RuckWell: Rucking Tracker

For some reason. the “stop” button doesn’t want to respond on my phone and I have to stand there and press it lots of times until it finally reads it. I try to keep walking while doing that so I don’t tank my pace but it’s frustrating when you need a quick pause for an interruption or bathroom break. Also, the calories calculated when still moving are way higher than what it reports at the end once you save the workout. I’m not sure why. Other than that, I really love this app and it makes it fun to record my rucks. I screenshot the stats after and add it to Hevy for the walking workout since rucking isn’t an option on there.

Great app. My one complaint is the iPhone app defaults to no vo2 max protection and while you can change it, you have to do it every time because the app doesn’t save your preference. To add annoyance to this, the watch app shows vo2 max protection is on, but if you didn’t change it on the phone before starting a ruck, RuckWell is going to write a “hiking” workout to whatever apps you have connected to it. That means your vo2 max will go down. Very frustrating. But hey, it’s free so this is really just a nitpicky complaint. Thanks for the app! Edit: an update has removed the vo2 protection it seems. I no longer see any option to turn that feature on or off. Maybe it’s behind the paywall now🤷🏻‍♂️. Since the main reason I went with this app is because it had that feature, I’ve been trying, quite unsuccessfully, to see if that feature is still in play. So far, Reddit comments, and an email to the developer have gone unanswered. Edit 2: the feature lives!

Been using this app daily for approximately 6 months. Was nearly perfect with the exception of a few small issues prior to the redesigned interface released a few weeks ago. I am starting / stopping workouts from my Apple Watch. About 50% of the time after I end my workout on my watch, when I go to the app on my iPhone, it’s missing data from the workout. When I open the app, I get a message that says “workout imported from Apple Fitness.” When that happens, no data comes in for elevation, steps, ruck weight, ruck power, and ruck work (all are 0). Also, during my workout, I keep an eye on elevation gain. Approximately 20% of the time, elevation gain stays at zero for the entire workout or it stops recording during an active session. And the latest issue that just started 2 days ago is with total calories burned. Before I end my session, I check distance, calories, etc. Today, I burned over 800 calories during a 5.5 mile ruck according to the watch app. When I ended the workout, it recorded 342 total calories. Same situation yesterday. Finally, please make the fonts bigger for current pace and average pace. My old eyes can’t see font that small on my watch. I have sent emails to their support team for most of these issues over the past few weeks and haven’t heard back from them.