Your Training Instrument Panel

No. ProgressPilot works with bodyweight-only training at home, dumbbells at home, a kettlebell at home, and full commercial gyms. Tell the app what you have access to and it programs accordingly. Away from your usual setup for a few days? Travel mode switches to what the hotel gym has and switches back on its own.

Yes — premium subscribers get short 720p demonstration videos on every exercise detail screen, streamed from our CDN, and so does anyone training a Custom Program day. Free users see static illustrations. Videos require a connection; if one isn’t available, the app falls back to the illustration automatically.

There is no standing weekly program. When you open the app on a day you haven’t trained, your coach proposes a focus for the session — with a one-line reason for the choice and a “Change focus” option if you had something else in mind. The moment you tap Start, it designs the actual session (exercises, sets, reps, and weights) from up to 16 weeks of your training history and a quick check-in on how you feel. Premium members get the AI version, which can also factor in last night’s sleep and your heart data if you turn that on; free members get the same flow from the built-in coaching engine, with their very first session designed by the AI.

It’s a premium option you switch on under Settings → Apple Health → Use my sleep and heart data for coaching. Home then reads your day as Ready, Moderate, or Take it easier, with a one-line reason — built from last night’s sleep, your heart rate variability against your own 7-day average, your recent training load, and your check-in. The coach designs the session around it, and if you disagree you can tap “I feel better/worse than this”. It’s training guidance, not a medical assessment. The Apple Health readings are never stored with your sessions — only the readiness level they produced.

Anything about your training — “Why did you choose today’s workout?”, “Should I push harder today?”, “What’s holding back my bench?” Ask Coach answers from your own history, and it can offer to swap an exercise, rebuild today’s session lighter or shorter, remember a preference, or ease off a movement that’s bothering you. Nothing changes until you confirm the preview. Premium, from the Coach tab.

Change it on the weight dial as you log — swipe or tap the values either side, or long-press for an exact weight. Each set records the weight you actually lifted, and your next targets are worked out from those logged sets.

Yes. Tap + New in the My Routines section of the Home screen. Pick a focus (Push, Pull, Legs, Upper Body, Lower Body, or Full Body), a length (30, 45, or 60 minutes), and optionally tell your coach anything it should know about today. Premium users get a complete AI-assembled session with a line explaining the choice — swap any single exercise, ask again for a different combination, or save it as a routine. Free users see the same wizard and can build from the full catalog themselves with “Build it myself”. Missing an exercise? Create your own — free, no limit.

A one-time purchase (€12.99) for anyone who wants a structured plan. You answer a short intake — goal, experience, which days you train, session length, program length, and any lifts you know your numbers for — and your coach designs a complete 8- or 12-week gym program with training blocks, deload weeks, and a progression rule for each exercise. Weights are worked out from your latest training each time you start a program day, and two revisions are included if you want the design changed. It’s separate from Premium in both directions: you don’t need a subscription to buy or use it, and Premium doesn’t include it.

An on-demand AI analysis of your training, available to premium users from the Coach tab once a week. When you feel stuck, the AI reviews your recent training and returns what’s working, what’s holding you back, and an impact-ordered action plan. It never changes your sessions automatically — the advice is read-only and you decide what to act on.

The Coach tab is a dedicated coaching destination. It shows a six-axis Strength Profile radar (Squat, Bench, Deadlift, Row, Overhead Press, and Pull), Ask Coach, Coach Memory of what the coach remembers about you, a “recent thinking” log explaining why it made each decision, an AI Coach Summary of where your training stands, the on-demand Coach Check-In, and the way into the Custom Program. The Strength Profile is free for everyone; the coaching sections are premium.

No — there is no fixed schedule and no plan to fall behind on. Train whenever you’re ready and the coach designs that day’s session on the spot. Setup asks roughly how often you train so it can size your first few sessions sensibly, but nothing locks you to specific weekdays and your streak survives the odd off day. If you do want a set structure, that’s what the optional Custom Program is for.

Flag discomfort on the exercise, mention it in your post-session feedback, or tell Ask Coach, and premium members get an offer to ease off that movement pattern — overhead pressing, deep knee flexion, loaded spinal flexion, hip hinge, or wrist extension — for four weeks. Every session, swap, and suggestion steers around it, and a Home banner shows the days left so you can renew or end it early. It’s movement-based training guidance, not a medical assessment — if the discomfort persists, check with a qualified professional.

Yes — if you swap the same exercise out three times, ProgressPilot quietly stops programming it in future coach-designed workouts and surfaces a toast with an Undo. Premium members can review and re-enable any excluded exercise anytime in Coach Memory (Settings → Training Profile → Coach Memory).

You keep access to manual logging, your exercise catalog, and 30 days of history. AI coaching, full analytics, and premium features are paused until you resubscribe. A Custom Program you’ve bought keeps working — it isn’t part of the subscription. Your data is never deleted.

A coach-proposed session every time you train (your first is designed by the AI, the rest by the app’s built-in engine), manual workout logging, a pre-workout check-in, the full exercise catalog (222 exercises) plus your own exercises, Performance Index scoring on every set, personal record detection and PR cards, the Strength Profile radar, progression style, supersets, travel mode, a rest timer, Siri Shortcuts, a Home Screen widget, saving workouts to Apple Health, 3 saved routines, 30 days of history, and a full JSON export of your data. Everything you need to get started.

Four tiers: bodyweight only, home gym (dumbbells + optional bench/pull-up bar), home gym with a kettlebell, and full commercial gym (full equipment including cables and specialized machines). The exercise catalog and AI programming adapt to your tier. The Custom Program is designed for a full gym.

ProgressPilot is built for iPhone and needs iOS 18.6 or later. Its controls and charts carry VoiceOver labels, and the coach’s animations calm down when Reduce Motion is on.

Your workout history stays on your device and, if you enable iCloud sync, in your personal iCloud account. AI features send only the workout and profile fields needed to generate that coaching response — no name, email, photos, location, contacts, or advertising identifiers. If you turn on the Apple Health coaching switches, a summary of your recent cardio (activity type, duration, distance) and — when the coach designs a session — last night’s sleep, your latest heart rate variability, and resting heart rate are included; they are used for that request and never stored with your sessions. Text you write is sent the same way, only with the request it belongs to: Ask Coach questions, Custom Program intake answers, the note you add in the routine builder, check-in soreness notes, post-session notes, Limitations notes and Coach Memory entries. Each AI request also carries a pseudonymous account tag — a one-way hash of your account ID, never the ID itself, your name, or your email — which OpenAI uses for abuse monitoring. We do not read body weight from Apple Health. We don’t use third-party analytics, ad tracking, or behavioral profiling. See the Privacy Policy for details.

No. AI-designed sessions, targets, and coaching notes are suggestions for guidance only. You stay in full control — change the proposed focus, edit any weight, rep, set, or exercise, swap movements on the fly, or skip sessions whenever you need to.