Everything Badger does

Every feature, one line each. You will not need most of it to start. Skim for anything that sounds useful and follow the link to learn how it works. If you are brand new, the guides are a gentler place to begin.

Logging a workout

Set logging - weight, reps, duration, and distance, with the right fields for each exercise type.
Distance unit - show distances in kilometers or miles, separate from your weight unit.
Log as you go, or plan then tick - one tap per set, or plan your sets and tick each one when it's done. Badger asks the first time.
Typing a duration - type 2, 0, 0, 0 and it reads 20:00, like a microwave.
Warm-up and working sets - mark any set as a warm-up so it stays out of your records.
Rest timer - starts on its own after a set (not after cardio), with custom durations, sound, and vibration.
End a workout - End beside the timer, a check for sets you forgot to tick, and a forgotten workout closed at its last set.
Set timer - a stopwatch or a countdown for planks, carries, and anything else measured in seconds (Stop fills in the time you held), spoken aloud in a male or female voice while it runs, including with an iPhone's screen locked. Rest starts on its own when it ends.
Workout on the lock screen - your current set, rest countdown and elapsed time on the lock screen: a Live Activity on iPhone, a notification on Android. Rest buttons, and Set done when a set is waiting to be ticked (iPhone needs iOS 17 or later for the buttons).
Supersets - group exercises you alternate between, with automatic advancing.
Left and right sets - log each arm or leg separately on one-arm exercises, with a record for each.
RPE and RIR - record how hard each set felt in one tap, on RIR or RPE. Your answer carries to the next set. Tap the (i) in the app for a plain-language explainer.
Compact set recorder - collapse the set details down to weight, reps, and done.
Per-set comments - jot a form cue or note an odd rep on a single set.
Plan vs last - your target and last session's numbers, right above the recorder, and on each set you have not done yet.
AMRAP and to failure - what "8+" means in a plan, and what the To failure chip records afterward (a failed rep, kept apart from RIR 0).
Missed vs skipped - a short set still counts; a skipped one doesn't.
Repeat last set - copy your previous set in one tap.
Hold to repeat - hold a + or - button to keep counting, faster the longer you hold.
Skip a set - mark a planned set as skipped without deleting it.
Remove an exercise - take an exercise out of a workout, with Undo.
Workout notes - a comment for the whole session.
Resume a workout - reopen today's finished session and add more.
Hands-free flow - keep the screen on, auto-select the next set, and auto-advance between exercises.

Exercises

Over 360 built-in exercises - across eight categories, including machine, cable, and unilateral variants.
A-Z exercise index - the whole library in one alphabetical list, with a letter strip to jump down it.
Search and filter - by name, category chip, muscle group, or equipment type, in any combination.
Search in German, French or Spanish - the most common lifts also answer to their names in those languages.
The exercise picker - category chips under the search box, with the exercises you have logged first in each category. Each row names the equipment and main muscle, and its i button shows how to do the exercise.
The exercise page - your history for a movement, its record key straight through to the graph, muscles worked, and your notes.
Custom exercises - add anything that is not in the library, even from the exercise picker in the middle of a workout. The type and equipment are filled in from the name.
Exercise types - weight and reps, bodyweight, timed, distance, and combinations.
Weighted and assisted bodyweight moves - log only the weight you add (BW × 8, +25 lbs × 6) or the assistance a machine gives.
Favorites and avoided - flag the lifts you love and the ones you never want to see.
Linked exercises - tie variants together so they share PR history.
Manage categories - create, rename, recolor, and reorder the categories that group the library.
Per-exercise settings - default increment, rest, bar weight, tempo, and notes.

Routines

Build routines - multi-day programs with set and rep targets per exercise. Pick several exercises at once when you build a day.
Built-in programs - Full Body Starter, StrongLifts 5x5, Starting Strength, GZCLP, 5/3/1 BBB, nSuns 531LP, Madcow 5x5, PPL, PPL + Upper/Lower, Upper/Lower, and Full Body. Six of them run their own progression.
Full Body Starter - a beginner program of two machine and dumbbell full-body days, with no training max to set up.
Duplicate a day - copy a day inside a routine, with its exercises and planned sets, to build a similar day without typing it again.
Predefined sets - your targets are filled in the moment you start a session.
Schedule or rotation - pin days to weekdays, or rotate through them in order for any number of days.
Starting weights - pull from your last session or from the routine plan.
Default accessories - program the band or chain you always use into a routine so it comes with the exercise.
Exercise alternatives - pre-set swaps for when a machine is taken.
Swap exercise - suggests substitutes on the spot when nothing is pre-set, matched by muscle and what your gym has.
Rep ranges - set a target of "8-10" instead of a single number.
AMRAP targets - an open-topped set written "8+": at least 8, then as many as you can. "1+" is a set to failure.
Intensity targets - prescribe a set at RPE 8, 2 RIR or to failure, shown while you log it as a guide. Badger never grades the logged set against the target.
Routine folders - group related routines together.
Routine from past workouts - turn sessions you already logged into a reusable routine.
Routine notes - program-level context on the routine itself; travels with a shared routine.
Share a routine as an image - a card of the whole program, or of one day with its sets, reps and progression rules. Your weights stay off unless you turn them on.
Send a routine file - a .badger file the other person can open and use as their own routine.

Progression

Progression rules - one sentence per exercise in a routine saying what happens to its weight next session, with every number in it a chip you can tap.
Progressive overload - on an exercise with no rule, a hint to add weight after a run of solid sessions.
When to move on, for bodyweight moves - once every set reaches 8 reps or 30 seconds a few sessions running, a link to swap to the next harder version.
Auto-progress weights - on an exercise with no rule, an offer after the workout to write the heavier loads you hit back into the plan.
Double progression - work up through a rep range, then add weight.
Set up progression - write a program's rules onto a routine you already have, after showing you every sentence first.
Why this weight - the log preview names the line of the rule that fired, and you can override it without turning it off.
Training max - the number per lift that your percentages are taken from, with a history of every change.
Set your training maxes at the start - when a program needs a training max you have not set, a sheet opens with a row per lift, filled in from your history for lifts you have logged.
Percentage sets - prescribe a set as 85% instead of a weight, worked out to a load your gym can make.
A percentage of another lift - take a variation's percentages off the lift it assists, like a close-grip bench at 80% of your bench.
Driver sets - mark the one set whose reps decide what the rule does next.
Waved days - run a day as a cycle of weeks, 5/3/1 style, with each week written once.
Which week you are on - the routine and Today show the week of its cycle and the days done, advance once every day has been trained, and let you set or skip ahead yourself.
Rotate the exercise by week - a board press one week and a good morning the next, written as two exercises in the same day.
Deload weeks - detect a due-for-lighter week and reduce weights and sets; start or end one manually, or skip a single workout.
Coming back after a break - after six weeks off, an offer to start with a lighter week at 60%.

Tracking and progress

Personal records - PRs are detected and tracked for every exercise type: heaviest, most reps, farthest, or best time. Your first session of an exercise sets starting numbers, not records.
Progress graphs - estimated 1RM, max weight, and volume over time.
Pace and speed graphs - best pace for walking, running and rowing, and best speed for bikes, worked out from the distance and time you log.
Compare two exercises - draw a second exercise's history on the same graph, as a dashed line.
Strength standards - optional untrained-to-elite reference lines on the big barbell lifts, scaled to your bodyweight.
Estimated 1RM - calculated from your logged weight and reps.
Volume landmarks - sets per muscle group against research-based MEV and MRV zones.
Training heatmap - a GitHub-style view of how often you train.
Muscle balance warnings - flags a muscle group that is getting too little work.
Plateau detection - spots an exercise that has stopped progressing.
Per-exercise history - every session for a single movement in one place.
Editable history - fix any past set or piece of equipment after the fact.
History by routine day - see one exercise's sessions from a single day of your routine.
Training notes - a private page for your goals, injuries, and training context.
Body tracking - body weight and tape measurements, with a 7-day average trend. Quiet by default: only body weight is on, and the rest are opt-in.
Apple Health and Health Connect - opt in to save finished workouts as sessions, and to bring your weigh-ins in. Badger offers it once on a workout summary.
Heart rate on your sets - opt in and your watch's end-of-set heart rate turns up on each set, with exertion trends per session and per exercise.

Equipment and gyms

Multiple gyms - track where each workout happened.
Machines and attachments - log the exact equipment you used.
Grip types - overhand, underhand, neutral, wide, close, hammer.
Per-machine notes - seat heights and setup cues that stick to the machine.
Equipment photos - snap a machine or attachment so you recognize it on the floor.
Machine-scoped PRs - keep records separate per machine.
Machines learned as you go - pick any machine at your gym mid-workout and Badger links it to the exercise for you.
Weight config - logging unit and step size per machine, including non-uniform stacks.
Weight per side - record whether a number means one side or the total, and see it on every set you logged.
Per-gym plate inventory - the plates a given gym actually has.
Dumbbell and kettlebell racks - list what is on the rack and the +/− stepper walks it, gaps and all, instead of ticking a fixed increment.
Kettlebell colors - the competition color code comes preset, so the weight you type is checked against the bell you picked up.
Named bars - the trap bar, the EZ curl, the worn 45. Each with its own weight, feeding your plate math and warm-ups.
Records per bar - a trap-bar deadlift keeps its own history, because it is a different lift.
Bands, chains, and straps - name them, color them, and attach several at once to a set.
Accessories stay out of records - a banded set never claims a PR and never blocks one.
Progress chart filters - scope any exercise graph by machine, by named bar, or by bare vs accessorized work.
Share a whole gym - hand a friend the place as it stands, racks and plates included. Your photos and private notes stay yours.

Calculators and tools

Plate calculator - which plates to load for a target weight, per gym.
Warm-up calculator - warm-up sets worked out from your working weight and snapped to your equipment.
Use this load - write an achievable plate total straight back into the weight field.

History

List and calendar views - browse past workouts either way.
Filter by category - narrow history to one kind of training.
Journal search - find any note you have written, across workouts, exercises, machines, and routines.
Session pace - how long each exercise took and how long you rested, worked out from your own log.
Repeat your last workout - Today names your last workout and repeats it in two taps.
Compared with last time - a workout's summary marks each exercise stronger, about the same or lighter than last time.
One year ago - a quiet line on Today when you trained on this date last year.
Copy a workout - replicate a past session onto today.
Log a past workout - backdate a session you forgot to record.
Share as an image - post a card that leads with the session's standout set, or with the record you just set.

Your data

Import - bring history from FitNotes, Strong, Hevy, or StrongLifts. A FitNotes backup brings your routines too.
Export to CSV - your full per-set history as a spreadsheet.
Copy context for AI - your program, recent training, records, equipment and constraints as text to paste into any AI.
Backup and restore - iCloud on iPhone, on-phone copies on Android, and an optional Google Drive extra.
Share setups - send routines, gyms, and machines to someone as a .badger file.
Share a whole program - progression rules, percentages, supersets and tempo travel with a routine. Your training max does not.
Move to a new phone - carry your history across devices.
Workout reminders - a notification on your training days, from your active program's schedule or weekdays you pick, naming your last workout.
Hints - one-time tips at the moment a feature would help, with a switch to turn them off.
Themes and accent - dark, light, or system, with a custom accent color.
Home-screen and lock-screen widgets - your week strip, last entry, and next routine day on the home screen, and on the iPhone Lock Screen.

Nothing here needs an account. Your log stays out of our hands whether it sits on your phone or backs up to your own iCloud or Google account.