G-SHOCK MOVE

If you buy one of the G-Shock watches that use this app, you WILL download it. It does make many tasks much easier than doing them through the watch. I just hope the developers continue to work on it. (I especially hope they can come up with firmware updates to resolve some of the issues with the GBX-100.) 1) Alarm format. It is much faster to set alarms here than through the watch. However, my watch is set to 12H format and when I set an alarm there at least it lets me easily see what time I am setting it for. Through the app alarms are all set using 24H format. Can I add 12 hours to the PM time I want in order to get the correct number? Sure, but it’s a unnecessary step. 2) Alarm options. The alarm feature would be so much more useful if it were more like the alarm setting on the iPhone itself with the ability to set each alarm to repeat on select days of the week. Also, if you could name the alarm so a short message would show up on your watch so you know exactly why it’s going off. 3) The app tends to be a bit laggy anytime you switch from one screen to another. 4) There is a “phone finder” option from the watch. The app could stand to have a “watch finder” feature.

I don’t normally write reviews however this app is so poor, especially considering it comes from a large company like Casio. First, every time I closed the app it would log me out, and even though my watch was paired to the phone I still had to reregister it. Now, the app doesn’t even launch, hanging on the G-Shock screen indefinitely. Seeing all the positive reviews for the other G-Shock app makes me question why there are two separate apps at all, even if the watches have separate feature sets. TLDR: Casio needs to do better than sending out bug fixes every couple of days that don’t do anything and instead move functionality to the other G-Shock app, or start from scratch. Update Feb 2021: I was prepared to update my review, as with an update the app launched and worked well, for about two months. Yet again, it hangs on the G-Shock screen indefinitely. At this point it’d be better if Casio just released an SDK so people could build their own app, because they are clearly too inept to build one themselves. Still not fixed as of May 2021.

I use it together with gbd-h1000 watch. The app is working as expected. I underwent several watch firmware update procedures with no noticeable glitch. From time to time watch gets disconnected from the phone (happens only if the phone gets out of range) in such case I simply reconnect it via phone’s bluetooth control panel. One annoying thing I noticed is that the pulse sensor is not turned off automatically when charging cable is connected! These two are obviously can not be used simultaneously)) Another possible improvement would be to add support for swimming. So far the soft simply assumes that the activity was performed on soil and after one recorded swim track the app simply shift the coordinate so that whole track is constrained to land.