Find out if your training is actually working
Athlete Craft is an iPhone app for athletes who train things a gym app has never heard of. You build the exercises, you pick the stats, and the graph does the math. The tracking is free.
Tracking is free, forever. iPhone. About a minute to set up.
Every other app decides what counts as progress. This one doesn't.
Open any workout app and you get the same two boxes: reps and weight. That's correct for bench and squats. It's useless for stickhandling, shooting drills, sprint times, or an ankle mobility test.
So athletes end up doing one of three things. Shoving real training into the wrong fields and hoping they'll remember what "weight" meant six weeks later (nobody does). Keeping a note on their phone that records what happened but never says whether it worked. Or building a spreadsheet, then quietly abandoning it around week three — because the logging was never the hard part. The math was the hard part.
Meanwhile the thing you actually want to know goes unanswered: am I better than I was in January?
How it works
- Build a preset. Decide what a set is made of — makes and misses, reps and time, one measurement in centimetres. Up to five inputs, chosen by you.
- Name your exercise. Type it. "Toe drags." "Corner 3s." "20m sprint." There is no list to pick from, because your training isn't on anyone's list.
- Log sets and read the line. Pick what goes on the y-axis, pick a window, and the trend draws itself.
What you get
Track what you actually train
A preset is the set of statistics you record. You define it once and reuse it across every exercise that's measured the same way. Shooting drills become makes and misses. Sprints become reps and time. A mobility test becomes a single number in centimetres. Nothing gets forced into a box it doesn't fit.
- Up to five inputs per preset, chosen by you
- Type your own exercise names — no built-in list
- Everything logged under one name groups together automatically
- One preset covers every exercise you measure the same way
Answer one question: is this working?
Pick an exercise and build a View. Choose a preset, multiply or divide its inputs, then show the average, total, or highest. That's your y-axis. Dates run along the bottom over 30, 90, 180 or 360 days, split into six intervals — so you're comparing periods against each other instead of guessing off whichever day you felt best.
- Highest reps × weight. Average makes ÷ misses. Fastest time. Your call.
- Four time windows, from a month to a year
- Six intervals per window, so a slow trend is still visible
- One exercise at a time — no dashboard to interpret
Six weeks in, you finally get an answer instead of a feeling.
Find your weakest skill, not just your trend Pro
The Skill Map takes the same View and turns it sideways. Instead of one exercise over time, it puts up to six exercises side by side, all measured the same way, so they're directly comparable. The Progress Graph answers "am I improving?" The Skill Map answers "which of these is holding me back?"
- Six exercises compared at once, under one preset and View
- Same time windows — last 30, 90, 180 or 360 days
- Because they share a preset, the numbers mean the same thing
- Shows you where to spend next month, not just whether last month worked
Your games and practices live here too Pro
Training isn't the whole season. If you tell Athlete Craft you play a sport, you get two more things on the home screen: Log Practice and Log Game. Practices take drills and notes. Games take stats and notes. Both are free text, because nobody can predict what you'll want to write down after a game.
- Log a practice with the drills you ran and how it went
- Log a game with your stats and what you noticed
- Everything is saved and searchable in your history
- No other tracking app in this category does this at all
The rest of it
A schedule that grades itself
Write what you're training each day of the week. The weekly calendar turns a day red only when you scheduled something and didn't log it.
Consistency score Pro
A weekly score built from what you scheduled versus what you actually logged, and how many days you've kept going.
Personal bests, per preset Pro
Search any exercise you've ever logged and see your bests in every category that exercise's preset supports.
What you train most Pro
Your ten most-logged exercises and how many times, over any of the four time windows. Usually a surprise.
Every set you've ever logged
The history tab keeps all of it. Open any past workout and see the individual sets, not just a summary.
A summary when you finish
Close out a workout and you get a recap of what you just did before you save it.
Plus the parts that just have to work: named workouts, your own preset library, typed exercise names with no list to scroll, up to five inputs per preset, multiply or divide any two inputs, average / total / highest, four time windows across every screen that has one, exercise search, a practice and game archive, and a weekly calendar that doesn't punish you for rest days.
Free to start. Your first preset takes a minute.
Why not just use a spreadsheet
Honestly? If you keep one up to date, a spreadsheet does everything this does. Any columns you want, any formula, any chart (and free).
Two things go wrong. Typing into a spreadsheet on a phone, at a rink, between sets, is miserable enough that you stop. And the chart doesn't build itself — someone has to write the averaging and the bucketing, and then maintain it every time you add an exercise. That's the part people skip, and it's the only part that answers the question.
| Reps-and-weight apps | Notes app | Spreadsheet | Athlete Craft | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your own exercise names | Sometimes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Choose what a set records | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Fast to log mid-session | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Does the math for you | Yes | No | Only if you build it | Yes |
| Trend over months, per exercise | Reps & weight only | No | Only if you build it | Yes |
| Compare your skills against each other Pro | No | No | Only if you build it | Yes |
| Log games and practices Pro | No | Yes, as loose text | Clumsy | Yes |
What costs money and what doesn't
Everything you need to track training is free and stays free: build your own presets, name your own exercises, log sets, and read the progress graph over any window. No trial timer, no limit on exercises.
Pro is $5 a month, or $30 a year, and it's the analysis layer on top:
- Skill Map — compare six exercises against each other
- Training Statistics — personal bests and your most-logged exercises
- Consistency Score — a weekly score from what you planned versus what you did
- AI trainer — a chat that can see everything you've logged and answer questions about how to train better
- Games and practices — log drills, stats and notes from real competition
One week free to try it. The annual plan works out at half the monthly price, and if you cancel you keep every free feature and all of your data.
Who made this
I'm Luke. I played competitive hockey and I was small, so out-training people was the only edge I had — wrists, ankles, hip mobility, stickhandling, almost none of it with weights.
I could never answer the one question that mattered. I looked for an app and found hundreds for people who go to the gym and none for athletes who train. I kept a spreadsheet for two years and did the math maybe four times, because doing it by hand was always the part I skipped.
So I built the version that does the math itself.
Free guides on measuring this properly
Tracking is only worth anything if the test underneath it is sound. These are free, no signup, and they're useful whether or not you download anything:
- How to tell if your stickhandling is actually getting faster
- How to tell if your ankle mobility is improving
- How to track your basketball shooting progress
- How to tell if your sprint speed is improving
- How to track exercises that aren't reps and weight
Questions
Is Athlete Craft free?
The tracking is, permanently — presets, your own exercise names, logging, and the progress graph. Pro adds the analysis layer for $5 a month or $30 a year, with a week free to try it.
What happens if I cancel Pro?
You keep every free feature and all of your data. Nothing you logged gets locked or deleted.
What makes this different from a normal workout app?
Normal workout apps give you a list of exercises and two boxes, reps and weight. Here you build both halves yourself — the exercise name and the statistics it records.
Can I track exercises that aren't in any app's list?
That's the whole point. You type the name. There is no list.
What can I actually put on the graph?
Any input from a preset — on its own, multiplied by another, or divided by another — then averaged, totalled, or the highest value. Highest reps × weight. Average makes ÷ misses. Fastest time.
Can I log games and practices? Pro
Yes. Tell it you play a sport during setup and you get Log Practice and Log Game on the home screen — drills and notes for practices, stats and notes for games. Both are free text and both are saved in your history.
What's the difference between the Progress Graph and the Skill Map?
The graph shows one exercise over time. The map compares up to six exercises against each other at one moment. Improving versus weakest — two different questions.
Does it work for gym workouts too?
It does, but if you only train bench, squat and rows, something like Strong or Hevy will be quicker out of the box. This is built for athletes training specific things.
How long before I can see anything useful?
You'll see points immediately, but a trend needs repetition. Realistically four to six weeks of consistent logging before the line means something (that's not the app, that's how measuring anything works). The guides above explain why.
Do I need an account?
No. Download it and start.
Is it on Android?
Not yet. iPhone only for now.
Stop guessing whether it's working
Build one preset, name one exercise, log one set. That's the whole first session.
iPhone only. Free to start.
On a computer?
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