RowingCoach

I’ve been using this app for 3 years now and have logged 688 hrs on it, mostly on the water. I use it with an Apple Watch and iPhone X. It tracks my distance, time & strokes accurately. My only complaint was that sometimes it would take a minute to pinpoint my starting location via GPS, which would make it look like I’d started rowing in the road, about a mile from the starting dock. I have worked around this by starting my row in the app while I'm on the dock but a couple minutes before I enter my boat, then ending that short “row” and starting a new session when I actually start rowing. The first session seems to give the app time to pinpoint my location. I later go back and delete the “false” 2-minute workout, and the real workout shows the proper starting location on the map.

This is a super simple app, but it does the job. It connects well with my Apple Watch and I can see my stats on my iPhone easily. While it’s off by a little bit from my rowing machine on stats, it’s not off by a ton and it doesn’t bother me. It counts towards Apple Fitness for the exercise ring on the Apple Watch, which is super nice! Love the dark themed UI! I will say, as a visually impaired user, it’s quite difficult to see the indicators for each number such as mi and SPM, but I’m learning to memorize where each number is since those are large and easy to see.

The trial worked great so I purchased the app to finish off the rowing season. However the app stopped showing the s/m while on the water the other day. I’m training for a race and that was the whole reason I purchased the app. I’ll give it another shot tomorrow and probably delete if it doesn’t work.

I love the GPS tracking and ability to record workouts on an Apple Watch. Sadly when comparing to NK speedcoach GPS data is way off, particularly SPM. Recent race I was at 32-34 SPM on NK, rowing coach data indicates 20-28!!!! There is no way I was that low.

I used the app with my Apple Watch Ultra 2 with a Concept 2 RowErg and it was wildly off. Adding around 5000 meters to a 25k row. I paid so I could upload the results to C2, there’s very little detail in what’s uploaded. My hope was that I could use this in place of ErgData. It doesn’t work for this. I’ll try it on the water and see how it does.

After using the app for a while, I find that it consistently underestimates my distance rowed on my indoor machine, and also underestimates the calories burned vs. what’s measured by my machine. I hope they fix these faults, so this becomes a truly useful app.

I have used this app for on lake rowing for a few years. I have the Ultra watch. After pausing my workout, SPM does not work real time after continuing. The history does seem to be correct when viewing overall workout.

After looking at your app it shows distance In miles this morning after rowing my regular route it shows 10 laps? Is there a way to get the distance in miles? Please advise! Thank you!

I had one indoor rowing session uploaded to health and pleased, I purchased a subscription. Now after purchasing, nothing gets uploaded to health, Strava, or even the phone app from the watch! The history is on the watch app but there’s no way to upload the data, the only option is “start new session”. I’ve uninstalled/reinstalled, checked permissions allowing all and only the upload permissions. Nothing works. Finally, every link in the phone app works EXCEPT the one to provide feedback to the developer.

I cannot get rowing session from my Apple Watch into MapMyFitness. It says it can do it but lacks instructions on exactly how to make it work. I’ve spent hours trying and retrying without success.