PocketCox vs Wobble Rowing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PocketCox
This app uses your Apple Watch to monitor on-water rowing performance, providing detailed metrics like stroke rate, speed, and heart rate. Analyze your sessions with graphs and share them across popular platforms. It's designed for rowers of all levels aiming to improve their training.
- On-water rowing workout tracking
- Comprehensive performance metrics
- Workout segmentation
- Automatic workout pause
- Detailed session analysis on iPhone
- Workout sharing to Strava and others
- Secure data storage in Apple Health
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PocketCox is the most advanced rowing performance monitor for your wrist. It leverages the high-end sensors in your Apple Watch to track your on-water rowing workouts, and delivers you with comprehensive data, helping you elevate your training without the need for a dedicated device. PocketCox is the perfect tool for both amateurs and professional rowers looking to improve their performance on the water. TRACKED METRICS • Stroke Rate • Speed / Split • Distance • Number of Strokes • Recovery-Drive Ratio • Heart Rate • Calories Burned FEATURES • Record rowing workouts with your Apple Watch. • Easy-to-read design optimized for legibility on the water. • Break down your workout into individual segments. • Workout gets automatically paused if you stop taking strokes. • Review and analyze your rowing sessions on your iPhone with detailed graphs showing split, stroke rate, ratio and hear rate. • Share your workouts effortlessly on Strava, Concept2 Logbook, TrainingPeaks, Rowsandall.com, and Intervals.icu. • All data is stored securely and privately in Apple Health and iCloud. --- PocketCox requires an Apple Watch running watchOS 10.0 or later. --- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pocketcox.com/privacy
Wobble Rowing
This app measures the stability of your rowing shell in real-time, calculating a "Wobble Factor" to help you improve your technique. It also tracks stroke rate and pace, providing per-minute summaries and saving detailed data for analysis.
- Measures shell stability (Wobble Factor)
- Tracks stroke rate (SPM)
- Monitors pace (min/500m)
- Real-time data capture
- Per-minute session summaries
- CSV data export for analysis
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Wobble Rowing measures the stability of your rowing shell during training and racing. In the spirit of "You can't improve what you don't measure", Wobble Rowing captures the motion of your shell and calculates the Wobble Factor which is a measure of how much your boat is rocking side to side. What Wobble Rowing measures: Wobble Factor — shell stability in real time Stroke Rate — strokes per minute Pace — minutes per 500 meters After each session: A per-minute summary shows your average pace, stroke rate, and wobble factor so you can track improvement over time. A CSV file is saved to your iPhone for detailed analysis. The CSV file captures data 10 times a second. Privacy: No personally identifiable data is collected. An anonymous ID is used to contribute data to a research database to help improve the model. GPS is used only to determine speed and location. Wobble Rowing is always free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wobble Rowing at none against PocketCox's 2. Wobble Rowing also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 88%). PocketCox's advantage is ratings volume (24 vs 2) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, rating, 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. PocketCox sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Wobble Rowing asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for PocketCox against 5.0 for Wobble Rowing. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PocketCox has 24 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of PocketCox's written reviews are positive against 100% of Wobble Rowing's.
PocketCox ships an update every 4 weeks, Wobble Rowing every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PocketCox | Wobble Rowing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (24 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nicolas Camenisch | William North |
Customer experience
PocketCox
Wobble Rowing
In-app purchases
PocketCox
- PocketCox Pro3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- PocketCox Pro14 Days trial$12.991 Year
Wobble Rowing
No in-app purchases
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