# Grip & Balance

> Grip & Balance (iPhone/iPad app by Tertius Wessels.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/grip-and-balance/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 · 11 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-07-23
- Data updated: 2026-08-30
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/grip-and-balance/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)

### 2.0.0 — 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.

### 1.9.0 — 2026-08-26

• Say how the session went. When you finish a workout you can record up to 30 seconds and it becomes text in that session's notes — the sore knee, the bar that felt heavy, whatever the set log can't hold. Your voice is turned into text by the offline recogniser on your own phone and the recording is thrown away immediately; if your phone can't transcribe offline, the app simply won't record.
• And it's there when you need it. Starting a workout now shows the note you left last time you did it, right above the start button — because "left knee was sore on squats" is worth more before you load the bar than after.
• Change the rest timer mid-session. If 45 seconds turns out to be too long, the cog on the rest bar changes it there and then — this rest included — and remembers it for next time.
• Work time. A new figure on the session summary and in Insights: the median time from a rest ending to your next set being logged. It's the part of a session that isn't resting. It starts from the workouts you log from now on.
• The focus builder now shows what you're building as you build it — pick your exercises and a running tally appears, so four shoulder movements and one for abs is something you see before you start.
• Still no account, no server, no analytics, and no way for your training to leave your device.

### 1.8.0 — 2026-08-24

• The movement guides are redrawn. Flip on Movement guides in Settings and every built-in exercise now shows a diagram in the style of the instruction plate on a gym machine: a set-up frame and a working frame, a green arrow tracing the movement itself, amber marks for whatever you adjust before you start, and hatching where your body meets the pad. The machine is drawn so you can pick it out on the gym floor.

• The looping animation is gone, replaced by those two frames. One clear picture of where you start and one of where you finish, with the path between them drawn in, turned out to say more than a loop that wobbled.

• Cable Hip Adduction joins the built-in library — the counterpart to the cable hip abduction already there — with form cues, a guide and its own spine-safety pointer.

• Delete a workout you never really did. Swipe a card in Last workouts: one you logged nothing into goes on the swipe alone, and one with real sets in it asks first and names what you would lose.

• Still no account, no server, no analytics, and no way for your training to leave your device.

### 1.7.0 — 2026-08-18

• Your watch now records the workout. Start a session and Apple Watch tracks it as a workout — live heart rate and active energy on your wrist, and the finished workout saved to Apple Health, so your training counts towards your Activity rings.

• The wrist works a whole session. A Now / Next pair stays on screen so you always know what you're on and what's coming. Warm-up, cardio and cool-down blocks reach the watch too — tick one off, or log a machine's minutes and distance from your wrist. And logging a set takes you back to the rest countdown, which is what you actually want next.

• Rest ran out while you were still working? The watch keeps a way to log right where you are, instead of making you go looking for one.

• Insights marks your weekends. Every point on a routine's 90-day chart that fell on a Saturday or Sunday is now drawn in blue, so the shape of your week is visible at a glance.

• Tap a routine chart to open it up. You get a chart for every exercise you actually did in that routine over the same 90 days — including anything you added mid-session or swapped to when a machine was busy. Weights chart as volume; rehab and timed work chart in their own reps and seconds, never forced onto a weight axis.

• Buttons now say what they do. Anything that starts a workout is green; anything that ends or deletes is red. The action you can't undo is the one you can spot without reading it.

• "From Apple Health" means what it says. The energy shown against a session now comes only from another app or device that measured you — never from Grip & Balance's own recording of the same workout.

• Still no account, no server, no analytics — and the watch talks only to your phone.

### 1.6.0 — 2026-08-17

• Grip & Balance comes to Apple Watch: your live workout on your wrist. See your session, log sets without touching your phone, feel the rest timer tap at halfway and time's-up, and follow guided stretches by touch alone — wrist down, eyes closed, on the floor. • Phone stays in your pocket: sets logged from the watch land even while your iPhone is locked. • Every workout ends with a moment: a full-screen well done with your time, sets, any personal bests that fell and the muscles you worked — confetti included. • Chimes you can set your watch by: guided-stretch and rest-timer cues now land within a blink of the countdown, every single time. • Scan 21 more machines: the built-in Technogym list grows to 32 stations — abdominal crunch, belt squat, hip thrust, incline chest press, assisted chin/dip, low row, pull down, pulley, rear kick, standing abductor and more. • Settings ▸ About now shows the equipment data at a glance: how many machines, NFC tags and QR codes the built-in list carries. • Still no account, no server, no analytics — and the watch talks only to your phone.

## More apps by Tertius Wessels

- [AtReminder: Location Reminders](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/atreminder-location-reminders/id6755543902)

All apps by Tertius Wessels: https://appshunter.io/developer/1854509891

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