Gym Date
Kenneth Howe Health & Fitness iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
Gym Date is a free Health & Fitness app for iPhone and iPad by Kenneth Howe. Rated 5.0/5 from 1 ratings. Requires iOS 26.2. Updated August 10, 2026.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 1 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 17 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Aug 10
- 2026 · v1.3.0
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About Gym Date
Most workout apps remind you. Gym Date commits you. People don't skip appointments. They skip notifications. A push alert is easy to swipe away. A calendar event is a commitment, skipping it means opening your calendar and deleting it. That tiny friction changes everything. Gym Date puts your workouts on your calendar as real events with reminders and direct links into the app. Actual appointments. When your workout is on your calendar, it's committed time - not something you're trying to work in. It's what others schedule around. It exists on the calendar the same way a meeting or your kid's soccer game does. Your workout becomes part of your day, not something bolted onto it. YOUR WORKOUT ADAPTS TO YOUR GYM Someone's on the cable machine. Now what? Most apps leave you standing there. Gym Date gives you ranked alternatives for every exercise and recalculates the weight for the substitute. One tap: different movement in the same focus area, correct load, zero momentum lost. You don't want to 'make do' or be that gym wanderer landing on the next open machine. Be intentional when you need a plan B...or C. EXERCISE SPLITS Runners have had split times for decades. Mile pace, segment trends, heart rate per interval. Lifters get a total session time and a prayer. Until now. Gym Date tracks every exercise across sessions the way a runner tracks miles: load, reps, duration, and heart rate per movement, over time. New to the gym? Your body changes before the weights go up. When your heart rate drops on the same exercise at the same weight, that's real progress - even if the dumbbells haven't changed. Gym Date shows you what the mirror can't yet. Been training for years? Your max hasn't budged but your heart rate at that weight dropped 8 bpm and your sets got faster. You're not plateaued, you're consolidating. Gym Date shows you the adaptation other apps miss. No other workout app does this. TWO-TAP LOGGING Weight and reps pre-filled from your history. Confirm or adjust, tap, next set. Your phone is in your hand for seconds, not minutes. PROGRESSION WITHOUT SPREADSHEETS Gym Date tracks what you lift and tells you when to add more. Not percentages. Not formulas. Clear guidance that meets you where you are. APPLE WATCH Log sets from your wrist. Heart rate data feeds directly into your Exercise Splits, that's how per-movement biometric tracking works. Everything syncs through Apple Health. PRIVACY BY DEFAULT Your data stays on your device. NO EXCUSES LEFT You don't need experience, we build your program (we built a remix in too - but still intentional). You don't need to plan, it's on your calendar. You don't need to think mid-session, alternatives are handled (and each exercise has one tap instructions too). You don't need to track anything, progression is automatic. You don't need to wonder if it's working, Exercise Splits show you. You don't need to give us your data, it never leaves your phone. Your gym date is waiting. Don't stand it up. Gym Date is free to download with a 7-day free trial. Full access requires a subscription: $4.99/month, $49.99/year, or $99.99 lifetime. Manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple ID settings. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 1.3.0 · Updated August 10, 2026
Exercise Library and Smarter Swaps This release updates how Gym Date identifies exercises and chooses replacements when equipment isn't available. • Correct exercise names. Some exercises were showing up a little weird, a "Pull-Up" listed as "archer pull up", a machine chest press as "lever incline chest press". Every exercise now uses its proper Gym Date name. • No more duplicates. A few movements appeared twice in the library under different names. Each exercise is now a single entry. • Swaps that preserve your working weight. If the squat rack is taken, Gym Date now offers a hack squat or Smith squat before a goblet squat. Heavy lifts get heavy alternatives. • Swaps that train the right muscle. A cable chest fly no longer suggests rear-delt reverse flies just because both are called "fly". • A familiar option, always. Every swap list now includes at least one exercise you'll recognise from a typical gym floor, rather than filling up with obscure variations. • Existing programs fixed automatically. If your saved program showed an odd exercise name, it corrects itself (your program, history, and logged sets are unchanged)
App privacy
The developer, Kenneth Howe, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Health & Fitness: Health, Fitness
Used for: App Functionality
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