# Macht — Long-term, sustainable fitness

> Long-term, sustainable fitness (iPhone/iPad app by Cass Winfrey.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/macht/id6746654364 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Cass Winfrey](https://appshunter.io/developer/1817665287)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.2 · 56 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2025-12-09
- Data updated: 2026-10-30

## What is Macht?

A tool for long-term & sustainable fitness.

Macht is a training log, recovery journal and programming tool that connects your training with the factors critical to overall wellbeing; sleep, diet, hydration, mood, and stress - built on the idea that software should help develop your training intuition, not substitute for it.

Forever free, privacy-first, no social features, no wearables required.

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- Recovery journalling
Before each workout, check in with yourself via a pre-workout survey to assess subjective stress/recovery: based on RESTQ-Sport, DALDA and the Hooper Index surveys from sports science. Keep rough tabs on long-term trends without the excessive self-monitoring, then react accordingly based on your composite wellbeing score.

- Workout logging:
Observe exercise trends with charts for volume, 1RM, reps, sets and max weight over time. Access exercise history and rep records instantly. Log bilateral weights separately (e.g. 4 reps left, 5 reps right). Auto-advancing sets with adjustable rest timers. Adjust your workout on-the-fly based on suggestions from your wellbeing score, to ensure training is sustainable alongside your day-to-day life.

- Programming tool:
Perform improvised workouts, or build training splits with reusable workout templates, set timely deload periods after a number of iterations - with ability to catch-up on, or skip missed sessions. Assess volume and frequency analysis across muscle group categories in your programs. Define your workout templates down to the individual set; configure rep ranges, AMRAP sets, intensity, RPE targets and rest timers per set.

- Additionally:
Customise your app with a selection of 8 different colour themes, back up your data with optional automatic iCloud backups.

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Medical Disclaimer

This app is for informational purposes only and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your physician or qualified health provider before making any medical decisions. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay seeking it because of this app.

## Is Macht safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Macht.

## Is Macht legit?

Macht has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Macht is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.9.0 — 2026-06-07

- Export and import routines as `.mrt` files - share a routine via the share sheet or import one from Files or iCloud Drive
- Backups are now saved directly to iCloud Drive as `.mbackup` files, so they're visible and persist after the app is uninstalled
- Exercise pools let you add a group of exercises to a template slot - the app picks one based on the number of times the workout has been ran, each time you start the workout
- The program page now includes a radar chart and a hierarchical breakdown of volume by muscle group
- Fixes a bug where accommodations (bands, chains) weren't carried forward to consecutive sets
- Fixes a crash when tapping an exercise in an active workout
- Fixes a visual glitch where reordering folders could snap back due to a stale cache

### 1.8.0 — 2026-05-31

- You can now organise routines into folders - create a folder, drag routines into it, and open it to see a filtered view
- Adds pull-down refresh control to check for pending OTA updates
- The app will now disable itself for the next day if your wellbeing score is judged to be too low
- Batch-delete routines in edit mode using the new footer toolbar, and move templates between folders without losing your place
- Added a workout frequency insight showing your training history as a bar chart, with weekly and monthly views and a period selector
- The calendar header now shows your active program as a tappable pill that navigates to it, with a return-to-today button and a month pill that opens recent history
- Active progress progress has been redesigned as a pill showing a completion circle, current day, iteration, and elapsed time
- Fixes a visual issue where line graph labels could overlap when values were near the top of the chart
- Fixed spacing between buttons on the settings screen
- Adds empty state to the wellbeing score

### 1.7.1 — 2026-05-11

- You can now long-press the workout exercise selector to perform edits, which is useful for managing accommodations
- Refactored the wellbeing score to be pan-able through history via the mood gradient
- Fixes an issue in iOS 26 whereby the navigation gesture hitbox changes would mean that the pre-workout review sliders would trigger a navigation back when sliding it left

### 1.7.0 — 2026-05-04

- Added functionality to either skip or catch up on sessions when falling behind in a workout program in the weekly calendar
- Behind the scenes update to support iOS 26 & Liquid Glass
- Improves accommodation management so that it's possible to create/edit/delete accommodations without leaving the exercise screen
- Redesigned the training load metrics layout
- Fixed a bug where opening an accordion would crash the app
- Fixed an issue where chart x-axis label positioning on charts would go off the screen
- Changing data range and workout mode now applies optimistically instead of waiting for a round-trip
- Weekly calendar day falls back to the global theme color when a workout has no color assigned
- Fixed animation jank on the wellbeing check-in expand & unifies styling across all instances of the component

### 1.5.1 — 2026-04-18

- Accommodations tracking: track resistance modifiers like bands, chains, slingshots, and wraps on your exercises. Assign accommodations to exercises, select them during a workout, and see them in your exercise history. Manage them from a new dedicated settings screen
- OTA updates: the app now checks for over-the-air updates on launch and when returning to the foreground - so you don't have to do it all the time via the App Store
- Settings reorganization: exercises, accommodations, and pre-workout surveys are now grouped under a "Manage" section with a cleaner, more compact layout
- Fixed metrics not updating when switching between lbs and kg
- Fixed sets with 0 reps displaying incorrectly
- Fixed workouts with no end time (e.g., from a force-close) showing blank, instead of inferring from the last set
- Fixed title display when weekly calendar day template has no title
- Fixed template set duplication copying the original set's ID, causing potential conflicts
- Fixed set edit screen not properly invalidating cache after updates

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