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Somatic is a private fitness and meditation app for iPhone. Track strength and cardio, practice guided breathing or Quiet Sit, and use Soma to prepare training suggestions from your history and preferences.

Somatic requires iOS 26 or later. Apple Intelligence features depend on a supported device, language, and system settings. Core tracking and local planning do not require an external AI account.

Sessions contains your workout cards. Summary shows your history, highlights, weekly goal, and muscle training overview. Movements contains the Movement library and saved Routines. Settings contains Profile, Appearance, Preferences, Training, Data, Notifications, Permissions, and support.

Health access is optional. Without it, you can still log workouts and meditate, but Health readings and saving to Apple Health depend on the permissions you grant. Soma can use available Health signals alongside your local training history; missing readings do not mean you are recovered or unfit.

Somatic can display heart-rate samples made available through Apple Health during physical workouts, including from a connected Apple Watch or supported AirPods. Delivery depends on the device, permissions, and connection. Starting a phone workout cannot force a disconnected sensor to send readings.

Download Somatic free, then choose Start Free Trial and confirm with Apple. The full app is available for 14 days from confirmation. The trial is tied to your Apple Account; reinstalling does not restart it. There is no automatic payment or renewal.

Browsing, history, and data export remain available. To start new Sessions, unlock Somatic for $14.99 USD with one in-app purchase. You can finish a Session already in progress. The App Store shows your local price before you confirm.

No. If you bought Somatic before the free-download version, you keep full access. Open Settings → Account → Restore purchases if your access is not recognized. Use the Apple Account that made the original purchase.

Open Settings → Account → Restore purchases. Apple restores purchases associated with your Apple Account; restoring a trial preserves its original end date. Restoring purchases does not restore local workout data. Use a Somatic backup for your training history.

Open Sessions and tap a Strength card, or create a Session card for the workout you want to launch. Cards can be linked to saved Routines. The Soma card opens the planning flow.

Use the editing controls on Sessions to add, edit, reorder, or group cards into sections. A section contains one or more cards. You can link a card to a saved Routine and customize its title and icon.

Yes. A Movement can use weight and reps or timed sets. Timed sets have a customizable target, countdown and overtime tracking, and recorded actual duration. You can edit a completed duration. Settings → Preferences also lets you choose Time as the default for new Movements.

When automatic rest is enabled, completing a set starts the rest countdown. Set your default in Settings → Preferences, or adjust workout rest settings during a Session. You can skip rest or adjust the remaining time from the timer controls.

Yes. Strength Live Activities provide set and rest controls on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Available controls reflect whether you are working, timing a set, or resting. Live Activities must be allowed in iOS Settings.

Pair adjacent Movements with the superset control during a strength workout. The pair shares a card and alternates as you complete sets. You can also save superset pairings in Routines.

Enter load and reps for each set. For dumbbells, use the weight of one dumbbell; for barbells, include the bar. For unilateral Movements, record reps or duration per side after completing both sides. Bodyweight sets can leave the weight blank.

Yes. Use the Movement picker to add or swap Movements. Search by name, equipment, or muscle group. You can create custom Movements and keep persistent notes from the Movement details.

Completed rep-based sets are compared with previous performance for that Movement: weight × reps for loaded sets, or reps for bodyweight sets. Timed-set records use the longest recorded duration. A record reflects what you logged, rather than an estimated one-rep maximum.

Reps in reserve is your estimate of how many more reps you could have performed. If enabled under Soma Intelligence in Settings → Training, you can record it after a set. Soma can use this feedback with your training history.

Running, walking, cycling, and hiking can use GPS to record distance, pace or speed, elevation, and a route. Other cardio activities can be logged without GPS. You control location access in Settings → Permissions or iOS Settings.

An active GPS-enabled Session can keep tracking while the app is in the background or the phone is locked, when location access is allowed. Manual pause stops location updates until you resume. Finishing or discarding ends tracking.

Yes. Workout Settings lets you choose your primary metric and the live metrics grid. You can also control GPS auto-pause, use manual pause and resume, and record laps.

Yes. Cardio can show live workout metrics on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, with pause and resume controls. Keep the app and iOS Live Activity permissions enabled.

Heart-rate zones use an estimated maximum heart rate based on your profile birth year (220 minus age). Body weight helps calorie estimates. These are general fitness estimates; readings also depend on available sensor data and are not medical measurements.

Open the completed Session in Summary history to review its recorded route and available metrics. A route requires GPS permission and valid location samples during the Session.

Choose guided Breathing or Quiet Sit. Breathing includes Even (4 seconds in, 4 out), Long Exhale (4 in, 6 out), and Box breathing with 4-second phases. Set a duration, or choose an open-ended Quiet Sit.

Yes. Practice includes pause and resume, optional bells, and controls you can hide for a quieter screen. Restore the controls when you need them. Reduced Motion uses a still breathing icon.

Finish ends the active mindful time; review the completion screen, add optional notes, and tap Done to save. With permission, only active mindful intervals are written to Apple Health. Meditation does not record a physical workout or collect heart rate.

Meditation stays in your practice history but does not add physical training load, count toward physical training consistency, or enter Soma workout suggestions. Yoga is not currently enabled.

Soma combines your logged training, goals, available time, equipment, exclusions, soreness check-ins, and available Health context. Choose Recover, Maintain, or Progress, review the suggested plan, and adjust it before you start.

No. Local planning rules build and validate workout prescriptions. On supported devices, Apple Intelligence can help select among validated plans. Loads and numerical targets come from the planner. Suggestions remain available through local planning when that AI feature is unavailable.

Workout planning and supported Foundation Models processing run on your device. Somatic does not send your training context to an external AI service. Apple may need connectivity to install or manage system model assets; maps and external links can also need a connection.

Set goals, preferred Session length, equipment, and exclusions in Settings → Training. In the planning flow, choose your intent, time, and focus, and review the Movements and targets. Soma uses your logged history; incomplete history limits what it can infer.

No. Soma presents training information and suggestions, not a medical assessment or a guarantee of recovery. Review the plan against how you feel and your circumstances. You decide whether to follow or modify it.

A Routine saves a workout prescription. A Session card is its launcher on Sessions and can link to a Routine. Open Movements → Routines to create or edit saved Routines.

From a completed Session, use the sharing controls to create a reusable template link. You can also share a section of Session cards. Sharing uses links rather than .somatictemplate files.

A shared prescription can contain its title, Movements, equipment, target sets, reps, weights or durations, rest settings, and superset pairings. It is not a full copy of the completed workout record. Review what you share; anyone with the link can access it.

Tap the Session or section link on a device with Somatic installed. Review the import confirmation before saving or starting. Without the app, a shared Session link opens the website fallback. Current links carry their encoded contents in the URL query; see the Privacy Policy for details.

Open Summary to see your Sessions. Tap a completed Session for its sets, reps or durations, notes, and available cardio and heart-rate details. The Movements tab shows individual Movement details and history.

Yes. Use the Highlights editor to select and reorder the statistics you want. There is no four-highlight limit; you can also hide all highlights. The Weekly Goal and 7-Day Muscle Load cards can be hidden independently.

The short-term highlights use rolling last-7-day and last-30-day windows. Weekly Goal counts training days across seven calendar days including today, so multiple physical Sessions on one day count as one training day.

It summarizes completed strength sets over the last seven days. Direct muscles receive full set credit and supporting muscles receive half credit. Open a muscle for details and the Sessions behind the totals. This describes logged work; it does not measure physiological recovery.

On the expanded display, available space can place Guide, History, or Notes beside your active workout. Fold it closed to continue on the outer display. The layout and native controls adapt to the available screen width.

Open Settings → Appearance to choose System, Light, or Dark appearance, a theme or custom accent, a background, and an alternative app icon. Dynamic themes reflect your recent mix of Sessions.

Yes. Settings → Preferences lets you choose weight and distance units. Saved weights use kilograms and distances use meters internally, so changing the displayed units does not rewrite your history.

Your app records are stored locally, with no Somatic account or cloud workout-sync service. Apple Health is separate, and files or links you choose to share go to the destination you select. Device backups are controlled by your Apple settings.

Settings → Data → Export Your Data creates a compressed JSON backup (.json.gz). Save it somewhere you trust. Restore from Backup accepts current backups and older JSON exports and merges data without duplicating existing Sessions. Backups can contain profile details, routes, notes, and training history; compression is not encryption.

Yes. Export a CSV from Strong, then choose Settings → Data → Import from Strong and select the file. Review the import result. Strong import and Somatic backup restore are separate actions.

Settings → Account → Start Fresh removes the local profile, workout history, Routines, and custom Movements and returns you to onboarding. There is no undo, so export first if you want to retain your records. Apple Health entries, shared copies, exported files, and device backups must be managed separately.

Settings → Notifications → Workout Notifications includes workout sounds, a daily reminder, and an optional nudge after three or more days without a workout. Meditation also has optional bells. System permission, Silent Mode, and notification settings affect delivery. Turning off auto-pause alerts does not turn off automatic tracking pause and resume.

Open Settings → Permissions for Health, Location, and Notifications. If access has not yet been requested, Somatic explains the feature before asking. You can change previously granted permissions in iOS Settings.