Beoflow Desktop

How it works

Some devices only give you an export file. With Beoflow Desktop open, Flow can build a small tool on your computer that reads those files and records the workouts in Beoflow, then run it when you ask.

• Every file Flow wants to write to your computer is shown to you first. Nothing is written until you approve it.
• The tools Flow builds can only read data and hand it to Beoflow. They cannot save files, and they can only reach websites you approved for them.

Beoflow Desktop works through Flow, so it needs a plan that includes Flow.

Requirements

macOS 12 Monterey or later, or Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit).

Download and install

1. Sign in at web.beoflow.com and go to web.beoflow.com/desktop.
2. The page offers the build for your computer first, with Other downloads below it (macOS for Apple silicon, macOS for Intel, Windows 64-bit). Choose DOWNLOAD.
3. Install it:
   • macOS: open the downloaded file and drag Beoflow Desktop into Applications.
   • Windows: run the downloaded installer.

If the page says Not available to download yet or Downloads are not available right now, try again later.

If your computer warns you the first time

When a build is not signed yet, the download page says so, and your computer warns you the first time you open it:

• macOS: when macOS says it could not verify the app, click Done. Open System Settings, then Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway, then confirm with your password.
• Windows: if you see “Windows protected your PC”, click More info, then Run anyway.

Each download shows its SHA-256 checksum, with COPY, if you want to check the file.

Sign in

1. Open Beoflow Desktop. The first time, it opens your browser so you can sign in to Beoflow.
2. Approve the access it asks for: running your desktop tools and recording completed workouts.
3. If Beoflow asks you to sign in again inside the desktop app, choose CONTINUE WITH BEOFLOW DESKTOP.

You can sign out from the app at any time.

Import workouts with Flow

1. Keep Beoflow Desktop open and signed in.
2. In Flow, ask it to import your workouts, or an athlete’s, and say where the files are. Flow can ask you to pick a file or folder.
3. Approve the tool Flow wants to set up when the desktop app asks.
4. Flow runs it and tells you how many workouts it imported and which it couldn’t.

Long imports can take a while. Flow shows “Keep Beoflow Desktop open there; you can close this page.” You can close the browser, but leave the desktop app running.

Good to know

• Flow can only use your computer while Beoflow Desktop is open and signed in.
• Each run imports up to 2,000 workouts. Run it again for the rest: workouts already imported are skipped, so only new ones are added.
• For an athlete, workouts are only recorded if that athlete has given you access.
• Signed in on more than one computer? Flow uses the one you are using.

Privacy

• Flow only reads the files and folders you point it at. To build the tool it looks inside them, so what it reads is sent to Flow, the same as a file you attach in the chat. The workouts it finds are recorded in Beoflow.
• Imported workouts appear in your account, or in the athlete’s account, like any completed workout. The athlete and the coaches they have given access can see them.
• Nothing is written to your computer without your approval.

Troubleshooting

• Flow says your computer isn’t connected: open Beoflow Desktop and check you are signed in. Then ask Flow again.
• Nothing was imported and Flow asks you to sign in again: sign out of Beoflow Desktop, sign in again and approve all access, then run the import again.
• Some workouts were not imported: Flow lists them. Check they are workout files, and that the athlete has given you access.
• “This sign-in only works inside the Beoflow Desktop app.”: you opened the desktop sign-in link in a normal browser. Choose Sign in here instead.

Related

• Ask Flow
• Upload FIT files