As a person who runs every other day or so, is Nike+ Run Club better than just using the workout app on Apple Watch? If you use the Nike app, do you still get credit for the "workout" in your activity app?
Apple Watch Series 2, watchOS 3
Hello,
As of 5 October, I have been using the new NRC app from Nike and also Apple's Workout app on an AppleWatch Series 0, WatchOS 3, iPhone 6S/128/iOS 10. I've been a longtime user of Nike+ and now NRC, especially with the AppleWatch app version of the latter.
NRC on AppleWatch currently is effectively broken, in terms of its ability to responsively display current run stats. Bottom line is: it doesn't. Despite the improvements in responsiveness in WatchOS 3, NRC is (literally) dangerously slow to update (such that a runner must look at the watch for ten seconds or more to get updated, current run stats). Because of this, I have started to run almost exclusively with Apple's much more responsive Workout app.
HOWEVER, I have been impressed with Nike's interaction with me on this topic. I have been in a running (pun intended) exchange with someone in their support chain who appears to be taking my feedback onboard. It is possible that some/most/all of my concerns will be addressed in a soon-to-be-released update.
So, I like NRC for all of the post-run analysis you can do, on the phone and on Nike's web pages; the Workout app has almost nothing to compare to that. By contrast, I like the Workout app for the insanely up-to-the-second updates and responsiveness when you look at the watch. If Nike manages to implement that responsiveness in NRC, I'll be there for the foreseeable future. Until then, I'm 100% on the Workout app.
FWIW, I'm a marathoner, with two coming up between now and December.
Tiger
Hi
Whether or not one app is "better" than the other is a matter of personal preference.
Details of the apps' respective features are available here:
Nike+ Run Club:
Workout app:
I would like if Nike RC would write this same detail onto the activity app like the apple workout app. Meaning I wish on the activity app you can see the route you ran, weather, and elevation gains...this is the many reason I don't use NRC vs apples running workout app
This is the app I'm talking about...
Hi,
Has there been much improvement since you wrote this review?
Thanks,
-Tim
Nike+ Run Club vs Workout app
