u/Existing_Fox_4148

I am building an app for advanced lifters. What niche/advanced feature ideas do you have (not promotion just looking for ideas)

I am someone who is very OCD about certain things, one of those is my lifting app. None of the ones I have found have been good enough for advanced lifters and they all had one missing feature. I have been working on an app for past like 6 months that is going to have tons of different features (and the app will be super customizable so you can tweak how the app works. There won't be any AI in the app, no accounts (everything on device), will be completely free (I am not trying to make money at all from this). Heres a list of the features I already have (besides obvious stuff like reps and weight logging and workout creation) Please let me know what else you want to see.

  1. Warmup skip prevention: Optional setting where you can prevent yourself from starting your workout until you warmup. Helps prevent injury from skipping
  2. Workout toolbox: Can be pulled up during workout and has helpful stuff like, countdown timers, interval timer (intensity stages for cardio), weight unit converter, video recording, plate math, 1RM calculator. Everything can be enabled or disabled in settings
  3. End workout summary: End of workout you can be prompted to rate how the workout went (energy, recovery), prompted to take progress photos, write workout notes, and tags. You can also share a summary screenshot of it.
  4. Progress picture tracker: Pretty simple many apps have this
  5. Each exercise in the app (Come with app and custom ones) can have many characteristics. You can attach custom lift instructions, link to a form video, put what muscles this lift targets (major and minor) put what to track on this lift (see next feature), and if this is a unelateral lift.
  6. Many tracking modes: Weight and reps (most lifts), just reps (pushups), reps and assistance, distance and weight, duration and weight, or no tracking mode (this means in a workout you don't track sets here just mark that you completed it, could be for like stretching maybe)
  7. Many set types: You can mark a set as a warmup set, rest pause, normal set, dropset, backoff set, and you can even add your own set type in settings.
  8. Rest timers: You can set what rest timer sound you want. You can have different rest timers for different set types (even custom set types), and you can make the rest timer show up on dynamic island. In an active workout you can make each exersize have it's own rest timer for a set type if you really want to customize it.
  9. Superset maker in workouts. You can have 2+ lifts in a superset.
  10. Hard set counter: Pi chart with how much you have worked each muscle in a week, month, year, or in your program.
  11. Warmup set calculators: Custom calculators in settings I can't explain all of this here but it is quite in depth.
  12. Setting which requires you to log sets in order.
  13. Mode where for unilateral exercises you can log both the left and right (with optional rest timer between sides). On the next workout the app will (optionally) have you start with the side you did the least reps with last time to prevent imbalances.
  14. Individual set notes: You can add tags per set like if you could've gone harder, had bad form, ext.
  15. Setting to keep display on while workout screen is enabled.
  16. Advanced automatic progression features. Will automatically add weight to your next workout if you hit a certain goal. There are several auto progression goal types. 1. Standard: Once you hit your rep target or top of rep range for ALL sets add weight to ALL set 2. Dynamic double: When you hit the rep target or top of range for a single set add weight to that set only. 3. Rep goal (inspired by steve shaw): When the sum of all your sets for an exersize in a workout hits a target add weight. For all these types you can also add rules for if you miss your target and optionally reduce weight.
  17. Graphs for every lift to track progress.

There are quite a few more features but I can't list every single thing. Just please let me know what features you personally want. I am trying to make a free no AI lifting app for advanced lifters.

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u/Existing_Fox_4148 — 1 month ago

Building an app for lifters. What features do you want to see.

I am someone who is very OCD about certain things, one of those is my lifting app. None of the ones I have found have been good enough for advanced lifters and they all had one missing feature. I have been working on an app for past like 6 months that is going to have tons of different features (and the app will be super customizable so you can tweak how the app works. There won't be any AI in the app, no accounts (everything on device), will be completely free (I am not trying to make money at all from this). Heres a list of the features I already have (besides obvious stuff like reps and weight logging and workout creation) Please let me know what else you want to see.

  1. Warmup skip prevention: Optional setting where you can prevent yourself from starting your workout until you warmup. Helps prevent injury from skipping

  2. Workout toolbox: Can be pulled up during workout and has helpful stuff like, countdown timers, interval timer (intensity stages for cardio), weight unit converter, video recording, plate math, 1RM calculator. Everything can be enabled or disabled in settings

  3. End workout summary: End of workout you can be prompted to rate how the workout went (energy, recovery), prompted to take progress photos, write workout notes, and tags. You can also share a summary screenshot of it.

  4. Progress picture tracker: Pretty simple many apps have this

  5. Each exercise in the app (Come with app and custom ones) can have many characteristics. You can attach custom lift instructions, link to a form video, put what muscles this lift targets (major and minor) put what to track on this lift (see next feature), and if this is a unelateral lift.

  6. Many tracking modes: Weight and reps (most lifts), just reps (pushups), reps and assistance, distance and weight, duration and weight, or no tracking mode (this means in a workout you don't track sets here just mark that you completed it, could be for like stretching maybe)

  7. Many set types: You can mark a set as a warmup set, rest pause, normal set, dropset, backoff set, and you can even add your own set type in settings.

  8. Rest timers: You can set what rest timer sound you want. You can have different rest timers for different set types (even custom set types), and you can make the rest timer show up on dynamic island. In an active workout you can make each exersize have it's own rest timer for a set type if you really want to customize it.

  9. Superset maker in workouts. You can have 2+ lifts in a superset.

  10. Hard set counter: Pi chart with how much you have worked each muscle in a week, month, year, or in your program.

  11. Warmup set calculators: Custom calculators in settings I can't explain all of this here but it is quite in depth.

  12. Setting which requires you to log sets in order.

  13. Mode where for unilateral exercises you can log both the left and right (with optional rest timer between sides). On the next workout the app will (optionally) have you start with the side you did the least reps with last time to prevent imbalances.

  14. Individual set notes: You can add tags per set like if you could've gone harder, had bad form, ext.

  15. Setting to keep display on while workout screen is enabled.

  16. Advanced automatic progression features. Will automatically add weight to your next workout if you hit a certain goal. There are several auto progression goal types. 1. Standard: Once you hit your rep target or top of rep range for ALL sets add weight to ALL set 2. Dynamic double: When you hit the rep target or top of range for a single set add weight to that set only. 3. Rep goal (inspired by steve shaw): When the sum of all your sets for an exersize in a workout hits a target add weight. For all these types you can also add rules for if you miss your target and optionally reduce weight.

  17. Graphs for every lift to track progress.

There are quite a few more features but I can't list every single thing. Just please let me know what features you personally want. I am trying to make a free no AI lifting app for advanced lifters.

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u/Existing_Fox_4148 — 1 month ago