PT Timer: Stretch & Exercise

This app offers all you need to transform your good intentions about exercising into effective action. Whenever I've taken a few minutes to set up a routine in PT Timer, I've actually ended up performing the routine regularly and seen the benefits.

Nach so einer App habe ich schon lange gesucht. Jetzt kann ich endlich mein Stretchprogramm timen und mich ganz auf die Dehnung konzentrieren. Super finde ich auch den Countdown am Ende, um noch einmal alles zu geben. Sehr motivierend ist auch die Logfunktion.

If I barely touch the screen while exercising, the sound goes off and I have to shut down and restart the phone to get it back. ???

Exactly what I was looking for! Helps me keep track of my exercise reps and I love the audio functions letting me know when it’s time to move on to the next rep. Thank you so much for creating this wonderful app!

I have been able to use PT Timer to set up physical therapy, stretching and strength routines, and I feel like I’ve just scratched the surface to its fullest potential! I’m impressed how well thought out this app is, and if you can’t figure something out or think something’s not working correctly or have a feature wish, the developer answers just about immediately! I haven’t experienced customer support to this level in an app before. I also use PT Timer for my yoga asana practice and as a meditation timer. Even as a Pomodoro timer! The possibilities are endless.

I wish I had found this app years ago. I’ve historically had limited success with physical therapy or rehabilitation exercises because they’re boring, I procrastinate and run out of time, it feels overwhelming, I can’t keep track of when I did what, etc, etc. This app let me take out all the nonsense and just schedule something realistic and finite every day, and easily see when I’m done. I love the ability to send a report of my planned or actual exercises. The user interface is a little quirky at times with menus not exactly where I would expect them, but the learning curve is SO worth it. The developer plans to add the ability to share your exercises and workouts with other people. When this is added, it will be even better. But I already love it so much I can’t give it less than 5 stars.

If they can get it to stop crashing, it seemed like it would be helpful for coaching you through. Unluckily, it kept crashing while I was setting up my exercises and there were only 6 total.

PT Timer has most of the features I need but I won’t use it because it’s a subscription. I’d gladly pay for this app once and for major upgrades. It’s offputting to have the 1st thing you see in the app is a license agreement. How silly. Despite the developer’s claim, they do track you. They send home your UUID. The essential missing thing is the ability to add a photo for your PT exercise. My exercises should sync between all my devices, especially if folks pay a monthly fee. Exercises do export and import fine.

This is a very flexible app. But I added a photo to an exercise and it got chopped off. I’m unable to find a way to delete the photo. If I try to add an additional photo, the app aborts.

Therapy for my broken shoulder requires that I do ten reps, holding for 10 seconds, twice, for multiple exercises. I’m old. I can’t keep track of reps while also counting down seconds! And I’ll unconsciously cheat if I can; this stuff is painful. The PT facility itself uses a wonderful, expensive app that shows the exercises…but does it have a count down with hold times? It does not. It just swings blithely through the exercises. Useless!! It took me half a day to find an app that does what I want and this is it. It’s perfect. It was simple to set it up they way I wanted it. Get ready, start, hold… Put it this way, I’m stingy as heck but didn’t hesitate to pay the small amount when my free trial ended. In fact, I may explore beyond my simple 10x10 setup.