PainSled

UPDATE- 15 Dec 18 App connection to pm5 keeps dropping out!!! I lose all connection and my race is over by the time it resets the peloton is 30+ sec up the road and no way of catching it!!! Any chance the designers could up date app to work with latest IOS This App Allows me to access the class world of Zwift on my rower, albeit my aviator is a cyclist I still to blast around some class trails, race and complete some epic training session all based around Watts. Defo worth getting and setting up. Only reason its not a 5* review is i keep having problems syncing the work out to the Concept 2 log book, a little bit frustrating but still an excellent app.

I use it to row with my Concept2 on Zwift. No issues.

Overall I am pleased with painsled. But, it is at the cost of losing connectivity to apple health kit. So my workouts are not logged on iphone. It's a shame.

Pros: Easy synch to concept 2 Collects a wealth of information Range of options to export data Cons: Minimal options on data screen Please allow option to show peak force, drive time or drive length on screen as you row. ErgData has that feature (although exports less data)

I decided to try the app based on several positive web reviews and its potential for providing enhanced data to analyze my workouts. I rowed a test session with the app to see if worked as expected . It smoothly connected to my PM5 and recorded the workout without issue. I then tried to sync my workout to the Concept 2 Logbook, and it failed. I tried employing the troubleshooting techniques for this issue but could not resolve it. I sent a support message to the developer on 9/7 and have yet to receive a response. Apps sometimes have bugs and sometimes the problem is user error, but I expect a developer to respond to a support issue in a timely fashion. Three weeks (and counting)is way too long. I wanted this to be the answer to my search for a better rowing app, but right now it is not.

I want to like it but every time I use it with zwift it freezes after about 25 minutes of rowing. The app will stop updating my wattage and zwift will show a 0 output. Even when I restart PainSled and it starts to recognize my rowing wattage again, zwift won’t work until I exit the race I’m in and re-pair everything.

Great app for rowers wanting a bridge to the cycling app Zwift! Thumbs up

I really liked this app. It differs what it's supposed to. The only thing I find annoying is deleting workouts. You have to individually select each interval one by one, then hit delete, then confirm. Atypical workout might consist of 8-10 sets, so that's 30 or more steps just to delete your data after syncing. There should be an option to select all then delete.

Been waiting for this for years C2 exported to common analysis packages. Needs some tweaks, but still 5 !

My activities import into garmin and Strava as Bicycle Rides, not Rowing. It's easy enough to manually change it, but I still hope it gets fixed.