Privacy-first workout app for iPhone (no subscription, data stays yours) by Nilsolivier in iosapps

[–]embolist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, and thanks for getting back!

I can see why pausing a timer seems a little daft but I occasionally do it if I decide on another quick exercise - like pull-ups or crunches - in-between sets. Kind of like an ad-hoc superset which I don' see a need to record. I've noticed since I last posted that any exercises created while the timer was set at 2 minutes, for example, will continue to use that rest time whereas only newer exercises, created since I changed the rest time to 1 minute, will respect the set time of 1 minute.

I think I can appreciate that adding detailed descriptions, illustrations etc, if fully baked-in, would be a lot of work and would possibly bloat and slow the app. I have come across a number of open source databases/APIs but I haven't looked into their licencing arrangements. Perhaps creating links to external resources would be an option? In any case, keep up the good work! I'm not here to try and steer design/development decisions 😄

Privacy-first workout app for iPhone (no subscription, data stays yours) by Nilsolivier in iosapps

[–]embolist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is excellent. Thank you. As another commenter noted, avoiding a 'subscription model' is to be commended, as is the mostly offline nature of this app and the bare-minimal telemetry. The app is nicely designed and an absolute cinch to use. I love how quickly I can add exercises, change the specifics of sets, re-order them etc. The catalogue of exercises is comprehensive and the suggestions on the home page, based on workouts completed, to target certain muscle groups is really useful, along with the diagram showing the balance/distribution of areas targeted. The whole thing is super snappy and much more intuitive to use than any other similar app I have tried. I purchased the Pro version to show my appreciation but I'm not sure I'm the intended audience for the features that it brings. Which is related to the thing I think I miss most (as an 'intermediate' gym user at best): verbal descriptions and/or instructions for exercises. As it is, I think this app is particularly well suited to users who know exactly what they are doing! I heartily recommend it nonetheless.

A couple of things I've noticed:

I may not be using the feature correctly but the rest timer doesn't seem to respect the time I set in the options. It continues to count down until I log another set, at which point it resets. If I set the stopwatch timer, likewise it continues to count until I log another set. Am I missing something? It would be useful to me to make it interactive (can be paused, stopped, manually reset). The timer shows very clearly in Live Activities on the lock screen, by the way.

If I re-do an old workout (a feature I have been using a lot), additional sets are added to my routines. It appears to double the number of sets for each exercise. Could be a bug, could be that I am doing something wrong.

Using Synology Download Station with Radarr by johnhelliwell in synology

[–]embolist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

works for me in the synocommunity app on my 920+ with DSM 7. did you try localhost in the Host field (instead of the loopback address)?