FAQ

An iPhone on iOS 26 or 27. For music, Apple Music is the best experience; without it, built-in clips work fine — and if you’d rather train in silence with just the voice guidance, that works too. For heart-rate features, an Apple Watch or a Bluetooth chest strap. The app checks all of this before your first session and guides you through anything missing — including installing Apple’s higher-quality voices, which are otherwise buried six levels deep in Settings.

No. It’s the richest clip experience (including community-shared clips), but built-in clips ship with the app, and you can also record a cadence in your own voice.

No. The phone experience is complete on its own — headphone controls, Lock Screen, Live Activity. The Watch is a remote for people who want their wrist involved.

Being investigated for v2 — honestly, no promises. The clip mechanic depends on precise seek-and-loop playback, and that’s harder outside Apple Music. Built-in clips work regardless of where your music lives.

No, and there are no plans — Gym Jockey is built natively on Apple’s stack (iCloud, Watch, Apple Music) and wouldn’t survive the translation.

Honestly: Siri is Siri — it’s occasionally finicky, which is why voice is positioned as a bonus, not the backbone. The primary control is a headphone-button press (“Gym Jockey, log ten reps”), and Playgrounds exist precisely so you can build trust in the controls before a real workout depends on them.

There’s no library of celebrity trainers, no synthetic hype-man. The Announcer uses Apple’s text-to-speech. The Coach voice is you or your actual coach — recorded, real. That’s the point.

Entirely optional, and empty by default. Nothing is pre-written — the notes system contains exactly what you (or your coach) put into it, and nothing speaks unless you’ve configured it to.

You drop to the free tier and keep the core training loop and full export. Your data is in your own iCloud either way — nothing is held hostage, ever.

Yes — see Switching.