Anneal | Every workout progresses. And you can see why.

Why Anneal

Six claims. Each with its proof.

Workout apps plateau people because their programming is a black box nobody can audit. We took the opposite bet: every claim on this page is backed by something you can see in the app.

Every workout progresses, even ones you build yourself

Double progression, linear, and DUP schemes with automatic deloads, applied to generated and custom workouts. Most apps don’t progress the workouts you write. Ours does.

Proof: your e1RM curve + published methodology

It adapts to how recovered you actually are

HRV, sleep, and resting heart rate from Apple Health plus a 5-second check-in set today’s readiness. Low day? The plan flexes and tells you which rule fired.

Proof: the readiness screen, adjustment shown

No black box: tap any set and see why

Every prescription carries its rationale: the rule, the data behind it, the rounding to your actual plates. The methodology is published like a changelog.

Proof: the rationale card on every set

Your data is yours

No account required. Everything on-device by default. One-tap CSV/JSON export that stays free forever. Leaving must always be easy, or staying means nothing.

Proof: export is in the free tier, permanently

It works with the gym you actually have

Home rig, commercial gym, hotel dumbbells: per-gym equipment profiles with plate math, so every load is achievable with what’s in the room. Rack’s busy? One-tap swap.

Proof: the equipment coverage report

Honest pricing

Three weeks of everything unlocked to start, then a free tier that trains you forever: full logger plus one program with real progression. Pro adds power. Lifetime exists because not everything should be a subscription.

Proof: the pricing table below, no asterisks

The method

An engine, not vibes.

Progression is deterministic and unit-tested: the same training history always produces the same prescription. When you stall, it steps you down before grinding you down. When readiness dips, it adjusts. Never past your plan.

Why 5 × 90 lb?
Double progression: you completed 5×5 @ 85.5 lb at RPE 8 last session → load +2.5% → 87.6 lb. Rounded up to a total your bar can actually build (2×45 lb plates), never left as a number no barbell can load. Tap any set in the app and this is what you see.

Bench press: estimated 1-rep max

12 weeks · the dip is the engine deloading you on purpose

What actually runs, in order

The same seven-stage pipeline for every prescribed set. Nothing hidden, nothing randomized.

Readiness

It knows when you slept four hours.

Every morning, Anneal reads HRV, sleep, and resting heart rate from Apple Health (no wearable quiz, no daily interrogation) and blends in a 5-second subjective check-in. The result modulates today’s load and volume, with the reason on screen.

Readiness only reduces or holds your plan. It never pushes you past it. Health data is read on-device and never written back, never uploaded.

HRV 48 msbelow your baseline

Sleep 6 h 10 mshort night

RHR 52 bpmnormal

Check-in“a bit beat up”

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Readiness 62 → today’s top sets −5% load, volume held.
Rule: two low recovery signals adjust load before volume. Tap to read the full rationale.

Proof, not vibes

Every session ends with a paper trail.

Workout Complete shows real PRs, checked against your actual history, plus anything you earned that session: a badge, a milestone, a streak week closed. Nothing in it is purchasable. All of it is training.

Share any card straight from the app; Bench keeps a private gallery of every one, yours to keep even if you never share it.

Workout Complete screen: two personal records, total volume, and a First Session badge earned

Two PRs and a first badge, the moment they happened, not a weekly digest.

Momentum

The only streak that can’t shame you.

Most streaks punish you for having a life, then shame you into quitting once you break one. Anneal’s streak is weekly, not daily: close your ring most weeks and a below-target week auto-repairs with a banked coal, no purchase involved. Miss worse than that and the streak enters embers, not zero. Close a ring within two weeks and it’s rekindled, not restarted. A real gap still counts what you built: Best: 18 wk stays on your profile as an asset, never a loss, and your first week back earns more than an ordinary one.

Badges name who you’re becoming, not what you counted. No XP, no leaderboard pressure by default, nothing sold. Prescribed rest and deload days still count as on-plan, because recovery is training too.

Trials

A 75-day challenge that survives a bad Tuesday.

Trials are fixed arcs with a real start and a real finish: a 28-day starter, a gentle comeback arc, an 8-week program arc, and two 75-day challenges. Most are judged weekly, not daily, for the same reason the streak above is weekly: one bad day shouldn’t sink an arc you’ve been building for weeks, and rest days the engine already prescribed still count toward it.

One tougher arc, Tempering, judges daily as an informed opt-in — and even it never resets you to day one on a miss. Optional vows add daily reading, a water target you set, and a weekly progress photo that stays on your device. Every finish earns a chest. Find Trials on the You tab.

Kindling28 days, weekly

The Comeback21 days, weekly

The Forging8 weeks, weekly

The Seventy-Five75 days, weekly

Tempering75 days, daily · opt-in

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Weekly judging, on purpose.
A slot is a week, not a day. Fall short and a banked coal can cover it — the same forgiveness as the streak above, applied to a fixed-length arc instead of an open-ended one.

Trials screen: Kindling (28 days) and The Seventy-Five (75 days) arcs, each with a Start button, on the You tab

The real screen: pick an arc, see the length and the rule, start it.

Only here

Your gym, audited.

No other training app does this: tell Anneal what you own, and it maps exactly which muscles and movement patterns you can fully train, where you’re capped, and, for home gyms, which single purchase unlocks the most training value next.

Equipment coverage matrix: muscle groups by movement pattern, marked fully trainable, limited, or untrainable, with a ranked gap list

The coverage report: every muscle × movement pattern, graded against your inventory.

Share card: Garage Rig 68% equipment coverage, 14 gaps, top upgrade cable stack unlocking 77 exercises

The upgrade advisor: “a cable stack closes your lats gap and unlocks 77 exercises.” Pure advice. We sell nothing.

Body screen: weekly streak, badges, and training partners above a full per-muscle freshness map, plus the on-device Apple Health connect card

Per-muscle freshness map. One tap above it: your streak, badges, and Bench, all free tier, nothing to buy.

Compare

We show our work. They don’t.

	Anneal	Fitbod	Hevy
Progresses custom workouts	YesSame engine as generated plans	NoIts most-reported complaint	NoLogger; programming is on you
Uses HRV / sleep / resting HR	YesDaily readiness modulates the plan	No	No
Explains every prescription	YesTappable “why” + published methodology	NoBlack-box recommendations	n/aNo prescriptions to explain
Adapts mid-session	YesRPE ratings retune remaining sets; busy-equipment swap	NoPlan locks once started	Manual
Equipment coverage report + upgrade advisor	Yes	NoProfiles shape generation only	No
Account required	Never	Yes	Yes
Usable free tier	ForeverFull logger + 1 progressing program + free export	NoTrial, then paywall	YesSolid free logger
Price	$59.99/yror $149.99 once, forever	$95.99/yrNo lifetime option	~$24/yrPro; programming not included

Comparison reflects public pricing and app reviews as of August 2026. Fitbod and Hevy are trademarks of their respective owners.

Pricing

Free to train. Pay for power.

Every new install starts with three weeks of full access: every Pro feature unlocked, free, with nothing to sign up for. The paywall only appears after you’ve actually felt what Pro does.

Free

forever

Starts with 3 weeks of full Pro access
Full workout logger
1 active program with real progression
Muscle map + 90-day analytics
Apple Watch companion
CSV/JSON export, always

Get Anneal

14-DAY FREE TRIAL

Pro

$59.99/yr

or $8.99/month

Everything in Free
Workout generation for your equipment
Readiness auto-regulation
Unlimited programs
Full analytics history

Get Anneal

Lifetime

$149.99

one payment, no renewal

Everything in Pro
Forever, including future updates
For people done with subscriptions

Get Anneal

Export is never hostage. Your training history exports free on every tier, always. If we ever earn a cancellation, leaving takes your data with you.

Cancel in two taps. Standard App Store subscription (Settings → Subscriptions). No retention maze, no email required to subscribe.

The trial is 14 days because the engine shows value in one workout. We don’t need to trap you at day 3.

Three free weeks before any gate. New installs get 21 days with everything unlocked — generation, auto-regulation, full history — before the app ever asks for money.

Privacy

Local-first isn’t a feature. It’s the architecture.

No account required

There is nothing to sign up for. Your training data lives in a database on your iPhone. Sign-in exists for exactly one optional thing: syncing your workouts between your own devices. Skip it and nothing ever leaves your phone.

Health data stays put

HRV, sleep, and heart-rate are read from Apple Health on-device to compute readiness. Finished workouts can count toward your Activity rings if you allow it. Your Health data is never uploaded, even with sync on.

No trackers here either

This site has no analytics pixels, no ad tech, no cookies. The app practices the same: no third-party SDKs watching you train.

Leaving is easy

One-tap CSV/JSON export on every tier. Delete the app and the on-device data goes with it. If you turned on sync, deleting your account removes the cloud copy too.

FAQ

Fair questions.

Is this another AI coach?

No. Your program is written by a deterministic, unit-tested engine: the same inputs always produce the same prescription, and every decision shows its rule. We may later add a chat explainer that answers questions about your plan, but a language model will never author it.

When can I use it?

Now. Anneal is live on the App Store for iPhone (iOS 17+), with an Apple Watch companion.

Can I bring my history from another app?

Yes. Strong CSV import is built in, with more importers planned. Your e1RM curves and progression pick up where your old logger left off.

What if I train at a barebones gym, or my garage?

That’s the home turf. Set up a gym profile with your exact plates and dumbbell range and every prescribed load is buildable with what you own. The coverage report tells you what you can’t train yet and what to buy next if you want to.

Do I need an Apple Watch?

No. The Watch app adds rest-timer haptics and set logging from your wrist, and readiness uses whatever Apple Health has, but everything works phone-only.

Android?

iPhone first. We’d rather be excellent on one platform than mediocre on two. If Anneal earns it, we’ll revisit.

Is there a streak or badge system? Will it guilt-trip me?

Yes to the first, no to the second. The streak is weekly and self-repairing (see Momentum above); badges and Bench share cards are earned by training, never bought, and never gate your progression. Miss a week and the app never accuses you, it just doesn’t reward that week.

Is this medical or rehab advice?

No. Anneal programs training for healthy lifters, holds conservative caps on load jumps, and only ever reduces a plan on low readiness. Pain, injury, or rehab? See a professional. An app shouldn’t pretend to be one.

Six claims. Each with its proof.

Every workout progresses, even ones you build yourself

It adapts to how recovered you actually are

No black box: tap any set and see why

Your data is yours

It works with the gym you actually have

Honest pricing

An engine, not vibes.

It knows when you slept four hours.

Every session ends with a paper trail.

The only streak that can’t shame you.

A 75-day challenge that survives a bad Tuesday.

Your gym, audited.

We show our work. They don’t.

Free to train. Pay for power.

Free

Pro

Lifetime

Local-first isn’t a feature. It’s the architecture.

No account required

Health data stays put

No trackers here either

Leaving is easy

Fair questions.

Train with a plan you can audit.