Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal

Link: https://stronk.app

Thanks for this, are you able to put a donation button on the app?

I hope more people consider instead of putting their app on gated walled app stores or in app purchases that we have 100% free web apps instead.

kudos!

Nice!

Check out liftosaur as well - comes with a DSL and ability to write programs (pun intended).

Neat, have you considered linking to exrx or anything for the exercises?

This looks nice, but IMO the Hevy lifetime membership (around $70 I think) was a great price for a such a polished app.

It's got a huge library of exercises and more importantly, basic instructions and animations for each. I wouldn't use it to learn the exercises for the first time, but it's the perfect level of information to serve as a reminder for good form during a workout, when I'm doing something that I'm less familiar with.

If you don't want to or can't pay for it, this looks decent. But in terms of functionality and polish, there's definitely a case of "you get what you pay for" going on here, at least at the present level of development.

Have you considered adding more data like animations to the exercises database? I did accidentally come across the database of animations that Hevy uses (I forget the name but it should be easy to find of you search for it) . It can be licensed, not sure how expensive it is though, but if this takes off perhaps you could take donations to pay for it?

Full disclosure: I run a competing app [1].

I think this is great, especially because it's OSS.

But if you want to really outshine Strong and Heavy, I'd look into "auto progression" of exercises. Too often, people just... log the same thing for years. Some RIR / RPE / linear progression would keep people motivated.

[1] joyapp.com

Do you come up with which exercises to do on your own? I rely on the app for that.

I'm in the gym 10+ hours a week and still use Apple Notes. My only complaint is Apple Notes becomes buggy when the note gets too long (so I started making a new note for each month of the year).

Feature request: ability to have custom excericse types. E.g. today I did dumbbell incline press and alternated between neutral and pronated grip. Gotta find a way to log that. Also support for super sets.

There are a lot of "features" built in to Apple Notes by virtue of being free form / unstructured. And now with LLMs, the appeal of logging things in a structured way is much less.

I wonder what it would look like to create "Apple notes on steroids" (pun intended) -- log your workout the way you normally do, and at the end of the workout use LLMs to apply structure, see trends, insights, etc. That would be cool.

This is great. I just need: easy way to track sets/reps, ability to save specific workouts, and charts would be fantastic. I also find the little animations some apps provide to be a helpful reference for form, but that's a nice-to-have.

Dude, this is super neat and is very much in line with what I am looking for to replace my Google sheets. I love my sheets, but they could really stand to benefit from a UI around them. This looks like a great start.

How much help and contributions are you looking for?

Heh, I've been working on my own take on this since September.

Already scrapped 3 prototypes as I wasn't happy with the ux.

First version was purely with indexeddb storage too, and was definitely the easiest. (Simple persistence logic, only few entities)

I ultimately gave up on that approach because I don't want to do Data entry on my phone.

So I started with a split template (server) /imported (indexeddb)... But in practice, that's still annoying. I want to be able to access the data across devices, so a third version was born... And now I need proper syncing, which is obviously a significant challenge as it's easy to screw up/hard to make sure it works as intended.

Biggest reason for my current slump is however that every attempt I made to date with the most important UX - the mid workout tracking - feels annoying to use in practice...

Not sure where I'm going with this, I'm still trying out various ways so don't have any real suggestions right now

Other then maybe: the workout template you tease in the workout tab is actually easily implemented if you do it like FitNotes - add a button to the workout exercises for done, and then just provide a bottom to clone a previous exercise (with the bools false)

I could see myself using this. Simple and straight forward, like my own workouts. Lol.

Was experiencing a few unexpected glitches on iPhone (iOS 18.7.2/Safari) - new workout, once I filled the screen with reps or exercises, I was unable to scroll to add more - history, I hoped I might be able to edit (because I could only add two exercises), but no such luck. - history, three dots don’t open anything/broken link? - exercises, dunno. List is fine, but I did spend some time trying to see if the list items were also links (what is a “banded good morning” anyway?).

Nice work! I really like the concept of programmable custom routines.

I published a workout tracker app called Swole Tracker [1], currently only available on iOS.

It started off as an Apple Note and then turned into an Angular web app that I hosted at my house before finally moving to Expo/React Native once some friends showed interest. I have plans to open-source it eventually.

[1] swoletracker.com

No thanks. Paper for life and i've built one of these before and used it for a couple of years before going back to the superior notebook in gym bag option.

I really like the initiative. I've been using a free app on Android for many many years. My favorite things about it are that it's simple, no social media integration that I know of, nothing fancy or trying to suggest a routine - just record set/reps/weights and that's it. Backs up data via Google Drive or plain file export if I need to switch devices. It's so nice to have years of history in terms of PRs, volume, etc.