Awesome and getting even better! – iSmoothRun Review

Edit 2: iSmoothRun’s support is great. When I updated to iOS 11, I forgot to update my watch, and lost my iSmoothRun watch app. Their support patiently helped me out (remember to update the watch with the phone :) Edit: I've now used this app for at least 6 years. It is my go-to app for events and love the Apple Watch integration. One key trick (for me) is to start and stop the event on the watch (for a long time I tried to start on the phone and ended up having two events go off when I switched to the watch). I happily recommend iSmoothRun to all my friends. I just finished the Hershey Half Marathon with iSmoothRun, and it was wonderful! For a little background, I have run halves and fills for 4 years, and have tried RunMeter (a nice second place to iSmoothRun), RunTracker, Kinetic, and MapMyRun+. iSmoothRun is clearly developed by runners who saw what was missing, added those features, and topped it off with some nice polish. For events in cities, sky scrapers totally mess up the GPS, so the combination of GPS with accelerometer is brilliant (the accelerometer kicks in when GPS is lost). Counting step rate allowed me to keep my rate much more consistent at mile 11-13. Auto-pause after 10 seconds works very well (I am very slow pressing stop on my arm after a half). I hope this app takes off for a very selfish reason: I can't wait to see what other features they pack into this thing. Right now, you need to turn on the metronome after you start the run, which is my only complaint. And yes, I have absolutely no affiliation with them (I do computer development for a small DC firm).
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