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iPhone + Apple Watch · Coming soon · Out now
Run your program. Coach theirs.
Bar Bear turns the plan you believe in, yours or your coach’s, into every next set on iPhone and Apple Watch. Start a proven novice progression in minutes. Never outgrow it. And if you coach, it runs your lifters’ next sets too.
Founding lifters get a 30-day full trial at launch.
We’ll email you to confirm. Open that email to join the Bar Bear waitlist, then get launch and product updates. Unsubscribe anytime. Read the privacy notice.
Download on the App Store
14-day free trial · from $7.99/month or $59.99/year
The reason I built it
Leave your phone
in the locker.
You know the dance: restart the watch app, restart the phone app, stare at a spinner while your rest timer dies. Bar Bear was built so that never happens. The workout you started is already on your wrist: no pairing ritual, no launch order, no “sync before you lift.”
- Basement gym with no signal? It records.
- Phone dead in the car? It records.
- Swap exercise order mid-session? From the wrist.
- Toss in accessories at the end? From the wrist.
The program engine
Bring your own plan.
Or your coach’s.
Bar Bear isn’t a content library with a logbook bolted on. It’s a program engine that runs your prescription, and it always answers the only question that matters under the bar: what’s my next set?
Every rep as written
Rep ranges, RPE, AMRAPs, warm-up ramps, back-offs, alternating days, multi-week blocks, deloads. If your plan says it, Bar Bear runs it.
New gym, no math
Different bars, mismatched plates, kilos on one rack and pounds on the next: tell Bar Bear what’s in front of you and it tells you what to load, side by side.
A log you can trust
Cut a session short, swap a lift, fix last Tuesday’s typo: your history stays straight and your progression stays honest.
Pricing
The whole bear,
either way.
Standard is every training feature, nothing held back. Coach adds the tools for programming other lifters. No ads, no locked lifts, and no free tier: you’re the customer, not the product.
Standard Most lifters
$59.99/year
or $7.99 a month
- Every training feature, iPhone + Apple Watch
- Records from the Watch alone, no phone required
- Your programs, warm-ups, progression, honest history
- Share programs and routines with training partners
Coach
$99.99/year
or $12.99 a month
- Everything in Standard, plus:
- Enroll clients in programs you run
- See the results that matter: loads, reps, RPE, misses
- Propose changes; your lifter approves
- Unlimited clients, no per-client fees
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Both plans lift the same: Coach buys coaching tools, not better training. Clients subscribe on their own terms; a coach never pays per client and never sees training outside the program they run.
Straight answers
Asked often.
When does it launch?
When the Watch experience is worthy of the platform, not a week before. Waitlist members hear the date first and start with 30 days free.
Does the Watch really work without the iPhone?
Yes. Your current workout lives on the Watch itself. Record full sessions with the phone at home, in the car, or dead. Everything is there when the devices next see each other.
Can I run my own program, or one from my coach?
That’s the whole point. Enter it once: rep ranges, RPE, ramps, blocks, deloads. Bar Bear serves it back one set at a time. Prefer a template? Proven starting programs are built in and fully editable. And if your coach is on Bar Bear, they can enroll you in a program they manage and send adjustments you approve.
What does the Coach plan add?
Ongoing 1:1 coaching. Invite a lifter into a program you manage, follow the results of that program (completed sets, loads, reps, RPE, skips) and nothing else of theirs, and propose adjustments they explicitly approve. Unlimited clients, no per-client fees. Clients subscribe themselves; Standard is enough.
Kilos or pounds?
Both, and gyms that mix them. Bar Bear works with the bars and plates actually in front of you.
Is there a free version?
No. Every account starts with a full-feature trial, and waitlist members get 30 days of it. After that it’s Standard or Coach, with every training feature in both. No ads, no data selling, no nagging upgrades.
No. There’s a 14-day trial with every feature unlocked, then Standard or Coach, with every training feature in both. No ads, no data selling, no nagging upgrades.
Which devices?
iPhone and Apple Watch at launch. The iPhone app is complete on its own; the Watch makes it unfair.
The bar is loaded. Chalk up.
Be first on the platform when Bar Bear opens, with 30 founding days in your pocket.
Fourteen days free. Your program, your rules, your wrist.
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