u/jasondean13

Opened my app and now see PRs and history for each exercise!! Finally feel like the feature is really usable. Thanks Whoop team!

I've had Whoop for almost 90 days after coming from wearing a Garmin. After 3 months, I feel like I have a good sense of Whoop's strengths and weaknesses and wanted to add to the reviews that others have posted here and get other people's thoughts.

The Good:

1. The screenless design is nice and simple. Not distracting at all which is nice
2. Has led to me being more consistent with exercising than many times in the past. Knowing that a given week's work is going to effect my Whoop age has been motivating for me.
3. Pleasing UI design of the app

The Bad:

1. The price. No way getting around it. The MG is in no way shape or form worth the cost of an Apple Watch every single year. Apple Watch gives you way way more functionality, isn't a subscription, and gives you all the data you really need. EKG and blood pressure readings are not enough to justify a totally different tier of product. My suggestion - Bundle this with Cronometer Pro subscription/partnership. Then I could see this being of use to people.
2. The desktop experience is worthless. PLEASE ADDRESS THIS. For a service that prides itself on all the data it gives people, it sure would be nice to view reports and have some filters to play with on a desktop experience. Look to Cronometer for what a great desktop experience looks like for health data. So much lost potential here
3. Speaking of which, people claim that the love Whoop for the enormous amount of data they get... I have no idea what they mean. You don't get any more health data than a Garmin watch, and a Garmin watch comes with WAY more activity data. If I have Whoop track my location for my run, and it knows the total distance I ran, why in the world can't it give me my splits? Or buzz my watch every mile? Or show distance on my heartrate graph?
4. Please finish strength trainer. It's basically a meme how strength trends has been "coming soon" for a whole year. I don't understand how it is difficult to just show me a graph or table of my past 3 months for a given lift. What's even worse, is that you can't leave strength trainer to go to the main screen without ending your workout! So even if I wanted to manually go back and look at a past workout session myself, I can't because you can't go to any other screen! Please please fix this.
5. Most of the app is dead space. There are 4 tabs: Home, Health, Community, and More.

- Home is useful

- Health is mostly there to upsell you on unnecessary lab testing but has some use showing Whoop age and some minor metrics

- Community also tries to upsell you on family plans and referrals. I imagine a v small fraction of people ever use the groups feature but maybe I’m biased from my personal usage

- "More" tab is there to also upsell you on more stuff like straps or membership extensions

It really comes across like the devs were struggling to fill out the app. Add more reports, more views, or condense it down to two or three tabs and consolidate "Communities" and half of "Health" into the "More" tab.

Conclusion: At $360 a year, this can’t be justified for me personally. There’s little to no flexibility in how I can view my data, and any lack of features is excused by forcing people to interact with the AI chatbot. Also, this isn’t a Whoop specific problem, but I’m tired of constantly being upsold for more and more features when I’m already paying for the highest tier of a premium service. It just feels exhausting and like my experience is getting cheapened. Again, I get that this is just how things are now but I’ll still bitch about it.

As mentioned before, I could see this being slightly more competitive if the service was bundled with some nutrition app like Cronometer or Macrofactor. But as is, there are much better options for a much cheaper price.

I feel bad being so negative But I don’t think it’s a coincidence that such a large percentage of the posts in this sub are negative or complaints. When you price yourself as a premium product, people expect a premium service.