Race numbers

The sprint at the end of a 2K on the Schuylkill, from the 4 seat of an eight. With the numbers on you see what the PM5 shows you on the erg, plus the cox's calls.

Row a real river from your erg.

Rowitreal puts you in a seat of a racing shell on the Charles or the Schuylkill. Your Concept2 PM5 drives the boat, your crew swings in time with you, rival crews close in or drop back, and a cox calls the race.

Get the beta on TestFlight
Free. iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later.

What it does

Pick any seat in any boat
Bow to stroke, sweep or sculling: 1x, 2x, 2-, 4x, 4-, 4+ or 8+. Sweep rowers choose port or starboard and the rig.
Real courses
The Head of the Charles in Boston, 4.8 km upstream under the Weeks, Anderson and Eliot bridges. The Schuylkill 2K in Philadelphia, side by side. A buoyed regatta lake. Built from OpenStreetMap.
A crew that rows with you
The app reads your stroke from the PM5 and predicts your catch, so the whole boat swings with you, not a beat behind.
A cox who calls your race
Calls react to what's happening: a crew closing on your stern, a bridge coming up, your rate. The voice runs on your phone, with a choice of accents.
Crews to race
Rivals are paced from how you've been rowing lately, or set their levels yourself. Head-race passing on the Charles; lanes on the 2K. Or row solo against your best.
Your numbers, or none
Split, rate, watts, race clock, place and distance to go, straight from the PM5. Turn them off and just row.
Summer, autumn, any hour
Choose the season and time of day, and a steady, natural or head-cam view.
No erg handy?
Demo mode rows for you, so you can look around the courses before you sit down.

Screens

Mid-race in an eight on the Charles, with split, rate, watts, place and distance to go
Racing. The 4 seat of an eight on the Charles. Your PM5's numbers on top, the cox's calls as subtitles.
The same race seen from a head-mounted camera view
Head-cam view. Moves with your head, like race footage shot from a rower's cap.
The Boston skyline from an eight on the Charles, numbers hidden
Numbers off. The Boston skyline from the 4 seat on the Charles.
A quad on the Charles on a summer evening
Summer evening. Pick the season and the time of day.
A double on the Schuylkill near a bridge
The Schuylkill 2K. Philadelphia, lanes side by side.
The start card listing the rival crews and their pace
At the start. Who you're racing, and how fast they'll go.
The setup screen: boat, seat, course and rivals
Setup. Boat, seat, course, rivals and view.

Just the water

Thirty seconds each, numbers off, with the app's own sound. Recorded in the iPhone Simulator in demo mode; on a phone it looks the same.

Up the Charles. Toward the Boston skyline in an eight, from the 4 seat.
Summer evening. Schuylkill River, coxed four.

Get rowing

  1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the TestFlight invite. It installs Apple's TestFlight app first if you don't have it.
  2. Install Rowitreal from TestFlight, open it and tap Row.
  3. On the PM5, go to Main Menu › Connect. The phone finds your erg and connects by itself; there's no pairing.

What you need

  • An iPhone or iPad on iOS 17 or later. A stand or arm that holds it in landscape at eye level helps.
  • A Concept2 RowErg with a PM5, or a Bluetooth FTMS rower such as the Rogue Echo Rower.
  • No erg? Tap Demo to look around.