# BYO Coach — Take Your Time Back > Take Your Time Back (iPhone/iPad app by DANIEL NICHOLAS HUNTER.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/byo-coach/id6778292578 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [DANIEL NICHOLAS HUNTER](https://appshunter.io/developer/6778292580) - Category: Health & Fitness, Lifestyle - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 26.2 · 14 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-06-21 - Data updated: 2026-09-04 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/byo-coach/id6778292578/reviews.md ## What is BYO Coach? Most people don't fail at training because they lack motivation. They fail because time runs out - and when they do find a window, half of it disappears figuring out what to do with it. BYO Coach fixes that. Tell it your goal, your environment, and how long you've got. It builds the session. You train. That's it. No programmes to follow. No cluttered app to navigate. No decisions to make at the gym door. Just the most effective session for the time you actually have. The algorithm behind it isn't AI guessing. It's deterministic coaching logic - built on 14 years of competitive bodybuilding, 7 years of formal study across biophysics, biomechanics and physiotherapy, and a decade of clinical experience with elite athletes. The same logic, applied consistently, every single session. FREE - NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Session generator - your session built in seconds, around your time, goal and environment Exercise library - 234 exercises with form cues on every movement Session library - save, log notes and repeat your best sessions Lift tracker - log your lifts and track personal bests Weekly split planner - map your training week and sync to Apple Calendar Trophy cabinet - milestones, streaks and personal records Save My Split - snapshot and restore named weekly splits Ask the Coach - 3 free coaching questions per month, no account required GO DEEPER WITH PRO Six AI coaching lanes built on the same coaching philosophy - not a generic chatbot: Ask the Coach - unlimited conversational coaching on any training question, any time Form cue follow-up - go beyond the static cue and get a direct answer to what you actually need to know Session coach - log how your session felt and get specific, actionable feedback in return Split advisor - get your training week audited for recovery conflicts, muscle balance and goal alignment Intensify - apply advanced intensity techniques to any exercise with exact execution instructions Exercise preferences - mark exercises as preferred or excluded to personalise every generated session BYO Coach Pro is available monthly or annually. *Pro is a subscription-based upgrade. Free tier requires no account. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Take your time back. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | BYO Coach Pro | $5.99 | per month | | BYO Coach Pro | $39.99 | per year | ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 1.3 — 2026-08-30 A significant update to the coaching experience and free tier. Free users now get 3 Ask the Coach questions per calendar month — the same coaching quality as Pro, no account required. Questions reset on the first of every month. Upgrade to Pro anytime for unlimited access. Pro users: coaching conversations can now be saved and revisited from a searchable history log, accessed via the clock icon in the chat nav bar. When you earn a trophy, you'll know about it — a banner notification now appears at the moment of earning, wherever you are in the app. Multiple trophies queue sequentially so nothing gets missed. The exercise swap sheet has been redesigned. Alongside the random suggestion, you can now browse a filtered library and choose your own replacement — matched to the muscle group, movement type, and environment of the slot you're swapping. Also in this update: session abandon confirmation so you never lose a draft accidentally, keyword search on the FAQ, a session preview card in the split picker, and an in-app review prompt at meaningful moments. ### 1.2 — 2026-07-20 Save your training week and come back to it. v1.2 introduces Save My Split — name and store up to five weekly splits, restore them any time, and pick up exactly where you left off. Hit a personal best? The app now detects load, rep, and volume PRs the moment you log a lift — with a flash and haptic on the spot, a summary at the end of your session, and new PR trophies in your cabinet. Share your sessions, splits, and trophies as clean image cards through the system share sheet. Under the hood: a full exercise pool audit with muscle group retagging and compound pool expansion, consistent session ordering in the library and on share cards, and a stack of UI polish across navigation, session tiles, and the generator screen. ### 1.1 — 2026-06-25 A significant update to the session engine and exercise library. Every session now enforces stimulus-type diversity across your exercises - balancing heavy, stretch, squeeze, and pump movements rather than defaulting to the same type repeatedly. Isolation exercises now carry their own rep schemes based on how they load the muscle, not just your goal. Your second compound movement is now placed mid-session, where your nervous system can actually do something with it. The exercise library has grown to 234 movements, with major additions to hamstrings and glutes - Romanian deadlifts, glute ham raise, hip thrust, cable pull through, KB swing, and more. Home workout selection has been improved with band equipment now in the pool. FAQ expanded to 14 entries covering how the algorithm works, why rep schemes are fixed, and how time constraints are calculated. Minor UI Bug fixes. ### 1.0 — 2026-06-22 No release notes. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-04.*