About 02apps Studio, the Makers of Strongbro | Strongbro

Strongbro is made by 02apps studio, an independent app studio with no investors and no growth department. Support is not outsourced. The address at the bottom of this page reaches the people who wrote the code, and they train with the app.

Why the app opens on a microphone

Typing a set costs more attention than the set does. Find the exercise, open a row, type two numbers, do it again ninety seconds later. So the first screen is a microphone instead. "Bench 80, three sets of ten, then squats five by five at a hundred" is one sentence, and it logs eight sets. You still see every number on a review screen before anything saves, with steppers on each set, because the model does mishear things.

Everything else grew around that. Records are checked against your history on every saved set, so there is nothing to mark as a PR attempt. Ranks count training days rather than kilos. Insights works from the log you already made; there is nothing to tag.

What we hold to

Workouts live on your iPhone and, if you turn on sync, in your own iCloud. There is no Strongbro account and no server of ours holding your lifts. That cuts both ways: we cannot read your training history, and we cannot restore it for you either.

Numbers are not inflated. The physique scan will hand you a 58 with a note explaining the 58. Ranks move only when you log a session, and nothing in the app can be bought to move one.

There is no feed. The only comparison the app makes is against your own last month.

Where it is weak

Voice logging needs a connection, because the audio is parsed by a model on a server. In a basement gym you are back on the keypad. A physique score moves with lighting, pump and camera angle, so a single scan on its own tells you very little. It only becomes useful as a curve over months. Body weight is typed in by hand, as there is no scale integration yet. And it runs on iPhone only.

Say hello

Bugs, ideas, or a record you are proud of: write to hello@02apps.com. The rest of what 02apps makes is at 02apps.com.