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Row to the beat.

Every track lands on your stroke rate. Set the rate and pick the sound, or choose an album or an artist, and RowBeats builds the playlist from Apple Music.

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Where the beat lands

The beat lands at the finish, as the handle reaches your chest. Never rowed to music? The app teaches the count.

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How it works

Three taps to a workout

Every workout starts from a clean screen, unless you ask RowBeats to remember last time’s.

Genre row in dark mode: a stroke-rate range of 22 to 30, a 30-minute continuous row, the fifteen genres as color tiles with Dance, Hip-Hop, Pop, R&B/Soul and Rock chosen, and the Build playlist button.

Set the row, pick the sound

On Genre row, a stroke rate from 18 to 38 SPM and a length from 5 to 60 minutes, straight through or as intervals with a rest between tracks. Fifteen genres and seven eras, in any combination. Turn on Exclude explicit tracks once and it stays on.

Your playlist in light mode: a teal playlist cover beside 22 to 30 SPM, 8 tracks, 31:21 of music and four genres, the Pyramid shape chosen, and each track with the stroke rate it was matched to and the song's BPM.

See the playlist

Every track shows the stroke rate it was matched to. A 100 BPM song is a good 25 SPM row, one stroke every four beats. Choose the order the rates come in: Climb, Descend, Pyramid, Waves, Shuffle, or drag your own.

The player in dark mode with a PM5 connected: track 3 of 9 marked on the course line, actual and target stroke rate both 25, then 7:54 of time, 1,896 meters and both 500 m splits, with Roses by The Chainsmokers playing.

Row it

A ten-second count gets you on the machine before the first beat. Then one big stroke-rate number, controls you can reach mid-stroke, and the whole workout as a line, marked where you are. Connect a Concept2 PM5 and your monitor's time, distance, stroke rate and splits join it.

Or skip the choosing. Pick a length on Genre row and tap Surprise me: RowBeats picks two to four genres at random, opens the full stroke-rate range and every era, and builds.

Fifteen genres, all at your rate

Try one you’ve never rowed to. Anything that doesn’t fit your rate is gone before you hear it.

  • Afrobeats
  • Alternative
  • Country
  • Dance
  • Drum & Bass
  • Electronic
  • Hip-Hop
  • Indie Rock
  • K-Pop
  • Latin
  • Metal
  • Pop
  • R&B/Soul
  • Reggae
  • Rock

Plus seven eras, 60s to 2020s, in any combination.

Start from an album or an artist

Every song still has its beat measured before you hear it.

Album row in light mode: the curated shelf of 84 albums, its Afrobeats row showing Made In Lagos by Wizkid at 22 to 26 SPM, African Giant by Burna Boy at 22 to 29 and Love, Damini at 19 to 32, each with its Side A, Side B and full album minutes.

Album row

A curated shelf of albums that row from the first song to the last, every one checked song by song.

Your playlist in dark mode for Purple Rain by Prince and The Revolution: 20 to 36 SPM, Full album, Side A or Side B, and each song at its own stroke rate, Let's Go Crazy at 24, Take Me with U at 30 and The Beautiful Ones at 36.

Each song at its own rate

Row the full album, or Side A or Side B. The order is the album’s, and the stroke rate follows each song.

Artist row in light mode: Dua Lipa chosen, 15 of 25 songs from the Dua Lipa Essentials playlist row at 22 to 30 SPM, most at 26 to 30, and every length up to 60 minutes offered.

Artist row

Pick an artist. RowBeats takes their Essentials playlist on Apple Music and keeps the songs that fit your stroke rate.

A new row every day

The app opens on a few rows it has ready for you. Each card says what it will play, for how long and at what stroke rate, before you start.

The RowBeats home screen in dark mode: the card A genre to try, Hip-Hop at 22 to 30 SPM, about 6 songs, 20 minutes, Shuffle, with Try Hip-Hop, and under it Build a workout (genres, an album or an artist), Connect RowERG and Rhythm Rowing.
  • Quick row, picked for you

    20 minutes at 22–30 SPM from the day’s genres. Nothing to choose, and a new pick tomorrow.

  • A genre to try

    One you haven’t rowed to yet, or the one you rowed longest ago: its best-known songs, all matched to 22–30 SPM.

  • An album to row

    An album from the shelf, start to finish, from the genre you row most.

  • Your last playlist

    After your first workout: row it again, or More like your last for the same genres and stroke rate with new songs.