# Row Smarter

> Row Smarter is a rowing computer for iPad and iPhone. It reads an indoor
> rowing machine over Bluetooth and shows live pace, power, stroke rate, heart
> rate, the force curve of every stroke, and technique analysis. It is in
> TestFlight beta and is not on the App Store.

## Pages

- [Home](https://rowsmarter.app/): what the app does and which hardware it works with.
- [Questions and answers](https://rowsmarter.app/faq): direct answers to the common questions.
- [Privacy policy](https://rowsmarter.app/privacy): what data is handled and where it goes.
- [Terms of use](https://rowsmarter.app/terms): the terms, including the Pro subscription.
- [Support](https://rowsmarter.app/support): how to get help.
- [Everything, as one file](https://rowsmarter.app/llms-full.txt): the whole site as plain text.

## Platform

- One universal app. iPad with iPadOS 18 or later, iPhone with iOS 18 or later.
- Native SwiftUI. No web views.
- Published by Yottabyte Solutions B.V., Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- In TestFlight beta. Not released on the App Store.

## Hardware

- Works with any rowing machine that speaks the Bluetooth FTMS standard.
- Works with a Concept2 indoor rower fitted with a PM5 monitor.
- Works with a WaterRower fitted with a SmartRow sensor.
- Works with any heart rate strap that speaks the standard Bluetooth Heart Rate
  Service. A strap is optional.
- The force curve needs a PM5 or a SmartRow. A plain FTMS machine does not
  transmit one, so on one of those the app cannot draw it.
- Drive-to-recovery ratio needs drive timing, which a PM5 and a SmartRow send
  and a plain FTMS machine does not.
- Pace, power, stroke rate, distance and heart rate work on all of them.

## Data and privacy

- There is no Row Smarter account, no email address and no password.
- No analytics, no advertising, no tracking, no location.
- Sessions, strokes, saved workouts and training plans are stored on the device.
- Sync is designed to carry sessions, saved workouts and training plans through
  the athlete's private iCloud CloudKit database, and settings through their
  private iCloud key-value store. No Row Smarter server is involved.
- Sync is active. A session rowed on one device appears in History on another
  signed in to the same iCloud account.
- Apple Health is optional. Read: body mass, height, date of birth, biological
  sex, resting heart rate, heart rate samples. Written back: the completed
  rowing session with its distance, active energy and heart rate.
- Live racing is the only feature that transmits anything off the device.

## Racing

- Racing is optional. Joining a race is free; creating one needs Row Smarter Pro.
- The app sends the chosen display name, a generated identifier not linked to
  the Apple ID, and live elapsed time, distance, split, power and stroke rate.
- It also sends the join code for a private race and App Attest data proving the
  request came from a genuine copy of the app.
- Heart rate and every other health value are never transmitted.
- A finished race is deleted automatically thirty days after it ends.
- Opening the race screen contacts the server to list races. Staying out of it
  means the app never contacts the server at all.

## Subscription

- Row Smarter Pro is sold as a monthly subscription, a yearly subscription, or a
  one-time lifetime purchase.
- Prices are shown in the App Store in the buyer's local currency. Purchases go
  through Apple, who also handle refunds.
- Pro unlocks: structured workouts and training plans, the workout builder,
  session analysis, trends and records, recovery and capacity, racing your own
  recorded sessions, creating races, export, and spoken live coaching.
- Free forever: every live metric while rowing, the force curve, the whole
  session history and each session's summary, Apple Health, importing old
  sessions, and joining a race someone else created.

## Files

- Export: CSV and TCX. The CSVs carry the summary, the samples, the strokes and
  a rowingdata-style file. The TCX is the one other training sites read.
- Import: a SmartRow CSV session-history file. No other import format yet.
- Row Smarter does not upload to Strava, the Concept2 Logbook or any other
  service. It has no connection to them. The athlete exports a TCX and uploads
  it themselves.

## Training

- A library of 45 workouts across seven categories: endurance, threshold,
  VO2max, race pieces, anaerobic, power, and pyramids and ladders.
- Five multi-week plans: the Pete Plan, a beginner Pete Plan, the Wolverine
  Plan, a beginner base plan and a marathon build.
- The Pete Plan follows the published plan by Pete Marston, the Wolverine Plan
  the one by Mike Caviston. Neither is an official version and neither coach is
  involved with Row Smarter.
- Plans adapt the next session from the last completed one.
- Heart rate zones come from a maximum measured across the athlete's own
  sessions, or one they type in. An age formula is only the fallback. Zone
  models: percentage of maximum, and Karvonen.
- Live coaching speaks cues on the device. It records no audio and uses no
  microphone.

## What it does not do

- It does not upload sessions to any third-party service.
- It does not require or offer an account.
- It does not collect analytics, advertising identifiers or location.
- It does not transmit heart rate or any other health value during a race.
- It is not a medical device and gives no medical advice.
- It is not on the App Store yet.

## Contact

- Support and the contact address: https://rowsmarter.app/support