SmartGym: Gym & Home Workouts 4+

Absolutely perfect app

I want to start by saying I haven’t been going to the gym for very long, about 6 days a week for the past two or three months. I got smart gym a couple weeks ago and am extremely happy with it! It is a great app, I love how you can pick what body parts you want to work out and how long for and it builds an exercise for you. I’ve been getting into my workouts a lot more with this app. It’s really changed how I work out because I only stuck to what I knew before, whereas this app has such a vast library of exercises and diagrams that I’ve been able to use a lot more variations of lifting than I even would’ve thought possible. I also really like the measures and how it ties in with the health app, all of the pairing is really really smooth compared to other apps I’ve tried. I love how the trainer suggests changes to your workouts to really help out with progress. It’s good to push you! I love this app and will never stop using it for sure, it’s helped me stick to a good gym schedule and I love it.

TLDR:
The best gym/workout app I’ve ever seen, easy to create workouts that make sense and keep your body guessing. Seamless pairing between watch and app and the health app.

They fixed UI weirdness

Update: The bugs described below appear to have been fixed with the latest update. I’ll leave my original review up for posterity. The UI appears to work reliably. Now that it works, time to figure out if it’s any good!

I accidentally let my trial roll into a subscription, so I’m definitely leaving a review. I can’t understand how this app was chosen as the watch app of the year. It’s the buggiest mess of an app I’ve used. Multiple times over the course of each 30-minute workout, the app interface does the wrong thing. Instead of going to the rest countdown, it shows the next exercise screen with the previous exercise in it. I need to scroll down to the next exercise and then hit the “go to current exercise” button. This still takes it back to the weird screen, but when the next exercise is up, it will go to the timer screen correctly… that is, until it screws up again in 2-3 exercises. This is the most common form the bug takes, but it takes other forms too. I’ve had a countdown showing on top of the next workout screen and a few other permutations. It seems like the developer doesn’t use the app or else surely it couldn’t be released this way. I’m interested to see how it actually works if they could just make it work correctly! For now, it’s a big mess!

Not A Glitch

Just did my first workout with the app. The only set back I notice was; when not connected to wifi (i.e. offline) I could not update the reps. If I did more or less I could not instantly update. Error message said “app appears to be offline.” Currently, in various workout my reps are not accurate. Fix this issue and it’s an easy 5 stars… ***Update*** The developer did reach out and I thank them for that. As stated by the developer, “ that's not a glitch. You can use SmartGym while offline, but in order to sync your changes to the cloud, you will need an internet connection. It's important to note that it doesn't require it to be Wi-Fi. It can be cellular like 3G, 4G or 5G. If you have an Apple Watch, then you can already do your changes while offline. It will sync the next time your Watch has a valid connection. We're working on a future update to bring this to the iPhone.” this is a significant set back as everyone does not have an Apple Watch. The app has good features but this minor issue is huge. Not being able to update repetitions while working out offline with my phone is asinine, is like you’re implying get an Apple Watch.

***Update*** Not Worth the Money…still no offline feature and the app automagically archived all my workouts when I tried creating new work using the SMART TRAINER. This app looks great but other than that there’s way better user friendly better intuitive workout apps that is far less expensive .

Réponse du développeur ,

Hi Harry, as we've told you via email, that's not a glitch. You can use SmartGym while offline, but in order to sync your changes to the cloud, you will need an internet connection. It's important to note that it doesn't require it to be Wi-Fi. It can be cellular like 3G, 4G or 5G. If you have an Apple Watch, then you can already do your changes while offline. It will sync the next time your Watch has a valid connection. We're working on a future update to bring this to the iPhone app.