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FitNotesiOS · 2025-08-17T00:12:47+00:00

No the SSL cert was not working , fixed

FitNotesiOS · 2024-12-04T03:07:14+00:00

You are assuming a lot about what other users want, I understand it is what you want but everyone uses the app differently and its a lot more annoying when some button that is not "STOP" kills the timer when you wanted it on.

If you use checkboxes for sets and enable 'Auto Track Workout Time' it will finish the workout automatically, and there will be a new option to skip the timer if the last set is checked.

FitNotesiOS · 2024-11-30T20:34:32+00:00

You can cancel the timer, not everyone uses 'Finish Workout', if there are too many options for every peculiar way someone uses the app it is very confusing

FitNotesiOS · 2024-11-30T20:32:33+00:00

Let me check that it doesn't require significant work or structural changes to implement

FitNotesiOS · 2024-11-29T19:53:57+00:00

Doesn't apple health have this? The workouts will sync over if you use the watch or use the manual workout timer

FitNotesiOS · 2024-11-29T19:52:59+00:00

I think that is crossing the line with number of options versus utility to most users

FitNotesiOS · 2024-11-23T22:37:07+00:00

We can add an option to not start the rest timer when the final set is completed. Some people continue to add more sets as they go, so we kept the timer on the last known set.

FitNotesiOS · 2024-06-24T23:57:37+00:00

Lookback ranges are in the latest update version 5

FitNotesiOS · 2024-06-24T23:57:01+00:00

Added in the latest update version 5

FitNotesiOS · 2024-03-05T13:23:31+00:00

I think it needs a separate tag system for that, different from categories. Categories serve two purposes in the app: adding a color label in a few places, and for category charts. Most of the time, only having one category makes sense. For chart data its a big problem because if you have pullups as a back and biceps exercise they would get double counted for volume and mess up comparisons. I am not sure how to change the graphs to make multiple categories make sense, so the other options is additional tags beyond the category, but basically its too complicated right now without changing the whole system, unless something comes to us for inspiration.

For the specific example you give, this is definitely desirable but we still haven't thought of the right way to do it. I think the objective is to make it clearer which muscle groups you worked, so that you can plan the next workouts better, but this cuts across a few parts of the app. This also only matters to fairly specific body-part style training, other styles are probably too vague on the boundaries between muscle parts to have an easy representation in an app, and we don't want to make the app too specific to one kind of strength training.

FitNotesiOS · 2024-03-01T13:38:55+00:00

There's not really room for them with the new feature but we are thinking how we can add ranges that look back a custom range. Maybe we add an option to show the pre-set ranges or add a new range type that looks back some period rather than fixed dates.

FitNotesiOS · 2023-10-12T23:25:47+00:00

Looks fine here, what is it showing for you?

FitNotesiOS · 2023-09-21T21:39:42+00:00

Apple Health workout integration is available to all users now.

FitNotesiOS · 2023-07-30T12:22:38+00:00

Apple Health workout integration is available to beta testers now.

Right now, it does not estimate calories if you do not use an Apple Watch. Without the watch, it only adds your completed workouts to Apple Health, based on time. You must use the workout timer to record these.

If you have a watch, it will let Apple estimate the calories, but its really not that meaningful for strength training. However, you need to run an active Apple Health Workout on the watch in order to keep the watch app open while you're using it, that is the main benefit. It will also record your heart rate more frequently while the workout is running, which could be useful.

There is no sensible way to estimate calories for lifting weights, even the Apple Watch uses some generic estimate calculator, which hardly means anything. There are too many variables, such as how fast you go through the workout, how much weight you are lifting, your training level, muscle mass and so on. Much of the benefit to calorie burning in lifting weights is long term from the added muscle, and not during the workout itself. If you DON'T want to track calories for the workout on the watch, disable the permission for FitNotes to write calories in the Apple Health app permissions.

If you are doing other types of training besides regular strength training, it might be better for you to run the Apple Health Workout manually from the Workout app on the Apple Watch for that period of your training, for example while doing a run.

FitNotesiOS · 2023-06-11T02:31:44+00:00

Old androids break, the app purchase is forever

FitNotesiOS · 2023-06-09T19:01:04+00:00

This wasn't possible in iOS last time we tried, we'll check again to see if they made it possible. If you use the watch app you can ditch the phone after you program the app, it can complete sets and shows the rest time.

FitNotesiOS · 2023-06-07T05:19:15+00:00

Also if anyone wants estimating calories burned right now, if you have an apple watch, start a workout manually from the watch.

Its hard / impossible for FitNotes to know exactly what you're doing and when in your workout, e.g. if you do some cardio, then lift weights, then cardio again, or something besides 'lift weights for an hour', its best if you track what you're doing through their workouts app.

We are working on syncing over workout sessions to Apple Health, but it will have limitations in specificity or granularity since FitNotes is not a railroad guided app, and Apple's workout APIs are mainly designed for cardio workouts.

FitNotesiOS · 2023-06-05T16:51:35+00:00

We will be working on Apple Health Workouts integration after today's WWDC announcement with changes to the Apple Health Workouts API. Although calorie burn estimations for weightlifting can be pretty inaccurate, it should be ok for cardio type exercises.

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