[Tangram Factory] Smart Rope – LED embedded Jump Rope – See your fitness data in MID-AIR

As good as advertised.
Really good!

Great gift
Recipient loved the gift. Good features, including a count of reps.

If only the tech could remotely match the beauty
TL;DR – written instructions included with rope and app are not intuitive and requires a lot of patience. I am no stranger to tech, specifically Bluetooth and all of its troubleshooting varieties. If I had this much difficulty getting this to work, I feel sorry for anyone who isn’t anywhere near as comfortable.What’s really disappointing about this, is that I’ve seen various models of this jump rope in Apple stores for a few years now and I had always been curious but not serious about using it until recently. I know that Apple doesn’t just approve and carry any products on their shelves/site without going through a stringent process. However, I can’t tell if Apple is becoming more lax, bribery is at play here, or if there is any quality follow-up once you get the initial Apple seal of approval.I say this because the pairing process is a nightmarish and from a troubleshooting standpoint the app is not intuitive whatsoever. (I have the LED model) The written instructions included in the box tell you to download the previous app “Smart Gym” and yikes! This is such a generic title/word combo that even this task could lead an unsuspecting user down the wrong path. If you’re the type to just tap on the very first match in your app search results, I urge you to slow down so you don’t download the wrong app. Once you download it, the app directs you to download a separate, “newer” app called “SmartRope”. Cool cool cool, but this is already becoming cumbersome and I haven’t even gotten to the pairing process yet. You know what else really makes this annoying, the fact that in the search results for the first app, this “newer” app was nowhere to be found within the results.I‘ve recently upgraded and updated all my core Apple products: iPhone (12 pro), Apple Watch (6th gen), iPad Pro (4th gen), and an Oura ring (2nd gen) that I have been using for the last year and change. All of them mentioned to emphasize that there is a very low chance of any other product to blame. Without going into too much detail here, my troubleshooting didn’t just include quitting and redone loading the app and turning my BT and phone off/on, but also powering down my other BT devices and moving away from those devices. I also made sure I wasn’t trying to pair from my device’s BT menu instead following the prompts in the app.I swear I think I went to the bathroom, washed hands, cracked ice from an ice tray, poured water all at a leisurely pace before returning to see that the app and the rope eventually paired? The app doesn’t make it clear if the rope is connected since there also seems to be a delay. The app’s UI is cute yet clunky and static… and so it feels like I am getting mixed messages from how the rope is behaving. For example, if you tap on your rope, and go to the button at the bottom “connection settings” the modal/pop-up is titled “smart rope connected” -even when I intentionally turn off my rope, the app still shows this.I’ve also tried to pair this with my new iPad Pro and same issue… (and yes I did uninstall from my phone before trying on my iPad). While I’d like to assume that maybe I have a faulty rope, I see that others are also having similar experiences and I doubt a replacement will solve this issue. I wanted to love Tangram’s smart rope because it’s beautifully designed, and the app looks like it could be useful, especially with the Health integration. But honestly, I found a SkipJoy rope on Amazon that is ~1/3 the price, it immediately connects and syncs my jump/activity data instantly. Sure it’s terribly less glamorous and doesn’t have the Apple health integration but it’s getting the data part done.

Very sensitive. Great while it works.
The LEDS keep breaking. I really enjoyed the rope because it counted my jumps. The original app was much better than the new one. I stopped using this rope all together to be honest. It’s a very sensitive rope. Awesome while it’s not broken. I returned it the first time and the new rope now doesn’t turn on anymore either. I gave up. Same thing with my brother who had one. Cross ropes it is!

Within 2 days stopped working. Just buy a regular jump rope. Not worth the hassle to return.

Wir hatten uns wirklich auf das smarte Seil gefreut, wurden jedoch leider bitter enttäuscht. Das Seil ist für ernsthaftes Rope Skipping bzw. als Sportseil nicht nutzbar und für völlig überteuert für die gebotene Qualität. Durch den dicken LED Schlauch am unteren Ende entsteht beim Springen eine Art “Unwucht”, welche das Springen nicht nur unangenehm, sondern beinahe unmöglich macht. Dazu kommt das Material des Seils, welches sich selbst beim Springen verformt und einen flüssigen Sprungablauf (wie man es von einem üblichen 10 € Sportspringseil kennt) verhindert. Nette Idee, aber leider unbrauchbar.

I bought this smartrope recently, and have now had about a month of usage. The thickness and stiffness of the rope were something that I had to get used to in the beginning, but after using it three times this was no longer an issue. The same goes for the led-lights embedded in the rope: they appear in a flash each time the rope passes, and only after I got used to the rope was I able to see the display clearly. Since then the smartrope has been working perfectly, with no signs of wear and tear so far.