WATERROWER Connect 4+

The rower is absolutely fabulous. We bought the blue tooth so we could connect the app to our iPhones. I am blind and the majority of the app works really well for me, with Apple’s Voice Over. Two minor glitches I cannot set the timer myself I need sighted help and there is no audible signal to tell me that the timer has finished. Please just re-program the app to take account of these glitches and my rowing experience would be even greater.

The app is pretty good during a workout, but sometimes it fails to recognise I’ve started rowing; what’s weird is the workout will then appear in Apple Health but not the WaterRower app. It also sometimes exports 3 separate workouts to Apple Health, where two of them are just for 0s and then need deleting manually.

It also doesn’t export the distance to Apple Health, which would really help to visualise the workout in other apps like Zones. I’ve also turned on Strava sync, but so far nothing is appearing there.

Honestly if they’d just export reliably to Apple Health with the distance I’d give it 5 stars.

The app has improved considerably, especially with the inclusion of the ability to do interval training. However, there are three major failings. First, you don’t need to have a rest period at the end of a series of intervals as the session has finished. So, for N rowing intervals, yo need N-1 rest periods. Second, the interval stats in the app need to be based on the time spent rowing, not the total time on the Waterrower. Thirdly, the correct data needs to be exported to Strava. The average stroke rate and 500 m splits should be based on the time spent rowing, not the total time.