SportWerks - Workout Tracker

Stefan Thomas

About this app

Are you looking for the BEST fitness-tracking app for your Wear OS watch?
Do you want this app to allow YOU to customize your screen to view the data you want to see during your workout, with large, easy-to-read numbers?
Do you also want this app to accurately track your workouts and then automatically send them to your account on Strava or FinalSurge or TrainingPeaks, or provide you with a .FIT file to send to any other fitness platform?

If you answered "YES" to any of these questions, you need SportWerks!

SportWerks allows you to do ALL of these things mentioned above, plus so much more, using only the Wear OS watch on your wrist. You do not need your phone with you. SportWerks will do ALL of the following:
• track any kind of workout that is in the Google Exercise library (Running, Walking, Cycling, Hiking, Indoor free-style, Swimming, Rowing, Alpine Skiing, Nordic Skiing, Snowboarding, Treadmill, Spinbike)
• track all aspects of your workout, including HR, Location, Stride Rate, Pace, Power, elevation, etc.
• give multiple workout screens to choose from (6-values, 4-values, 3-values, Laps) and the ability to turn individual screens on/off with one button tap
• connect to your favorite Bluetooth-Low-Energy (BLE) devices (from heart-rate monitors to cycling power meters) from the leading fitness companies such as Stryd, CORE, Wahoo, Polar, Suunto etc. See the table on the homepage for up-to-date device compatibility.
• send your workout automatically to Strava and/or FinalSurge and/or TrainingPeaks and provide you with a .FIT file for each workout, allowing you to import them into ANY fitness management system
• give you a companion app for your Android-based phone that allows you to change almost any setting on the app and watch it change in real-time on the watch; you can also manage your .FIT files from the companion app
• allow you to choose the length of laps from a preset list (currently 1KM, 500M, 100M, 50M, 1 Mile, .5 Mile, .25 Mile)
• allow you to choose the duration for announcer from a preset list (currently 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15 minutes)
• notify you via watch speaker or paired headset of data every set distance (lap) or every timed-interval (minutes), giving you the feedback you desire without needing to take your eyes off the road/track to look at your watch

SportWerks will be constantly improved, just get in contact if you have special needs.

Ratings and reviews

I've been using this for a couple of months now. It's a good app when it works but it is still buggy, these are some of the issues: *GPS initiation is sometimes very slow or fails to get a lock altogether, opening another app that uses GPS, like fitbit will help this app get a fix much quicker. *GPS doesn't filter well for accuracy, tends to over record length by perhaps 5%. * Pause and resume causes speed spikes if you move after pausing *No low battery warning & track is lost if runs out.

This app is amazing. It is a must if you want accurate tracking with an external heart rate monitor, directly on your watch. The app is extremely efficient and does not drain your watch battery and has a ton of features; including correction for calorie expenditure. You can have multiple sensors for bikes, stride and temperature connected to watch. The Bluetooth stack has been totally revamped and is very quick to find external devices. Most of all, the developer Stefan is quick at responding.

I purchased this yesterday on a whim, thinking a self-described "BEST fitness-tracking app for your Wear OS" can easily track interval training with cues for breaks and warm-ups and all that. Pretty standard for a good workout tracker I would think. Turns out this is not the case. The app might still be decent at tracking your workout but it's essentially useless for anything more than blindly going for it.

What’s new

- Update to Android API 36 and new Gradle