Here's what's new in version 4.1.0 and 4.1.2 👇

Infrastructure Updates:

• While this isn’t perhaps the most exciting update from a user-facing standpoint, it was a pretty big one on our side, involving a large update to React Native and many impacted libraries. This was a pretty big housecleaning project for us, putting us in a great place to continue developing new features from going forward. There should hopefully also be some performance improvements out of this, as a side benefit.

Feature Improvements:

• Emoji Search. You can now search for different emojis when reacting in groups, making it much easier to find the reaction you’re looking for without endlessly scrolling through.

Bug Fixes:

• (Hopefully) fixed music pausing issue on iOS. This had been a persistent issue for awhile, where somewhat randomly the app would pause music from services like Spotify. Please let us know if this still continues to happen after you download this update.

• Fixed Google Fit syncing issue. Google Fit had made a change on 6/17, which broke syncing for quite a few users. This should now be fixed in the latest release.

In addition to what we mentioned here, there were a few issues that resulted from the main update on Monday (version 4.1), which we addressed with two smaller updates:

Version 4.1.1

Unfortunately after releasing Monday’s update, we later learned that there had been an odd regression not caught during our testing, where many of the buttons in the app weren’t working for users that had ‘Reduce motion’ enabled as an accessibility setting. We were able to identify this on Monday night, getting it fixed with this small update that was released yesterday.

Version 4.1.2

Today we released another small update, addressing an issue for certain Android users where the app was crashing after being backgrounded. This is also now live in the Play Store to download, if you run into this issue before your app is auto-updated.

Up Next...

Now that this larger infrastructure update is behind us, we’ll soon be releasing Health Connect support for Android, which should be a marked improved over Google Fit, supporting many 3rd party apps more directly and smoothly. After that, we’ll return to working on some nice enhancements to the Workout Overview screen, focusing on usability improvements and additional features, before shifting into some very exciting updates to the exercise tracking screen itself.

Thanks as always for your support!

Here's what's new in version 4.0.2 👇

Performance Improvements:

• Improved Android Performance. For a long time, we’d been hearing about performance issues for a certain segment of Android users. After investigating, it was due to VPNs or ad blockers disrupting the connection attempts from one of our partners, who provide the link sharing functionality within the app. We’ve now reworked our approach, which should hopefully resolve this issue even when running a VPN or ad blocker.
• Improved Coach App Performance. We’ve reworked aspects of the app version that our coaches use to communicate with clients, making it much faster to load and more stable.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed issue where if you long-pressed on a regular exercise you’d see the wrong options if you had previously edited a superset

• Fixed issue where you were unable to scroll in the emoji picker on Android devices

• Fixed issue where in certain cases you could be brought to the wrong version of the Workout Overview screen

• Fixed header sizing on certain Pixel devices

In addition to these improvements/fixes, we’ve also introduced new badging for Plus users! As a Plus user, you should now see a special badge on your profile photo, which will also be shown within group channels.

We’re currently working on finalizing a few larger infrastructure updates, along with some refactoring of the Workout Overview screen for better overall usability. After that, we’re excited to begin work on our next set of more major features!

Hope that everyone enjoys the updates - and if you were one of the Android users who ran into VPN / ad blocker performance issues, please let us know if you notice an improvement after downloading this release!

If you haven't seen our recent release notes on last week's major update, check them out here! Otherwise, here's what's new in version 4.0.1 👇

Performance Enhancements:

• Adjusted sizing of cached videos for certain devices. We’d been seeing slowdown for users on certain devices, which we were able to link to the cached exercise videos. We typically cache exercise videos in high quality, so we’ve adjusted our approach here slightly for certain devices to better optimize for performance

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed issue where you couldn’t scroll beyond the most recent 20 sets of progress photos in the Progress Photo Gallery
• Fixed issue with moving workouts for Premium clients, when they were set up as part of a recurring workout schedule
• Fixed issue where you couldn’t enter a decimal for cardio distance unless you first entered ‘0’
• Fixed issue when converting weights originally logged in kg over to lbs

We’ll be pushing out another small release next week to address a few more bugs and minor enhancements. After that, we’re excited to begin work on the next set of new features! Hope that you all have a great weekend and as always, let us know if you have any feedback here.

Here's what's new in version 4.0.0 👇

New Features:

Workout Library 📚

As we mentioned in last week’s post, we’ve regularly had requests for a greater number and variety of workout plans that can be accessed in the app.

With Workout Library, Plus subscribers will have access to a growing library of workout plans created by our team of Caliber coaches. You can add as many plans as you like to your account, and change them up whenever you want.

To access the library, just go to the Plans section of the app, and tap where it says ‘Browse Library’.

There are 2 different ways to use this feature, so let's cover both of them briefly:

Featured Plans

In this section, you’ll see a curated list of some of the different workout plans available, broken down into different categories. The categories themselves are pretty varied, grouping plans by experience levels, split types, body part focus, along with specializations like kettlebell focused routines.

All Plans

In this section, you’ll see a scrollable list of all of the workout plans available in the library, which you can apply a variety of different filters to in order to narrow down the list.

You’ll see filter lozenges at the top of the screen - Duration, Frequency, Equipment, just to name a few. Tap on these to apply a filter, and you can use any number of these filters in conjunction with each other.

When browsing workout plans at a higher level, you’ll be able to see the name of the plan, a short description, the coach who created it, along with some other attributes.

After you tap into a plan you’re interested in, you’ll see a longer description, the equipment required, a preview of the exercises in the workouts, some tips, and the bio/credentials of the coach who created it.

Once you’ve found a plan you like, just tap ‘Add to plans’, and you’ll then be able to see it on your main Plans screen.

A few other considerations here:

• Once you’ve added a plan from the Workout Library, you can modify it however you like - changing the name, adding/substituting exercises, adjusting exercise parameters, etc.

• The Workout Library also contains a number of mobility workouts. These are structured as single workouts that can be added to any of your main plans. When adding a mobility workout, you’ll be able to select the workout plan that you’d like to add it to.

Updates to the Workout Library

While we wanted to kick off this feature with a great selection of workout plans, we’re going to be updating this regularly with new workouts.

We haven’t yet decided upon the exact update frequency here, whether it should be a larger drop of new plans each month, or whether we should be even more regularly adding plans. This is something we’ll figure out along the way.

To help source ideas for our next set of plans, I’ll be making a separate post where people can leave comments for plans and upvote suggestions they’d like to see.

Nutrition Wizard

In the Plans tab, Plus subscribers will now have the ability to set up calorie/macro targets.

If you choose to do this using the wizard, you’ll be asked a series of questions, and we’ll then set you up with some suitable targets, based around your goals.

Alternatively, if you’re already working with calorie/macro targets - or want to modify the targets that the wizard gives you - you can enter and adjust these here too.

In both cases, any synced nutrition data will now line up against these targets, displayed directly on the nutrition card on the Home screen, so that you can see how you’re doing for the day alongside your other logged activities.

Other Improvements:

In addition to these new features, we’ve made several other improvements to the app as part of this release:

• Plans Screen Revamp. You’ll notice that the Plans screen itself has been entirely redesigned with a fresh UI and improved UX. There is a lot that you can do on this screen, in terms of managing your plans, so hopefully these changes will make it easier to do these things, while also making some of the functionality more discoverable for newer users.

• Updates to Bottom Nav. We've restructured the way that the bottom nav bar works, so it should no longer slide around as you're navigating between different screens.

Upgrading to Plus

While Plus has technically been available since Thursday, since today is the more official launch, grandfathered users of the free app will now see a widget on the Home screen with an option to upgrade.

For the next month, we’re offering a special discount to all existing users who choose to upgrade to Plus:

• $6 per month (monthly plan)
• $36 per year (yearly plan)

Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback!

Here's what's new in version 3.3.2 👇

Performance Improvements:

• Exercise Screen Load Times. This was one of the screens in the app where we were seeing consistent performance issues, especially for users with more workout data or who were on slower connections. If you’ve ever seen the spinning wheel go for a long time when you opened this screen, that’s basically what I’m talking about. With this release, we’ve reengineered it so that this screen should now load almost instantly. No more spinning wheel, no more delays when moving between your exercises.

• Messenger Responsiveness. Previously if you posted multiple videos or images in succession in a group/coach chat, you might have run into an issue where the Messenger became unresponsive. We’ve fixed that with this release, so now posting multiple images/videos should no longer cause this.

Feature Enhancements:

• Cardio Seconds. With the updated UX/UI from a recent release, we had removed the ‘seconds’ field for cardio activities, thinking that hours/minutes would be sufficient for most people. However, based on a flood of feedback, we were clearly wrong! As such, seconds is now back for cardio, so you can resume logging your runs with precision.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed issue where progress photos weren’t saving if a coach had scheduled it as part of a recurring activity
• Fixed text on Strength Balance screen (had previously said Strength Score on the chart’s x-axis)

Hope that everyone enjoys the latest updates, and in particular please let us know if you notice a smoother logging experience when accessing the exercise screen!

Here's what's new in version 3.3.0 👇

Feature Improvements:

New Cardio Activities. We had previously had a fairly small list of cardio activities that you could log directly in the app, and were missing a few widely-used ones like swimming and yoga. With this update, we’ve added quite a few more cardio options, such as:

• Basketball

• Boxing
• Climbing
• Dance
• HIIT
• Hiking
• Jump Rope
• Kickboxing
• Martial Arts
• Pilates
• Soccer
• Swimming
• Tennis
• Yoga

Custom Cardio Activities. If you can’t find the cardio activity that you’d like to log from our list, you can now create a custom entry and call it whatever you like. Just select the ‘Other’ option from the picker, and you’ll now be able to label it so that it shows up correctly on your calendar.

Cardio Notes (Premium). If you’re a Premium member, you’ll now be able to leave an optional cardio note for your coach! Along with whatever you write, your note will include relevant cardio stats for your coach to see.

Updated Activity Picker UI. As part of the cardio updates, we’ve overhauled the activity picker and bottom sheets on the Home Screen of the app. You’ll now see that the format of the bottom sheets is more consistent with other design updates we’ve made across the app, along with some UX improvements.

Last but not least (or perhaps least), we’ve updated the loading screen of the app from eye-searing white to Caliber blue.

Hope that you all enjoy the latest updates and that you have a strong start to the year!

Here's what's new in version 3.2.1 👇

Performance Improvements:

• Exercise Screen Improvements: We’ve seen from our logs that some of the most frequent instances of app hangs happen on the Exercise screen itself. After investigating this, the issue turned out to be how we were loading the videos on this screen, along with the video library itself. We’ve now updated this library, and also now load the videos immediately after you access the screen, instead of in one big chunk as you’re going to the screen. As a result, you should hopefully see less jerkiness when accessing this screen, along with fewer instances of the app hanging.

• Faster Video Uploads: We've now added compression to any videos that you upload in Messenger, which is automatically based on the speed of your connection. This should hopefully speed up video uploads to groups and coach chats, especially for videos that were recorded in 4k.

Bug Fixes:

• Distance Unit Preference Settings: Fixed a bug where unit preferences were not properly set after app registration. We also set the correct unit preferences for any users who were impacted.

• App Logouts: Fixed several bugs related to app logout issues. In addition, we’ve adjusted it so that any impacted users should be logged out of the app far less frequently.

 

That’s it for this one! The team is currently working on revamping cardio activities - adding many additional types of cardio (yoga, swimming, etc), the ability to add cardio notes, along with improving the cardio logging UI/UX.

Here's what's new in version 3.1.27 👇

Feature Improvements:

• Home Screen UI Revamp: As part of this release, you’ll see that the Home Screen of the app has a fresh look! 💅 We’ve updated the UI here to be more consistent with refinements that we've made to other parts of the app.

• Strength and Cardio Workout Summaries: Access post-workout summaries anytime for both strength and cardio workouts. Review your workout duration, rating, personal bests, and more. These summaries are shareable so you can send to your friends if you'd like!

• Activity Summaries: From steps and nutrition to body stats and progress photos, tap on any activity on the Home Screen for detailed summaries.

• Calendar UI/UX Overhaul: Navigate easily with the new month view in the calendar section. Check your daily progress with a simple tap, focusing on specific days or weeks.

• New Explanatory Widgets: We've added helpful, dismissible widgets in crucial app sections for better guidance on logging exercises and editing workouts.

Performance Enhancements:

• Improved Home Screen Syncing: We've streamlined the Home Screen animations for a smoother, less distracting syncing experience.

Bug Fixes:

• Android 14 Notification Issue Resolved: Fixed a bug causing the app to close during timer notifications for Android 14 users.

Up Next..

Today's release paves the way for building out better data visualization in the app, along with really bringing out the notion of consistency streaks - something we’re very excited about!

Up next, we’re working on a few performance enhancements and minor bug fixes, before moving onto a cardio-focused revamp, where we’ll be adding support for many more cardio exercises within the app.

Hope that you all have a great weekend and that you enjoy the latest updates!

Here's what's new in version 3.1.24 👇

• Enhanced Chat Performance: We've optimized chat performance by addressing the slowdown caused by link preview loading. Previously, chat loading was delayed until link previews were generated. We've now shifted link previews to load in the background, allowing for faster initial chat loading. Expect a noticeable speed boost in group interactions and coach chats within the app.

• Clarification on Starting Workouts: We’ve found that there are a number of newer users who are unclear that they should start workouts from the Home Screen, so we’ve added a dismissible explanatory widget to the Training Plan section of the app, which should hopefully make this clearer for people initially.

• Timezone Bug Fix: We've resolved a timezone-related issue affecting users who were unable to log workouts on the current day due to a mismatch with our system time (UTC). With this fix, users can now accurately track their workouts according to their local time.

Looking Ahead:

We're now focusing on developing the next set of features, including a much-awaited revamp of the Home Screen – a section of the app that has remained unchanged for quite some time. Stay tuned for more updates!

Caught up in calculations rather than conquering your sets? Exciting news: our latest update features a Plate Calculator. We do the math, you do the lifting.

Here's everything you need to know:

• Spot the Barbell Icon on the exercise track screen and tap it to access the Plate Calculator. It will automatically suggest the optimal plate configuration based on your target weight, bar weight, and plate inventory.

• Eligible Exercises: This feature is available for both standard and custom exercises with the following equipment type selected: Barbell, Smith Machine, Hammer Strength, Landmine, EZ Bar, and Trap Bar.

• Custom Bar Weights: By default, we're set to the common 45 lb / 20 kg bar. Adjust as needed. For a quick reference of bar weights, check out our handy modal. 📊

• Personalize Your Plate Inventory: We start you off with a standard plate inventory, ideal for most commercial gyms, but you can adjust this to match your gym's offerings. 🔧

• Automatic Target Weight: Already input a set? The Plate Calculator will pre-load based on your most recent target weight, ensuring a seamless experience, especially handy for smart warmups. 🔥

We've personally been using this feature for the past week and are loving it. We hope you do too! As always, we're here for any questions or feedback you might have.