What do you love about the Suunto app?

[A Former User]

1. It syncs with my watch reliably (although I’d prefer an option to sync only on demand and not run in the background).

2. Route editor is fairly good for a mobile application running on a small phone screen.

3. Sorry, can’t think of any other positives. I’d rather continue to use MC web for anything beyond the two features above plus some quick configuration tasks.

[fhegnor]

Would say background sync. Love that the exercise is already there when I pick up my phone.

[freeheeler]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos

• offline sync
• route planning
• sync on the go
• heart rate zones

the map view with alti, HR and speed graph is better than I thought by the first sight.
the app in general is pretty useful
(even I miss a stack of things and some things I would do different, but that’s not the question)

[surfboomerang]

• Clean and smooth interface
• Reliable sync and notifications
• Activity summaries
• Activity comparison
• Frequent app updates
• Route planning
• Heatmaps
• Sport mode customization (altough a lot can be improved on this point)

[Bulkan]

• Heatmaps by any kind of sport. Nobody have this.
• Clean UX.
• Offline sync.
• Reports by month, week, year very easy.
• The autocomplete comments when I do intervals.
• Social but not oriented to.
• Route planing, I use it so much that I need a way to sort off or filter.
• Report by intervals and autolap.
• Epoc.
• Native support of power in running.

[stromdiddily]

Route planning by far the coolest thing!

[jw cou]

Route planning, fast sync, powerful search activities, sports mode custom and the general look and feel

[stromdiddily]

@jean-william-cousin sport mode customization is pretty slick!

[surfboomerang]

Funny how a while ago a lot of people claimed that route planning on a mobile screen was impossible and now i see a lot of positive votes

[Luís Pinto]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos

1. Clean interface;
2. Route planning;
3. Laps info;
4. Sync.

[freeheeler]

@surfboomerang
it works surprisingly well… but in my first steps testing the routeplanning I had to undo sometimes as I was lazy zooming in and out and picked the wrong trail (also because of the trail/road issue…).
I would not want to miss the mobile routeplanning, as it is really really useful on the go. however, when I am at a desktop, routeplanning could be done a lot easier and quicker.
(sorry, dimitrios, to mention this here again)

[suzzlo]

Hi

• White theme
• Background sync: really works well
• Route planner
• Sports Customization
• 3rd Party synchronization (Runalyze, Training Peaks…)
• ‘Day view’ day steps + calories + sleep ( could be absolute fantastic if there where sleep trend)
• User profile map: see all my workouts all around the world (now it is not working, but I love it)

BR

[fejker]

• Reliable background sync
• Fast sync compared to MC App and roughly on par with cable sync

Nothing else I really enjoy or like about it, all negatives from here on and this is not the place for it.

SSU + Android beta app just for reference purposes.

[Prenj]

Mobile route planner, although it still lacks few important features, but I hope suunto will improve it. Still I’ll probably use it with my a3p (when and if SA supports my watch) only if I have no access to my pc. Taking a wrong path can put you in real danger in mountains in my country. We still have mine fields unfortunately.

[A Former User]

@surfboomerang said in What do you love about the Suunto app?:

Funny how a while ago a lot of people claimed that route planning on a mobile screen was impossible and now i see a lot of positive votes

It isn’t great compared to the desktop version, but a lot better than anything I’ve seen from other mobile apps. For example, route planning on Garmin Connect mobile app is just horrible in comparison - completely unusable.

Still, I don’t use SA route planner for my watch because that would disable MC sync. It is quite bad that we have a dilemma - either use some features from from SA or some other features from MC, but not both at the same time.

[Maryn]

• Fast sync
• Interval lap view
• fast sync to Strava (yes !), Runalyze
• Route planner (love to have it working offline)
• Sport modes customization.

[jsr184]

• Reliable and fast sync (instant, in the background, all synced before I even get my post-workout coffee!)
• Route planner (like but not love, could be better but nice it’s there), I don’t use it a lot, only in the emergency but it does work, it’s in the app, that’s a good thing.
• Summaries with filtering. I use it a lot and I like I can filter out workouts based on the description (for example, I can check how many times I visited a particular climbing gym this year as it’s a part of description )
• Custom sports modes, easy and quick setup, syncs quickly (although, why not add the ability to name them, what are “Other” modes? )
• Upload of GPX routes, With apps like Komoot or AllTrails I can export GPX files and instantly get them on the watch (with Movescount that one thing was a bit of a chore without access to the PC)
• Clear and readable interface, easy to use. I don’t have a feeling I fight the app when using it.
• Uploading photos and videos into the recorded sport. I know it’s more a social media thing but I have a different use for it. That’s in fact became useful in rock climbing when I wanted to add more details about routes and problems I have climbed. Especially, if I take on the competition walls (would be nice to have a timeline so I could see when exactly I took a photo or shoot video, this would be useful with outdoor climbing so I can pinpoint the crags in space)

To be honest, as the owner of SSSWHRBaro, I don’t have connectivity and syncing problems. All works quick and out of the box and the app development gained quite a steady pace, not much to complain assuming waiting patiently for things to roll out. It always could be more (POIs) but I believe things will eventually happen.

[Bulkan]

The summaries with filter are so good!

[fleshymutant]

• iOS ability to open a GPX and have it import to routes
• Videos on activities (not just images)
• Adding stats to images when sharing or downloading
• Custom modes to watch from app
• Route trends - for same route shows histogram of pace

[Hannu Liljemark]

Comments from SA Android + SSU + Stryd user:

• heatmaps are good for stalking local people’s route choices and finding potential running routes when traveling
• route planning helps with estimating workout duration and length when venturing into new places
• workout data summaries and views give me good visibility into what I’ve been doing
• searches and filters do help me find workouts I’ve done in the past when adding future workouts to calendar
• it’s handy to get automatic description for workouts done in interval mode
• quick and reliable sync of workout data from watch to phone
• Sport mode customization is useful once you understand how it works and have used your watch and SA for a while to know what you want to see during workout
• clutter-free and responsive user interface
• shows running power data for workouts - yay