SetBySet vs Plankan

SetBySet is a focused strength training tracker built for lifters who want to log workouts quickly and effectively. WORKOUT TEMPLATES Create custom workout templates with your favorite exercises. Choose from a built-in exercise library or add your own. Set target reps, time-based goals (for planks, carries, etc.), or train to failure. Customize rest times between sets and exercises. Duplicate templates to create variations fast. Tap any exercise to edit sets, reps, target type, and rest times. TRACK EVERY SET During a workout, log weight, reps, or duration for each set. A built-in rest timer keeps you on pace with customizable rest periods per exercise. APPLE WATCH Sync your templates to Apple Watch and run workouts from your wrist. Adjust weight with the Digital Crown, log sets with a tap, and get haptic alerts when rest is over. Completed workouts sync back to your iPhone and save to Apple Health automatically. PROGRESS & HISTORY View your full workout history with detailed stats. Track body weight over time. See your estimated one-rep max and how your lifts are progressing. Get notified when you hit a new personal record. BUILT-IN TOOLS - Plate Calculator with visual barbell display - One Rep Max calculator with training zone guide - Body Weight tracker with trend charts - Rest timer with background notifications - Workout sharing as text or image cards APPLE ECOSYSTEM - Apple Watch companion with full workout logging - Lock Screen Live Activity during workouts - Home Screen widget showing your streak - Apple Health integration (workouts, heart rate, body weight) - iCloud sync across all your devices EXPORT & BACKUP Export all your data as JSON. Import it back anytime. Your training history is always yours. SETBYSET PRO Upgrade once to unlock unlimited workout templates, progress charts, data export, iCloud sync, and Apple Watch support. No subscriptions — pay once, own it forever. SetBySet is private and built for lifters. No accounts required. Just you and the iron.

Plankan takes you from wherever you are today to five 2-minute front planks in one session. There is no generated plan and nothing to configure. The whole program is one fixed ladder of reps × seconds. You do the next step. If you finish it, you move on. If you don't, you do it again. YOUR FIRST HOLD PLACES YOU Hold a plank for as long as you can. That one number puts you on the right rung — about 65–72% of your max — so you start where you actually are instead of at week one of someone else's plan. Already know your max, or timed it without the phone? Type it in instead. ADD A REP, THEN ADD TIME Add a rep until the level runs out, then the hold gets longer and the reps reset. This is double progression, and it's what the core-endurance research prescribes: increase the repetitions rather than the duration of the holds. It's also why the goal is five 2-minute holds rather than one ever-longer grind — repeated quality holds beat a single marathon one. EVERY LEVEL ENDS IN A MAX A max hold can't be failed. It charts your progress against the 2-minute line, and if it's strong enough it skips you past rungs you've already outgrown. FAILING A STEP COSTS NOTHING Miss a step and you just repeat it. Unlimited, no penalty, no streak to break. Each step is its own test, so there is nothing else to design. A TIMER YOU CAN READ FROM THE FLOOR The clock is a line, not a ring. A plank is the one exercise where nothing moves, so the timer contracts from both ends toward the centre as the hold drains and expands back out while you rest. Monospaced digits hold their width as they tick down. Work is stark white with no colour at all, because enduring a hold is not a celebratory moment — colour is reserved, so slate always means recover and brass always means progress. HAPTICS CARRY THE SESSION You can't see the screen mid-hold. Ticks escalate into every transition, and every transition lands harder than any tick, so the two can never be confused. Passing your best gets its own pulse. 12 levels. 54 steps. One rung a session, roughly a level a week. NO ACCOUNT, NO ADS, NO SUBSCRIPTION Plankan works entirely offline and collects nothing. There is no sign-up, no tracking and no upload. Your progress lives on your phone and nowhere else. Plankan is a training timer, not medical advice. If a plank hurts, stop.