Track Your Workout Directly from the iPhone Lock Screen with Musklr
Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen
I built Musklr to let you track every set and rest timer right on your iPhone Lock Screen without unlocking the device. Using Apple's Live Activities, the app displays your current weight, previous session data, and a countdown timer, even integrating with the Dynamic Island and Apple Watch. This seamless experience means you can glance at your stats and get back under the bar instantly, all for free on iOS 16.2 or later.
You do not unlock the phone and you do not open the app. Glance at it, then get back under the bar.
- tapeface
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.
- pimlottc
I'm a bit confused, how does it know when you've finished an exercise? There don't seem to be any inputs on the live activity when in the middle of a set, and the post just describes "glancing" at the lock screen.
- comrade1234
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.
- clint
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.
- semiquaver
This UI looks shockingly similar to Macrofactor Workouts which I use and can highly recommend.