BoatCoach for rowing & erging

★★★★★ A great rowing app, I have used it for rowing my skiff and OarBoard 'training single.' Very effective for monitoring performance.

★★★★★ This app works really well on my Samsung S23 phone, which I bring in the boat with me (in a protective waterproof pouch that I attach to the various boat parts). It tracks speed, stroke rate, time, etc... just like a real speed coach! Works for all boat crew types. 💖

★★★★★ I'm a rower with 35 years of experience, this app has the features I need, rather water rowing or rowing machine.

★★☆☆☆ No added value unless you pay for a subscription. Free version is just a copy of erg data Edit: For use with concept2, I personally found no value added unless I paid. I'm not interested in Facebook or Strata integration.

★★☆☆☆ Used to really enjoy using boat coach just for logging my Concept2 rows. Now the app demands I use precise location information which I do not need or want, I use an usb cable not Bluetooth, not that that should matter for data transfer on a static rower. Poor show boat coach. This is another app I'll have to uninstall because of unwarranted data slurping. 🤨😒

★★☆☆☆ Will not connect at all to the concept2 rower via Bluetooth

★★☆☆☆ Potentially a very interesting application with lots of features, in reality it did not work for me. In only tried it in the boat, mainly to display basic information like stroke rate and speed. I appreciated the possibility to customize my own screen. Real flaw (with my phone) was that the stroke rate could not be determined reliably. Besides that I had practical problems while running it on my phone. It drained batteries too much, because the screen had to stay up. That caused the screen to be dimmed, which made it really unreadable. I had to use a waterproof sleeve which made that harder too. There were some annoying system pop-ups I could not suppress. And then there was the question of how to reliably and readably attach the phone to the boat. So in my experience, this might work for a cox, but not for a rower.