App Profile: Hydrow

Cabosail

Rating: 5/5

Amazing app! Unfortunately I have a different water rower that I bought prior to learning about hydrow but the work ups are the best . The visuals are great I like thinking I’m rowing outside. Great choices. You may not feel like doing a power work up but you can still do a breathe and get your meters in! They are very receptive I missed not having the opportunity to do airplay and now they have provided that!! I can’t wait to try Pilates on the mat workouts with them. Talented athletic coaches !! Very inspiring. I wish I could track my meters with them but I’m not buying another water rower at this time. Totally worth the monthly charge! Much cheaper than a gym membership. TOTALLY FIVE STARS!! motivates me to work out daily. Now you can filter through workouts to find your favorite coach or type of workout. Great job Hydrow

Speck378

Rating: 3/5

This review is written by someone who doesn’t own a Hydrow but spends $20 a month on the classes through the app for use with my water rower. Many hydrow classes are great - that is where my 3 stars come from, but the app isn’t polished and is frustrating to use during a workout. It doesn’t have native streaming to a television. It’s possible to mirror through an Apple TV but that does t work reliably. There’s also no way to filter classes, forcing you to scroll through all classes to find what you’re looking for. There are no options for on screen metrics like instructor stroke rate or elapsed time. Most frustrating, if you do want to touch the screen to pause or check elapsed time, the class will often just end and ask how you to rate the class. Forcing you to restart and scroll to where you were. Hydrow needs to study the peloton app which is a perfect example of good app design and functionality. Peloton has a small button that says end workout and that doesn’t come up until you’ve touched the screen. Please Hydrow - add filtering , screen casting and make it more difficult to end a workout.

zesty exuberance

Rating: 1/5

Removing 2 stars from my previous review since the app no longer shows video at full res on iPad. Guys, this is Mickey Mouse functionality here. If your app isn’t capable of dealing with screen orientation, compile separate versions for portrait iPhone and landscape iPad. Now I see either a cropped portrait mode video or a half-res or smaller landscape mode video that doesn’t fill the screen. I’m still paying $20 a month for a broken app that doesn’t integrate with other devices like every other app at this price point? Not much longer. Do better or I’m out the door like my friends who used to subscribe. Being taken for granted by developers is not motivating. Previous: I love the workouts, and rowing among with the instructors on the water is spectacularly motivating. But there's absolutely ZIP ZERO NADA integration with other equipment like my water rower, and you don't even allow users to enter their stats after a workout for personal tracking. For $20 a month that's a baseline function. Even Peloton lets you use other bikes in their classes, and for only a bit over half your monthly fee.