PEAR - Personal Fitness Coach Reviews – Page 10
5/5 rating based on 140 reviews. Read all reviews for PEAR - Personal Fitness Coach for iPhone.
PEAR - Personal Fitness Coach is free iOS app published by PEAR Sports LLC.
One of the best fitness apps!
Mimik2121
This app is great! The coaching and feedback regarding your workout results makes working out fun!
Not good for elliptical users
kritterbee
The coaches sound like either used car salesmen on a tv commercial or robots, and the interface made finding workouts that would work well on an elliptical difficult. If your heart rate doesn't immediately get into the range they've specified, their robotic voices would repeatedly tell you to slow down, or whatever and that got annoying. This app has the potential to be good because it is programmed to respond to your performance if you wear a heart rate monitor, which most other apps don't do. The developers need to find coaches that sound like genuine people and have them record multiple messages for the feedback so that you don't get tired of hearing the same ones. They also should consider a simpler interface where the user can click on the kind of exercise they want to do (i.e., elliptical) and it would filter for you. Overall, the app is geared towards users who plan to run in the real world. I found a different app that coaches high intensity intervals instead and deleted this one.
Hidden costs? No prices or purchase history in app.
histgirl
Cannot find a purchase history list in app and workouts don't include prices. Is this all free or have you guys scammed a bunch of money out of me? Dick move if y'all are hiding $25 charges everywhere.
Unfortunate Update
Monayan
Nothing works now! Sensor disconectes and reconnects constantly. No way to pair with My Fitness Pal. Use to love it, not anymore. Please fix!!!!!!!!!!!
Crash & Burn
Sethspady10
Loaded new update, took out on run, program crashed four times. Patience is growing thin with this app. Are there a bunch fifth graders in computer class running this train wreck. Every update seems to create more problems. Website could use some work also.
Couch to Marathon
kdb1974
I bought Pear in spring of 2013. My intent was to get a little more serious about running and, more to the point, lose some weight. I should mention that I am not nor have I ever been an athlete and I am not remotely athletically inclined. High school marching band was the height my sports career and the farthest I’d run without stopping was about 2 miles on a treadmill in 1998. So, when I bought Pear, my expectation was to get off the couch and, maybe, run a 5k in under 45 minutes. I started with a 5K training program and got down to 28 minutes. Then I downloaded 10K program and did a 10K race. Then a 10 miler. Then a half-marathon. In October 2015, I did my first full marathon. It took 5 hours and 27 minutes, but I’ll take it. By race day, I'd lost 40+ lbs. I also fixed my diet, joined a gym, and took up yoga, but my race training was all with Pear. Pros: The programs take the guess work out of training. You know what you need to do each day. If your heart rate is too high or too low, it lets you know. All you have to do is concentrate on putting one foot in front of the other. Cons: The program is subscription based now. It wasn’t like that when I bought it. That works for music, but workout programs that I use for months at a time? Not so much. So, taking away one star.
Great app
EandHdad
Love this app. Great workouts and challenging. Would love to see an overlay of heart rate and elevation on one graph. Run lots of hills due to my local geography. Would be nice to easily see how my HR compared to elevation.
Lots of errors
tcy1698
It's been a while since I used the Pear app (6 months). My HR monitor battery is almost dead with very little use (got it less than a year ago). Big problem is this version of the app is giving me an "Opps, an error occurred" after almost every selection. I can get it to start a workout that I saved from the past, but that's about it.