Review: C25K app for Android

Hey everyone, I just wanted to give a review of the C25K app for Android.  I have only been using this app for a week as I am currently going into my second week of Couch to 5K.  I looked around the web and on AppBrain for a decent app to handle the notifications and timing for my C25K journey.  As you all will find out, I hate having to keep track of time and distance when I am exercising.  I don’t know why, maybe it’s because exercising is intense and tends to hurt.  Anyway, on to the story.

I found the C25K app after spending a few minutes looking at reviews of the app from the Android Market and on AppBrain and I thought it was simple and handled what I needed.  There isn’t much to the app, there are buttons for each of the workouts and all you have to do is click the button for your current workout and click the start button.  There are three segment notification sounds, a man, woman, and tone.  But that’s not why I like the app, there is only one thing that makes the app cool.

The app is simple, that’s it!  Well, that and the fact that Android operating system offers true multi-tasking, so I can listen to my podcasts and get notifications while pausing the podcast in the interim.  I start the app, turn on my podcast app, and go.  Each interval is announced by a simple phrase or tone depending on the settings.  Once you are ready for the cool down, the lady tells you start it and the same with the end of the workout.  The app just plain works.

Don’t get me wrong, there could be a nice update to the aesthetics of the app.  It’s plain and definitely has no frills, but it is a good single task app.  I recommend it to anyone with an Android device and wants to try the program.  Enjoy!