SmartRow 4+

Good and stable app. To make a workout truly great I would suggest SmartRow do the following adjustments to the experience;

- make it so that the workout can be paused during «normal» workouts. If I have to briefly stop rowing the counter keeps going which is annoying and makes the whole session off in terms of reaching my time goals.

- make it so that even if you complete your assigned distance the app keeps counting the total distance you row. I always watch a series or listen to music during longer training sessions and it bugs me that I always complete the assigned distance without getting a warning and that the distance I have rowed beyond what is assigned is not counted towards my weekly goals.

If you can do virtual rowing at some point that would be really interesting!

I see Scandiwi wrote a year ago that the app was very basic. That may have been true then but not today. It has all the features you would expect from a training app: benchmarks, stats, friend finder, training routines, competitions etc.
The only other comparative app I have experience is with Zwift. But the interface here is miles ahead of them. The app is very user friendly and i was able to connect to Smartrow and my pulsemeter in seconds.
I have yet to true the competition aspect of it so i cant comment on that part yet.

My updated comment. Earlier version had very poor comparatives and I gave it a 2 star. I agree with a more recent comment that it has improved. Now good intervals and race stats. But 2 remaining issues: the pairing with iwatch has been “beta” for over a year - and is buggy. iWatches are now so many years old tech that to not get it working and final is just poor development effort. This relates to the race mode where you have to join their off-apple website and share all your personal information to unlock. So i can only assume they dont like Apple and want your data