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Somatic is a personal fitness app for iPhone. Log strength workouts, track cardio with GPS, and get AI-powered session recommendations that adapt to your recovery, sleep, and training history.

Somatic requires iOS 26 or later.

Heart rate data streams from Apple Watch during active sessions. An active workout session on your iPhone is required for Watch HR data to flow in — this is an Apple HealthKit requirement.

HealthKit access is optional but recommended. Without it, Soma can't read your sleep and recovery signals, and heart rate won't be tracked during workouts.

Strength (sets, reps, weight) and Cardio (GPS distance, pace, heart rate zones). Yoga and Meditation are in development.

Tap any session card on the home screen, or tap the "+" card to start a blank Strength or Cardio session.

Yes. Tap the gear icon on the Sessions tab → "Add Session Card." You can link a card to a saved Routine and give it a custom name and icon.

Sections let you group your session cards under named headers — e.g., "Morning," "Gym," "Home." Long-press a card and choose "Move to Section" to organize.

Yes. Tap the gear icon → "Edit & Reorder" to drag cards into any order.

During a strength workout, tap the superset button on any exercise card to pair it with an adjacent exercise. Paired exercises share the same glass card and alternate as you complete sets.

The rest timer starts automatically after you mark a set complete (if Auto-Start is enabled in Settings). You can adjust the default duration in Settings → Preferences → Default Rest Timer. You can also skip, extend, or shorten it with ±15s buttons on the timer bar.

Yes. A Live Activity appears on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island during active strength sessions. You can start/stop the rest timer directly from there without unlocking your phone.

Just leave the weight field blank. Somatic records the set as bodyweight, and your history and personal records for that exercise will track reps instead of load.

Yes. In the exercise picker during any workout, use the search bar and tap "New Exercise" to create one with a custom name, equipment type, and muscle group.

Somatic checks your completed set against all previous logged sets for that exercise. If it's the highest weight × reps (or most reps for bodyweight), a PR badge appears in real time.

Running, walking, cycling, and hiking. GPS distance is captured automatically and carries over to the session summary.

You can enter distance manually after the session if you prefer not to grant location access.

Somatic divides your heart rate into 5 zones based on your estimated max HR (220 − age, from your profile). Zone time is shown in a breakdown during and after cardio sessions.

No. The Live Activity is only active during strength sessions.

Soma is the built-in AI coach. It reads your recent training history, sleep, and recovery signals from Apple Health, then walks you through a guided flow to generate a personalized workout recommendation.

It's a four-step wizard: Readiness (reviews your recovery) → Intent (Recover / Maintain / Push) → Tailor (adjust focus areas and equipment) → Generated Session (a ready-to-start workout). You can swap individual exercises or chat to reshape the plan before starting.

No. Soma runs entirely on-device using Apple's FoundationModels framework. No data leaves your phone.

It uses a rule-based cascade: fatigue detection → frequency imbalance → stale muscle groups → goal-based fallback. It respects your excluded muscle groups, excluded equipment, and excluded exercises from Settings.

Yes. Somatic logs each suggestion outcome. Over time, dismissed workout types are deprioritized in future suggestions.

Soma follows a 4-week periodization block: accumulation weeks 1–3 (progressive overload) and a deload week 4. Rep ranges and intensity targets adjust automatically across the cycle.

A Routine is a saved list of exercises. A Session Card is the launcher on your home screen — it can be linked to a Routine so tapping it always starts that specific workout.

Go to the Movements tab → Routines, and tap the "+" button. Add exercises, target sets, and reps.

A shareable file (.somatictemplate) that captures a complete workout prescription — exercises, sets, reps, and equipment. You can send it to a friend or import one from a coach.

Open any completed session in your history, tap the share button, and choose "Share as Template." The file can be sent via Messages, Mail, AirDrop, or any app.

Tap the .somatictemplate file from Files, Messages, or anywhere on iOS. Somatic opens an import confirmation screen showing the exercises, and you can tap "Start Session" to begin immediately.

The Movements tab (middle tab) shows your full session history. Tap any session for a detailed breakdown including sets, reps, and heart rate.

You can pin up to 4 stats: This Week, This Month, Current Streak, Weekly Volume, Weekly Miles, Average Weekly Pace, Average Weekly Distance, and Personal Records. Customize them in Settings.

Each exercise's best performance is tracked independently. PRs update live during a workout.

Everything stays on your device. Somatic uses SwiftData (Apple's local database) and does not sync to any external server.

Yes. Settings → Data → Export Your Data generates a JSON file with your full workout history, profile, routines, and custom exercises. You can save it to Files or share it anywhere.

Yes. Settings → Data → Restore from Backup lets you select a previously exported JSON file. Existing sessions won't be duplicated.

Yes. Settings → Data → Import from Strong. Export your data from Strong as a CSV (Strong → Settings → Export Data → CSV), then select the file in Somatic.

Everything is wiped — profile, sessions, routines, custom exercises — and you'll go through onboarding again. This cannot be undone, so export your data first if you want to keep it.

Yes. Settings → Theme. Options include Dynamic (adapts to your recent workout mix), Strength, Cardio, Neutral, and Custom (pick any color).

Dynamic mode builds a gradient from the last 30 days of session history, weighted by workout type frequency — so a strength-heavy week shifts the palette toward the strength color.

Yes. Settings → Background. Choose a preset, pick from your photo library, or clear it entirely.

Yes. Settings → Preferences → Weight Unit (kg / lbs) and Distance Unit (km / mi). All historical data is stored in metric and converted at display time, so switching units is always reversible.

Yes, optionally. Settings → Notifications → Workout Reminders. Set a daily time for a quiet nudge.

A gentle notification if you haven't logged a workout in 3+ days. Can be toggled off in Settings → Notifications.