I recently started using this physical therapy app and have been impressed with its comprehensive approach and great visuals. The detailed exercise instructions and on-screen animations are helpful and easy to follow. However, I’ve encountered one significant issue that impacts the overall user experience: the app does not allow for rest periods between reps of exercises, such as stretches and dumbbell reps. For example, when stretching for ten seconds, there’s no built-in time to rest for a couple of seconds before moving on to the next rep. This means I have to manually pause the timer to accommodate these brief rest periods, which disrupts the flow of the workout. If the app incorporated these rest periods into the animations, it would better reflect the reality of how to perform each exercise and significantly improve the overall experience. As it stands, I can only give it 3 out of 5 stars. Addressing this flaw would easily elevate my rating to a full 5 stars.

I’ve had physical therapists give me work to do with this app twice and I hate it. It moves too fast and assumes you have everything all lined up and ready to go all in one place ready to jump to the next exercise in two seconds. I’m at the gym, sometimes I’m at home. Sometimes I’m working with a massage table and a countertop. Sometimes I’m improvising. The set up of these workouts gives no allowance for the fact that you need to get up off the floor, get down on the floor, move to a chair, put something under your back, put something under your knees, put something elastic around your leg. Bear in mind, we are doing physical therapy because we are injured somehow. It’s not always easy to leap from one position to another. And for what it’s worth a robot voice telling me to take a rest and giving me five seconds is NOT a rest. Just give me a printout of what the exercises are that I can look at and then start them. How long since given up on using the app as something to keep up with and let it log my exercise as I do it. Not practical.

Each activity needs to be done on each side to keep things even. This app doesn’t do that on its own. I have to manually get up and switch it and go back to do the other side between each exercise. And when it’s one that isn’t easy to get out of position to go grab my phone, it gets really annoying. The app has made improvements. It didn’t use to even give the time to do the exercise. Just showed what it was, said how many reps and then you would have to pause it to do and then get up, grab phone, go to the next and so on. So I’m really glad that got fixed. It’s halfway there. This one fix would make the world of difference in me using the app. In essence, for it to play like an exercise video you follow along with. That is my biggest pet peeve on some exercise videos that aren’t in real time essentially. I hope this makes sense. So it can play through, all reps equally without having to get up and change things between.