance with graphs and statistics. Understand your progress with visualized data on strokes per minute, power exerted, and split times. Advanced Stats & Comparisons: Compare your training sessions and track your improvement over time. Gain insights into your performance and how you stack up with past workouts. Download it now and embark on your path to becoming a stronger, fitter version of yourself! Be aware: Rowing workouts require an Apple Watch to track your movements and training data unless you have connected a rowing machine via Bluetooth. Health App Integrations: Rowing Workouts uses your health data from the Health App (HealthKit) to display your energy burned, record your workouts, and display your current heart rate. Privacy policy: http://apps.gogolith.com/privacy Terms and Conditions: http://apps.gogolith.com/row-terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Rowing Workout at 4.6 against Jacfit's 3.5. Rowing Workout also leads on review sentiment (68% vs 46%) and ratings volume (208 vs 47). Jacfit's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Rowing Workout sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Jacfit asks for nothing beyond the download.
Rowing Workout holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 47 and 208 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Jacfit's written reviews are positive against 68% of Rowing Workout's.
Jacfit ships an update fortnightly, Rowing Workout every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jacfit | Rowing Workout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (47 ratings) | 4.6 (208 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.3% of reviews | 68.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 47 | 208 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 392 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JSPORTS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. | Christoph Gogolin |
Customer experience
Jacfit
Rowing Workout
User reviews
Jacfit
From 47 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to navigate app
- 📺 Cast to TV functionality
- 🏃♀️ Motivating for walking/running
- 🎮 Gamified workouts with rewards
- 👨👩👧👦 Fun for the whole family
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitchy avatar movement
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 Does not save ride/run data
- 🐛 Inaccurate speed/distance readings
- 🔋 Poor battery life of sensors
Rowing Workout
From 208 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Clean, intuitive, Apple-like interface design
- 📊 Comprehensive rowing metrics and analytics
- ⌚ Excellent Apple Watch integration
- 🏥 Seamless Apple Health synchronization
- 🎮 Engaging gamification with Game Center leaderboards
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent Bluetooth connectivity issues with rowers
- 🐛 Apple Watch syncing delays and failures
- ⚠️ Inaccurate stroke counting at low rowing speeds
- ⚠️ Inconsistent distance measurement recording
- 🐛 App lags 10-30 seconds behind watch display
Bugs and requests
Jacfit
Reported bugs
28 issues- Avatar doesn't always walk
- App crashes frequently
- Does not save ride/run information
- Cannot save data or record 'J' coins
- Speed dependent on magnet placement (no standardization)
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- Only connects to JACFIT speed sensor
- Crashes 30s into workout
- App crashes and closes frequently
- Never saves roaming run data
- Sensors don't keep up (shows stopped/barely moving)
- New update prevents saving rides
- Connectivity issues from the start
- App just spins and spins, never starts (login)
- After upgrade, cannot access, just spins
- App crash on iPad
- App crashes before starting anything
- Out of Memory error on iPad after update
- App shuts down completely when trying to start certain workouts
- Keeps disconnecting from treadmill
- New update doesn't work
- App shuts down game before workout is done
- Worlds will not register
- Sensor reads all over the place, inconsistent
- App slows down phone, causes overheating
- Keeps disconnecting from iPad
- No casting ability from app
- People are cheating on the app (unrealistic speeds)
- App keeps crashing after updates/reinstalls
Requested features
7 requests- Apple TV version
- Include Puerto Rico flag
- Add race mode against the computer
- More content, skins, and customizations
- Higher quality graphics
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- Ability to cast from phone to TV
- Add more workout types
Rowing Workout
Reported bugs
12 issues- Bluetooth connection drops between app and PM5/rowers
- Apple Watch connection failures and sync issues
- Stroke detection unreliable at slow rowing speeds
- Distance calculations significantly undercount actual distance
- Phone app metrics lag behind watch display
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- Workout auto-pausing mid-session
- Incomplete stroke counting (missing 2-4 strokes per session)
- FTMS mode instability - workouts fail to start or stop prematurely
- Exercise rings not updating in real-time
- Heart rate data not picked up from Apple Watch
- App fails to detect when rowing starts on connected rower
- Incorrect calorie calculations
Requested features
10 requests- Support for additional rower types beyond PM5 (FTMS protocol support)
- Landscape orientation for iPhone app
- Strava integration and syncing
- Ability to edit distance in completed workouts
- Custom heart rate zone configuration
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- One-time purchase option instead of subscription
- Family sharing for Pro subscription
- FDF Console pairing support
- Retroactive distance input after workout completion
- Heart rate zone time tracking display
In-app purchases
Jacfit
No in-app purchases
Rowing Workout
- Pro - monthly$1.991 Month
- All Pro features (monthly)$1.991 Month
- Pro yearly7 Days trial$12.991 Year
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- All Pro features (yearly)7 Days trial$19.991 Year









