ZRX: Zombies Run + Marvel Move 12+

So much love for this app

Zombies Run make exercising so enjoyable, as a person who gets bored to death exercising this app is the perfect thing to keep me entertained, also the story is so compelling that it makes you want to go out and exercise more so you can keep listening to the story.

So much potential...

But bugs, and missed opportunities, as they chase new products. I paid the sub for a year but it’s unreliable. Simple features don’t work as expected. The Apple Watch app seems unreliable too. But hey buy our new campaign or our merch!

Update several years later. The Apple Watch app is unusable junk. The rest of the app seems better than when I joined, but occasionally bugs out. For a few runs it was throwing chases at me almost non-stop. Otherwise it’s ok. They have two tiers of premium, but I don’t like the features of the top tier so I’m glad I’m not forced to choose between added feature stuff I don’t want and the original ZR stories.
Not sure why they still run the marvel stuff in the same app. I feel like they should make a dedicated app for that, or rename it to “story runs” or something. But I guess they’re using the game of ZR to promote the Marvel and other content.

Developer Response ,

Hi friend!

Thank you for taking the time to write this review. We plan to update the wearable integration sometime in the future so we should see some improvements in that area that will hopefully change your opinion as well.

As for any other bugs or issues you might encounter, please contact our support team at support@zrx.app so we can work with you to get them addressed.

Awesome idea, but way too buggy

I’m training up for a 10k run, so I thought gamifying my training would be a great way to go. This app is solid idea, but massively let down by a large number of really serious bugs:

* “Internal” music player doesn’t seem to play music from your Apple Music playlist, leaving you to run in total silence (just use the “external” player, always)
* Apple Watch app is incredibly buggy, connected during the first run but never gotten it to work since
* Runs don’t always pick up your heart rate
* Training course runs don’t attach to the right day
* Premium (paid) sync feature is atrocious, when it works it only syncs some data but not others
* Tried reinstalling the app to resolve some issues, lost my most recent run and all of my “Training Course” progress

At over NZ$40 *per year*, I’m gonna have to give this one a hard pass due to the poor quality of the app itself. Shame, it was shaping up to be an awesome way to get fit...