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Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

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Re: Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

#21

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.

I like this one: https://apps.apple.com/dk/app/fortime-workout-wod-timer/id66... Really simple and no ads

Re: Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

#22
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.

Re: Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

#23

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.

What you want to search for is “interval timer”.

I’ve used this one in the past, but there are a lot out there.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/interval-timer/id1327053127

Re: Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

#24

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.

I created an Apple shortcut based on what I found here: https://www.lifdb.com/posts/2024/12/17/how-to-create-an-inte... It does “x minutes with y seconds recovery”, and for your use case you can set y=0.

Thanks!

Re: Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

#25
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.

Re: Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

#26
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.

Re: Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

#27

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.

no apple watch app...

Re: Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

#29
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, ...).
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