# Rust: AI Strength Coach — Log lifts. Lift heavier.

> Log lifts. Lift heavier. (iPhone/iPad app by Heath Shepard.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rust-ai-strength-coach/id6803583795 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Heath Shepard](https://appshunter.io/developer/6803583797)
- Category: Health & Fitness
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 18 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-21
- Data updated: 2026-10-14

## What is Rust?

Rust is an AI strength coach that builds your workouts around the equipment you actually have and the goal you're chasing - strength, bulk, or tone. Check in on how you're feeling and it adjusts in real time. Not a canned program - it talks to you.

BUILT BY A VETERAN
Rust was built by a retired U.S. Army veteran who got tired of guessing at weights and scribbling sets into a phone notepad. It is a veteran-owned, independently built app - no venture money, no growth team, just someone who lifts and writes code.

WHAT IT DOES
- Builds every session around your equipment, whether that is a commercial gym, a home rack, or one pair of dumbbells
- Progressive overload calculated from what you actually lifted, not a template
- Talk to your coach mid-workout for form cues, weight changes, and substitutions when a machine is taken
- Plate calculator that accounts for the bare weight of plate-loaded machines
- Logs every set, with history and analytics that show real progress over time
- Rest timers, supersets, cardio and timed holds
- Works with Apple Health

No ads. No social feed to scroll. Open it, train, log it, leave.

## Is Rust safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Rust.

## Is Rust legit?

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


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-02

Coach now checks in between sets — he sees how your set went and can adjust the next one on the spot.
Voice input in Coach chat now works on iPhone.
Added per-machine base weight for plate-loaded machines.
Fixed the cardio time field and several workout-logging issues.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-21

No release notes.

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