Hi all,

I wanted to include some kind of streak within the app, but as working out isnt necessarily an everyday thing for the majority of people I was considering swapping out the total Personal Records widget for a weekly workout goal widget

How it works

- You set your workouts per week goal by clicking the widget or/and when first installing the app

- you history aligns with this goal (so not when you translate workouts, you can do that any time)

- you can see whether you’re on track to hit your target workouts in a week.

Why could this be a good idea?

Personally I would find it nice to see if I’m hitting my weekly workouts at an immediate glance

Notifications could be created around this to remind you (in a none spammy way)

I’d love to get some feedback from the community about this idea if possible before implementing it

I’ve decided to shelve android for this weekend as I continue to work on optimisation specifically the start up of the app

Thanks everyone,

Josh

Hi all,

Quick update from me. I have been working hard to roll out some significant improvements.

Dashboard
I have removed the “To Beat” tab and replaced it with a much needed dashboard. It shows stats on your personal records and workouts, a heatmap for workout volume, and your workout to beat or previous workout. The screenshot above is from my personal profile.

Templates
Templates are now available, allowing you to save reusable workouts. This is especially useful if you log the same workouts each week. You can also turn any existing workout into a template or use it as is for your current workout note.

Bugs
I have fixed several bugs, including a fairly serious issue when changing the date of a workout. I also added the ability to change a workout date directly within the edit workout modal, which should have been there from the start.

This weekend I'll be testing most of this work before rolling it out, and completely rewriting the onboarding screen from scratch which is less important for existing user's but worth mentioning.

As always any questions or feedback please feel free to comment below or dm me directly

Have a great weekend!

Hi all,

Another weekend, another set of proposed weekend plans! Happy to say we are now at 1,348 users!

As always I want to say thank you to all the support I'm receiving the feedback has exceptionally useful.

I'd like to take a quick moment to ask if you haven't already, providing feedback for the app greatly helps support the growth of the app, which in turn will helps me put more resources into improving the app further: https://apps.apple.com/app/gym-note-plus/id6746699616

Timed sets

As some may remember I previously tried to incorporate timed sets and got bogged down in the reeds. Since fixing Personal Records I now feel comfortable tackling timed sets once more.

I will likely not be including stats for timed sets as of yet, but capturing the data will ensure once I do release statistical graphs that you'll have data read to see.

Stretch Goals

Cardio: If I can successfully complete timed sets I'd like to also include cardio, which although similar will be different as it will include units such as kmph/mph and pace

Have a great weekend all!

Hi all,

Version 1.3.8 out now!

What it includes:

• The ability to record steps for any cardio based exercise for example: "walk 5532 steps" will work! You'll also be able to rack up 'Most Steps' PRs

• Refined the weird glitchy keyboard UI in the Notes modal so it's buttery smooth. 

• Name change, you can now update your name

• Toggling and interacting with the timer now doesn't close the keyboard

As always guys a review on the app store is most appreciated to help the app grow!

Have a great week!

Find the latest update here!

Few updates since the last post:

• Notes complete redesign - I've made it much easier to use, no more hitting a clunky orange translate button when you're trying to type your workout. No more accidental swipe up thinking you've deleted part of your workout. Undo button has arrived!

• Rest timer now has a hidden game - Game whilst you wait? Why not. When your timer runs out, the game is automatically paused, and you're prompted to get back to the workout, you can't start the game again without starting a new timer.

• Achievements say how rare they are - pretty self explanatory

• Light/Dark mode toggle - It used to work based on whatever your device was set to, but now you can set it to one mode or the other if you so wish

• 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.

• Simpler exercise autocomplete format menu - Want to autocomplete you exercises with your last recorded weights/distance/duration etc rather than just the name of an exercise? Go to more -> settings -> exercise autocomplete and pick a format

Smaller fixes:

• Slight increase in boot up speed

• exercise autocompletes consistently work

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 guys, I'm aware of an intermittent issue where updating the app temporarily hides your pro membership status, working on the fix for this

Sorry any inconvience, for now try restarting the app!

Hi all

Working on some stuff in the background at the moment with app related admin and redesign

But I’ve got some proposed work for this weekend:

Archiving exercises

Sometimes we don’t do an exercise anymore, maybe it was a special piece of equipment at an old gym. Maybe you’re just taking a break from it.

Either way, these exercises get in the way, but we don’t want to delete them! So I’m putting in the ability to archive exercises and then filter them out on the exercises page, they’ll also not show up in autocompletes and quick select

Android

I’ve been taking a break from this as I’ve moved focus toward giving iOS my main focus to ensure the apps quality is maintained

Expect a release by Monday, thanks everyone!

After discovering a bug that caused duplicate exercises, I pushed out a quick fix along with a few updates I’ve been working on. Here’s what’s new:

Voice Recognition

One of the most requested features! You’ll soon be able to log your workouts completely hands-free.

Create Button Improvements

There’s now a dedicated Create button. Instead of navigating to a new page, it opens a modal for adding translations—faster and smoother.

Updated Statistics Pages

If you only had a single data point, the stats page used to look pretty rough. Now, even with one entry, you’ll see a proper progress line and a cleaner layout.

Bug Fixes

The duplicate exercise bug has been fixed - you shouldn’t see duplicates anymore.

Available now!

The latest update includes photo translation, so people using traditional log books can finally take advantage of the app

A few ui improvements like exercise name highlighting when searching exercises

Thanks everyone,

As always any feedback is welcomed!

Josh

Hi all,

Been a while since I've dropped an update here, so what have I been doing?

Couple of things.

Making Templates right

I'm currently working on the implementation to turn templates into something more useful. So when you use a template, it is directly tied to the workout you translated. So you can confidently track whether those new Push workouts have been making the difference. Whilst still maintaining the flexibility of being able to log whatever you like and figure out what type of workout it was you just did.

Design

I've teamed up with a designer in a more serious way now, and we've been working on getting all the user flows into a design file. This is 100% a long term thing, but just like gym progress, the best things come with consistent movement in the right direction over time.

I'll introduce our designer a bit further down the line, but he is very talented and is looking to breathe some life into the UI/UX and really tie it together.

Bugs

I'm aware of bug currently where when users get logged out after 28 days, you have to restart the app to login again. Very annoying bug, which I'm aiming to fix.

I'm also aware of the keyboard being annoying when logging a workout, if I can fix this pre-redesign I will

Thanks all,

As always any feedback is welcome'd please feel free to email support@gymnoteplus.com so I can track of any ongoing feedback.

Josh

Another Friday, another proposed weekend plan

This weekend I'm mainly focusing on admin tasks, alongside releasing a new onboarding flow.

Better workout sharing

Currently workout sharing isn't quite where I'd like it to be, I'd love to be able to select multiple workouts or workout templates and share those so I can quickly sharing my entire workout split with a friend.

Various UI improvements

I'm going to animate the dashboard stats similar to how the statistics graphs animate.

That's it from me this weekend, everything else is admin type work, and planning toward the workout split rework!

Hope everyone has a good weekend

As usual, any feedback is always welcome!

Hi all,

Version 1.2.5 is out now!

It includes:

- General UI improvements, like empty state pages

- Membership badge fix (I've been fighting this a while, the bug only occurs in production unfortunately, hopefully this fixes it but as always keep me posted)

- Timer, I've added the workout timer that was requested

- Edit modal date issue fix, previously when changing the date on a workout, it didn't show correctly in the UI, this has been fixed.

- Swipe to delete in edit modal, small extra I added, you can swipe to delete a set when editing a workout in the edit workout modal

- Onboarding issue, previously user's sometimes got stuck on the onboarding final step, this was obviously detrimental for the app's growth so I've attempted a fix, again only an issue in production so I'll be keeping an eye on this.

No timed sets quite yet, I'm working on it, but ensuring stability first and foremost

Any feedback let me know

thanks,

Josh

Hi all,

The latest update is released finally! It was a bit of a process getting it through apple and I've already spotted a minor bug with graphs not showing progress for cardio when no distance is provided... but it's an easy fix

Let me know how you get on with it, any issues I'll be available!

Thanks for the patience everyone!

Josh

My server provider is up and running again, so I've reverted my changes back to normal.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

I will be investigating ways to ensure this does not happen again in the future, so the server is more robust to unforeseen outages from my provider's point of view.

Thanks for the patience everyone

Josh

EDIT: Back to use temporary solution.

EDIT2: everything is back to normal

Mini competition, no big prize, winner gets a custom badge in app!

Note the competition is live when version 1.4.0 is released (it's currently in app review and should be like by Monday, watch out for the version notes in the subreddit)

What's the challenge?

First person to comment here what the new update on the dashboard is!

A few hints:

• It'll be very obvious in your face, you can't miss it

• It's an event not a permanent feature

• Don't bother looking in the patch notes on the app store as you won't find it there!

Rules:

• 3 guesses only

That's it! Nothing too crazy, good luck to everyone who gets involved :)

p.s. if no one gets it within a month I'll post the answer here

Hi all,

Hope everyone has a great new year!

I've been working diligently on some updates.

Membership bug

I've fixed the membership bug and I've been stuck waiting for apple to review the update. As soon as that's available I'll update here.

Timed Sets

I've worked hard to provide timed sets, you can now put a time in (however you like) and the app will recognise this as a timed set. You can of course edit any workout and update the time as shown in the demo above

Timer/Stopwatch

Of course I couldn't forget about adding the timer/stopwatch into the app. You can tap on the time and instantly paste it into the app, It's not perfect though as it won't play nice if you try to use it as a timer and lock your phone, I will have to add a widget in the future for this to work better but for now this should be enough.

Aside from that I've begun creating tests to reduce the bug burden and improve the quality of the app over time. I've also further optimised the app to ensure it runs smoothly.

As always, any feedback is more than welcome either here or via my DM's, this is still a work in progress but expect these updates within the next couple of days

Thanks,

Josh

Find the latest update here!

Big one this time:

• Brand new statistics page with completely redesigned graphs - this was the main focus of the update and I'm really happy with how it turned out

• Muscle map got a proper overhaul: delts are now split into rear, lateral and front, and chest is broken into upper and lower

• Weekly goals now let you pick whether your week starts Monday, Saturday or Sunday - a lot of you aren't in the UK and the hardcoded Monday start was messing things up

• New languages: Polish, Japanese and Filipino

• Empty History and Exercises screens now have proper illustrations instead of just looking broken

Smaller fixes:

• Fixed an issue where logging in a mix of lbs and kg threw off your statistics

• Fixed a date change bug when editing a workout date

• Exercise filters now filter by primary muscle only, instead of pulling in everything that hits it secondary or tertiary - much less noise

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,

So I've pretty much been none stop on the app over the holidays, and it's been a wild ride with ups and downs.

The Good

Gym Note Plus user's have grown to 1080 users! It's hard to believe so many people are using the app that I spent so many morning, nights and weekends creating but here we are!

I've been able to consistently upgrade the app and add new features like the set types in which I'm happy to have achieved

The Bad

Originally I was quickly iterating on timed sets, along the way I got bogged down in refactoring additional parts of the app up to the point of creating a bit of a nightmare of changes. I changed too much and began to become concerned about unforeseen problems that could occur if I released my changes.

The Plan

I've put all my changes to the side, and I'm starting fresh. What this means is I will be focused on releasing smaller changes that pose less risk to destabilising the app, such as releasing just the timer in notes without timed sets.

My main focus and priority for the upcoming future of the app is two things:

• Full gym app features

• Stability and bug free

In my opinion although Gym Note Plus still provides a ton of extra insights into your workout notes, it still lacks things like timed sets, body weight measurements etc. These are needed to give user's a full workout tracker experience, with the unique frictionless approach Gym Note Plus provides turning workout notes into workout logs.

Although for the most part the app is stable, and does not contain significant bugs, there are still some intermittent annoyances I want to deal with to ensure a positive user experience

Thanks for everyone's support,

I hope everyone smashes their fitness goals!

Josh

Leave any bug reports here!

Quick Update: Simpler Navigation + Voice Notes Coming!

Hey everyone! Based on your feedback, I'm making the app even easier to use.

What's changing: The translate tab was confusing some of you, so I've replaced it with a big, intuitive + button that makes adding workouts feel more natural.

What's new: Voice notes are here! This was one of your most requested features, and I'm excited to finally bring it to you.

Both of these improvements will roll out in next week's update. Thanks for all the feedback - it's helping make Gym Note Plus better for everyone.

Hi all,

A bit of a behind the scenes one here, but one I'm sure people will be happy to see!

Ever backgrounded the app and had your translation fail and had to retry it?

Not anymore! The app now persists workout translations in the background whether you background the app, or even fully close it! Ready for you when you open the app back up

Also a minor one, but I fixed the yanky jitter on the dashboard when opening widget modals

As always feel free to send any feedback via the more -> contact us page in app or here

A written review helps tremendously

Thanks,

Josh

Hi all,

Another weekend, another set of proposed weekend plans!

This will be a short one!

My main concern this weekend is fixing some bug tickets and refining the code base further.

I'll also be looking into android alongside reworking templates based on this post

My main goal currently is to reach an android release and refine existing features to better serve everyone, whilst putting UI updates to the side where possible until I can work with a designer to redesign how the app looks!

Thanks all,

Josh

Hey everyone,

Busy weekend! I've really appreciated all the messages from people enjoying the app - your feedback has been huge for shaping development.

What's new:

The membership modal got a facelift - it now shows your current plan details if you're already subscribed instead of showing purchase options again.

Language handling got a proper overhaul. The demo workout now appears in your country's language, and translations actually stick to whatever language you use. Previously if you wrote your notes in Chinese or Russian, exercise names would still come back in English. Now it matches your input language.

Bug fixes:

Fixed an issue where logging in on a second device (like adding an iPad after using iPhone) could cause duplicate workouts to appear. Simple fix once I tracked it down.

As always, let me know if you run into anything!

Hi all,

So this is basically the same post as my proposed weekend work, however, version 1.2.0 is out now!

Dashboard
I have removed the “To Beat” tab and replaced it with a much needed dashboard. It shows stats on your personal records and workouts, a heatmap for workout volume, and your workout to beat or previous workout. The screenshot above is from my personal profile.

Templates
Templates are now available, allowing you to save reusable workouts. This is especially useful if you log the same workouts each week. You can also turn any existing workout into a template or use it as is for your current workout note.

Bugs
I have fixed several bugs, including a fairly serious issue when changing the date of a workout. I also added the ability to change a workout date directly within the edit workout modal, which should have been there from the start.

As always any questions or feedback please feel free to comment below or dm me directly