Plan your workout. Follow the flow.
Track your progress.
Anvil Workout is a strength training app for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Plan workouts, track sets and reps in the gym, and review progress over time. One-time purchase. No subscription, no account required, no ads, no in-app analytics. Your workouts stay on your device.
Start with a proven program like Starting Strength or Push/Pull/Legs, or build your own with exercises, sets, reps, weight targets, rest timers, and supersets. Organize everything with tags.
Workout timer, set-by-set tracking, rest countdown with haptic feedback, pause and resume. The clock and your rest keep counting on the Lock Screen with the phone in your pocket. Add notes per exercise, or tap the barbell for a built-in plate calculator. Just follow the screen.
Automatic personal record detection for weight and reps. Volume charts, weekly frequency, estimated 1RM progression, and muscle group distribution.
Log sets, skip exercises, and feel a tap on your wrist when your rest timer finishes. The watch follows the workout running on your iPhone, with no internet needed. Includes a watch widget.
Plan routines on a spacious split layout. In the gym, use the two-column active workout screen to see current logging and upcoming sets side-by-side.
With your permission, finished workouts are saved to Apple Health, and the calories and heart rate your Apple Watch recorded show up in your workout history.
Switching apps? Bring your full training history with you. Import a CSV export from Strong or Hevy in a single step and pick up right where you left off.
Clean, focused, and fast. No clutter, no upsells, no distractions between you and your next set.
Anvil is deliberately focused, which makes it a great fit for some lifters and the wrong call for others. Here is the honest split.
No. Anvil Workout is a one-time purchase with no subscription, no in-app purchases, and no hidden costs. You pay once and get all features forever, including future updates.
Yes. Anvil Workout needs no internet connection to plan, run or review a workout. Your programs, sets and history are stored only on your iPhone and are never uploaded or synced. There is no account and no cloud dependency. The only thing the app sends is a report to Sentry if it crashes, hangs or hits an error, and you can turn that off in Settings. Reports never include your workouts, notes or Health data.
Yes, if you allow it. Each completed workout is saved to Apple Health. Anvil then reads back the calories and average heart rate that Health recorded during the workout and shows them in your history. Those numbers come from another source, usually an Apple Watch, so without one they are often empty.
No. Start the workout on your iPhone and the watch follows it, so you can log and skip sets from your wrist. It needs no internet, but it does need your iPhone nearby.
No. Each device keeps its own programs and history, and nothing syncs between them. The Apple Watch is different because it shows the workout running on your iPhone instead of keeping its own.
It moves with your device backup. If you use iCloud Backup or back up to a computer, your Anvil data is included and comes back when you restore to the new phone. Without a backup it stays on the old one. You can also export your workout history as a CSV file from Settings at any time.
You can create full workout programs with exercises, sets, reps, weight targets, rest timers, and supersets. During workouts, sets are tracked in real time on your iPhone (with Live Activity) or on your wrist using our native Apple Watch companion app, which features haptic rest alerts. After workouts, you can review volume charts, weekly frequency, estimated 1RM progression, muscle group distribution, and automatically detected personal records.
Anvil Workout is built for lifters who want a focused, distraction-free gym experience. Unlike apps that require monthly subscriptions and cloud accounts, Anvil Workout is a one-time purchase that works offline and keeps your workouts on your device. It includes native support for iPad (ideal for gym stands) and an Apple Watch companion that follows the workout on your iPhone so you can log sets from your wrist, alongside Live Activity and Apple Health integration.
One-time purchase doesn't mean development stops. Here is what recently shipped and what is being built right now. No dates, no promises we can't keep.
Nothing between you and the next set.
One-time purchase on the App Store. No subscription, no account required.
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