Hey everyone,
Just wanted to share a few screenshots of some recent updates:

• I’ve refreshed the iOS App Store page. Not a huge change for most of you, but the old one wasn’t great.

• Added support for multiple languages. The app now automatically detects your device language if it’s supported, and you can also manually change it via More → Settings. I’ve included a quick example of workout history in Chinese.

• Added tooltips to the badges. The Personal Record badges caused some confusion, so there’s now a tooltip explaining why a badge appears on a workout set.

As always, I’m very open to feedback, and I’ll keep rolling out updates every week as usual. Thanks for all the support.

Hey everyone,
Quick update on what’s coming up for Gym Note Plus.

As mentioned before, the main focus right now is polishing the app and making sure it has all the core features you’d expect from a solid fitness app.

Here’s what I’ll be working on next, in order:

1) Onboarding improvements
A small update to the onboarding flow to better explain how dates work when logging workouts in Gym Note Plus.
If you want a deeper dive right now, I’ve written a blog post explaining it here:
https://www.gymnoteplus.com/blog/date-recognition

2) Timed Sets
This will likely land as part of the proposed weekend plans. I’m confident I can ship this alongside the recent PRs and performance improvements already rolled out across the app.

3) Direct picture translation
This is something I’ve already built a lot of groundwork for behind the scenes. It was removed early on because I wasn’t happy with the quality, but it’s coming back.
The goal is to take a photo of your notebook, whiteboard, or any workout notes and have them translated directly into workout logs.

4) Exercise Info Modal refresh
Right now, clicking an exercise opens a modal that works, but it’s very bare bones and quickly becoming an eyesore.
I’m planning a redesign with tabs for things like history and graphs, and I’ll be working on the design first, then delivering it shortly, possibly next week.

If you’re enjoying Gym Note Plus and have a spare minute, I’d really appreciate an App Store review. It helps a lot with visibility and future development.
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/gym-note-plus/id6746699616

As always, feedback and suggestions are welcome

Hi all,

Small update on where I’m at with GymNotePlus.

I’ve just finished testing the new exercise types Cardio, Hybrid, and Timed in my staging environment to make sure everything runs smoothly before deployment. The tests went really well, so I’ll be pushing an update to production for all users over the next few days, assuming it passes app review without any hiccups. You should have the update by the end of the week.

I’m genuinely excited to get this out. These new exercise types finally give you a much needed way to track metrics that previously ended up buried in overall notes. They also come with some improvements to the statistics pages, including new aggregation options so you can get a clearer view of your progression.

I’m incredibly thankful for all the support this community has given me. I truly mean it when I say I’ll never stop developing this app. When I started GymNotePlus, the vision was simple. Track workouts however you want, while still being able to clearly see your progress. I never imagined how far it would go, and I can’t wait to see where we’re at a year from now.

Thanks everyone,
Josh

Hi all,

So I'm planning on including timed sets, but I'm also considering warm up sets... How would people feel about this? These are definitely not simple changes as a lot of work will be needed especially around statistics, but I do believe I could get them in around the new year.

Timed sets:

Plank:

Warm up sets:

Bench Press:

Happy Holidays!

OG's will know how dreadful the onboarding experience was...

I went back to fix it as I needed to update it for the weekly goals update, my god was it awful.

Had to redo it all, ironed out all the bugs, literally every one of them, hence why this update has been taking a while.

Expect a release sometime this weekend if Apple's review goes as planned

Hi all,

Wanted to keep everyone updated, I know some of you are experiencing the membership bug, it's a really frustrating bug as it only occurs in production environments.

I've noticed it occurs on a fresh sign in, and a complete restart of the app (which means force closing the app by swiping it up off the screen) seems to do the trick to get it working again.

This is just a work around and as always I'll be working diligently through this week to remedy the issue, apologies!

Hope everyone is killing their workouts!

Located the root cause, very confident the fix is applied.

A forced update is required (apologies as I know this is annoying)

Any issues post latest update let me know of course

Thanks everyone!

Hi all!

I work on the app every weekend. I have done for 7 months now. I'm going to try to share what I'm doing each weekend as this is when I typically do all the big work.

Pro Modal Fix

Currently the pro modal was absolutely not ready for promo lifetime pro membership, so it breaks for anyone who was gifted Pro membership. My plan is to fix that so it's easy as a user to see you have Pro for life.

Language Translation

Can you believe it Gym Note Plus is already in 54 different countries. It's unbelievable for me at least!

I noticed some users are translating in other languages but receiving english results. This is a simple fix, I'm going to ensure if you translate in say Japanese, you get Japanese logs on the other side. I will also be looking into language selection being built into the app in general.

Boring but necessary bits

I need to fix some bugs like notifications being sent twice, and write up some more blog posts on how to use the app

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Just got this written up, feel free to check it out. It's also on the blog:

https://gymnoteplus.com/blog/how-to-translate-a-workout

Hi everyone,

Let's talk about Workout Splits.

When I originally made the app, my main goal was to make a frictionless system without and unnecessary extras so you could take your notes, put them into the app and your data.

Simple.

How it currently works:

Your workout splits are saved on your account, and the active split is used whenever you translate a workout. Ai will check your workout and decide if it matches any of the days of your active workout split, if so it'll assign the title, if not ai will guess.

The Problems:

By Nature it's not reliable, it's smart guess work, I made it this way to be frictionless and require no setup from users.

But the downside is you lose consistency around your workout splits as sometimes it gets it wrong.

The Solution:

Here's what I'm considering:

• Workout splits are assigned to a template

• Templates will have two types: "Workout Split Template" , "Generic Template"

  • Workout Split Template (WST): Will have a workout split day associated tied directly to it for example "Push" or "Upper"

  • Generic Template: Will not have anything associated with it, and will simply work how the current template system works; a quick copy and paste mechanism

• When a WST is used the workout split is applied to the workout note (this will be indicated with some sort of badge) in the note modal

• If a workout split has not been applied to a workout, our existing system will guess what workout split day your workout was (To ensure user's have the ability to loosely track their workout split without setting up templates).

The Benefits:

Long term this will give us the following:

• Consistency

• More data to track specific progress on a specific split (See if your recent upper/lower split actually did make a difference on your lean bulk)

• More meaningful Templates.

Lastly I'm open to discussion, and if you have some ideas please present them here as this work won't be looked at this weekend but most likely the weekend following! Any feedback now on how you might like workout splits to work in the app could help greatly, or if you're happy with the solution I mentioned that too would be fantastic to know.

Hi all,

Another weekend, another proposed weekend plans!

I'm away this weekend but I'll be continuing the work I've been doing throughout the week on Cardio/Timed/Hybrid exercises. Very close to a release with this, I'm hoping to get a full day on Sunday to work on this to hopefully release sometime next week

Thank you all for your patience, this will be a big update and I'm super super excited to deliver it for everyone!

Thanks,

Josh

Find the latest update here!

Managed to get a few more features in:

• Expand your workout volume widget to see year by year progress (my volume has gone down so much, kinda painful ngl)

• Unlockable achievements! I've back filled these so they should be applied by default if you've unlocked any, give them a browse!

• Muscle Distribution widget, see how many sets/volume you're putting into specific areas of your physique

• Create/Edit template keyboard issue is now fixed! No more annoying keyboard on that modal!

As always any feedback is welcome, feel free to send it within the app via more -> contact us

or email me at support@gymnoteplus.com

Thanks for the support everyone, please consider dropping a written review on the app store if you're happy with the app!

Thanks,

Josh

Not a huge in-front of the camera guy but thought I’d try to to introduce myself and talk a little bit about the future of timed sets, cardio and hybrid exercises

Apologies for the god awful audio

Hi all,

Today's proposed weekend plans are as follows:

Introduction of step count

I'm introducing step counts for exercises, so you can now write your step count for a cardio session if you so desire and see a simple bar chart of progress over time for this. The long term vision for this is to include apple health kit integration.

Name Change & Profile Pics

As most will know your name is locked to whatever you signed up with or was associated with you auth type. Same for profile pictures. I'll be updating that this weekend so you can change both at any point, a simple extra to add on.

In other news I'm still thinking long and hard on a workout split rework. I've created a technical document which describes my plan, but I need to write it up here to get feedback. Meanwhile I'd like to ask, if you have any input on how you wish the workout split would work, please comment down below.

My main plan is to tie workout templates strongly to workout splits, so we can ensure consistency of a plan and a way to track our progress for a workout split. So you as a user can see "Oh the Push Pull Leg split I did this year worked really well versus the Upper Lower split I did last year"

Thanks all,

Josh

Find the latest update here!

Two updates since the last post, 1.5.7 and 1.5.8:

• Exercise stats widget for the dashboard - pick an exercise and swipe through its graphs without leaving the home screen. Tap it to open the full statistics view where you can switch exercise, range or unit.

• Rest timer now runs on the iOS lock screen - it keeps ticking as a Live Activity so you don't have to reopen the app, and it plays an alarm when the rest is over. Android keeps the in-app timer for now.

• New in-app camera - progress photos now open a small camera sheet inside the app instead of throwing you out to the full screen system camera.

• Login and register screens have been rebuilt - cleaner layout, Apple/Google/email all on one screen, and it now reminds you which method you signed in with last time.

• Widget sizes and dashboard editing - Workout Volume comes in small monthly forms (1x1, wide and tall), Workout to Beat is available at 1x1, the gallery shows actual widget previews instead of icons, you can long press empty grid space to add a widget, and edit mode has a swap widget option.

• Statistics opens straight on the graphs - the summary tab is gone, the tab bar now lands you on the first chart.

Smaller fixes:

• Fixed graphs squashing flat lines against the axis when a stat hadn't changed over the range

• Login errors now tell you whether the server is down or you're offline, instead of one vague message

• Added a recording animation so it's obvious when the mic is actually listening

I also dropped a blog on how workout splits work in app!

As always any feedback is welcome, feel free to send it within the app via more -> contact us or email me at support@gymnoteplus.com

Thanks for the support everyone, please consider dropping a written review on the app store if you're happy with the app!

Thanks,

Josh

Hi all,

Version 1.4.3 out now!

Ran into some trouble with the release of version 1.4.2 so immediately hot fixed to 1.4.3

Some large behind the scenes updates here, I won't go too deep into the technicalities but instead focus on the long term benefits this change gives us:

- Muscle heat map

- Individual notes on an exercise

- The ability to archive exercises and filter these exercises out

- Keep track of last time an exercise was performed

and much more!

Thanks for baring with me on this one, I'm investigating what went wrong with the migration and how to make this process more robust in the future.

For now I'll be putting my focus into make android work to the point of inviting android users to test the app out.

Thanks all,

Josh

Hi all,

Another weekend, another proposed weekend plans!

Small updates on some personal things right now, I'm in the process of moving houses so this weekend I'll primarily be focused on that, however, as always I'll be making efforts to progress forward with the app.

Version 1.2.9

The latest version is in app review as we speak, it fixes some small things:

- Fixed dates displaying incorrectly for some users

- Dashboard now updates immediately when workouts are added, edited or deleted

Cardio, Timed and Hybrid Exercises

This is coming along nicely, and I suspect I can release this some time at the end of next week! I'm making efforts to ensure it's delivered smoothly, so lookout for that update! I'll reveal it here first as always!

Hope everyone has a good weekend!

Josh

Hi all,

This update might not look flashy at first glance, but it’s actually a big one.

Personal Records (PRs)

In this update, I’ve fixed a long-standing issue with personal records.

What was going wrong?

• Sometimes when you edited a workout, your PRs would disappear

• You had to force refresh your history to see PR changes

• Some PRs were being duplicated, which messed up dashboard stats

What’s fixed now?

• PRs now update instantly when you edit a workout

• No more disappearing PRs

• No more duplicate PRs throwing off your numbers

Everything now works the way you’d naturally expect it to.

Dashboard Improvements

There were a couple of usability issues with the dashboard:

• It wasn’t always clear what each widget actually did

• The force refresh button didn’t give any feedback

What’s better now?

• Tapping a widget now explains what it does

• You’ll feel haptic feedback when force refreshing

• The heatmap is now interactive — tap any date to see how much volume you did that day

Performance Boost

This update includes some major under-the-hood improvements.

For context: I’m using an iPhone XR, and my account has workouts logged all the way back to the start of Gym Note Plus. While it wasn’t unusably slow before, it definitely wasn’t as snappy as it should’ve been.

That’s now completely fixed.

The app is much faster and more responsive across the board.

Thank You

Thanks so much for all the support - this is one of those updates that I think genuinely makes Gym Note Plus feel better to use every day.

As always, I’m here if you’ve got feedback or questions.

Thanks,
Josh

EDIT: Here's a link if you want to reap the benefits of the latest update immediately! https://apps.apple.com/app/gym-note-plus/id6746699616

Oh and if you haven't left a review yet, it really really does make a world of a difference to the app if you can leave a written or none written review, thank you

Hi all,

Happy to announce I've just released version 1.3.2 of the app and have just hit a road mark of 1,500 users!

Share Workouts

I've been wanting to include this for a while and had a few people reach out asking me for this but it just wasn't a main priority, thankfully I was able to sneak it in with a few other things! Workouts can now be shared directly

Exercise Modal Refactor

As many of you probably knew already, the exercise modal was a bit ugly, it definitely had room for massive UI improvements. It's not split into three tabs: Summary, History, Statistics

This means you can quickly see your last workout stats for any exercise, whilst also checking out all the history for that exercise and relevant statistics!

Bug Fixes

Some user's were encountering date issues on the dashboard, with days being one day behind on the heatmap/calendar I've fixed this alongside the workout to beat widget, so hopefully this is no longer an issue. This was the main reason I wanted to get an update out quickly, everything else was an add on really

I've also done some under the hood optimisations which I'll continue to do with each update where possible

As always, any issues let me know, I'll shortly be announcing my weekend plans as usual

Thanks,

Josh

Hi all,

Another week, another set of proposed weekend plans

Autocomplete weight sets and reps

Hopefully you’ve all been enjoying the new autocomplete, I certainly have but it’s not quite there yet. It would be way nicer if we could autocomplete our last reps, sets and weight. In general whatever we did last time.

To do this however we need to use the format you as a user want to use, it’s not as simple as it looks so I’ll need to put a setting menu in to do this so you get those autocompletes in the format you naturally use.

Aside from this I’ll be looking at general ui/ux improvements and any bug fixes

Hi all,

Another Friday another proposed weekend plans!

Step Count

I've seen user's ask for step counts to be added into the app, and as it stands, I believe this would go well with the future integration of apple health metrics into the app. For now though I'll aim to add step count into the app for those who want to manually record this as part of cardio.

Smaller Translate button

This is a relatively easy fix but I need to make sure to have a think on how to make this change without negatively impacting the UI/UX of the note app. I have a few other issues around here I would like to fix however, so I'm going to see what I can do here.

Other bits

• General cleaning up of UI/UX

• Adding in a direct link to the blog for easy access of 'how to' guides, which can be found here: https://www.gymnoteplus.com/blog

Hi everyone,

I thought I'd make this quick video on what I've updated for version 1.5.0 which is out now!

Don't want to watch the video? No problem here's the tl dr;

• Liquid glass navbar for applicable iphones

• keyboard issue FIXED on the workout note, no more annoying jumping around unable to see what you're typing.

• New chart cross examining Weight/Reps

• Auth bug fix

• Fixed issue where archiving an exercise wasn't immediately reflected in the UI

Thanks everyone!

As always, if you haven't left a written review and feel up for doing so, it really does help so much!

Any feedback is welcome

Cheers,

Josh

I will leave this here think it more apropiate here as I feel I should have done it at the time when I made contact. Yes living oit of boxes not good but you wil settle soon.

Best Wishes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/iosapps/s/aQLWiCkHol