The short version
Gym Log+ is a lifting log. You open it, tap the routine, and log sets in seconds: last time's set sits beside today's, so you see what to beat. It runs a complete workout on Apple Watch with the iPhone in a locker, charts every exercise, shows your week on a body figure, and keeps your data on your own devices, syncing through your own iCloud — there is no account and no server of ours.
It has been on the App Store, on the same listing, since 2013, written and maintained by one developer the whole time, with about 450,000 downloads over that span. In 2026 it was rebuilt from the ground up in Swift and SwiftUI and shipped as an update to that listing, so every existing user's training history migrated in place rather than starting over in a new app.
"The logger I build for myself." — the developer, on what the app is
Reviewers: email support@gymlogplus.com for a Pro unlock code or an interview. You will be writing to the developer, and you'll usually hear back the same day.
Three stories in it
A thirteen-year-old app, rebuilt in place
The original Gym Log+ was Objective-C from 2013. Version 3.0 replaced all of it — a new Swift 6 / SwiftUI codebase with no third-party code in it — and shipped in July 2026 as version 3.0 of the same app, on the same listing. That meant reading every format the old app had ever written to disk — its databases, its settings files, its backups — so a user who last opened the app years ago updates and finds their history intact. Twenty-eight releases followed between 10 August and 19 September 2026, most of them shaped by user email.
An Apple Watch app that actually works alone
Most watch companions are remote controls. This one holds its own copy of your routines and its own log: start a routine, log every set, rest, add an exercise from the whole library, finish, and the workout syncs to the phone when the two are next in range. The rest timer counts down on the watch face through complications in all four accessory shapes and the Smart Stack. The Apple Watch page has the detail.
Private in the structural sense
There is no account to create, no server that holds workouts, no ads, no analytics and no social feed; the app makes no network requests of its own. Data lives on the device and syncs through the user's own private iCloud database, which the developer cannot read. Even sharing keeps to that: a routine shared as a link carries the whole plan inside the link, with nothing uploaded anywhere. The trade-off is deliberate and public — no web app, no Android, no feed — and the comparison pages say so.
Facts
| Name | Gym Log+ (App Store listing: "Gym Log+: Workout Tracker") |
|---|---|
| Category | Health & Fitness — a strength-training log that also covers cardio, stretching, yoga and bodyweight work |
| Platforms | iPhone and Apple Watch; requires iOS 26 / watchOS 26. Runs on iPad. |
| Language | English |
| Developer | Minds Aspire LLC — one developer, since 2013 |
| On the App Store since | 2013, on the same listing; about 450,000 downloads to date |
| Current line | 3.x — the 2026 rebuild, shipped 28 July 2026 as an in-place update, with frequent releases since |
| Price | Free, with Pro at $4.99/month or $29.99/year (7-day free trial), or $79.99 once for lifetime. Every purchaser of the original app or its Pro upgrade gets Pro at no charge. |
| Free tier | Full logging, the 500+ exercise library with step-by-step instructions for every entry and a demo video for nearly all, the complete Apple Watch app, exercise charts, body-weight logging, rest timers, warm-up and plate calculators, 15 ready-made plans, import and export, the month recap, and the Stats dashboard for the last 3 months. Up to 4 routines and 7 custom exercises. |
| Pro adds | Unlimited routines and custom exercises, body measurements and progress photos, multiple profiles, progression suggestions and workout comparison, the all-time Stats dashboard, and the year recap. |
| Account | None. No sign-up, no server of ours, no ads, no analytics, no network requests of its own. Sync is through the user's own private iCloud. |
| Apple Watch | Standalone: runs a whole workout without the iPhone. Complications in all four accessory shapes plus the Smart Stack, with the rest timer counting down on the face. Free. |
| iPhone lock screen | The rest timer and the hold timer run as Live Activities — lock screen, Dynamic Island and StandBy — with +30 s on the rest timer from the lock screen. |
| Widgets and Shortcuts | Home Screen widgets on iPhone, complications on the watch, and Siri Shortcuts to start a workout. |
| Apple Health | Saves workouts to Health, with heart rate and calories from a watch-measured session; syncs body weight both ways; and can add workouts logged in Health — a class, a run — to the log, automatically if you like. |
| Import | Strong and Hevy CSV exports, Apple Health workouts, its own CSV, and the original Gym Log+'s data going back to 2013 — free. |
| Export and sharing | Plain CSV and a full-fidelity backup file, any time, free. A workout or a month shares as an image or as text; a routine or program shares as a link that is the plan itself. |
| Programs | Routines, folders, and programs that queue what's next. The Program Builder assembles a plan from a goal, training days and equipment, on the device, from the catalog. |
| Accessibility | The App Store's Accessibility Nutrition Label declares VoiceOver, Larger Text, Dark Interface and Reduced Motion. The trend charts play as Audio Graphs. The app has blind users who write in; one reported a logging bug during the 3.0 rollout, which is how it was found and fixed. |
| Built with | Swift 6, SwiftUI, SwiftData with CloudKit, Swift Charts, StoreKit 2, HealthKit, WidgetKit, ActivityKit, App Intents. No third-party code. |
| Contact | support@gymlogplus.com |
| App Store | apps.apple.com/app/id871239624 |
Every line above is checked against the shipping app. If you find one that isn't true any more, tell us and we'll fix the page, not the claim.
Dates
| 2013 | Gym Log+ launches on the App Store, in Objective-C. |
|---|---|
| 28 July 2026 | Version 3.0: the ground-up Swift / SwiftUI rebuild ships as an update to the same listing, importing every user's history. |
| 16 August 2026 | 3.5: the Apple Watch app becomes fully standalone, with routines arriving from the iPhone in seconds. |
| 26 August 2026 | 3.12: watch-face complications, charts as Audio Graphs, and a VoiceOver pass across the app. |
| 31 August 2026 | 3.15: the store page declares VoiceOver, Larger Text, Dark Interface and Reduced Motion; the app stops making any network request of its own. |
| 8 September 2026 | 3.20: the Program Builder, routines shared as links, and the rest timer's +30 s from the lock screen. |
| 19 September 2026 | 3.29: the twenty-eighth consecutive release to reach users since 10 August. |
Boilerplate
Gym Log+ is a workout tracker for iPhone and Apple Watch that logs a set in seconds and runs a whole workout from the wrist. It has been on the App Store since 2013, built by one developer, and was rebuilt from scratch in 2026 with every user's history carried forward. There is no account, no server, no ads and no feed: workouts stay on the user's devices and sync through their own iCloud. It is free, with a Pro subscription or a one-time lifetime unlock.
Words we don't use
The app is never described as AI, smart or revolutionary, in the app or the store. The Program Builder assembles a plan from a goal, days and equipment out of the exercise catalog, on the device; progression suggestions are rules, computed on the phone from your own log. If a draft calls any of it AI, we'd ask you to change it, because it isn't.
And the name is Gym Log+ — one app, one listing, since 2013. Version 3.0 is a rebuild of it, not a sequel.
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See it yourself
Free to install; the whole logging flow and the Watch app are on the free tier.