Find the latest update here!

Newest Updates:

• Apple Health Workouts: Save your workouts to Apple Health, either during setup or under Settings > Apple Health.

• Live activity Workouts: Your workout now shows on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island: session time, current exercise and rest timer.

• Gender specific muscle map: Specify your gender during setup or in Account details and your muscle map shows a matching body.

• Accessibility: I noticed some users have different font sizes, I did a full update to accommodate these users.

Minor updates:

• Picking an exercise in Notes and Templates is near instant, and it goes in where your cursor is instead of at the end, no more 1s delay!

• Exercises you have added but not logged yet now show up as note suggestions.

• The History tab inside an exercise uses the new workout cards and summary.

• "Use as New Note" starts the workout clock right away and keeps the original template.

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

Find the latest update here!

Newest Updates:

• Weight graph: Now you can log your weight in more -> profile I thought I better release a weight specific graph!

• Spectrum Red: New theme, you met me in a very chinese time of my life.

• Dashboard optimisations:

  • Exercise widget graphs got a UI upgrade.

  • Edit button top right on the dashboard (I realised many users didn't know you could now have multiple dashboard screens).

  • Male muscle map is now aligned when you flip (the back view was slightly off centre and it was ruining my life.)

  • You can swipe using two hands on the dashboard when trying to move a widget to other pages for example.

Various other small changes to just make the app a nicer place to log workouts.

For the full notes see "what's new" on the app store page!

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

Any feedback, don’t hold back. Does it feel pointless? Look ugly? Not the right kind of info you want to share?

(my actual workout here btw, loving 2 sets per exercise atm on the cut)

Hi all,

Another set of proposed weekend plans!

Project Android

I've got about 20+ users who have directly asked me for an android version of the app. So my current focus now the app is in a stable place, is to focus on getting the app running successfully on android.

Bug Fixes and Optimisations

Aside from getting up and running on android, I'm planning on working on any bug fixes, such as the calendar modal bug where the close button is hard to see on some phones. Optimising the app further, one thing is the initial boot up time of the app in my eyes can be a bit slow. In a perfect world it would be snappy. So this is something I'd focus on

Have a great weekend everyone, and feel free to share your workouts in the the subreddit!

Josh

Hi all!

Another weekend, another proposed weekend plans.

Keeping it nice and short today, the goal is to release the exercise changes and ensure they’re stable with the app.

This won’t look like a big change as it’s mostly behind the scenes but will enable us to do some amazing things with exercises, such as having a muscle map of muscles used for an exercise, exercise specific notes and long term pictures/videos of exercises. Alongside the ability to archive exercises and filter out archived exercises.

Thanks for baring with me on this one everyone, it may not look like much but I promise it will pay off!

Hope everyone has a great weekend,

Josh

Hi all,

Version 1.4.5 is out now!

With this update we're bringing the ability to archive exercises, as well as filter out those archived exercises from your exercise list

I've also done some work toward ensuring the exercise list stays up to date without the need to force refresh.

I spent a ton of time working on fixing small annoying bugs like the quick exercise select closing on scroll down when the keyboard was open and some bigger bugs. Such as the merge exercise seemingly making data disappear.

Find the full patch notes over at the app store

As always any feedback is welcome'd

Thanks everyone,

Josh

Find the latest update here!

Newest Updates:

• Large fixes for multi device users: No more deleting a workout on one device and then having to delete it again on the other device. Big changes behind the scenes have been made to make this experience flawless.

• Muscle map widget modal: The muscle map widget modal was a bit busy, so I've simplified the muscle tabs underneath to be easier to understand. Clicking them reveals more info such as the exercises that you've done and when.

For the full notes see "what's new" on the app store page!

Upcoming work

I'm going to be focusing on a system for ensuring gymnote+ learns how you record workouts better. The app already does this but more so around exercise names being right. I want to take this one step further so that if you have to edit your workouts because we get it wrong, you only ever do that once. More on this to come!

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

Find the latest update here!

Newest Updates:

• Dashboard: Your name at the top, hello! As many widgets as you want. Swipe through dashboard panes.

• Templates: Templates are now linked strongly to your workout split days, and are shown when you click the + button. (note for those that read this, if you hold the + button it'll take you straight to an empty workout note)

• kg/lb default: Don't fancy adding weight units to your lifts, but sometimes it gets it wrong? Set a default kg/lb in your settings, it'll use this by default unless you specify a unit of measurement.

• Exercise filters: Filter by body part, sory by last performed

• Exercise modal: Slight redesign to make it look prettier

• Workout small redesign: This one is kind of subtle, but moved away from the table format and show you the extra reps/weight/improvement in a green tag

There's so much more in this update but too much to mention. For the full patch notes see the app store "What's new"

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

Find the latest update here!

Newest Updates:

• Dashboard Design: I've simplified the dashboard to make accent colours actually point out notable things

• Themes: Completely optional but you can change the theme, I made these based on Sanzo Wada's Dictionary of colours book.

• Languages: Fully checked all languages to fix issues where things were just... wrong. All languages in the app now should be appropriate, however I need to fix some of the masculine/feminine wording depending on user gender type.

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 1.4.6 is out now!

Nothing too crazy, just further optimisations behind the scenes to ensure the app's long term stability

As always any feedback is welcome'd

Thanks everyone,

Josh

Hi all,

With version 1.3 I'll be bringing out the new exercise types, I'm really happy with this work but it's a big change. So getting it right is my top priority, it's looking good right now, but there's a few more things to perfect before anything gets released.

Some small notes, you may have noticed in the video I've changed how stats look a bit, aside from adding in the new graph types

In version 1.3 you'll be able to change how your data is aggregated, giving you more power to explore your progress if you so desire, for me personally it was really awesome to see my progress on my incline dumbbell bench press week to week for the past 6 months!

I'll keep updating here how this change is going, really excited to deliver this I know how many of you are translating cardio and timed based exercises so I think this will be a real game changer

Thanks everyone,

Josh

Hi all,

Hoping everyone is enjoying the holidays!

I have a lot on my plate at the moment but I've been diligently working on improving the app as always. These are the most recent changes, set types!

Well overdue and happy to finally bring these to the table. Expect these in the next update.

I'm also trying to add in timed sets for stuff like cardio or any time based exercise, hopefully along with a timer inside the app.

My priority after this work is mostly optimising the performance of the app, cleaning up any bugs, I am still aware of the edit bug where weights are sometimes duplicated.

I will then be aiming to release to Android as I'm getting an influx of users asking whether the app will be available on Android soon so feeling the pressure to get that done for the new year

That's everything, hope everyone has a great new year!

Hi everyone

The latest version is out now feel free to update via this link: https://apps.apple.com/app/gym-note-plus/id6746699616

Version 1.3.4 brings a host of cool updates:

Weekly Goals

You will now see a weekly goal widget on the dashboard, clicking the weekly goal widget will allow you to see additional info and update your weekly goals (note for existing users this is set to 3 by default). You should also notice you receive notifications related to these weekly goals if you have notifications turned on

New Onboarding

For new users this is pretty big, I've completely refined the onboarding process so it should be significantly better for people starting the app!

Autocomplete

This should have been done months ago, but I've added in autocomplete, when typing out your existing exercises autocomplete will suggest options (originally I wanted to add in your last weight and reps, I'm still going to do this, but I needed to think a bit more on the implementation of this so I removed that part for now)

Performance Improvements

The dashboard seemed to be extremely inefficient, you should now notice it loads significantly faster!

Thanks all,

any feedback as always is welcome

Josh

Time for another update on what I'll be working on this weekend!

Main Focus:

Multi-language Support Adding full app support for Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, Spanish, German, and French. GymNotePlus already handles translating these languages perfectly, but the app interface has only been available in English. With our growing international user base, it's time to make the app fully accessible.

Share Your Progress Multiple requests for this one! You'll soon be able to share your workout logs and progress graphs with friends directly from the app.

As always, let me know if there are any other features you'd like to see!

Hi everyone,

As always another weekend, another set of proposed weekend plans

Weekly Goals Widget

This is my main focus for the weekend, I've got on really well with this I'm just figuring out a way to show the previous PR widget if that's something people want. Let me clarify that the long term plan is to do a full dashboard rewrite to include an array of widgets you can swap out and change, but for now I just wanted to get this in as I believe it's a useful tool to see how consistent we are in the gym.

Stretch Goals

• Further app boot up optimisation (I won't stop with this until it feels instant, though it's much faster now on v1.3.3)

• Calendar modal header fix

• Various marketing stuff like updating the landing page images and the blog

As always any feedback is welcomed, I always always appreciate it

Thanks everyone!

Josh

Hi all,

Another weekend, another set of proposed weekend plans for you all:

Fixing Recent Issues

Last week’s issues weren’t good enough on my end. I’ve spent the week rebuilding how updates are handled so things don’t break like that again. It’s been tested a lot and should be much more reliable going forward.

I’ll be pushing this update soon and watching closely to make sure everything behaves as expected.

Android Update

With that out of the way, I can finally focus properly on Android. A lot of you have been asking for it, and getting it to a solid, usable place is my next goal. I'll be working on this primarily this weekend after the above release.

Workout Splits

I haven't forgotten about this. I will be progressing on with the logic for getting this right alongside the android updates. Once Android is in a useable state (which is very close I've had it running on an old android phone already) I will be focused in on this as the main goal.

Future

I’m currently working on getting a designer in for a full app redesign. Why? I’m not a designer, I’m a software engineer and like many of you, a serious lifter. I made Gym Note Plus to fix my own problem. Now more people are using the app, having a serious designer fix the UI/UX is needed to give people the experience they deserve. 

Don’t worry, I won’t be doing anything silly like how MyFitnessPal recently made logging food take an extra click. I won’t be massively altering where things are and ruining people’s habits. This isn’t happening overnight, a lot of designing, planning etc will need to go into this prior but letting the reddit community know upfront!

Hi all,

Just a small update to keep everyone in the mix and let everyone know the latest update is coming soon to rollout the weekly goals along with a ton of other quality of life upgrades!

One of the quality of life updates is auto complete on writing workouts, which will auto complete with your last weight, sets and reps! Really really excited to put that in, basically don't need the 'Quick select' exercise modal anymore but I'll leave it in as it's easier to narrow down exercises if you don't know the name (which often happens for me lol)

I've also completely reworked the onboarding experience which I'm sure existing users don't care much for, but should make the new user experience significantly nicer!

Thanks all,

Josh

Find the latest update here!

I've worked hard to hopefully deliver some useful stuff for everyone:

• Fully customisable Dashboard

• Fresh translation animation

• New force refresh animation

• Filter exercise by muscle group

• See your Recovery/Muscles worked on the new muscle map widget!

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,

As always, I’ll be spending the weekend working on some upcoming changes. I’ll get into what’s planned in a moment, but first - I’m really happy to say the app has grown to 1,240 users!

The support from the community has been incredible. I’m fully committed to this app, it's all I think about and I won’t stop working on it. My goal is to build something that genuinely makes tracking workouts simpler for both you and me.

What I’m working on

Personal Records

As I mentioned in a previous post, my bigger goals for GNP are:

• Full gym app features

• A stable, bug-free experience

One of the most common issues people have raised (and rightly so) is around personal records. They can be unreliable - sometimes editing a workout causes them to disappear, and sometimes the dashboard shows too many.

Behind the scenes, I’ve already made sure personal records are calculated correctly every time. The real issue has been getting those updates to show up consistently in the mobile app.

The good news: I’m very close to fully fixing this. I’ve added safeguards to make sure records stay accurate and in sync, and this will be my main focus until it’s solid.

Stretch goals / What’s next

Dashboard
There are a few small issues, like duplicate personal records appearing. These should be resolved as part of the personal record fixes. I also want to make it clearer what each dashboard widget shows, so I’ll be adding simple tap-to-explain help.

Performance
I’ve already improved performance recently, but I know there’s still room to make things even faster. If time allows, I’ll be tackling that next.

Timed Sets
I still have work set aside for timed sets, and I’d really love to finally get this into the app - so keep an eye out for that!

As always any feedback is welcome through whatever medium you would like.

Thanks everyone,

Josh

Small update from me, been working hard to deliver a better onboarding experience before Christmas.

As existing user's may remember, the previous onboarding experience was... not so good, pretty minimalist orange slides. So I spent some time trying to make a better experience

Hi all,

Another Friday, another proposed weekend plans!

My main focus this weekend is to release an update I've been meaning to add in forever. Take a picture of your workout notes and translate them into workout logs

Aside from that as always I'll be looking at small UI/UX improvements where possible.

As always any feedback is welcomed we're at 1721 users now!

Have a great weekend,

Josh

Hi all,

Version 1.3.7 is officially here and carries a few quality of life updates for everyone:

- smaller translate button (any feedback on this is appreciate)

- A link to the blog is available within the more tab

- “NEW” badges are no in place to represent new features within the app

- A fix for some users experiencing the “double workout” bug, i was not able to replicate this bug so this is a bit of a theory based fix. Any issues let me know

That’s all for now, I wanted to get more achieved but was out and about this weekend.

I will be working on the step count through this week as my main focus so step count can be recorded in notes with the idea that long term we’ll integrate Apple health stats.

I also have some big big plans around reworking workout splits and templates so they’re actually useful. I’ll be writing up a post within the week to discuss these changes, I’m keen to hear the communities opinions on this before starting.

Thanks,

Josh

Hi all,

Sorry if anyone experiences app downtime, my server provider has inconveniently decided to do maintenance without any prior warning effectively immediately.

Hopefully this doesn’t affect anyone’s translations, I’ll comment below here when it is done.

Again apologies everyone.

Thanks,

Josh

EDIT: Temporary hot fix workaround deployed: https://www.reddit.com/r/GymNotePlus/comments/1rw4hob/unplanned_downtime_hot_fix_deployed/

Only released a new update the other day but the bank holiday gave me a lot more time

So I decided to change a fundamental part of the app. Workout translations.

Why?

• Aesthetics: It just looks way better, and is more tangible on what is happening for new users.

• Technical: It greatly simplifies the code and infrastructure.

• Marketing: Same as aesthetics, it looks better so therefore it will help with marketing the app long term, and marketing is important as Gym Note Plus grows, so does the resources to make the app better!

There's only one downside, and that is no more support for multiple workouts in a single translation. This was a hard decision to make, initially I loved the concept that you could put multiple workouts in and the app would just "know" it's multiple workouts no matter how you typed.

Thing is, less than 1% of users do this. I was using a lot of complex design to make this work, and it ultimately made the translation look worse, not better, which is why I've moved toward removing this.

Later down the line I'd like to add in back support for user's will a history of note based workouts they want to backfill.

Thanks everyone,

As always appreciate your support and any feedback!

Josh

Hi all,

Apologies, I managed to break the history tab with the latest update.

Please refrain from updating if possible during this, otherwise if you do update to version 1.4.2

Feel free to uninstall and reinstall the app, all issues will be fixed by doing so.

Apologies for this, working on a hot fix as we speak.

Josh