FitNotes - Workout Tracker 4+

Effective & Simple

For the price of the pro app (unlike other subscription apps) I think this app is wonderful. Does the job well. It will take some time to get used to the app, but I don’t really mind as it has all the functionality I need. You will have to test out a workout (if you customize your own) to know where the notes will show up. After a couple of weeks, you should be able to figure everything out. Other fitness tracking apps have monthly fees which I think is ridiculous. Basically if you only care about working out and tracking it for yourself, you’ll like the app. The only other better option would probably be old school pen and paper.

6 feedback items

1. "Continue With Last Workout Values" only seems to work between the same workout. It would be good if there were at least an option to "Continue With Last Exercise Values", so it works for the same exercises among different workouts.

2. Exercise notes, which can include important information that can affect decisions in future workouts, are not currently included in CSV exports. It would be helpful if notes could be included.

3. In Notes boxes (e.g. Exercise Note), for increased usability there should be ghost/placeholder text of the notes last entered for that note type in a prior workout, as the notes may be intended to affect decisions in future workouts. See RepCount for an example.

4. In any workout, after exiting the Notes section of any exercise (containing boxes: Exercise Note, Workout Note, Workout Definition Note, Exercise Definition Note), the workout page has been scrolled all the way to the top. For usability, it should instead return to where the user had been on the page.

5. It seems that data is not synced to the cloud, which would mean app data loss should the app be deleted or reinstalled, in which case a cloud sync option should be added.

6. A dark mode, in which the full interface has a dark color theme, would be great. Currently it appears that only certain portions of the interface vary in color among the existing themes (e.g. top, buttons, tab icons), whereas most of it remains light.

New updates made the app bad

I really liked the app and immediately bought the premium version. I‘ve setup my exercises and workout plans. Then, with one of the recent updates a few weeks ago, the devs seem to have decided to create their own categories for muscle groups and simply overwrote my own or added theirs. The outcome: most of my exercises are now in a category I don’t want them to be. And worst thing about this is that it happened without even a notification and the possibility to decline. Aside from that, replacing an exercise during a workout often leads to the exercise AFTER the selected one being replaced.

EDIT: I have to revise my rating from 3 stars to 1 star. Just tried to re-sort my exercises and deleted all the new categories. Some genius dev thought it would be good to automatically delete all the exercises if the category is deleted. So I basically have to fully recreate everything I‘ve built over the past months. Thanks for nothing. Actually less than nothing since I now have double the work.

Developer Response ,

Hey,

Thank you for using FitNotes!

If you are sorting by category and then delete the category the exercise will disappear from the exercise list. Simply resort by either name or another name to restore see your exercise.

The exercise replace appears after the exercise seems like a bug and we will take a look.

Finally, we apologize that your categories got all out of sync, that was not our intended.

If you have any more questions or suggestions please feel free to reach out to us at FitNotes@outlook.com

Cheers,
FitNotes Team