WATCH LINK Heart Rate App for Android

Broken software. Won’t connect my Google Watch 8. App just says can’t find anything even though app is on both phone and watch and Bluetooth is on. Tried searching from the watch and from Android 12 Pro. Neither see anything. Never had any issue connecting anything else. Update: Digging into it more I discovered I had to buy hardware to get this to work with Hydrow (which can Bluetooth to any standard heart rate monitor without additional hardware). Found out way to late into this I needed additional (expensive) adapter to get this to work. Works, but pricey, and mislead. Took off one star for that.

Excellent customer support for minor issues with the app and WATCH LINK™ relay. Shout out to Ed for fast response and guidance. This app works great and with OrangeTheory to relay the information on the watch to the OTF TV screen during the work out. The WATCHLINK is very reliable when paired with the Google Watch, it is seamless in the integration with the studio equipment. I highly recommend!

Out of the box, WATCH LINK worked orders of magnitude better than its competitor's product. The app was installed without a hitch and it made sense. The app worked and was easy to use and it woke the pod up and connected with it very well. All good. Then, one day, it quit working. I had installed some stuff on my Garmin unit and thought, 'Well, maybe I busted it', so I reinstalled the app and re-paired the pod. Nope, still busted. A quick e-mail to WATCH LINK was answered within a couple of hours and informed me that they had issued an update that had a bug in it and that was what was causing the issue. They said they were working on the issue. If I recall correctly, the repaired code was issued before the day was out. It has worked flawlessly since then. Is it perfect? No, but I think there may be some limitations related to either Bluetooth HR devices or to ANT+. What I want is for the app and pod to simply take the heartrate out of my Google Watch and send it to my Garmin Explore, and I'll use the activity that is native to my Google stuff (Outdoor Cycling). If I could do that then it would be perfect. That, apparently, is not possible, so the WATCH LINK activity needs to be running and you can't have both Google activity and the WATCH LINK activity running at the same time. That kills the heartrate-sending stuff. With the competitor's product, that was a real problem because their app was, uh, a hideosity. In all candor, the WATCH LINK Outdoor Cycling activity is really quite good. I have no complaints about it. In fact, once I figured out that I had to use the WATCH LINK activity I went back and took a good look at both what you see when it is working and what it reports when you finish. I was satisfied! I'm a happy camper with this product. It's good. Just get off your butt and get it.

So pleased and so thankful for Watchlink. It works flawlessly to display my heart rate on my Hydrow Rower screen. It also uploads the rower workouts to Google Health, so even my Google Activity Rings get updated. My Google Watch notification connections get the workout updates as well. I have been very pleasantly surprised!!! Thank you Watchlink! - Wayne

Always connects. Super reliable. 5 stars!!!