For rowing coaches
Tap at the catch, hear the rating, keep your eyes on the crew. Strokes Per Minute gives you the stroke rate without a rating watch, and on iPad keeps the last readings beside the timer so you can see a piece settle.
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Every coach has done it. The crew is on the water, the launch is drifting out behind them, and the rating watch is on the hook by the door. You end up counting strokes against the second hand of a wristwatch and rounding to whatever feels right.
Strokes Per Minute was built by a rowing coach for exactly this morning. Open the app, tap as the blades go in, count three strokes, tap again. The rating is on the screen and, if you want it, in your ear. There is no setup, no pairing, and no account to make.
On iPad the screen is wide enough to show more than one number. The past rates column keeps the last readings beside the timer, newest at the top, each with its seconds per stroke and the time it was taken. A piece that starts at 35 and settles to 30 is visible as a column, not a memory.
Turn on spoken results and the app reads the rating out the moment it is calculated. You can watch the catch, call the change, and never look down.
On iPad, iPhone Duo and other wide layouts a column of past rates sits beside the timer. See a crew come down from 34 to 30 across a piece without writing anything on your hand.
In continuous mode each tap finishes one measurement and starts the next, so you can rate every boat as it comes past the launch.
Strokes per minute and seconds per stroke in large type, in light or dark mode. Readable at arm's length with spray on the glass.
It is the phone already in your pocket. Install once and it is on your iPad and Apple Watch too, with your purchase shared across them.
Stroke rates and timing events are never sent to analytics. Nothing about your crew leaves the boat park.
From the launch or the bank, this is the whole routine.
Three by default. Raise it in Settings for a longer, steadier sample, or switch on continuous mode for back-to-back readings.
Tap anywhere on the screen as the blades go in. The whole screen is the button, so you do not need to find it.
Count the strokes, tap on the final catch, and the rating appears. With spoken results on, you hear it too.
Glance at the past rates column on iPad, or just listen to the next reading, and tell the crew what to do with it.
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Trusted by rowing coaches since 2014. Download Strokes Per Minute and try it free for 3 days.
