# Povver: Strength Coach — Gym Log & Workout Tracker

> Gym Log & Workout Tracker (iPhone/iPad app by BVA Technologies Oy.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/povver-strength-coach/id6759248585 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [BVA Technologies Oy](https://appshunter.io/developer/1877643890)
- Category: Health & Fitness
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.5 · 43 MB
- Languages: American English, Finnish
- Released: 2026-09-17
- Data updated: 2026-10-05

## What is Povver?

Tells you what to lift next. Shows why.

Povver is a strength coach for iOS. It reads every set you log, counts hard sets per muscle against the volume that muscle needs, and raises the load when it is earned. The reason is on screen with the prescription.

WHAT YOU GET

• Automatic progressive overload: five conditions per increase, capped at your usual step.
• Hard sets per muscle, per week: ten muscle groups, each against its own range.
• Plateau detection: three flat weeks on your best set, not a bad day.
• Program generation: built to landmarks, with the first deload dated.
• Mid-session changes: swaps and drop sets while you train.
• Claude and any assistant: read and write access to your own data over MCP.

HOW IT DECIDES

Hard sets per muscle, per week. Working sets finished at RIR 3 or fewer, ten muscles, each against its own range. Compounds credited to the muscles doing the work.

Five conditions before a load moves. Three sessions at the weight, two on machines. Last set at RIR 0 to 2, 0 to 3 on machines. Top of the rep range. Sets completed. At most one failed increase in four weeks. The step is the one you already use on that lift.

A plateau is three flat weeks. A line through your best set on each lift over six weeks. One bad session is not a plateau.

Every change carries its reason. Loads raised where they were earned, with the sessions that earned them.

Every number comes from a set you logged.

DURING A SESSION

• Swap a lift: same muscles.
• Drop set or back-off set, added mid-session.
• Injury-aware coaching: tell it about a shoulder once. It stays out of your program and out of the swaps.
• Scheduled deloads: the first deload is dated when your program is built, and moves when your training says so.
• Log sets fast: weight, reps and RIR in a grid, with last session's numbers already in the row.

YOUR TRAINING, IN ANY ASSISTANT

Povver runs an MCP server. Claude, or any assistant you use, reaches your account with your permission and works on the same data the app does. It can read every set, per-lift trends and muscle volume, and write routines, templates, workouts and periodization plans.

Your workout data is not used to train AI models. Not by us, and not by our providers.

Povver is a paid strength training app, with a 14-day free trial. The trial includes everything: logging, analysis, progression and the coach.

Privacy Policy: https://povver.ai/privacy
Terms of Service: https://povver.ai/tos

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Povver Premium | $9.99 | per month |
| Povver Premium | $69.99 | per year |


## Is Povver safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Povver.

## Is Povver legit?

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


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.5 — 2026-09-25

Rest timers, and a first programme you can do at your gym.

• A rest timer starts when you tick a set. It counts down under the header and buzzes and chimes when your rest is up. Put the phone away and Povver can notify you instead, if you let it. Your rest goes in the log, so the coach can see how long you actually took.
• Set your own rest per lift type — one length for the big compounds, another for isolation work, another for warm-ups — or turn any of them off.
• New programmes open each muscle group's first big lift with warm-up sets, from the coach and from onboarding alike, instead of starting you cold at a working weight.
• The coach reaches for what most gyms have. Between two equally good answers it takes the barbell, dumbbell, cable or common machine, and names a swap when it picks something rarer.
• Date and time format are your own setting now: day-first or month-first, 12 or 24 hours, or follow the phone.
• Warm-up rows arrive in order instead of in a clump, and the rest strip no longer covers your session's name.
• Restore Purchases is on the subscription screen, for anyone reinstalling.

Something in the way? Profile → Help & Feedback. We read every message.

### 1.0.4 — 2026-09-22

Your logbook, counted right.

• Picked the wrong exercise and logged all its sets? You can now change what it was. The sets stay, and the wrong lift stops feeding your trends.
• Charts the coach draws stay in the conversation. Reopen it and they are there, dated the day they were drawn.
• A conversation now shows the session or plan it was about, above the messages. If a later session has overtaken it, the row says so and drops the set count that no longer holds.
• The Coach no longer tells you that you have not trained yet, or that today is done, right after it saw you train.
• Finnish translation fixes.

Something in the way? Profile → Help & Feedback. We read every message.

### 1.0.3 — 2026-09-20

Small fixes, mostly to speed.

• The Intelligence tab, and the lift and muscle pages inside it, open right away. They used to show a spinner every time.
• The Coach shows the message box while a conversation loads, so you can start typing.
• Deleting your account now removes Povver from your Apple ID too, when you verify with Apple.
• At the largest text sizes, the Coach's "next session" line no longer breaks mid-phrase.
• Finnish translation fixes.

Something in the way? Profile → Help & Feedback. We read every message.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-19

Thank you to everyone who joined in launch week. You told us what got in the way. This update fixes it.

• Sign in opens the sign-in form. It was opening Create account.
• UK phones now start in kg and cm. New accounts were being set to lbs and feet. You can switch units any time in Profile → Preferences.
• The Upgrade screen no longer opens half-empty: both plans and the price are in view.
• On your program reveal, Annual and Monthly are both on screen, and the button says which one you're choosing.
• If you left setup before your program was saved, Povver builds it for you: one tap on Coach or Train, or straight after you subscribe. Nobody should pay and find nothing to train.
• Povver opens on Coach, so today's plan is the first thing you see. Step out and straight back, and you're where you were.
• Dates follow the language you chose in Settings.

Something still in the way? Profile → Help & Feedback. We read every message.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-17

The app now follows the language you choose in Settings, not your phone's language. If Povver opened in Finnish for you, this fixes it. Starting your trial is faster, your first routine is ready as soon as you're in. Plus crash reporting improvements so we catch problems sooner.

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