Playfitt - Daily Fitness Games

Love this app. Total motivation for me to be more active. Reps count for squat and push up might be slightly inaccurate give or take. It’s not always missing one or two reps, sometimes it even counts one or two reps that I didn’t even do. So it compensates itself basically. But nothing is perfect unless you have another person standing there counting your reps. To all the people who are complaining about missing one or two reps. Yes it is nice to be recognized and rewarded for your work but the point of this app is to encourage people to be more active. Your body appreciate every extra rep that you do. In my experience, whenever I was miscounted for my reps, I was more than happy to put it some more to meet the challenge. Knowing my body will thank me later. Besides, as mentioned before, the app also counts extra reps that you don’t do sometimes. I don’t see nobody complaining about that. Y’all so quick to whine abour something so trivial unless it’s beneficial to you.

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EDIT: I have now used the app for two months and unfortunately I’ve been getting increasingly frustrated with the way it counts squats and especially push-ups. The app frequently will count up to 80 or so and then tell me there’s an error, making me start all over again. I frequently have to restart the count multiple times for the app to actually work. The frustration this causes is not worth it and I will be deleting it. I’ve been using the app for over a week. I appreciate the app in that it makes me more motivated to move in order to meet its daily or weekly goals. My problem is that even when I’m putting my phone in my waistband or in the back pocket area of my form fitting yoga pants sometimes it doesn’t count my reps. I don’t mind the occasional one or two, but when you’ve done 40 push-ups or squats and it doesn’t count a single one or only counts half, it is frustrating because I don’t really have the energy to do more. This has happened numerous times, and I’ve yet to understand why the app is able to count my movements sometimes but misses them altogether other times. I will most likely keep this app for a little longer to see if I can figure out this glitch, but if the rep counts continue to be off by that much, I will probably find something else.

8/18 I received communication about an earlier problem, thanks! Now however there is another issue; In the past I could do up to 150 pushups or squats before I was given the message “Great workout, time for a rest.” Now I can only do what the daily target is, 10, 20 or 30 but no more than that. It seems to negate having a weekly target if I’m not able to get more than the daily. I’m not talking about the unlimited option that I would need to pay for. Is this a way of slowing down how quickly users can collect gift cards??? 8/8 you ask me to contact you through the app, however I can not find any means of doing this. In the past the only way I have been able to do this is when I have been specifically asked to comment on how the app is doing with counting reps. Please give further detailed instructions on how to do this through the app, thank you.

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The app is very glitchy. It frequently does not register pushup counts. At times, it even counts out, then says +0 in the final count, which is incredibly discouraging. It makes me want to quit working out. Furthermore, reporting these issues to customer service doesn’t do anything. The messages I have gotten back so far keep implying user error and keep repeating the instructions of where to put your phone, despite the fact that my messages detail that I’ve been following those steps, and that it very clearly seems to be an issue with the app. Jonathan has been polite, but dismissive of these concerns. He’s supposedly been following up on the issue for months now, with no feedback or outreach or progress. Essentially, I’m being ignored, and that is unprofessional. Update: Jonathan finally got back to me, and apparently the push-up issue is an ongoing thing with the algorithm that they will continue working on. They are also working to hire a customer service agent to help with issues. He did offer a few grit points to make up for missed missions due to the algorithm issues.

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This thing doesn’t count properly. It over counts the pushups by a tiny bit and grossly under counts the squats. I did 20 and it only counted 10 (and yes, my husband was counting as I showed him, had good form, went down low, etc). I love this app and I want it to work but that’s discouraging. The worst part of it is, is the steps. I don’t carry my phone around with me everywhere, I have a toddler and an infant and I need my hands free so it’s often left on my kitchen counter. I set it to sync with the Apple health app but it doesn’t read it I guess? My watch says I’m almost at 4K steps for the day; PlayFitt says I’m only at like 1,300 something. That’s lame. In conclusion, they need an Apple Watch app. If they have one, I haven’t found it. They need to correct the steps and the squats. Other than those issues it is a great idea.