Modest Gains
A calm workout & food notebook
Only for iPhone
$9.99 · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Modest Gains is a notebook for movement and food. It records what you did, and leaves the judging to you. There are no calorie targets, no macro goals, no streaks to protect, no scores, and nothing telling you that today should have looked different.
Workouts
• Build a session from 200 illustrated exercises, or add your own.
• Track whatever suits the movement: weight and reps, reps alone, sets and effort, or time.
• Group exercises into circuits and supersets.
• Change the plan mid-session - swap, skip, reorder, add a set. Real days do that.
Food and water
• Log breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks from a growing catalogue of over 1,300 foods - groceries, restaurant items and supplements.
• Add your own foods, and save meals you eat often.
• Record water, and a short note about the day if you want one.
Looking back
• Personal bests per exercise, kept quietly, with the date each was first reached.
• Open any past workout and see what you actually did.
• Entries are snapshots. Nothing is silently rewritten later.
NO ACCOUNT, NO CLOUD
There is no sign-up, because there is no server. Modest Gains makes no network requests during use. Your notebook lives on your device, and nobody else can read it - including us.
That comes with a trade worth knowing before you buy: your notebook will not appear on your other devices, and deleting the app can take it with you. You can save a copy to keep wherever you like, any time, from Settings.
PAY ONCE
One purchase. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads, and nothing held back to unlock later. Family Sharing is supported.
A NOTE ON HEALTH
Modest Gains is a notebook, not medical advice, and it will not tell you what to do with your body. Talk to your doctor before starting something new, especially if you have a medical condition, are pregnant, or have any concerns. Go at your own pace, and stop if something hurts.
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EXERCISE
Four illustrations were redrawn: the figure-four stretch, hip CARs, the kettlebell press, and the seated leg curl, which had the legs in the wrong place.
SETTINGS
There is now a link for leaving a review, if you ever want to. Nothing in the app will prompt you for one.
FOOD
About fifty nuts and seeds joined the catalogue — pecans, hazelnuts, brazil nuts, pine nuts, chestnuts, hemp hearts, sesame, poppy seeds and pepitas, in the raw, roasted, salted and unsalted forms you would actually buy.
Pepitas now turn up when you search for pumpkin seeds, and some ounce servings spell out their weight in grams.
The developer, Ares Softworks LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Ares Softworks LLC
- Size
- 12.9 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
18+
- 18+
- Infrequent
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- Copyright
- © Ares Softworks LLC
