Stack, in Pro. Shots, pills, and supplements are logged from the day in one tap, under names you choose, filed as hormone therapy, peptides, medication, or supplements. Something taken daily is logged once, as started. Show patterns lines up your own logged food, weight, measured lean mass, and training with each dose. Coach 8 reads it back only when asked, and never suggests changing anything you take. It stays on the phone: never uploaded, never in a backup. On iOS 26, doses logged in Apple Health's Medications come in too. VO2 Max is a goal now. Two hard days a week, four bouts of four minutes, easy days around them, and a ramp of easy running before a beginner gets either. Effort is described as a feeling, never a heart rate zone. Pro. Coach 8 reads Apple Health, with your permission: last night's sleep, resting heart rate, and heart rate variability against your own month, steps, workouts other apps recorded, and your watch's VO2 max as a trend. The heart rate your watch measures during a session is kept with the session. Routines. A morning is chin tucks, then washing your face, then a glute bridge, and one list holds all of it. A facial scan's drills arrive as a routine you can edit. Anything placed on a day repeats without running out, and can be stopped from any day onward in one go. Its hour can be changed after it is placed. A group workout set for every Saturday stays set. Search, at the top of How To and at the top of Settings. Setup asks for what it needs. Equipment and height are in Settings, a first goal fills the week without a restart, and a week with no days picked starts on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The tab layout is gone. Anyone who uses it opens the muscle map. The full recipe library, a week away, and the VO2 Max goal are part of Pro. Your own recipes and the ones that ship with the app stay free. Support is in Settings, under Account. Fixes. Apple Health forgot it was connected each time Settings opened. A run day with a plank at the end reached Health as a walk. How to send people to buttons that had moved, and said the facial scan blurs your face. It does not. A failed scan showed an error code.

Effort moves one thing now. The movement decides which one. A set reported at your limit holds its load. It does not climb. A set reported easy moves a single lever instead: load on a top set, reps on accessory work, rest on a conditioning piece, whichever one that movement is actually for. The old dial is gone. It added a rep to everything. Plyometrics and sprints never take load. The rating is asked while the set it rates is still on screen, and only where the answer changes what comes next. A home gym that has run out of iron now gets rep climbs, an extra set and slower eccentrics instead of weight it does not own. A short clock stopped taking the same thing every time. Core was cut from 274 sessions out of 396. It is 189 now. Thirty-three movements. Eight rewritten cues, nine conditioning entries, seven warm-up drills. Music from Apple Music plays from a mark on the screen you are already on. It never takes over what is already playing. Nothing about what you play leaves your phone. Fixes. The How To screen had the two ways of training with someone the wrong way round. Coach 8 could offer a study for a subject the app holds no research on.

Your week, and everything on it. MVIII opens on your week. Every day is a card you can open, add to and tick off: your sessions, your food, a fast, a walk, and anything you write down yourself. Swipe sideways for a single day or the whole month, and swipe back. Connect your calendar, both ways. See what your day already holds beside your training, and put your sessions and tasks on your own calendar. It stays on your phone. Tell Coach 8 what you ate and it logs the whole plate. Four crab cakes, two scoops of the chicken, a 20oz Coke Zero, a banana. Every food goes down in the amount you said it in, and the card shows what each one costs before you agree to any of it. Ask it what to eat and it answers from the same research the programming comes from, and suggests what fits the calories and protein you have left. Train with someone. A Gym Date is built from movements that take two people, and rounds that only count when you both finish. With a friend is one set of kit between you, where their turn is your rest. Say whether they are newer than you or ahead of you and the session carries both your numbers. Challenges. Set a weight target with a date and a pace, or a number of workouts by a day. Or take on a friend. You both agree the terms first, and the loser sends the winner a photo with the phrase you agreed on before either of you knew who was going to win. It travels by text. There is no account to link and no leaderboard anywhere. The Cookbook, and three hundred and eighteen more recipes for Pro. Every continent, three difficulty levels, and storage and reheating notes on the ones written to be cooked once and eaten all week. Anything you put on a repeat keeps going until you stop it. Open a fast on a day still to come to set the hours, or make it all day. Portrait on the camera, supersets, and a watch that shows the set you are on while you train from your phone. Fixes: food you logged after saying "add food" was never saved, saying you were done logging did not tick the day off, a goal you changed in Settings left the week showing the old one, sessions you had already done never reached your calendar at all, a walk or a sit you finished did not tick itself off your day, a rolled workout showed no movements on your watch, and asking Coach 8 when you were free could take so long it gave up before answering.

MVIII is a planner now. Your week is the app. Your sessions, your food, your fast, and anything you write down sit on one list, and a plus on every day takes a custom task, a walk, an AMRAP, a scan, a dinner out, or a whole vacation. THE WEEK IS THE HOME SCREEN Swipe left for the month, right for the day, your food, then what the week has trained. Pick which one opens in Settings, because everybody's first screen is a different screen. ASK COACH 8 TO DO IT, NOT JUST EXPLAIN IT Fix a squat cue and put the school run on Tuesday at five, in the same conversation. VACATION Tell MVIII the dates and what you will have there. Every session inside them gets built for a hotel room, including the ones already made before you booked. A COOKBOOK, FREE ON EVERY TIER Real dishes with a method, a shopping list, and macros worked out from weights. Write your own too. MEASURED, NOT GUESSED Halfway markers on time and distance. Reminders for anything you put an hour on. Days rotate with your time zone. Say when you are done logging food, and the day closes. TRAINING THAT KNOWS THE DAY A day you plan to fast on will program your workout differently. Excess skin, pelvic floor, prenatal, and training past 55 change what gets built on both tiers, not just the paid one. Change your training days in Settings whenever life does. And you can skip setup entirely and just look around first.

The generator listens when you change your workout. Add a movement to a session, and it comes back on the days it belongs on, without you adding it again every week. Take one out twice, and you get asked once whether to stop programming it. Nothing leaves your training because a counter reached two. Movements you skipped stay skipped. If you told the app to stop programming something, the workouts written for you now honor it. They did not before, which meant the tier paying for written-for-you workouts was the tier getting its skipped movements handed back. The muscle figure follows the session on the sheet. Drop the only pressing movement and the chest goes dark. Add a curl and the biceps light up. Your facial scan is a report, not a list. It opens on the one change with the most visible return and ranks everything under it. Eleven areas instead of six. Every tip says whether it shows in days, weeks, or months. Still no score, and still nothing rating your face against anybody. Coach 8 stopped asking why you missed. Thirty-six studies say a person talking about why they are not doing something predicts them not doing it, while talking about doing it predicts nothing on its own. So the most sympathetic question in coaching is the one that works against you. It asks what you want to be able to do, and what the next session is. Cardio counts for something. Runs and walks measure themselves. Turn on GPS and MVIII counts the distance while you go, keeps counting with the screen off, and starts looking for you before you set off so a short walk is measured from the first step. Your route stays on your phone and is never uploaded. Log what the machine was set to: incline, resistance, watts. A minute on the bike used to log the same flat out or freewheeling, so there was nothing to beat. Log a walk or a run whenever you did one. It does not have to be on your plan to count. And if you told us you are a beginner, a walk is now a session, where your bodyweight cardio used to be sprints and burpees. Your training reaches Health as it was. A walk is arriving as strength training. A walk is a walk now, a run is a run, a ruck is a hike. Sessions logged in another app count here too, and calories are priced from a published value for that exact activity rather than the label the session carried. Coach 8 speaks first, about your week and nobody else's, and out loud in real recorded speech. Tap what it says, and your answer will already be started. Reminders name the session rather than announce that one exists. There is an evening one for a day with no food logged, and it never arrives on a day there is. You get asked about all of it once, after a workout. The camera is on every screen, behind the mark in the corner. Shoot your day, the session you just finished, or your food log. Stillness: a timer for sitting still and doing nothing else, ten seconds longer every time. Thirty seconds is harder than it sounds. You decide how fast you lose weight. The app used to cap your cut and quietly work your calories out at the cap. It now shows what the research supports for someone your size and uses the number you picked, never below 1,400 a day. Every number has its paper. Ten published specifications, every prescription graded, and the strongest entries are the ones that deflate something. Also: personal records kept as they happen, and your goal announced on the set that got you there.

Meet Eight, your coach. Eight knows everything you’ve logged and understands the research your program is based on. It only uses this information. You can ask why your rest is set that way, if you’re on track, what to change, or what to do if the gym is crowded. You can ask in the middle of a set without leaving your workout, or even out loud while your hands are on the bar. Eight can suggest changes to your goal, your workout split, your training days, or your equipment. Each suggestion comes as a card that shows exactly what changes and how it affects your numbers. Nothing is saved until you tap Apply. Eight never sets your calories or macros for you. Those still come from your goal. Also new: You can now choose Bodybuilding and Powerlifting as training goals, each programmed from two published research specifications. Each plan shows its evidence grade, and you can tap to see the studies behind it. You can choose your priority muscles and set your weekly volume, as long as it’s within the range supported by research. research supports. There’s also a plate calculator. You can ask what to load for any weight, on any bar, even during a workout. inside a workout. You’ll get technique tips for any movement, including what you should feel and what often goes wrong. wrong. We’ve fixed a few things: Powerlifting sessions built through the Pro path were missing their percentage overlay, deload days sometimes prescribed work they shouldn’t have, the weekly volume readout counted movements that had been trimmed for time, and lateral raises were being credited to your back instead of your shoulders.

PRO IS NOW $14.99 A MONTH Half what it was. Same everything. If you are already subscribed, your price drops at your next renewal without you doing anything. WHILE YOU TRAIN On the first exercise of a session, MVIII asks one question: do you want your food sorted by the time you finish? Choose a day of meals, a cook once prep, or an order from a restaurant, and it gets on with it while you train. The timing is the whole idea. Reading a real menu takes a minute or two, and a workout is the one stretch where your phone is already out and you are not waiting on it. Name the restaurant and the city, put the phone down, and the order is there on your summary when you rack the last set. It is also built against the right numbers. The order is written for the macros this session is about to earn you, not the ones you had sitting still. You are asked once, on the first exercise, and never again that session. Say Not Now and it does not come back. YOUR MEAL PLAN STAYS PUT A plan you built used to vanish the moment you closed the sheet, and building it again cost you another generation. Now it persists. Today's plan sits on the Food tab without a tap, and one tap logs a meal from it. Plans also stopped being one-at-a-time. A day of meals and a cook-once prep answer different questions, so both can exist. A new Planned section groups them by the day they are for, labels them by kind, and gives you Log It on any meal and Remove on any plan. Prep has a permanent button in the header instead of a banner that eventually decides it is no longer news. Meal prep now returns the ingredients, so the shopping list finally exists. Snacks can be asked for by craving. Food can be logged to a day that has already passed. CARRIES ARE TIMED A carry is time under load. Prescribing "400m" assumed a measured route that nobody training in a garage or a hotel corridor has, so the same number meant four different efforts to four different people. Carries are now a clock. Load still records, distance still records and says it is optional, and two carries at the same load for the same time rank by ground covered. PACE THAT NAMES THE RIGHT DIRECTION A row done on a bench was inheriting the bench press's words and telling you to press. A pulldown was being given the pull-up's verbs, so it named one direction twice. "Pull Down" as two words matched nothing at all. And a carry read PACE "Hold" when you are, in fact, walking. All four now read correctly. MENUS ARE REMEMBERED A restaurant menu already read is kept on your phone, so looking at it again costs nothing and returns instantly. FIXES - Reservation reminders have never fired for anyone. They do now. - Today's meal plan could go missing depending on your timezone, and an evening rebuild could stack a second copy of the day instead of replacing it. - The screen could sleep in the middle of a workout after a carry or a run. - Finish could be tapped twice, which wrote one session into Apple Health as two overlapping workouts. - Saying "done" on the workout summary logged a set you had not performed. - A training goal's target date could land a day early or late depending on where you are. - Running out of daily generations now says so, instead of looking like a failure and telling you to try again.

HANDS-FREE TRAINING Turn on Hands-Free in Settings and a microphone appears at the top right of every screen. Tap it and MVIII calls your session out to you: each new movement, where you are in the workout, the reps, the weight to use, and the pace. When a rest ends it tells you which set is next. The last five seconds of every timer are counted out loud. Log without looking. Say "reps twelve", "weight forty", "skip rest", "undo". Ask it anything on the screen: "what's the exercise", "how many", "how much weight", "what's the pace", "instructions". Heard enough? Say "got it" and it goes quiet for the rest of the session. Speech is recognized entirely on your iPhone. Nothing is recorded, saved, or sent anywhere, and the whole thing stays off until you turn it on. MOVE AROUND BY VOICE · TRAINING LOG BY MUSCLE · PACE THAT MATCHES THE MOVEMENT · SOMETHING YOU'RE WORKING ON · MILESTONES THAT KEEP GOING · FIXES

Your whole food log, forever. Free. Plus a new look and light mode. NEW, FREE FOR EVERYONE • Food history. Every meal you have ever logged, with no cutoff, plus a count of the foods you eat most often. Built for anyone tracking how food actually makes them feel. • Warm-ups and cool-downs that run themselves. Built from the movements in that day's session, with a clock on every drill, the cues on screen while it counts, and it moves on when the time is up. • Milestones. Sessions finished, weeks trained, weight moved, movements learned. No streaks to break. • Personal records, the moment you hit them. Beat your best on a lift and MVIII tells you while you are still standing over the bar. • A walkthrough on every screen. Tap the ? in any corner, any time. • Tap any exercise in your plan for how to do it, how it should feel, and what to watch for. YOUR NUMBERS, FROM YOUR NUMBERS • Your calorie target now learns. MVIII compares what you have actually eaten against what you have actually weighed, and corrects your maintenance from your own history instead of trusting a formula built on averages. • Training days and rest days stop looking the same. Hard days get more carbs, rest days get fewer, and the week adds up the same. Protein does not move, because the daily total is what builds muscle, not the timing. NEW TRAINING STYLES • HIIT. Short, hard intervals with conditioning first. • Tactical. Military, law enforcement and fire prep: carries, rucks, and work capacity. A NEW LOOK • A new app icon, and the mark now runs through the whole app. • Every measured number, calories, grams, clocks, loads, scores, is set in a monospaced face. They are readings taken off your own log, and they finally read like it. • One thing is orange on any screen: the thing to do next. Green means finished. • Today leads with your session instead of the word "today". The muscle map is the size it should always have been, and the day's numbers sit in one line underneath it. LIGHT MODE • MVIII follows your phone. Or choose Light or Dark yourself in Settings, under Appearance, for the gym that is darker or brighter than your phone thinks it is. FASTER • The app opens on what you asked for. It used to load all five tabs before you had touched anything; now each screen fetches when you open it. • Your week is drawn the moment you open Plan. Every day shows what it is, rest or train, push or pull, with no waiting. The session is written when you open a day, so nothing is built for a day you never look at. FOR PRO MEMBERS • Tell MVIII how long you actually have. Fifteen minutes to ninety, rest included. A short session is a real session, not a compromise. Set your usual day in Settings, or change just today from Adjust. • Meal Prep. Cook once, eat all week. Three or four ingredients per dish, and the dishes share a shopping list on purpose. • Snacks. A no-cook list that suits how you eat, not a calculation. Nothing that needs a stove, a pan, or a plate. FIXED • Workouts landing on the wrong day when you travel abroad. • Food search finds plain food again. Search a sweet potato and you get a sweet potato, not a restaurant side dish. • Log a portion, not a guess. Pick "1 medium" or "1 container" and MVIII knows what it weighs. • Photo logging takes a description. Tell it "93% lean ground beef" and it stops guessing turkey. • A day you asked for one workout could end up with two. • Your training history stopped loading once you had a few hundred sessions behind you. • Leave the app open overnight and it shows today when you come back, not yesterday. Free is still a full training app: a program built for your goal and equipment, food logging with barcode scanning, unlimited food history, water, fasting, weight, reminders, and Apple Health.

MVIII is now free to start. Sign in and get a real training program with no subscription: a four-week plan built for your goal and equipment, full food logging with barcode scanning, water, fasting, weight, and Apple Health sync. NEW • Free tier. Train, log food, and track everything without paying. • Meal Planning. Save meals you like and log them any day, not just today. • Eating Out. Get an order for a specific restaurant that still hits your macros. • Workout and fasting reminders. • Training log. Every movement you have logged, with your personal records. • Your workouts now push you. MVIII reads what you actually lifted and tells you what to attempt today. BETTER • Setup is two screens instead of twelve. Everything else is asked when it matters, and we can pull your height and weight from Apple Health. • Scans and programming now follow the build you are training toward: feminine, masculine, or balanced. No assumptions. • Portions are readable. 8 oz, not 7.7 oz. • Training with an injury or disability? Tell us what your provider cleared you for and your workouts will contain that and nothing else.

Thanks for training with MVIII. This update sharpens the daily experience: • Meal suggestions now show each ingredient by name next to its portion, so you can see exactly what goes into every meal. • Clearer, faster food logging and editing. • Refinements to workout tracking and stats. • Bug fixes and stability improvements. Keep winning today.