Pocket Yoga Teacher 4+

This is the only app worthy of spending $10. Considering it’s much cheaper than all of the other subscription yoga apps, it’s a winner for me. Great for all spans of knowledge of yoga practice; you can access a community of teachers that create workouts you can download. Also, when crating workouts, they are very customizable with breath counts, timers, adding music, repeats and holds for poses. They have a TON of moves available with very soothing and helpful voice guiding (optional). Using this app on the iPad is much better than the phone because it’ll give you pose names and descriptions for each. My favorite feature when creating workouts is the Suggestions tab that gives you options for next poses based on the previous pose. This can be very helpful to someone with little knowledge of yoga flow especially vinyasa. I’ve already recommended this to all of my yogi friends! My only complaint is that it doesn’t have a watch app yet🤞🏼

Thanks and kudos to the developers for this! I’m new to yoga and bought a book with sequences that I wanted on my phone, and ended up getting this. While I’m glad I did, a few suggestions to the developers after a few days of use: 1) Add bulk settings to added poses! I have to manually change each pose to, for example, 30 seconds with countdown. Doing this for each pose is quite tedious. 2) Add more info to the TV when mirroring, such as what you see on your phone (time, next poses, etc.). 3) Improve screen mirroring overall? For some reason sound sometimes drops (maybe it’s my TV?). 4) Add a few more perhaps non-yoga yet useful poses, such as the tried-and-true traditional squat. 5) Add a man as an option for the teacher? Not that I can’t follow a cartoon woman, but 99% of yoga apps/videos are women, signaling that real men don’t do yoga. Reinforcing such gender stereotypes is toxic to society. 6) Add a subscription option? While this would cost me more, I’m happy to support continued development :)

These folks designed a fine pair of Yoga applications. The drawings are simple and provide a clear picture of the asana. The voice is pleasant. The spoken instructions are well-timed, concise, clear, and instructive. I am sure I could say the same about any number of other Yoga applications.

So what brings me to this rave review of 'Pocket Yoga Teacher?' I wanted to construct a series of poses in 'Pocket Yoga Teacher,' and it balked at doing them in the order I proposed. Suspecting a bug in the program, I contacted support and got a prompt reply from support. Let me repeat that. I GOT A PROMPT REPLY FROM SUPPORT. The folks supporting the application pointed out problems with the series of asanas I had in mind and offered improvements. The problem was an operator failure (me) and they corrected it.

These folks know a lot about Yoga and programmed it into their applications. It may not be blatantly obvious, but it was there lurking beneath the surface to help me.