New release broke integration between Apple Watch and phone app – Endomondo Review

Loved this app but when they decided to make watch standalone app, you can no longer use the phone app for displaying heart rate or anything on the dashboard from the watch. Support told me this was by design. Sure - if doing something outdoors makes carrying the phone impractical then it makes sense. But for those who are doing aerobics on older machines like elliptical, the app on the phone seated on the machine is more practical than trying to look at the watch. As someone in tech, you should always cover more use cases vs dropping them. The watch app is ok at best and really not as good as the app that Apple provides. If Endomondo was really trying to create value above what is native with Apple then they would never have dropped the mirroring between watch app and the phone app. I did not renew my annual premium because of this change. Too bad as I really liked how it worked before.
Review by Apple-freek on Endomondo.