# Grip & Balance: Workout Log — Strength & rehab training log

> Strength & rehab training log (iPhone/iPad app by Tertius Wessels.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/grip-and-balance-workout-log/id6791572830 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Tertius Wessels](https://appshunter.io/developer/1854509891)
- Category: Health & Fitness
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 12 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-07-23
- Data updated: 2026-09-11
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/grip-and-balance-workout-log/id6791572830/reviews.md

## What is Grip & Balance?

Grip & Balance is a training log for people rebuilding strength — including
around injury — who want honest records and careful advice, not hype.
LOG FAST
• Routines with exercise slots and quick substitutions
• Weight×reps, reps-only, duration, and rehab work all supported
• Kilograms or pounds — switch any time, your history converts instantly
  and stays exact
• Rest timer with local notifications — change the rest mid-session when it
  turns out to be wrong, this rest included
• Finish with a voice note: up to 30 seconds, turned into text on your phone
  and waiting for you next time you start that workout
• Edit or delete any set — or a whole session — after the fact
START FROM THE LIBRARY
• Built-in routine library: browse, favorite, and copy routines to make
  them your own — copies are yours, app updates never touch them
• 110+ exercise catalogue with form and back-safety cues, plus your own
  custom exercises; favorite the moves you use most
PROGRESS CAREFULLY
• Rules-based progression suggestions for weight×reps strength work
• Stall detection: weeks without progress earn a cautious deload suggestion
• Advisory only — you always decide; accept, dismiss, or override
• Deliberately silent on rehab and duration work: no confident bad advice
  for a recovering body
SEE YOUR TRAINING
• History and charts per exercise, weekly volume per muscle group
• Reads Apple Health workouts to show energy burned during matching sessions
• Apple Watch saves a session you record on the watch to Health as a workout —
  the only thing the app writes
PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE
• No account, no server, no analytics, no third-party SDKs
• The app makes no network connections — your data cannot leave your device
• Voice notes are transcribed by your phone's own offline recogniser and the
  recording is discarded; if your phone can't do it offline, we don't record
• Database encrypted with iOS Data Protection
Built for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.3.0 — 2026-09-09

• Tell it what you can't do. Settings ▸ Exercises I can't do keeps a list — one exercise, or a whole family such as anything weighted that's a squat, with exceptions. Those exercises stay out of the Library, the pickers and every suggestion, and each place says how many it's holding back so you can show them anyway. You write the rule; the app never guesses one. • Start a workout from where its routine lives: a play button on every routine in My routines and in the Library. The Workout tab now lists just the routines you've trained in the last 30 days — the rest are one tab away, not gone. • Two bodyweight movements — Hip Hinge and Single-Leg Romanian Deadlift — for the days a loaded hinge is off the table. • The pain marker is on every profile now, not only in Coach Mode. • The selected tab is green again. • Still no account, no server, no analytics, and nothing leaves your device unless you share a file yourself.

### 2.2.1 — 2026-09-07

• A machine is taken, so do another one. Pick any exercise on your iPhone or on your watch and the session follows it — the watch shows it as what you're on now, and the exercises you stepped over come back round at the end instead of disappearing. Logging a set anywhere moves it for you, so most of the time you never touch the control at all. • Reorder the exercises in a routine. Each row has the same up and down arrows the blocks have always had, and a slot keeps its sets, rep range, increment, rest and substitute as it moves. • Exercise cards fold. How to perform it, its guide and the swap options tuck behind one line you can open; your sets, last time's numbers and any suggestion stay in front of you. Settings ▸ Exercise details decides whether cards start open or closed — they start open. • Fixed: the up arrow on the first row and the down arrow on the last one opened the wrong screen instead of doing nothing. • Still no account, no server, no analytics, and nothing leaves your device unless you share a file yourself.

### 2.2.0 — 2026-09-04

• A calmer dark theme: true-black grounds, and green kept for the things you can tap. Red marks what you can't undo. The display type steps down a size; body text stays where it was.
• Every colour that carries words now clears WCAG AA in both themes — five didn't, and a test now holds all of them, including the buttons drawn on a wash of their own colour.
• Export your workout history as CSV — every set, block and cardio segment, in kilograms, seconds and metres, straight from Settings. Opens in Numbers, Excel or Sheets. The snapshot file is still there for a full backup.
• Settings ▸ About now says plainly what the advisor is and isn't: training guidance from your own sets, not medical advice — and why it stays quiet on rehab, timed and reps-only work. The history screen says the same where you'd go looking.
• After a good session, the app may occasionally ask whether you'd rate it — through Apple's own sheet, never mid-workout, never more than the system allows, and never after a session that flagged a plateau.
• Bigger tap targets on the two small dismiss buttons in a live session, and headers and the reminder banner that hold together at the largest text sizes.
• Still no account, no server, no analytics, and no way for your training to leave your device unless you share a file yourself.

### 2.0.1 — 2026-09-02

• Search that leads with the answer. Type "squat" and the first result is Squat: seven plain-named entries — Squat, Deadlift, Bench Press, Overhead Press, Row, Lunge, Biceps Curl — let you log the movement pattern without picking a variant, and search now ranks exact matches and the curated library above the long tail. • Vertical Jump joins the built-in library with its own movement guide — log jump work rep by rep. As with all explosive work, the progression advisor stays deliberately quiet. • The gym-floor scan knows three more stations: the dual adjustable pulley, the leg-raise/dip tower, and the seated dip machine. • Still no account, no server, no analytics, and no way for your training to leave your device.

### 2.0.0 — 2026-08-28

• Workout formats. A routine can now be a circuit, an interval workout, or a for-time piece as well as straight sets. Round-based workouts run on a lap clock — one tap ends a round, your splits fall out of the timestamps, and a review afterwards is where the numbers become training data: Confirm is the record, and a session you don't review keeps its splits and writes nothing. • Cardio inside the round. A station like "Rower · 400 m" sits in the circuit alongside your exercises — set it by distance, time or calories — and confirmed rounds count towards muscle volume like everything else. • Your score is yours. A finished piece shows its time or rounds against your own previous attempts of the same workout. Nothing compares you to anyone else. • Coach Mode, off by default. If you train other people, Settings ▸ Coach Mode keeps each client's routines and sessions in their own profile on your phone, with amendable session notes. It's built for practitioners — your own log is untouched, and like everything in this app, nothing leaves the device unless you yourself share it. • Two new Insights charts: how long your sessions actually run (as a typical length, not a best), and — from Apple Health — the energy your body put into each routine over the last 90 days. • A new tracking type for isokinetic machines — level × reps — and three conditioning staples join the built-in library with movement guides. • Still no account, no server, no analytics, and no way for your training to leave your device.

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