SmartGym: Gym & Home Workouts 4+

As someone who goes to the gym pretty much daily it is important to have a good workout app to keep track of everything, make my own workouts, and use pre made ones. It is also good to have an app the is easy to use while working out, and this app not only does all of these things but does them better than everyone else. Pricing is also an important thing some workout apps cost as much as a gym membership which is insane this one is priced perfectly and you get some amazing features. The biggest thing for me though is how it works on the Apple Watch when I work out in order to avoid distractions I leave my phone at home, and just use my Apple Watch Ultra (the fact that it is an ultra has nothing to do with anything but I paid $800 for it so I am gonna mention it damnit) but the watch app is one of the best Apple Watch apps I have ever used just in general it takes advantage of everything about the watch and you can do almost everything on the watch app that you can on the phone which is very impressive as most watch apps are very limited as to what you can do on them. A solid 11/10 app I would recommend it to anyone in a heartbeat, weather you are new to the gym or someone who has been going for years.

I want to start by saying I haven’t been going to the gym for very long, about 6 days a week for the past two or three months. I got smart gym a couple weeks ago and am extremely happy with it! It is a great app, I love how you can pick what body parts you want to work out and how long for and it builds an exercise for you. I’ve been getting into my workouts a lot more with this app. It’s really changed how I work out because I only stuck to what I knew before, whereas this app has such a vast library of exercises and diagrams that I’ve been able to use a lot more variations of lifting than I even would’ve thought possible. I also really like the measures and how it ties in with the health app, all of the pairing is really really smooth compared to other apps I’ve tried. I love how the trainer suggests changes to your workouts to really help out with progress. It’s good to push you! I love this app and will never stop using it for sure, it’s helped me stick to a good gym schedule and I love it.

TLDR:
The best gym/workout app I’ve ever seen, easy to create workouts that make sense and keep your body guessing. Seamless pairing between watch and app and the health app.

Update: The bugs described below appear to have been fixed with the latest update. I’ll leave my original review up for posterity. The UI appears to work reliably. Now that it works, time to figure out if it’s any good!

I accidentally let my trial roll into a subscription, so I’m definitely leaving a review. I can’t understand how this app was chosen as the watch app of the year. It’s the buggiest mess of an app I’ve used. Multiple times over the course of each 30-minute workout, the app interface does the wrong thing. Instead of going to the rest countdown, it shows the next exercise screen with the previous exercise in it. I need to scroll down to the next exercise and then hit the “go to current exercise” button. This still takes it back to the weird screen, but when the next exercise is up, it will go to the timer screen correctly… that is, until it screws up again in 2-3 exercises. This is the most common form the bug takes, but it takes other forms too. I’ve had a countdown showing on top of the next workout screen and a few other permutations. It seems like the developer doesn’t use the app or else surely it couldn’t be released this way. I’m interested to see how it actually works if they could just make it work correctly! For now, it’s a big mess!