YMCA of Silicon Valley YFit 17+

The YMCA is great already, but the app makes everything 110% better! Keeping track of workouts and providing incentives to keep you going. Everything is very easy to find as well, whether tracking different types of workouts manually or using eGym equipment that records workouts automatically.

So bad. Won’t work at all on my SE IPhone. The rest of this critique is from IPad. ** Not a user friendly app. First off I was annoyed that I had to have an account. I didn’t on web version. Why couldn’t we enter our member number like the libraries let you in entering our library number. But, OK. But when I tried to create account, I found the stated requirement for password does not match what is actually required. It says password must be 8 characters, contain an alphabetic, plus either a number or symbol. I entered nine characters, alphabetic and numeric, but that failed. I entered a capital alphabetic character, a number, and a symbol, which worked. So what are the rules? Next, trying to find a swimming appointment was not simple. Instead of having an expand/collapse choice for each date, one has to page and page and page down to find date through all the lists of slots. PLUS, it does not show full classes on first page like the web version does . So you have to go into each entry to find class closed, and then return. There should also be a choice to search on a particular date or a particular Y and a date and Y. I was hoping the app was better than web version, but it is not. Phooey!

The app works well with Precor and Strava. The interface to eGym is weird. It says open on App Store and it’s not clear if it’s tracking or not.

I use Apple Watch to track classes like Pilates as well as for swimming - it even knows what stroke you do. So it would be much more useful if it tracked using the Apple Watch or maybe synced with Apple Health on an iPhone - but then you’d have to be careful not to get duplicate readings.

The colors and artwork could be better.