Cubii Move vs Cubii JR1

Let us do the honest version first, because it goes against the recommendation and it would be easy to leave out.

Resistance: 8 against 6.The JR1’s listing states eight magnetic levels; Cubii’s own comparison page states six for the Move. Neither figure tells you how hard any level is — a level count is the number of positions the knob has, not a magnitude — but if you expect to outgrow the bottom of the range, more positions is more room.

Width: 17.56 in against 19.5 in. Nearly two inches narrower, which is the difference between fitting a bench-desk footwell with a pedestal on one side and not.

A published capacity at all: 150 lb against nothing. The JR1 is the only one of the two with any user weight figure attached to it anywhere.

The Move takes the fourth row and takes it decisively for anyone buying for a desk: 9.5 in tall against 10, and 17.5 lb against no published unit weight at all. The footprints are almost identical in area — 2.9 sq ft for the Move against 2.8for the JR1 — but they are different shapes: the Move is wider and shallower, the JR1 narrower and 23.2 in deep, so it reaches further back under a desk than it looks. Which of those two dimensions is your constraint is worth five minutes with a tape measure before you order either.

We read Cubii’s own elliptical range page and its own model comparison on 2026-09-17. Both list three machines: the Go, the Total Body and the Move. Neither lists the JR1.

At the same time the JR1 is still on sale at retail, still carries “Seniors” in its listing title, and still has a 150 lb maximum user weight printed on that listing — a figure Cubii itself has never published for any model, including this one.

We are not going to translate that into an announcement Cubii has not made. What we will say is what it means for a purchase. A mechanical machine with pedals, a linkage and a magnetic brake is a thing you may want a manual, a foot strap or a warranty conversation for in two years. The model that is in the maker’s own current range is the one where those exist. On a product where the two spec sheets are this close, that is not a tiebreak — it is the deciding factor, and it is the reason the Move is the pick despite losing three rows above.

Cubii’s comparison page has one column that changes what a lot of buyers think they are getting, and it is not the resistance count.

Under app compatibility, the Move reads “Manual Data Entry”. So does the Go. Only the Total Body — the most expensive machine in the range — reads “Bluetooth Seamless Syncing”. Manual data entry means you read the numbers off the monitor and type them into the app yourself. Display follows the same ladder: “Basic LCD Monitor” on the Move, “Backlit LCD Monitor” on the two above it.

For the JR1 there is no current Cubii statement about app support at all, because the JR1 is not on the comparison page to have a row.

If tracking is a real part of why you want one of these, read that row before the price. And read what a wrist tracker does with seated pedaling before you assume your watch will pick up the slack — in Apple’s own words, it will not.

This matters enough to be precise about. Cubii publishes no maximum user weight for any modelon its own comparison page — not for the Move, not for the Go, not for the Total Body. The 150 lb figure sits on the JR1’s retail listing, and it is the lowest user weight limit of any machine on this entire site.

Two practical consequences. If you are above that figure, the JR1 is not a close call and the extra resistance level does not come into it. And if a stated limit is something you want in writing from the company that made the machine, neither Cubii in this comparison gives you one — which is why the third machine is on this page.

The Stamina InMotion E1000is the only seated machine we track whose maker publishes a maximum user weight: 250 lb, on Stamina’s own page, beside dimensions, a 24 lb unit weight and a 1 year frame / 90 days parts warranty. It is taller at 11.38 in, which is the trade, and it publishes no resistance-level count at all. We rank the seated machines on exactly this criterion if it is the one that decides your purchase.

Buy the Move if the machine goes under a desk (9.5 in is the lowest published height in the seated category), if it has to be carried anywhere (17.5 lb is the lightest machine on this site), or if you want the version Cubii is still describing on its own website.

Buy the JR1if your footwell is genuinely narrow — 17.56 in is nearly two inches tighter — and you are comfortably inside the 150 lb figure on its listing, and the extra resistance positions matter to you. Read its depth first: 23.2 in is the deepest machine in this comparison.

Buy neither if what you actually needed was a maker willing to state what the machine will carry. Both Cubiis fail that test and the Stamina passes it.

We have not pedaled either of these machines. We do not own them. Every figure above is read from Cubii’s own pages or from the retail listing, with the date we read it printed beside it in the sources. Our full method.

We have not said the JR1 is discontinued, and we will not, because Cubii has not said it. Absence from a range page is an observation, not an announcement, and the difference matters when somebody is about to spend money on the strength of it.

We have not resolved the JR1’s capacity beyond its listing. Cubii publishes no limit, the listing publishes 150 lb, and the official owner’s manual PDF is an image scan we could not extract text from. We are reporting the figure and its provenance rather than an interpretation of it.