Jabra Sport Life Reviews

by Review-y McReviewFace

Finally upgraded from an iPhone 6 to an 11, and these pricey headphones don’t connect. Idk if it’s not used to something that’s not my old phone or what but I did what I used to hundreds of times before and nothing. Followed JabraSportLife instructions precisely, nothing. JabraSportLife itself is lame, for the Elite Sports the buttons aren’t easily distinguishable until you use it for a while (they’re both circles, why?) and unless the ear bud is drilled into your ear canal they move around if you fidget with the buttons. On their own they used to be good if not great headphones to work out with, now they’re completely unusable. Thanks for making me blow money on a new set of workout ear buds Jabra

by Chopchopcurrypok

I bought these ultra-expensive Jabra Elite Sport earbuds and immediately was not impressed with the sound quality. It sounds thin and not punchy, with a pathetic bass or Low frequency experience. When I opened JabraSportLife hoping to solve the problem, the basic equaliser did nothing significant and the advance equaliser just made the sound muffled and distorted when I upped the low frequencies. Definitely not what I expected from in ear headphones.

What is worse is barely 2 months after using these rather uncomfortable buds, the left ear bud has stopped working. I wrote to Jabra customer care one week ago and have heard nothing back.

If you can, stick to the AirPods. They are the only pair of Bluetooth headphones that have not failed me in terms of reliability, comfort and sound quality, and I have tried many - only issue is their inability to deal with water.

by GoHox12

I have no use for the fitness portion of JabraSportLife so I can't comment on that, even though it makes up 95% of it. My problem is with the equalizer which is as basic as it gets. Compared to the look and feel as well as functionality of Jaybird's app, Jabra's looks like something out of dawn of smartphones. The customization of the equalizer is soooo basic it really limits sound quality that could be on par with Jaybird's. I'm going they do a major overhaul. Another issue I have is the custom settings don't apply if you don't connect the earbuds to your phone. So if I connect them directly to my Apple watch the sound is set to the default setting which is flat across the board. That takes away sound quality, functionally and overall experience.

by D'Armond

I like the potential of JabraSportLife, but there are some key gaps that make it unusable. My training plan involves alternating days of running and weight training and a recovery day. But you can't add weight training to a plan, and the plan forces you to select four workouts, so I can't use any of the training features.

Most of the exercises I do are not available and there's no way to add new ones. So I can't do the cross-training workouts. Either significantly expand the library of exercises or let us add our own.

Minor annoyance: very often when I'm using the headphones JabraSportLife tells me that they're not connected so I can't adjust settings.

Disappointing considering how expensive the hardware is.

UPDATE: One year later and none of the problems have been addressed. No Health Kit integration means I have to use another app to collect my stats. No Apple Watch integration. No way to edit workout data after a run. Great hardware severely limited by the software. Since Jabra seems unresponsive to customer feedback I’m reducing my rating.

by Rome21

The information that is provided is useful, helpful and easily to track. But the most important information for me is tracking my daily mileage while jogging. It would be nice for the information to be accurate. For instance I’ll jog the same route one day the same 1mile marker would be 1.50, 1.30 and etc the next day. Quite honestly if this is incorrect how correct is the other information

by STi Gym Guy

Let me first say I really like the headphones. The sound quality and fit of my Jabra elite sport is amazing. The bad...the program won't connect to the headphones for workouts and heart rate monitoring. I can still listen to my headphones but part of the reason I wanted them was for JabraSportLife and heart rate so I don't have to look at my phone/watch. There are almost no updates to JabraSportLife . The problem started after updating my iPhone 7+. I have since switched headphones multiple times and even upgraded to the iPhone X. The new set I exchanged have never connected properly. I contacted support and they gave me a bs process to try and of course it didn't work.

by Martin_SFO

The Jabra Elite Sport headphones connect to my iPhone X however JabraSportLife keeps saying not connected. I’m unable to use the equalizer to turn down the treble which is driving me crazy. Either I’m doing something wrong or JabraSportLife is buggy. I’m thinking of returning the headphones if this is not fixed soon

by The Cosp

App has some really nice features and works well. There are a few features of JabraSportLife that don’t work at all, like manual set up of pedometer and run. (You can just leave it on auto) I do like all of the announcements while running, and that they can be turn off if I don’t want to hear them anymore.
Also not able to work with other apple apps not good. New apple airpods are coming soon that will also track heart rate. They wont have the glitches that JabraSportLife has. Get it fixed now, or you won’t have to when apple comes out. These will be discontinued

by Ncognitoace

These earbuds constantly stop pairing with apple products. It says connected on screen and through earbuds and the music doesn’t play through them. This happens all the time and you have to delete everything and re download all the software over again just to get them to pair. Hour plus in time every time. Not worth it!! Waste of $200! Plays great and load when paired but only pairs half the time then bam! Another wasted hour.

by Reader4

JabraSportLife requires an update. It worked fine until I upgraded to IPhone X. The Bluetooth states that I am connected even to the smart. However JabraSportLife states that I am not . I get no workout stats. I get no heart rate. What they are are just listening to music earbuds. That is not what I purchased these for. I have airpods and IQbuds for that. They are useless for what I purchased them for. An update for IPhone X is in desperate need.

by Marcus B.

It’s seems Jabra doesn’t care much about this division of their company although it’s the higher end of their products. The firmware and app updates are so rare that it is usually a year before we get anything but the 65t seems like it’s updated at least 2 times a month.

There’s a lot that can be done to update JabraSportLife. Such as a better interface and integration of the heart app with the Apple app.

Halloween is once a year Jabra so stop ghosting the user of JabraSportLife.

by Sarge830

I just picked up the Jabra Elite Sport today and the sound quality was great. I am in the US Army, so I have to stay physically fit and that is what brings me to my next point.

I would like to pair my Jabra workouts with Apple Health. I use other apps for lifting weights at the gym and it just makes things so much more simple when it auto syncs with the Apple Health app. I will update this with a five star once I can use the Jabra app with Apple Health or any other fitness app for that matter.

by Jen44_65

Generally speaking, I like the information that’s available in the Jabra app. However, it would be nice if I could write HR to Apple’s app or sync with other apps like Nike+ Run Club or Garmin connect. Because of the total lack of 3rd party integration, I actually wear a wrist-based HR monitor so that I can get a live read-out on my Garmin VivoActive. That’s a shame since I have HR available with my headphones.

I kept this rating at 3 stars because this is the best app I have for tracking VO2 max. If JabraSportLife had better integration, I’d give it 5 stars. Also, in JabraSportLife it says you can back up as a part of the iPhone backup, but I personally lost all of my data even though my phone was backed up and I restored from backup.

by Flaherty34695

In America, trying to understand a British accent is terrible- especially for number pronunciation. That defect should be fixed NOW. IF YOU FIX THIS FLAW, MY RATING WILL BE IMPROVED. I'm FAR FROM THE ONLY PERSON COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS OVERSIGHT.

TAKE A LESSON FROM FUJIFILM WITH THEIR CAMERA SOFTWARE. ADD FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS TO YOUR EXISTING HARDWARE. ONCE THEY ADOPTED THIS APPROACH, WORD SPREAD FAST AND SALES WENT THROUGH THE ROOF. HECK, MY X-T1 Camera was improved so substantially, they had to write a new user manual to cover all the new features in their many firmware updates. Learn from that and you will sell your high-end products like crazy and your brand name will mean something. Take care of your existing customers and they will be loyal to the Jabra brand.

by Nik_house

The headphones are great, JabraSportLife has a great foundation but really hasn't been improved in all the time I've been using it. Things it's missing or should be added:
1. I shouldn't have to end a workout to switch the exercise I'm doing. This causes it to count against my health metrics in JabraSportLife if it was only a short workout.

2. More common equipment should be added with appropriate calorie burn such as elliptical, recumbent bike without me having to add it manually. This doesn't account for distance, calories or rpm even remotely correct if it uses a "walking" profile.

3. I shouldn't have to end my workout to get into settings. Like if I want to turn on/off hear-through quickly or change the equalizer.

4. Apple watch integration would be nice.

by Waterspanker

Not sure why people are having issues with the earbuds themselves or JabraSportLife . Maybe cross check ear fitting to get accurate heart rate tread outs? Anyway- not sure why people are mixing reviews for the device with JabraSportLife itself. The interface and ability to customize the workout dashboard is really informative and versatile. I also like being able to auto play music or shut it off. Other features such as voice queues and “hear-thru” are accessible in both JabraSportLife and the device itself. As for upgrades- it would be great to have JabraSportLife accessible via Apple Watch. Another awesome upgrade would be Apple Health integration as a registered source. Other than that, it works great for me!

by JabraRater

Go to History, select any listed Workout, click the share icon (looks like a page with an up arrow), select the Facebook icon, optionally enter any descriptive text above the Jabra GN pic, click Next, select Newsfeed, Your Story or both then click Share.

All that posts is the Jabra GN graphic—no text. A map will share but still none of the Workout’s text.

Sharing to email or messages works fine.

by Staskerz

- I've been using my Jabra Elite Sport buds for a few years w/complete satisfaction. The hardware is great - I've never had a single problem. The buds fit my ears perfectly - the most comfortable (and compact) of the several I tried when shopping for a pair. I find the sound quality to be great, regardless of the few reviews I've just scanned that criticize it. The most impressive thing for me is the fitness app - I find it to actually be is best in class for my needs!👍 I find it surprising that JabraSportLife provides much better analytics with the workout data provided by the earbuds than apps that are designed specifically for exercise including the Apple Activity, Nike Run, Strava and Under Armour MapMyFitness apps (all of which I've used)! I look forward to future enhancements to it - not b/c it's lacking but so it can further surpass my expectations...

by Thsrating

Issues finding an iOS app that will help to boost the audio somewhat or even apps that will allow for other audio support or integration ~ like a wider ranged equalizer function or even transforming the audio of my Elite sport audio to 3dio or 8d 3d...

by Jatlygee

I’ve my pulse for a few years, I’m glad that they continue to get firmware updates. JabraSportLife has come a long way and has great training features, specially for running. I specially love the ability to schedule on the go updates as well as on demand updates by pressing on the left earbud.
Love the detailed analysis of workouts, most apps require a monthly subscription to provide the same type of data.

While I still wish one could create an account for JabraSportLife I’m glad to see that they’ve incorporated the ability to automatically share with Strava and Endomondo.