Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

Simple utility apps like this are definitely going to be under threat by AI-driven app creation. Unsatisfied with the free options out there, I've been using Claude to build my own workout tracker app with nearly the exact same Live Activity functionality in addition to the other features most apps lock up behind IAP subscriptions. Within a week I had the iOS and macOS apps up and running with CloudKit sync, analytics, custom routines, etc. I'd never made an app before, didn't know Swift/SwiftUI, and barely had to use Xcode.

I don’t take my phone into the gym due to the distraction from doing what I’m there to do. I have found that a simple squared notebook with a pen to be perfectly sufficient for remembering what I’m doing, knowing how much I lifted last time, and seeing how much progress I’ve made.

I'm a bit confused, how does it know when you've finished an exercise? There don't seem to be any inputs on the live activity when in the middle of a set, and the post just describes "glancing" at the lock screen.

I kinda want less things on my home screen. It used to be that the only thing you could do on the home screen was slide to unlock, and that made accidental input a non-issue. These days, I sometimes find my phone in some weird state due to accidental input on the home screen (flash light on, camera activated, locked out due to incorrect password attempts, ...).

Anyone know a good timer where I, for example, set it for 1 minute and start it and then every 1 minute it plays a short sound. And that's it. No interaction required with the phone until I want the timer to stop.

This is for rotating through a bunch of different stretches/exercises routine 1 minute per stretch

Every app I've tried is too complicated.

This UI looks shockingly similar to Macrofactor Workouts which I use and can highly recommend.

i am using a very similar app https://steady.rocks - it's great. when scrolling this page i almost thought to give it a try, but then at the end was disappointed by community thing. i don't really need this in a utility app

i've moved over to https://www.liftosaur.com/ and its MCP server. It has been so nice to use. Its unfortunately a PWA/Ionic app (dev has a native one coming) but i am more than happy to overlook that with the other features available in it. Dude even wrote his own little DSL for writing programs you can use.

Interesting; I was looking for a replacement for Strong for iOS just yesterday. Strong was a great app but the dev hasn't been keeping up-to-date with iOS features like live activities and such.

I found that there are loads of apps like this out there, with varying degrees of polish / paywalls. Don't get me wrong, this one doesn't look bad! But what I really want is a demonstrated long-term commitment to the app.

If I can give one piece of feedback, the LLM copy on this website doesn't inspire confidence. Like it mentions "Identical layout: kg always on the left, reps on the right." Is that really a feature? Or "Confetti, only when earned. Never as filler." -- idunno, that doesn't seem like it deserves a spot on the landing page to me.

This is something I really have wanted from a lifting app.

One thing I don't think is here, but would really love: be able to describe a workout I did today with my trainer so I can replicate it perfectly in 3 days at the gym by myself:

"bench press, drop sets, with a 30 second hold before each set, starting at 100lb and decreasing 10lb each set, reps starting at 20 and dropping to 16, 14, 12, and 10 for a total of 5 sets" either thru voice (preferably) or text and have the app build the workout.

Manually building these things really sucks in most apps, even if there's a good UI. My trainer has about 8 variations and combinations of these we might do on any particular day and they're always evolving and changing and I don't really have time to capture it in the moment.

please don't highjack the back swipe

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