MyBarbell
Plate maths and workout timer
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Build the session before you lift it: pick a lift and a target, and MyBarbell ramps you up to it, sets out your working sets, and shows what goes on each side.
MyBarbell tells you what to put on the bar, and counts you through the work.
Type the weight you want. MyBarbell shows you the plates to slide on, per side, on a diagram you can read at a glance mid-session — using only the plates you actually own.
THE PLATES YOU ACTUALLY HAVE
Most plate calculators assume a full commercial rack. This one asks what's on yours. Set your plate inventory once — which denominations, how many pairs — and every answer after that is one you can really load, whether that's a competition set or three mismatched plates in a garage.
When your plates can't make the number, MyBarbell says so and shows the closest weight they can build. It never silently rounds and leaves you to find out under the bar.
KG AND LB, PROPERLY
Work in either unit. Each keeps its own plate inventory, so switching between a kilo gym and a pound one doesn't scramble what you told the app you own. One tap converts the weight on screen and re-solves the bar in the other unit, so the number and the plates never disagree.
YOUR NUMBERS
Record your personal bests and work off a percentage of them without doing the sums. Ask for 75% of your squat and MyBarbell resolves it against your current best and loads the bar — so a PB set last week moves today's working weight on its own.
BUILD THE WHOLE SESSION, NOT JUST ONE BAR
Pick a lift and say what you're working up to — an exact weight, a percentage of a number, or a percentage of your recorded best. MyBarbell lays out the ramp-up sets, then the working sets, with the plates for each one drawn per side.
The ramp is optional and the shape is yours: straight sets, a back-off set after them, or an open top set where each make offers you the next weight up. Every rung is chosen to be loadable from the plates you own and to keep the plate changes between sets small, so you spend the session lifting rather than stripping the bar.
Run it at your own pace, ticking sets off as you go, or on a clock.
A TIMER SHAPED LIKE YOUR TRAINING
Build the piece you're about to do, then run it. Pick a shape — EMOM, intervals, AMRAP, countdown, stopwatch, or a ladder whose rounds step up or down — set the clock, and type the movements straight in. A four-line pattern repeats to fill forty rounds without typing it forty times.
Ladders are the one most timers can't do: 60 seconds, then 50, then 40, all the way down, ending on a round count, a total time, or wherever the floor you set runs out.
Once it's running, the screen is built to be read from the floor: the round you are on, the time left in it, what's coming next, and a colour flood that tells you work from rest across a gym. Countdown beeps and haptics into every round. When a round calls for a weight, the plate calculator is one tap away with the number already in it.
BUILT FOR THE GYM FLOOR
- Your bar, not a default: set the bar weight you're actually using
- A barbell diagram, not a list of numbers to decode
- The screen stays awake while a timer runs
- Works with no signal, in a basement, in aeroplane mode
- VoiceOver throughout, including spoken round and rest changes as a timer runs
- No account. Open it and use it.
PRIVACY
MyBarbell collects nothing. No sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no trackers, and no network requests of any kind — there is no server for your data to go to. Everything you enter stays in the app's storage on your phone, and deleting the app deletes it.
Free. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads.
Always check a loaded bar before you lift it. MyBarbell does the arithmetic, not the coaching. It doesn't know your training history, your injuries or your technique — consult a qualified professional about your own training, and use collars, a spotter or safety pins as appropriate.
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Two new things, both about getting you under the bar faster.
BUILD A SESSION
Pick a lift and what you're working up to — an exact weight, a percentage of a number, or a percentage of your best. MyBarbell lays out the warm-up ramp and your working sets, with the plates drawn for each side.
The ramp is optional and the working shape is yours: straight sets, a back-off set after them, or an open top set that offers you the next weight up each time you make one. Every rung is a weight your own plates can build, chosen to keep the plate changes between sets small.
Tick sets off at your own pace, or run them on a clock.
Find it on the PBs tab, or from a bar you have already loaded on the calculator.
TIMER
- AMRAP rounds take movements now, the same as every other shape
- A smaller shape grid, so the whole list fits without scrolling
- Fixed: typing a movement no longer wipes the quantity and unit you had set
- Saved presets can be deleted with a swipe
- Long builds stay readable — sections collapse
AND ONE THING THAT MOVED
kg/lb conversion now lives on the plate calculator itself. Tap the unit button and the weight on the bar converts, the plates re-solve, and you are on that unit's inventory — no separate tab, and one fewer screen between you and the number. Everything the Convert tab did, it does on the screen you were already looking at.
The developer, Joe McGinty, 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
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Information
- Seller
- Joe McGinty
- Size
- 55.4 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Jonathan McGinty