GoKawiilSmartGym is out with a massive update today that introduces AI-powered workout creation, management, deeper Siri integration, and several features that leverage the new possibilities of iOS 27, iPadOS, and watchOS 27. Here are the details.
I’ve written before about how much I like using SmartGym to track my exercise routine.
SmartGym is an Apple Design Award winner, and it doesn’t take long to see why. Developer Matt Abras is constantly changing, updating, and tweaking the app to make it easier and more streamlined to manage, track, and log gym sessions, improving on what has long been one of the most mature and useful gym-tracking apps on the App Store.
Today, SmartGym is getting one of its biggest updates ever. SmartGym 8 introduces SmartGym Intelligence, which is, in essence, the app’s own take on Private Cloud Compute.
SmartGym introduces its own Private Cloud Compute alternative
As Abras explains, SmartGym is currently not eligible to use Apple’s Private Cloud Compute through the new Foundation Models framework. So, he decided to build his own.
SmartGym Intelligence is private by design. Every request sent to a model is anonymous and disconnected from the user’s identity. Prompts and responses are never logged, cached, or retained by SmartGym.
SmartGym 8 relies on Apple’s new Language Model APIs to extend the Foundation Models framework to frontier models running on SmartGym’s own private cloud infrastructure, while keeping requests anonymous and disconnected from the user’s identity.
SmartGym never connects directly to an AI lab. The labs behind these frontier models never receive users’ prompts, and nothing users submit is used to train their models.
With today’s update, users can now create workout routines with natural language. This means they can type something like “create a push-pull-legs workout with 10 exercises per day. Avoid bench press. Include 2 warm-up exercises per day,” and the app’s new framework will handle the rest.
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