Best Apple Watch running app?

Interesting - a lot of this is making me reconsider my thoughts of choosing the Apple Watch (havent bought one yet but was thinking of getting one)

I want a watch that I dont need to switch all the time which is what prompted the idea of the apple watch as I can just work and also run without having a work watch and a run one. Yeah its kind of odd but it is what it is - if GPS is not accurate it may be totally out for me - as I feel that's the most important, some of the upper level Garmin's I have heard also have a foot pod which I also don't like. My favorite watch of old (no GPS) was the Nike angled ones - did what I needed with buttons and I liked the way it looked as well.

Ran with the Fitbit Surge and found it to be accurate and pretty straightforward but it has not been nearly as durable as I would like.

So now I am back to looking into all of these again...

Here is what I use for all of my training...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Casio-F91W-1-Classic-Black-Digital/dp/B000GAWSDG

I went back to a Garmin for running. It seems to me that Apple watch doesn't take a measurement as often as it should. My Garmin is every second, so for the most part it doesn't chop corners off. When I look at route from Apple watch, regardless of the App I used, the corners are almost always chopped off.

Nah, stay away from the Apple Watch. I stupidly wasted my money on the Nike Apple 2 watch last year when it was released and have worn it maybe a dozen times. As others have said, it's useless as a serious running watch without physical buttons to take splits in a track workout, stop at a signal, etc. The main reason I bought it is because I often run in the morning or at lunch and my work colleagues sometimes need to text or call if something urgent has come up. I carry my iPhone in a spibelt around my waist (which works great -- no bounce), but I frequently didn't hear the notification of the call/text because of traffic noise, etc. Or I'd hear the phone, I'd stop and pull it out, and it would turn out to be some idiot telemarketer or random text message. But with the watch, notifications go to it and can be responded to from it, and so I can take a quick glance without stopping. Love that. But what I didn't realize at the time is that it turns out that I get that same notification functionality from the Garmin FR 230 that I subsequently bought (probably all Garmins can do this) PLUS it's a great running watch. I can't answer a call or text from the Garmin, but I can see who's calling / texting and stop if needed to pull out my phone, which meets my needs. GPS accuracy is mixed on all watches, I think. I'm not all that impressed with the Garmin's either. If I'm running and out-and-back with clear views of the sky, it seems pretty good. But turns, trails, trees, buildings, etc, and it's wildly off. But, for whatever it's worth, I've worn them both a few times and the accuracy (or lack thereof) seemed similar.

Try turning GLONASS on when running on trails.

Find one here https://sportnomad.net/article/best-running-apps

DietBacon wrote:

Try turning GLONASS on when running on trails.

How do you do that? I’m running in Northern Europe this month and after seeing your post I read up on how GLONASS will help with accuracy out here. In fact I got lost on trails earlier today, freaking Google Maps took me up a side of a mountain, through mud and some prickly crap. Ended up running the last 3 miles back in the dark. But how do I turn it on? I have a Series 3.

For future reference, it wouldn’t be as helpful once I get back home to the US, right? I live about as far south as it gets.

I’d say that iSmoothRun is the best in that it lets you use physical buttons instead of swiping/tapping the screen and provides audio splits if you don’t want to look at your watch. Also, it makes it very easy to upload workouts to wherever you want. AppleWatches suffer from GPS accuracy/precision issues but that can be solved with Stryd...although it’s an expensive proposition.

I use the Strava app and it works very well. Always get the same distance (within .1 miles) as my friends' Garmins and Polars. Plus it uploads all your runs automatically. The on-screen buttons are difficult to use, but the auto-stop is usually reliable. For workouts, I just use the stock stop-watch app and manually log to Strava. Not ideal but still good. The stop-watch is easy to use during workouts even though the buttons are on the screen.

Gotta check out Get Set Go app if you are interested entertainment and networking. =)

Android -

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.getsetandrun.app

iOS -

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/get-set-run/id1176063952?ls=1&mt=8