This update feels like a complete loop. Build your workouts, train, and look back on what you’ve done. Each part of Often has a clearer purpose with the foundation to build on.

What’s new in Often

Apple Health and Apple Watch

Start a workout on your iPhone and use your Apple Watch to track heart rate and calories during your session. Both appear in your workout summary, and your session saves to Apple Health as a strength and conditioning workout.

Journal

Browse your training calendar, review completed workouts and manual entries, and edit your history.

Quick Workouts

Start an empty workout and add exercises while you train.

Add past sessions

Log a workout you’ve already done with its date, duration, exercises, and recorded sets. You can also correct previously completed workouts.

Redesigned workout summaries

Review your session, rate your effort, edit recorded exercises, and see improvements from your training.

Exercise progress and history

View graph data for one month, three months, six months, or all time, alongside the sets recorded in each session.

More flexible exercise tracking

Track combinations of reps, weight, time, and distance appropriate to each exercise. Set multiple targets and swipe between exercises while building a workout.

Improved supersets and circuits

Clearer exercise-by-exercise logging, individual targets for each set, and easier carry-forward of values. Planned targets remain suggestions until you record them.

Simpler workout and plan management

Workouts stay consistent between your Library and the plans that use them. Plans have clearer start and end controls, duration, and history across repeated runs. You can also use Often without an active plan.

Share entire plans

Share plans as well as individual workouts, including schedules, supersets, circuits, and targets, with a public link.

Your gym card in Often

Scan and save your gym barcode, then open it from your profile for check-in.

Improved unit preferences

Choose system-default, imperial, or metric settings, with activity-specific distance preferences. Your preferences carry through tracking, history, charts, records, and public links.

Backup and recovery improvements

Clearer backup status, more recovery options, and better protection against conflicting or older data overwriting newer changes. Password reset now includes a working recovery flow.

Updating

Open TestFlight and tap Update next to Often. Update the existing app without deleting it first, then open Often and check Settings → Backup.

Improvements

• Simplified how workouts are saved to and removed from plans for a more intuitive workflow.

• Add to Library has been renamed to Save to Library.

• Improved workout session reliability. Active workouts are now continuously saved in the background, allowing you to resume after an unexpected app closure.

• You can now delete logged workout sessions directly from your workout history.

• Simplified Personal Records to focus on actual achievements. Strength exercises now track Best Weight, while distance and timed activities display more relevant performance records. More improvements are planned in future updates.

• Profile photo, name, and username can now be managed from one place.

• Simplified name editing with a single display name.

• Improved profile syncing across your account and public profile.
  
  

Bugs

• Fixed an issue where creating a new plan could open an old plan view instead of the plan editor.

• Fixed an issue where selecting Monday on your plan would pre-assign Sunday.

• Fixed an issue with the date of birth picker during the onboarding flow.

• Fixed an issue where distance-based exercises displayed the incorrect tracking fields.

• Fixed an issue where the tab bar could become unreliable when adding multiple workouts to a plan.
  
  

We're in TestFlight.

Often started from a simple frustration of mine: most fitness apps are designed for people who want guidance. As a result, they we're too rigid. They try to coach you through every decision.

I'm the type of person who watches YouTube videos, observes what other people are doing, researches different approaches, and then builds my own routines around my own goals. I genuinely enjoy the process of creating and refining my own training.

So I created Often to support that experience: a workspace for building and planning workouts quickly, without all the unnecessary tips, recommendations, and coaching prompts.

Our goal is simple: create the fastest and most flexible workout builder for people who prefer to coach themselves.

We're still early, but we're excited to share what we're building. Here's a look at where Often is today.

The builder

• Build workouts quickly with smart exercise entry

• Reorder exercises with drag and drop

• Group exercises to create supersets and circuits
  
  

Plans 

• Add workouts to plans

• Create ongoing or start and end-date plans

• Create multiple plans

• Adjust your week with no friction
  
  

Workout tracking

• Start and track workouts from your plan or library

• Support for strength, cardio, loaded, and performance movements

• Track reps, weight, time, and distance

• See what you did last time while tracking an exercise

• Reorder, replace, and skip workouts during sessions

• View completed workout summaries
  
  

Exercise library

• Hundreds of exercises with structured data

• Support for strength, conditioning, and mobility movements

• Improved search and exercise aliases

• Custom exercise creation and tracking
  
  

Insights

• View plan-level training insights

• Analyze muscle volume and training frequency

• Understand workout distribution across your plan

• Track body weight

• Pin exercises to keep an eye on personal records
  
  

Sharing and profiles

• Claim a @username

• Create public workout links and share them

• Share your public profile with pulic workouts (in progress)

• Share completed workout summaries

Settings and preferences

• Metric and Imperial unit support

• Personalized measurement preferences

• Flexible training defaults

Feedback

• Submit bugs, feature requests, and feedback directly from the app

• Help shape the future of Often!

On the roadmap

• Share and do workout plans with friends

• Quick workout: Build as you go

• Better training history and analytics

• Better personalized summaries (hopefully super dope)

• Better goal weight and tracking

• Expanded exercise and movement database

• Full branding and UI polish

Often is still early, but we’re excited to keep building it in public. Thanks to everyone testing, sharing feedback, and helping shape what Often becomes.