What’s new 🚨

Real-time velocity audio feedback
‍Metric now calls out your bar speed live during your set. Choose between spoken feedback, velocity loss alerts, or target-based cues so you can guide and motivate every rep of every set.

Tempo metronome
‍Enable in your recordings to let Metric guide your rep tempo with a 1-second audio cue to keep your reps smooth and controlled. Feedback volume is independently adjustable so you can dial it in alongside your music.

Velocity profiling and estimated 1RM
‍Record or import multiple sets in a single workout and Metric calculates your load-velocity profile and estimated 1RM in real time. The interactive load-velocity profile shows each load as a percentage of your 1RM and its target velocity, giving you precise targets for velocity-based programming.

Auto warmup calculator
‍Building warmup sets for a profiling workout just got easier. Tell Metric your working weight target for the day and it builds your warmup progression automatically.

Custom performance charts
‍Create your own charts for any metric and any exercise. Track progress on exactly what matters to you.

Redesigned home screen
‍A new home screen organizes your performance charts, recent workouts, and latest sets in one place — key training data all at a glance.

Low-light warning
‍An on-screen indicator now alerts you when ambient lighting is too low for accurate tracking, so you can reposition or adjust before wasting a set.

Improvements ✨

• Camera system upgrade. A full rewrite of the camera capture, preview, and recording stack delivers faster performance and better reliability across devices.
• Faster video processing. The vision system now renders directly into the video encoder, reducing processing overhead and speeding up post-set results.
• Smarter exposure handling. Adaptive exposure management for sharper videos and more accurate barbell tracking. Improvements also handle automatic flicker detection for fluorescent and LED gym lighting that can corrupt velocity readings.
• More reliable video imports. Better handling of edge cases for fewer processing freezes and more accurate progress reporting during import.
• Smoother UI. Reduced jitter, smoother animations, and more consistent styling across every screen.
• Keyboard behaviour. More stable and consistent keyboard interactions, display, and dismissing when editing weights and reps in your workouts

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed black camera preview crashes related to GPU initialization and camera lifecycle timing
• Fixed accelerometer calibration bug affecting device stability detection
• General stability improvements across imports and live recording videos

What’s new 🚨

Plate-aware autofocus and auto exposure
‍The camera system now detects your plates and uses them to lock focus and exposure, resulting in sharper video and more accurate tracking. Combined with a new exposure controller that reduces motion blur and detects fluorescent and LED light flicker that can interfere with velocity readings.

Improved plate detection
‍Plate detection is faster and more stable, giving you more reliable pre-recording feedback on your setup.

Improvements ✨

• Adreno GPU fix. Resolved the issue that was giving zero reps on devices with Snapdragon 730/740/750 family GPUs despite good video quality. This fixes the blank sets issue on Samsung, Xiaomi, or other flagship Snapdragon device.
• Camera pipeline rewrite. Migrated to CameraX capture for better stability across the preview, recording, and vision processing pipeline.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed incorrect velocity, ROM, and eccentric/concentric data caused by a Y-axis inversion on rotated videos for both live and imported sets
• Fixed the screen always-on control for camera views mid-recording in long sets
• Fixed green sidebar and red/blue color swap on Pixel 10 Pro video playback
• Fixed a crash when scrolling through set history on the home screen
• Fixed tracking system crashes and hangs during processing

What’s new 🚨

Per-exercise metric preferences
‍Every exercise can now have its own specifications and settings configuration. Choose which metrics appear in your bar charts, which stats overlay on your video, whether bar path is shown, and whether you log RPE. All these and more can be customized as app-wide defaults or on a per-exercise override.

Advanced metrics
‍Thirteen metrics are now available in the Metric Android including peak velocity, mean velocity, power metrics, tempo, time to peak velocity, and more for full parity with the iOS app rep metrics. Full list of available metrics here →

Double bar chart comparisons
‍Select a second metric to display side by side in your set review bar chart. Compare velocity against power, tempo against ROM, or any combination that fits your training. Set app defaults or exercise specific configurations for primary and the optional secondary metric.

Supported devices list
‍We’ve published a supported devices list so you can check whether your device meets the requirements to run Metric’s computer vision system. Android devices have a wide range of chip configurations, and not all have the GPU performance needed for accurate, real-time barbell tracking. Check if your device is on the list here →

Improvements ✨

• Better low-light recording. Improved exposure management during live recording so you get cleaner video with better tracking in dimly lit gyms.
• Broader import compatibility. Fixed video encoding issues that caused import failures across different Android video formats and manufacturers.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed camera preview showing a black screen in some conditions
• Fixed a crash when scrolling through a large set history
• Fixed a crash on the home screen loading
• Fixed various recording and import edge cases on specific device configurations

What’s new 🚨

Template Sharing for Teams
‍Coaches can now share program templates directly to individual athletes or their entire roster from within the app. Open any template and use the new share option to push it instantly — no exporting, no emails, no manual recreation on the athlete’s end. Your programming reaches your athletes in just a few taps, ensuring your templates are ready when they need them.

**Set Warnings and Guidance
**Plate preview guidance, and post-set warnings now display with clear priority levels, so the most important issues surface immediately after each set. The redesigned warning view organises alerts by severity, giving you all the critical information at a glance without having to parse through noise. You’ll know exactly what needs attention and what can wait before your next rep.

Improvements ✨

• Cloud Bug Reporting— reports now upload directly from within Metric without opening your mail app. The redesigned report sheet makes it quicker to describe and submit an issue, even mid-session
• Plate Preview Detection. Plate guidance before recording now runs faster and more accurately, helping you frame the perfect set.
• iPad Template Builder. Navigation between the template builder and an active workout on iPad is now smoother and more reliable.
• iPad Exercise List. A new dedicated sidebar view makes browsing and selecting exercises faster and more natural on larger screens.
• Keyboard Handling. Improved keyboard behaviour across the app ensures text inputs appear and dismiss predictably, keeping your workflow uninterrupted.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed nav stack issue on iPad when switching between the template builder and an active workout
• Fixed layout issues with the feedback sheet and plate size custom builder on iPad

What’s new 🚨

RPE and RIR tracking
‍Rate your sets with RPE or RIR directly after recording. A new entry sheet lets you log perceived effort alongside your velocity data, giving you a more complete picture of every set. Toggle RPE tracking on or off from the settings menu.

**Video management
**You can now handle your video storage and deletions automatically. Old videos can be cleaned up to free space on your device while your personal record videos are always kept safe. You can also set videos to auto-export before deletion, so nothing is lost.

Rep auto-hide
‍Unracks and re-racks are now automatically filtered from your set data. Your rep count and set averages reflect only your working reps, giving you cleaner data without manual editing. If Metric gets one of these wrong you can alway unhide it from the reps table in the set review.

Account & settings menu
‍New toggle options for RPE tracking and bar path overlay visibility. Customize what you see during and after your sets. The settings menu also now links directly to the changelog, Metric validation research, and user guides on the website.

Improvements ✨

• Fixes for plate detection in preview. The pre-recording plate detection system is now more responsive, giving you quicker more accurate feedback on your setup.
• HEVC video encoding. Videos now save in HEVC, cutting file sizes by roughly 50% with no loss in quality. Faster exports, less storage used.
• Image color encoding fixed. Video was appearing washed out on playback for some devices, Metric now properly matches your device color space for playback and export.
• Refreshed UI across the app. Form fields, dropdowns, and text inputs have been unified across profile, quick set, edit set, and bug report screens for a cleaner, more consistent look.
• Improved cloud syncing. Training data is now saved and written to cloud storage more efficiently.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed crashes in the camera and set history screens
• Fixed an issue where some devices failed to activate the GPU for vision processing, falling back to slower CPU paths.
• Numerous tracking and camera performance fixes

What’s new 🚨

Plate detection preview
‍Metric now shows you whether it can detect your plates before you start recording. Get real-time feedback on your setup so you can adjust your position, angle, or framing before your set — no more wasted reps from a bad camera angle.

Improvements ✨

• Faster data loading across the app. Smarter use of local caching means less waiting when navigating between screens. The history tab and performance charts in particular just got noticeably faster.
• Smoother active workout screen. The active workout view has been refined for a more fluid experience from start to finish.
• Improved tracking accuracy. Optimizations to the shared vision tracking system have made barbell detection more precise, resulting in more accurate velocity data.
• Less post set processing. Metric is now able to process more video frames in real-time at both 720p and 1080p resolutions, meaning less post-set processing delays for live recordings.
• More reliable real-time feedback delivery. The pathway between real-time tracking and your audible rep feedback has been optimized, reducing latency, missed reps and providing a big increase to accuracy during live recording.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed bugs in the active workout screen that could make workout completion laggy
• General stability improvements and UI enhancements across the entire app

What’s new 🚨

Plate detection preview
‍Before you hit record, Metric now shows you whether it can see your plates in the frame. This gives you real-time feedback on your setup so you can adjust your position, angle, or framing before you start your set.

**Fallback tracking for Mali chipset devices
**Devices outside the flagship Samsung and Pixel line ups use alternative Mali GPU chipsets, that was not playing nicely with the Metric vision tracking system. We have now added a dedicated tracking and video processing pipeline specifically for these devices. Users who were reporting zero reps, crashes and failed imports (particularly the Motorola owners), this should now be fixed and working. Processing is a little slower, but accuracy should be just as good.

Improvements ✨

• Accelerometer fallback for budget phones. Device stability detection now works on phones without high-precision sensors.
• Faster real-time processing. Another round of processing speed improvements during live recording (up to 50+ fps for real time frame tracking on a Pixel 7 as baseline).
• Better bug reporting. More diagnostic logging and error catches in the vision pipeline, so when something does go wrong, we can find it faster.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed camera zoom level not initializing correctly between sessions
• Fixed a preview distortion issue on some devices
• Fixed crash causes, hangs and sluggish processing steps throughout the vision and plate tracking system
• Fixed a bug in the dropped frames fill logic for post processing

What’s new 🚨

No new features in this release — this update is focused entirely on stability and performance.

Improvements ✨

• Faster post-recording processing. Set data processes faster after you finish recording, getting you to your results sooner.
• Improved selfie cam tracking. Barbell detection on the front-facing camera is now more accurate and consistent.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed numerous crashes during video import and processing
• Fixed a bug where users with a large set history couldn’t open the app
• Fixed a crash in the velocity trace chart when reviewing longer video sets
• Fixed selfie cam data and bar path being inverted
• Fixed Google sign-up failing for some users

What’s new 🚨

Team invites
‍Athletes can now accept or decline team invites directly from their profile. If your coach uses Metric, you can join their organization and start sharing training data in just a couple of taps.

Custom exercises
‍You can now create your own exercises. If your movement isn’t in the default list, add it and start tracking.

Improvements ✨

• Better crash detection. Additional logging and diagnostics added to the vision pipeline to help us catch and fix issues faster across more devices.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed multiple crashes across a range of older devices and different manufacturers
• Fixed a Google sign-up bug that prevented some users from creating an account
• Fixed a video quality encoding issue specific to Pixel 10 devices
• Fixed an issue where adding sets with a comma instead of a decimal point wasn’t accepted
• Fixed logout not properly clearing onboarding state

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What’s new 🚨

Personal record badges
‍Every set now shows animated record badges for load, mean power, reps, and mean velocity — each displayed as a percentage of your all-time best. Tap any badge for a detail sheet with context on where you stand: new record, closing in, or building your baseline.

Velocity trends
‍A new trend card compares your current set velocity against your six-week historical average. See at a glance whether you’re trending up (well recovered and ready to push, trending down (potentially fatigued or not lifting with intent), or holding steady, and tap through for a detailed chart breakdown. Learn more about how Metric calculates Trends here →

Set quality warnings
‍After each recording, Metric now analyses your setup and flags potential issues — viewing angle, framing, plate size, 0 rep reps, and device stability. These replace the old generic “no reps” message with specific, actionable feedback so you can fix issues and get better data on your next set.

Device stability detection
‍Your phone now needs to be stable before recording can begin. An on-screen status pill shows whether your device is ready, needs to be held steady, or stood upright. Recording is disabled until the device is stationary and automatically stops if significant movement is detected mid-set.

Fullscreen video playback
‍Video playback can now be expanded to full screen with a tap. Includes a time scrubber, mute toggle, and your bar path and stats overlay — all carried over seamlessly between the mini player and expanded view.

Intuitive video playback
Video thumbnails are now extracted from the first rep in your set to provide better context and video playback now starts playing from 1 second your first rep starts, making technique review more efficient.

Improvements ✨

• Set history improvements. More details are now included on your set history list including a video thumbnail, your best rep velocity and % fatigue in the set.
• Faster real-time processing. Frame rates during live recording have jumped from 30fps into the high 40s and low 50s on devices that support 60fps, meaning smoother tracking and fewer missed data points.
• Smarter weight formatting. Decimal loads like 72.5kg now display correctly across the app.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed set data failing to load on some sessions
• Fixed an issue where Real-time recordings were dropping video frames during processing
• Fixed an issue with video imports and crashes on some Android chipsets and devices

What’s new 🚨

Set highlight bar
‍The set review screen now shows your best rep, set average, and fatigue/consistency metrics right at the top. Key performance data for every set, all at a glance.

Improvements ✨

• Midpoint zoom for ultrawide cameras. Wide ultrawide lenses (0.5x, 0.6x) now snap to a tighter midpoint zoom (0.75x, 0.8x), making it easier to frame your setup without switching cameras.
• Persistent selfie cam settings. Your camera selection and zoom level now carry over between sets, so you’re not re-adjusting every time you hit record.
• Faster video imports. All imported videos process significantly faster, with 1080p processing speeds up to 2x quicker than before.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed a crash when importing 4K video
• Fixed bar path inversion on selfie cam recordings
• Fixed video rotation detection on imported videos on some Android devices that was causing zero reps or only detecting walkouts (XY axis inversion)
• Fixed a spacing issue on the record action button
• Improved recording controls layout
• Disabled uploading 480p videos, which don’t have enough resolution for accurate barbell tracking

Update (May 2026): Metric for Android is now in public beta — the waitlist gate has been removed. Anyone can download. Read the launch story → or get it on Google Play →.

What’s new 🚨

Android Beta — Metric has arrived on Android. Download on the Google Play Store →

**Metric for Android is here (Private Beta)
**The Android beta is a focused first release, available exclusively to waitlist members, built to bring velocity-based training to every platform.

We deliberately kept the feature set small so we could ship sooner, gather feedback, and iterate.

Available now you can:

• Account creation and sign-in (syncs with your existing Metric account if you have one)
• Record sets directly in-app or import videos from your camera roll
• 1080p HD video recording
• Real-time velocity, ROM, bar path, and tempo data
• Video playback with bar path overlay
• Video export with data overlay
• Training history on your home screen

Barbell tracking with computer vision
‍Record or import your sets and get instant set data including mean velocity, range of motion and eccentric tempo. The same tracking engine that powers Metric on iOS, is now available on your Android device.

Video playback with bar path overlay
‍Playback your sets and export the video with a real-time bar path overlay, then export and share videos directly from the app. Your training footage just became a coaching tool.

Training history, search, and sharing
‍Every set and video is saved to your free training profile. Search through your historical data, review past performance, and share sets with your coach or training partners — all at a glance.

**Report bugs, provide feedback
**Report bugs, suggest features and give feedback to the Metric team from inside the Metric app or join the Metric Discord

What’s new 🚨

Training data export
‍You can now export your training data into a formatted spreadsheet ready to open in Excel, Sheets or Numbers. There are two export formats with grouping by workouts or by exercises and coaches can choose to export data for a single athlete or their entire roster.

iPad layout & program builder
‍Metric now supports landscape, portrait and split screen layouts on iPad. We’ve added a dedicated program builder layout for the bigger screen with an exercise list sidebar, making it faster to create and edit program templates. Perfect for planning your next training phase or for coaches writing programs for their athletes.

Easier metric switching
‍You can now switch focused metrics within the active workout by tapping on the metric heading row in the sets list. The same switching feature is available in the rep-by-rep table on the Set Review page. In the workout view you can now also include your set Trend % score to see all your workout trends in the one place.

New video customisation settings
‍You can now personalize the video overlay for playback and export, change the bar path color, metric color, and stats overlay position.

Improvements ✨

• Workout Completion Celebration - Added a celebration graphic when you save and finish your workout
• Recording Tips Flow - Added a warning and tips flow after each recording if Metric detects a potential error in the video. These will help you get accurate and consistent data in your training on future videos
• Data Management and battery life - Significant background improvements were made to improve efficiency when browsing your training history, videos and performance charts. Data now loads faster and is shared between views improving load speed on all pages, reducing battery usage and reduce downloads.
• Added swipe to delete support in history - On both the workouts and sets cards
• Imported video processing - Video processing is now faster than ever helping get you to your training data sooner. Your imported video will now also playback a preview showing you the import progress while processing.
• Turn off the inline rest timers - Separate from the main timer you can now control these independently if you find them distracting
• Focus lock on videos - Tap to focus for focus controls, or long press to lock focus for your entire recording
• Record badges in the workout view - Any set that has a personal record will now show a record badge under the set number within the workout view

Bug fixes 🐛

NOTE: The bug fixes in this changelog include those updates made in versions 6.3.1 → 6.3.4 as a number of stability and performance improvements were rolled out over the past month to patch issues reported by Metric users, thanks everyone for your bug reports!

• Athlete profile pictures added to set cards in the sets list for history view.
• Fixed iOS 26 app performance, freezes and laggy screens throughout the app
• iOS 26 Keyboard avoidance behaviour is now more stable and the double scroll when tapping between fields is fixed in an active workout
• Fixed searchability in exercise picker, set setup, and exercise list views
• Audio from external apps is no longer muted when opening the Metric app or recording
• Fixed real-time audible feedback delivery that would be disabled when switching between 720p and 1080p resolution
• Fixed an edge case where coach logout/login would block coach and Pro features on secondary app opens.
• Exercise name now persists in quick set flow between set recording for even quicker quick sets and imports
• Fixed history loading issue when switching between sets and workouts and when opening a newly finished workout in history
• Fixed tap gesture handling in the history list making workout deletion, and template creation smoother while data is still loading
• Returning users no longer see the new user welcome message when logging in
• Fixed Pro highlight metrics being cleared when turning off custom highlight metrics for a specific exercise
• Fixed minimum velocity threshold to properly use exercise-specific default values when updating them in settings
• Exercise name localization is improved in sample programs, the video list and throughout the app
• Fixed video library delete issue that caused placeholders to appear within the video list
• Fixes for the athlete invite system in coach and family accounts
• Improved loading, stability and usage of program templates throughout the app
• Fixed issues where finished workouts would still appear as active in history
• Fixed an edge case where starting a workout from a quick set would not properly create the active workout
• Fixed personal records that were displaying “kg” even for users with lbs as preferred metric
• Fixed loading behaviour for personal records throughout the app
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes restrict Pro users to basic features when the device connectivity dropped during app open
• Fixes for when the camera preview sometimes returned a black screen on repeat set recordings
• Found and fixed an edge case bug that would sometimes cause a video file to be lost after recording finished

What’s new 🚨

Interactive Tutorial & Certification
‍Master your recording setup with Metric’s new interactive certification system. Complete the quiz to earn your Metric level 1 and then save and share your personalized certification. The tutorial will assist you in capturing the most accurate velocity data possible by perfecting your recording angles, framing and equipment tracking on every set.

Improvements ✨

• Smarter app cloud connectivity. The app now loads faster, has fewer lags during the workout and fewer progress spinners throughout the app. Metric also now uses less data with reduced battery drain.
• Clearer recording guidance. Error messages now provide specific, actionable tips to help you fix setup issues immediately.
• Real-time feedback improvements. The velocity tracking system just got more reliable with improved rep detection and filtering during your set.
• Background audio. Metric now puts fewer interruptions on your device audio when listening to music or Podcasts while using Metric in your workouts.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Zoom buttons and pinch-to-zoom gestures now stay in sync
• Fixed a coach mode issue with multi athlete workouts
• Sample templates are now optimized in non-English languages
• Resolved various stability and speed issues throughout the app

What’s new 🚨

Faster Video Processing
We’ve made imported video analysis noticeably faster, especially with 4K footage. You’ll still see some processing time, but videos now load almost instantly into the app and processing is much faster with less battery drain too. In-app recording is also much faster with post-set processing on 1080p videos significantly faster than before.

**Improved Real-Time Feedback
**We rebuilt the real-time audio feedback system from scratch. It’s more reliable now with fewer missed reps and more accurate velocity and power callouts. As a bonus, the new system places much less load on your device helping the apps overall performance and reducing battery load during your workouts.

**History Sets View
**You can now toggle between viewing individual sets or full workouts in your history. Handy for tracking specific lifts over time or reviewing complete training sessions.

Improvements ✨

• More stable camera controls. Recording buttons are now properly disabled during processing, which prevents those annoying navigation issues mid-set
• Better workout syncing. Fixed the lag that some users experienced once they were 2-3 exercises into their workout - Metric was overly eager in its data saving calls to the cloud so we have optimised this flow for better performance while maintaining your real-time data backup.
• Smoother set editing. Improved how the app handles edits to your sets during active workouts.
• iOS 26 liquid glass effect. Added the new visual treatment to the active workout overlay and a number of small touches throughout the app

Bug fixes 🐛

• Camera now remembers your front/rear preference between sets
• Fixed Pro member access issues caused by some network edge cases
• Removed phantom video placeholders that were persisting in the video library
• Fixed workout deletion button from history view
• Fixed bug where trial videos were deleted when switching to free (free users can now also access their videos recorded during the trial for export even after the Pro trial ends)
• Keyboard now dismisses properly when tapping RPE fields
• Various stability, connection and app efficiency improvements throughout the app

What’s new 🚨

iOS 26 Compatibility
‍Metric now supports iOS 26’s new liquid glass interface. Your workouts just got more visually stunning while maintaining all the performance and reliability you depend on. The entire app seamlessly integrates with the new system design, ensuring your fitness tracking experience feels native and polished.

Enhanced Set Recording Controls
‍Set recording controls and swipe-to-delete functionality have been completely refreshed. Managing your workout sets is now more responsive and intuitive, letting you edit and delete entries with improved precision. These controls respond faster to your touch, making mid-workout adjustments effortless when you need them most.

Improvements ✨

• Gesture Performance. All workout gestures now respond more quickly and reliably throughout your training sessions
• Camera Controls. Camera functionality during workouts is now more stable and performs consistently across all device orientations

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed occasional unresponsiveness (lag) in gesture controls during workouts
• Resolved camera control stability issues that could occur during extended recording sessions
• Fixed some issues with iOS 26 controls and glitches
• Stability improvements to edits made on completed sets and in historical workouts
• Fixed a rare bug where coach accounts would not be linked to their organizations.

What’s new 🚨

FHD Video Resolution
‍Ready to see every detail of your lift? You can now record in sharp full high definition 1080p video. Processing takes a bit longer with 1080p, and video files will take up more storage space on your phone so if space is an issue or your training flow requires quick access to your phone and rest timers after each set then stick with the 720p recording option, accuracy is great with either option!

Lightning-Fast Workout Logging
‍Say goodbye to loading delays and processing spinners that kill your workout momentum. Every set completion in the workout builder is now instant - this has solved some data syncing issues when editing workouts in your history too. There are new set controls too, swipe left to delete any set from a workout or swipe right on the next upcoming set for access to manual entry and video import options on velocity tracked exercises.

Set Magic Auto-Fill - Progressive Overload Made Simple
‍Planning to add reps across all your sets? Just update set one, and watch the magic happen - every following set automatically updates too. Whether you’re jumping from 10 to 12 reps or adding weight across the entire workout, Metric’s intuitive auto-fill means making gains has never been this effortless.

**In-line Exercise Timers
**Each exercise now gets its own in-line rest timer alongside your master timer, ensuring you hit the optimal rest window for every movement.

Enhanced Profile Charts
‍Your profile charts now overlay your 6-week average or last session profile alongside today’s developing data, giving you instant context for every lift. Even better, your historical context line is shown immediately when you start training - so you can plan your working sets from your very first warm up set.

RPE Table Upgrades
‍The RPE/RIR table now displays your historical reference data as soon as you open your workout, letting you strategize your loads before completing any sets today. The table is now fully interactive, just tap on an RPE row or a rep count column to light up the values for easy data sorting.

Sample Training Templates
‍Need inspiration? Get started faster with four professionally designed templates covering strength, power, and hypertrophy training goals. Each template includes detailed program notes and can be used as-is, modified/duplicated to fit your needs, or simply serve as inspiration for your own routines. Find them in the programming library and start training immediately.

Improved Template and Exercise Management
‍Take full control of your programming library with the ability to permanently delete programs and custom exercises. This keeps your Metric training environment organized and removes clutter, ensuring your active templates are ready when you need them. To delete a custom exercise just swipe left on that exercise any time you are in the exercise list. Programs can be deleted from the program options menu.

Zoom buttons
‍Fine-tune your video capture with dedicated zoom stepper buttons for easy framing. You can also use the pinch-to-zoom for incremental adjustments.

Training History Upgrade
‍Retroactively enhance every set you’ve ever recorded with our new metric backfilling process. In seconds, your entire training history gets upgraded with eccentric power and time-to-peak velocity data.

And coaches? You can run this once for your entire organization, updating everyone’s training history in one go!

Improvements ✨

• Enhanced line charts. Charts now feature visible point marks and thicker, curved lines for better readability
• Smoother number field editing. Switching between input fields is now more responsive and efficient with less keypad glitches
• Faster load addition buttons. Quick set mode buttons respond immediately to your taps
• Better profile loading and display. Your profiles are now easier to access without having to dig through the settings menu.
• Accurate imported workout timestamps. All imported workouts now display correct date and time information

Bug fixes 🐛

• Resolved workout deletion bug that sometimes left behind orphaned sets and personal records
• Fixed a team workout issue if coach mode was disabled during active sessions
• Corrected various data sync issues for improved real-time performance
• Fixed an issue with custom plate sizing not always working as expected
• General improvements to stability in computer vision system
• Fixed issues with video import crashes (if you still experience this issue let us know!)

**Known iOS 26 issues
**There is a known issue on iOS 26 that causes the camera preview to freeze and create temporary lag in the workout log. We are working on a fix for this in the coming days!

Version 5.9 - New metrics

What’s new 🚨

New Performance Metrics
Eccentric power measures how aggressively you apply braking effort to decelerate the bar (perfect for drop catches), and time to peak velocity for tracking rate of force development on explosive movements.

Learn more about all available metrics at www.metric.coach/articles/metrics to see how these new tools can elevate your training analysis.

Expanded Real-time Feedback Options
‍Real-time feedback has been expanded to include a much wider range of metric options. You can choose from mean, peak, and propulsive velocity, plus for the first time power metrics including eccentric, mean, peak, and propulsive values for your audible in-set feedback. Configure your preferred metrics and feedback style in the feedback settings to get instant guidance that matches your training goals.

Tap to Focus Camera Control
‍Video recording just got more precise with manual focus and exposure control. Tap on your barbell and weight plates within the screen before starting your recording to set both focus and exposure exactly where you want them. This ensures your lifting videos are crisp and properly exposed every time.

Improvements ✨

• Records display % of all time best. Records now show percentage values. and let you switch between peak and mean velocity for better context at a glance.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed focus lock issue on newer iPhone models that caused videos to jump focus and become blurry during recording
• Fixed Apple Watch connection reliability when opening the camera
• Fixed end of workout and template updating flow when in coach mode
• Fixed scaling issue on iPad for bar path and video overlay displays
• Fixed missing bar path and velocity data in videos exported from bulk video library export
• Fixed an issue where last completion date for a workout template would not always update post workout
• Fixes to number fields for better handling of leading zeros, decimals and more
• Fixed the deep links when sharing templates, links are now compressed to avoid breaking message limits and will again open the template editor for that shared template, allowing you to save it to your profile.

What’s new 🚨

Team Leaderboard
‍Coaches can now access a comprehensive team leaderboard that displays all your athletes’ performance metrics in one place. Compare best lifts, power outputs, and estimated 1RMs across your entire roster to identify top performers and track team-wide progress. Access the leaderboard through your coaching dashboard to see how your athletes stack up and use the data to drive healthy competition within your team.

Apple Watch App
‍Metric now works directly on your Apple Watch, letting you log sets without reaching for your phone during active workouts. The watch app syncs seamlessly with your iPhone session, ensuring your workout data stays accurate and complete. You can also control velocity recording remotely from your wrist - just open the camera on your phone and your watch will prompt you to start and stop recording, making it easier than ever to capture your lifts while staying focused on your form.

Improvements ✨

• Improved rep auto-hide**.** The filtering algorithm has been given a boost in how it detects and hides likely outlier reps, particularly on unracks and reracks, thanks to everyone who sent in feedback and sample videos to make this new feature possible!

What’s new 🚨

Live Activity Widget
‍Metric now displays your workout progress directly on your lock screen and in the Dynamic Island. The widget shows your current exercise, active rest timer, and set count all at a glance, so you can stay focused without unlocking your phone. Coaches running a multi-athlete workout will see a dedicated widget for each active athlete, and tapping any widget takes you straight to that specific athletes workout.

Improvements ✨

• Video recording layout on iPad. Optimized the recording interface to provide more vertical space, making it easier to capture your form and technique.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed issue with number fields automatically deleting decimal places when typing
• Fixed a mix up on iPad with front vs rear camera switching labels

What’s new 🚨

Full iPad Support
‍Metric now supports full screen iPad sizing and layout optimized specifically for the tablet experience. Your workouts, performance tracking, and video library now take advantage of the larger iPad display with layouts designed to make the most of the additional screen real estate. Whether you’re reviewing workout history or analyzing performance data, everything is now easier to see and interact with on iPad.

Improvements ✨

• Record badge consistency. Improved styling and visual consistency for record badges and video thumbnails throughout the video library
• Equal record recognition. When you match an existing personal best, Metric now clearly identifies it as an equal record

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed issue with record badges and details not displaying properly in quick set and import modes
• Fixed record context not showing full details within active workouts and history views
  Fixed an issue with videos not attaching on the bug reports

What’s new 🚨

Select All & Bulk Actions in Video Library
‍Managing your video library just got faster. You can now select all videos at once to quickly clear your library or export everything to your camera roll in just two taps.,

Video export quick actions
‍You can now export one, many or all your training videos directly from the video library without having to go into each video/set review individually

**Enhanced Video Library Navigation
**Grid view in the video library now supports long press functionality, taking you right to the set review for that video in question. Like before, you can tap any video for immediate video playback complete with bar path, or long press to jump to the detailed set review

All-Team History Dashboard
‍Coaches and family account holders can now monitor their entire team’s training workouts from a single, unified view — complete with real-time data syncing for every workout and athlete on your roster. The new “All athletes” option in the history tab displays workout data across your entire roster simultaneously. No more switching between individual profiles - see patterns, compare progress, and identify who needs attention, all at a glance. To see all athletes, first enable Coach Mode via your account.

Improvements ✨

• Faster Video Library Performance. Improved loading and syncing performance when working with active workouts, ensuring your videos are ready when you need them.
• Real-time Coach Data Sync. Coaches now see athlete training data instantly as workouts are logged, even for remote sessions. Both history and performance charts update in real-time for immediate insights.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Resolved app freeze issue that occurred for trialing users on iOS 17.
• Fixed duplicate exercises appearing in the recent exercises list for family and team users.
• Corrected tab bar background transparency issues for improved visual consistency.
• Fixed setting persistence issue that was causing the always-on display to disable during workouts.
• Resolved incorrect empty state displays in the video library when videos were actually present.
• Smoother out an issue with coaches being able to see all the videos recorded on their devices for their athletes.
• Fixed velocity trends chart data changing date ranges in some contexts.

What’s new 🚨

Global Language Expansion
‍Metric now speaks your language! We’ve added support for German, Hindi, Polish, and Japanese, making velocity-based training accessible to athletes worldwide. Already using Metric in another language? You’ll find numerous bug fixes, improvements, and tweaks to existing translations for a more polished experience. Found a translation issue? We want to hear about it - get in touch: community@metric.coach

Improvements ✨

• Enhanced Chart Interactions. We’ve refined the touch responsiveness of our charts, making them smoother to interact with and easier to activate exactly when you want them.
• Expanded Exercise Library. Browse new exercises now available in the exercise library for your next workout. More variety means more opportunities to track your progress across different training modalities.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Performance Chart Data Loading. Fixed bugs affecting data loading and real-time syncing on the performance chart page, ensuring your training data appears instantly and accurately.
• Date Formatting Consistency. Standardized date formatting and capitalization throughout the app for a more professional, consistent experience.

What’s new 🚨

Peak Velocity as Default Metric
‍You can now make Peak Velocity your default metric for records and for trend tracking. Customize this setting for the entire Metric app or on an exercise-specific basis to get the most relevant data for your training style. (Pro tip: Peak values are perfect for loaded jumps making it an even better readiness test for your athletes!)

Enhanced Trends Analysis
‍We’ve expanded the Trends chart functionality to give you more control over your data visualization:

• Toggle between mean or peak velocity measurements on a per-exercise basis
• View your progress across multiple timescales, no longer limited to just 6 weeks
• Get deeper insights into your performance patterns with more flexible data options

Intelligent Rep Filtering
‍Metric already does a lot of work to filter out unrack and rerack ghost reps from your set, but sometimes they still sneak in, especially the catches on jumps or Olympic lifts. Now Metric performs a second sweep and auto-hides any suspected false detections from the set. If it gets it wrong, just scroll down to the set review and unhide the rep to add it back into your set data.

Improvements ✨

• Redesigned Home Page Layout. We’ve reorganized the home screen with cleaner button organization for more intuitive navigation and faster access to your most-used features.
• Real-time Data Updates. Progress charts and training history views now respond better to showing training data edits in real-time, giving you instant feedback when you make changes.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Translation Enhancements. Improved translations and optimizations across all locales for a more natural experience regardless of your language preference. (More supported languages are on their way too!)
• Training History Edits. Fixed a bug when editing a set from your training history that prevented the changes from showing in the UI.
• Trends Chart Refresh. Resolved a data refresh issue in the trends charts that occasionally showed outdated information.
• Personal Records Alignment. Fixed a bug that was causing some personal records to fall out of alignment with your actual training history when editing or deleting sets.
• Simplified Payments Page. Hid the family plans for simpler clarity on the payments pages.
• Visual Refinements. Color and font tweaks for both dark and light mode to improve readability and visual consistency.
• UI Improvements. Various UI and interaction improvements throughout the app for a smoother user experience.

What’s new 🚨

Expanded Learning Resources
‍Find answers to all your questions with comprehensive tutorials. We’ve added links to the complete Metric How To user guide series, easily accessible in the Information section of your Account tab.

Improvements ✨

• Enhanced Video Experience. We’ve improved video handling throughout the app. Videos now load faster and scrolling performance is smoother. We’ve also fixed an issue where placeholder images sometimes remained on screen even after videos loaded.
• Account backend stability and performance. Updated account and subscription management for faster profile syncing

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed minor visual inconsistencies reported by users
• Enhanced overall app stability and performance

What’s new 🚨

Repeat from history (Pro)
‍Bring your best workouts back to life with our new repeat feature. Select any workout from your training history and instantly recreate that session with all sets, reps, and exercises pre-filled. Perfect for maintaining consistency in your training program or getting back on track after a break.

Template creation from history (Pro)
‍Turn your most effective workouts into templates with a single tap. Any workout in your history can now be converted into a customizable template, making it easier than ever to build and maintain your training program based on what works best for you.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Resolved various stability issues in the video library
• Improved overall performance and reliability of video playback and storage

What’s new 🚨

A New Name
‍The Metric VBT app is now simply Metric. For as long as we’ve been on the App Store, we’ve been talking about how bar speed tracking is about so much more than velocity-based training. Find us in the App Store under “Metric - Barbell Tracker” and join us in this next chapter of intelligent strength training.

RPE chart
‍Alongside load-velocity and power profiling, you can now access a complete RPE chart for your workouts. This chart takes your top set’s RPE, weight, and reps to calculate ideal weights across all RPE values and rep ranges—perfectly calibrated to help you nail your working sets.

Record badges and PR table
‍Track your progress with new performance badges comparing your current sets against all-time bests for load, velocity, power, and reps. Find your complete personal records log on the Performance page, showing detailed progress for every exercise.

Enhanced video features
‍Access velocity recording settings directly from the video screen, enjoy full-screen recording with larger controls, and browse your training history in the new grid view library. Pro users can now manually select which videos to save to their library.

Velocity tracking toggle
‍Sometimes you just want to log your workout without tracking velocity on every set. Toggle velocity tracking off in training preferences for a streamlined workout tracking experience—perfect for those quick sessions when you just need to log your sets. You can also long press on a single set to have it manually completed when velocity tracking is enabled

Improvements ✨

Estimated 1RM calculation improvements
‍e1RM will now be calculated for any workout with 3 sets that have either 60% load spread OR a 0.25m/s velocity difference from the top to bottom sets.

Navigation upgrades

• Video settings accessible from set review
• Training preferences available during workouts
• Quick profile switching with forward/back buttons
• New full-screen coach mode athlete switcher
• Expanded template and training summaries

UI refresh

• Updated colors, spacing, and typography
• Refreshed set review page with trend analysis
• Smoother interactions with visual feedback for chart interactions
• New training summary including streak tracking
• Real-time feedback now available for all barbell exercises

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed video pinch-to-zoom functionality
• More consistent UI and terminology throughout the app
• Improved membership management and switching system
• Faster data loading across multiple views

What’s new 🚨

Tempo Metronome
‍Take control of your lifting tempo with our new metronome feature. When recording your sets, you can now enable audio feedback to maintain consistent timing throughout your lifts. This feature is particularly valuable for controlled eccentrics and pauses on bodybuilding and volume exercises, helping you develop better lifting rhythm and control.

Italian Language Support
‍Ciao!

We’re excited to welcome our Italian users with full app translation support. We’ve implemented complete Italian language integration throughout the app, ensuring a native language experience for our Italian users.

Improvements ✨

Enhanced 1RM Estimation
‍We’ve refined our e1RM calculator to show a result in more contexts. The system now shows estimates when you’ve recorded three or more sets, requiring either a 60% spread in weights or a 0.25m/s spread in best-rep mean velocities. This update means more workouts will display 1RM values, including sessions with smaller weight ranges.

Expanded Website Documentation
‍The Metric user guide is now available in more languages with the addition of Portuguese and Chinese translations. We’ve integrated direct in-app links that take you straight to the content in your preferred language, creating a seamless experience for our global community of athletes.

**Training History Enhancement
**Each workout now includes an overview card at the top, providing quick-glance statistics and key insights about your session.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Improvements to 4K video handling on the import feature to address crashing
• Fixed an issue with the RPE entry sheet that would sometimes not dismiss
• Fixes for translations and UI issues in Chinese, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese
• Improvements to the exercise list navigation, button display and logic when swapping exercises

What’s new 🚨

Video Import
‍Metric now supports importing videos from your camera roll for analysis and processing. This feature allows you to:

• Import horizontal or vertical videos
• Use 1080p or 4k videos
• Import videos from digital cameras or other devices

For optimal results, we recommend using videos recorded at 60fps. Note: Slow-motion video is not recommended. Metric recording guidelines can be found at this link.

Add Imported Videos to Workout History
‍Enhance your existing workouts by adding imported video sets to your workout history. You can also start a new workout from an imported video, giving you the flexibility to record all your sets with your device’s camera app and import them later.

Quick record
‍Sometimes you might not want to complete an entire workout, and just want to analyse 1-2 key sets. Thanks to the quick record option, you can do exactly this, directly from the home screen. Tap the record a set button, enter your exercise details and go straight to the Metric camera to start lifting.

Improvements ✨

Responsive Design for Accessibility and Smaller Devices
‍We’ve optimized Metric’s interface for a better user experience across all devices:

• Improved handling for smaller phone screen sizes (iPhone SE and mini models)
• Enhanced support for large text when accessibility font sizes are active

Bug fixes 🐛

• Resolved an issue with the exercise multi-add feature that prevented adding multiple exercises to an in-progress workout
• Handled some teams bugs that were causing workouts and sets to occasionally to be attributed to the wrong athlete
• Fixed the case of the missing set videos when training with RPE
• Fixed some navigation and display issues when reviewing workouts and velocity data in training history
• Improved the responsiveness of hiding and un-hiding reps within a set
• Fixed a rare issue where highlight cards would not be displayed in the set review
• Addressed search bugs in the video library
• Enhanced loading speed for thumbnails in the video library

What’s new 🚨

Coach and Family Plans
‍Metric now offers Pro subscriptions for Teams and coaches, as well as family plans. Train with your friends or manage your clients more effectively with these new subscription options.

Profile Pictures
‍Personalise your account by adding a profile picture. Set yours in the Training Profile tab within your account settings.

Improvements ✨

Pre-fill RPE for Future Sets
‍Plan your training exertion ahead of time by pre-filling your RPE (Rate of Perceived Exertion) or RIR (Reps in Reserve) numbers for today’s workout.

Enhanced Tutorial Screens
‍We’ve refreshed the in-app Metric support pages with real-world images to guide you in finding the best recording position. You’ll also find more practical tutorial screens and troubleshooting tips for when video recording might be misaligned.

**Improved Exercise List Experience
**Upgraded look and usability of the exercise list and improved interactions for a smoother multi-select experience when creating templates or while training.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Various minor elements have been refreshed and tweaked to improve the overall Metric experience.

What’s new 🚨

**Roster management in app (Pro)**‍
Metric Coach account holders can now manage their athlete roster directly in the Metric app. Add, remove, and edit athletes in your roster all from your device with Coach Mode enabled.

Learn more about Teams here →

Improvements ✨

Tracking algorithm refactor‍
We’ve supercharged our tracking algorithm! It now runs up to 30% faster in some tests, performs better on older iPhone models, and offers improved reliability for both real-time feedback and post-set velocity data. Expect fewer outlier reps, less processing time, and fewer missed sets.

Athlete data loading in history and performance charts‍
Teams data now loads and refreshes more smoothly with Coach Mode enabled. Toggle between your athletes’ data in both the training history and performance chart pages with ease.

Smoother template building‍
Creating the perfect workout template is now a breeze. We’ve improved animations, editing functions, and interactions in the workout template builder for a more seamless experience.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed a bug that hid the streaks number when you had a 0 week streak
• Improved tapability and interaction with number entry fields
• Improved animations and speed for the template builder
• Resolved an issue where entering RPE sometimes led to a training video not showing up
• Stability improvements for multi-athlete workouts

What’s new 🚨

Training streaks
‍Keep your training consistent with a gentle nudge from the new streaks feature in Metric. Complete at least one workout every week to keep your training streak going.

Weekly training summary
‍The home workout page in Metric has been refreshed to show you some key stats as soon as you open the app. You can now see your weekly workout tally, new records set this week along with a recovery clock, showing you how many hours it has been since you last finished a workout.

Improvements ✨

Tempo tracking improvements
‍Thanks to user feedback we were able to make some further improvements to tempo tracking in Metric. Eccentric and pause tempo durations are now more reliable.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Minor cosmetic and speed optimisations throughout the app
• Improved empty state views for all pages where data might not yet be available.
• Improved behaviour for the keyboard during workouts, it now stays put allowing for faster entry of weights and reps.
• Reinstated the quick-add load buttons for incrementing your weights when logging a workout

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What’s new 🚨

1RM estimation (Pro)
‍Metric now offers in-app, real-time one rep max (1RM) estimation on all your velocity tracked exercises. Simply train as normal and once you have completed 3 or more sets across a range of loads your estimated 1RM value will be shown. Use this to help calibrate your % based training, track progress or simply compete with your friends. Set a custom velocity target for your e1RM for each exercise in the exercise settings menu during your workout. Learn more about the 1RM feature here.

**Performance page refresh (Pro)
**A fresh look for the performance page in the app with seperate charts for each exercise. Track your progress on strength, power and 1RM based scorse, and select from a wider array of time frames to dive even deeper into your training history and performance over time.

**Tonnage calculation (Pro)
**See the total weight lifted for a given exercise during your workout with our new tonnage calculation feature, enabling better tracking of your training volume.

Time under tension calculation (Pro)
‍Measure the total time you complete for a given exercise with the new time under tension metric. This helps in understanding workout intensity, volume or work completed and planning recovery. Combined with tonnage, time under tension is a great number to keep an eye on for maximising hypertrophy and muscle growth.

Improvements ✨

Interactive charts
‍All charts within Metric are now interactive. Get a closer look at your training data by dragging on any chart to reveal more detailed insights.

Exercise settings (Pro)
‍Everything about your exercises can now be customised from one central hub. Set up your ideal training view, adjust 1RM velocity targets, and choose which data is displayed during your workout and in your set reviews. Find the exercise settings menu from the … menu button next to each exercise during an active workout.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Resolved Teams issues related to multi-athlete workouts.
• Made tweaks to the tracking algorithm to better handle sets with only one rep and other edge cases.
• Fixed a bug that stopped template notes being saved when updating a template after finishing a workout.
• Improved keyboard behaviour when completing active workouts.
• Backend enhancements for faster data loading, and a smoother display of training history.

What’s new 🚨

Coach Mode Workout Templates (Teams)
‍Workout templates are now available for coaches with a Teams account. Start a workout from scratch or utilise a template when training in coach mode. Plus, share links to workout templates directly so your online clients can follow their program easily on their own device.

Delete Entire Workouts from History
‍Deleting an entire workout is now easier than ever. Navigate to your history and tap the delete button to remove a workout. Be careful, as this action cannot be undone!

Template Notes
‍Add notes to your workout templates. Use notes for helpful reminders to future you, or friends and clients. Notes are visible at the top of an active workout.

Exclusive Pro App Icons
‍Just for Pro users, we have created two new custom app icons. Find the Pro Gold Metric app icons in the Appearance settings menu!

Improvements ✨

Helpful exercise filtering
‍When adding exercises to workout templates, the list will filter and highlight the exercises in your workout so you can remember what is already included.

Updated Set Review page
‍Bigger video previews and larger set details make it easier to read at a glance. Easily export your videos to your camera roll with a new save button front and center.

Unified styling
‍This update improves the app styling making everything just a little easier on the eyes. Users with accessibility fonts enabled on their device will now have a much smoother experience, with text being clearer than ever.

One-rep set tracking improved
‍Metric would sometimes miss singles. Thanks to our powerlifters helping track down this issue with example videos, missed singles should be a thing of the past.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed a weird visual issue when expanding and collapsing exercise cards on the workout page
• Fixed a funky thing that would cause an active workout to not fill the entire screen - now it always fills the entire screen
• Bumped the keyboard a touch so that the current set row and the next row are both visible. A small thing that makes entering your weights at least 3x faster
• The weight and rep details from your last set now get passed into a new set during a workout more reliably.

What’s new 🚨

Exercise multi-select
‍You can now add exercises to your workout or template in bulk without having to go back and forth from the exercise list. Simply enable multi-select and add all your exercises in one go.

Template sharing (Pro)
‍Share your favourite workout templates with friends or clients, making it easy to collaborate on training programs. Perfect for online coaches using Metric Teams to program for their clients or for friends who enjoy training together.

Improvements ✨

Drag to reorder exercises in active workouts
‍Customise your workout order in real-time by dragging and dropping exercises within an active workout. This gives you complete control over your training session sequencing.

Bug fixes 🐛

There is a lot going on behind the scenes at Metric VBT as we improve and optimise the app for the growing number of people who use us in their training, as a result a number of minor bugs came up recently. Many of these should now be squashed, thanks to everyone who pointed these out!

• Fixed a refresh issue with the load velocity profiles to ensure smooth updates
• Improved keyboard behaviour when tapping between fields during a workout or when building a template for a seamless user experience
• Fixed an issue that occasionally caused a single video to show up twice in the library
• Better handling for 0-set exercises in your workout history after training from a template, keeping your records clean and relevant
• Resolved an issue around auto-completed workouts being missing from history

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What’s new 🚨

Workout templates (Pro)
‍You can can now build & save workouts as templates ready for your next training session. This drastically improves the efficiency of logging your workouts. Templates are feature rich, and have the ability to be updated after a workout, duplicate, archive, and edit existing workout templates to train exactly how you want. Coaches: Workout templates for Teams coming soon!

Exercise swapping
‍Switch an exercise out of your current workout for a different movement, giving you the flexibility to adapt your workout on the fly. This is only available for exercises without any completed sets.

Improvements ✨

Free users can now complete full workouts
‍All users of the Metric app can now complete and review an entire workout, including both velocity-tracked and manual entry exercises.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Numerous small and cosmetic improvements throughout the app.

What’s new 🚨

Workout page redesign
‍A fresh new interface for completing your workouts with an uninterrupted full screen workout page. Add exercises, record sets and review your training data effortlessly and without distraction

Improvements ✨

• Better onboarding experience - Easier, seamless onboarding experience for new users with faster page loads, quick-start settings suggestions and improved tutorials.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed a crash that was occurring at app load in certain languages
• Fixed an issue with the microphone permissions request on first set
• Re-styled the RPE entry page for easier entry after recording
• Improved responsive design for better usability with larger font settings

What’s new 🚨

No major new features with this release, just improvements and improvements to existing functionality.

Improvements ✨

• Video Processing Speed Improvements: We’ve enhanced the processing speed for analysing velocity data in your sets. Enjoy reduced post-set processing time and more accurate real-time feedback.
• Data Loading Optimisations: Your experience in Metric just got faster! Expect significantly faster load times throughout the entire app, including record alerts, fatigue trends, progress charts, and training history.
• Design Refresh: Dive into a new visual experience with our refreshed colour scheme, layout, and overall design.

What’s new 🚨

Real-time feedback (Pro & Teams)
‍‍Now experience audible feedback during your training sets with Metric! Choose from various modes including velocity targets, velocity loss thresholds, and rep metric announcement. This feature is available for both mean and peak velocity, range of motion, and eccentric tempo. Elevate your training with immediate insights and adaptability.

French translations
‍Bonjour! Metric now speaks French. This update will automatically adjust to your device’s local settings or you can switch languages manually via Account → Appearance.

Improvements ✨

• Session mode improvements for Teams - We’ve streamlined the session mode for Teams, making it easier and more efficient to navigate between athletes and exercises. Enjoy a smoother, more intuitive experience in your multi-athlete sessions.
• Performance improvements for iOS 17 - We’ve made several behind-the-scenes enhancements and quality-of-life improvements to ensure Metric runs smoothly with iOS 17+. Our code base has been updated to align with the latest best practices, ensuring a more robust and reliable app performance.
• Custom VBT exercises - You can now record velocity on your custom built velocity tracked exercises

Bug fixes 🐛

• Athlete list sorting - Teams accounts now feature an alphabetically sorted athlete list for easier navigation.
• Memory usage - Fixed an issue causing Metric to use more phone memory than it needed
• Battery load - Fixed a battery usage issue
• Audio recording in iOS 17 - Addressed an issue where iOS 17 changed audio recording defaults in videos.

What’s new 🚨

Translations
‍Metric now speaks four languages: English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Chinese. The app will default to your device’s language settings, but you can also manually set your preferred language. Navigate to Account → Appearance → Language to adjust.

If you spot an issue with our translations or would like to help us translate into more languages? We’d appreciate your feedback, get in touch via email or hit us up on Instagram!

Always-on
‍Say goodbye to screen timeouts disrupting your workouts. Activate the Always On function in Account → Appearance to keep Metric awake and running throughout your session. This was a big frustration for Jacob as he had to keep tilting his tripod when supersetting, so he went and fixed it for himself!

Improvements ✨

• Re-organised settings - Access all app settings with ease, right from the Account tab. We’ve streamlined the layout for quicker navigation.
• Session explainer - New to Metric? A quick-start guide has been added on the session page to help you get training even faster.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Auto-export fixed: Resolved an issue with the auto-export function for videos.
• Loading glitch resolved: Fixed a glitch affecting the exercise list while setting up your session.
• Video count: Addressed bugs related to the video count in the Library.

‍What’s new 🚨

**Video library (Pro)
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Automatically save all your training videos directly in the Metric app with our organised and searchable video library. All videos can be reviewed within their session context or from within the searchable video library and of course you can still easily export your favourite videos to your camera roll or share from the app.

Enable auto-saving to the video library via Account → Settings.

Improvements ✨

• ‍Coach mode enhancements - We’ve refined Coach mode to better facilitate multi-athlete sessions, offering a smoother experience for both coaches and athletes alike.‍
• Session mode updates - Code refactoring and adjustments have been made to boost stability and overall app performance during session modes.‍
• Custom created exercises are now available across devices - Your personal custom exercises are now linked to your account instead of your device. This means they will now follow you across multiple devices. Great if you upgrade your phone or for coaches using multiple devices.‍
• Session UI updates- When exercises are collapsed in a session, the display now only shows set count and top load for sets that are completed, ignoring incomplete exercises for a more helpful view.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Dark mode picker. We’ve restored functionality to the dark-mode setting picker.
• Various speed improvements and edge cases solved. A few edge cases were causing issues on occasion in the session mode, these are now fixed.

What’s new 🚨

Manual Set Recording (Pro)
‍Metric is now a fully functioning workout tracker. Log all your velocity tracked and non-velocity exercises in the Metric app. You can even record manual entry sets for your velocity exercises by pressing and holding on a set row in the session view.

Expanded Exercise Library
‍Metric now support 60 velocity tracked exercises, and more than 150+ other exercises for manually entering into your workout.

Create Your Own Custom Exercises (Pro)
‍Don’t see your exercise in our library? Craft your own custom-named exercises and make your workouts truly yours.

Improvements ✨

• Workout Builder optimisations - Thanks to your feedback, the session page is now even more user-friendly. Larger buttons and text entry fields make workouts more efficient even when you are covered in chalk and sweat.
• Faster RPE Ent‍ry - Enter and edit RPE / RIR directly from the session view for velocity tracked and manual entry exercises.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Optimisation work for legacy code to improve app efficiency
• Faster processing for training videos
• Handled some crash instances experienced by some users

What’s new 🚨

Workout builder (Pro)
‍Easily build workouts by adding exercises and sets ahead of time or during training. Update weights and customise training metrics and toggle on or off the load velocity profile all from right within the new session page.

Repeat workouts from your training history (Pro)
‍You can now repeat a workout from your training history, preloading exercises, sets, weights and last time velocity, power and RPE metrics. This allows you to rapidly repeat the same load progressions with fewer button presses and keep all your training context in mind from the session page.

Post session summary (Pro)
‍At the completion of your session you can now see an overview of how your session went, every record, every trending set, all the work you did, in one place.

Improvements ✨

• Improved Trends calculation and visualisation - Trends have been reworked to provide a more meaningful indication of your fatigue and performance status (readiness) in real-time. Trends compares the mean velocity of your best 3 reps from the current set, with your 6-week average for all sets of the same exercise and weight. You can also see a mini chart for this 6-week trend from the set review page. Learn more about Trends on the Metric Blog →
• Filter exercises on the trends chart - You can now filter and adjust your strength and power progress charts to include only certain exercises. Metric will now store this preference for every time you return to the charts page.
• Coach mode improvements - Coach mode has been improved to enable smoother set editing, multi-athlete session mode and more. Teams account required.
• Overall app redesign - Many hours have been put into this release to improve design consistency, optimise training flows and clean up the app display for both dark mode and light mode.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed a zoom control issue in the camera view
• Improved the advanced camera mode settings
• Fixed issues when editing the athlete name connected to a set when in coach mode
• Coaches can now end a session for each athlete in a multi-athlete training flow
• Many aesthetic and minor navigational bugs, glitches and inconsistencies were straightened up

What’s new 🚨

Video auto-trim
‍Say goodbye to unnecessary footage! Metric now auto-trims videos to include only the portion with reps when saving and sharing. Simply enable this feature in settings.

Custom overlay metric
‍Personalise your videos by choosing the metric that is shown. Select from options like velocity, range of motion, and eccentric tempo. Want more? Unlock advanced metrics, including power numbers, with Pro.

Advanced camera settings
‍Elevate your tracking experience with improved tracking on high-speed lifts. Reduce motion blur by enabling this feature in good lighting conditions.

Improvements ✨

• Enhanced support documentation - We’ve added a new support page with details on common causes for missed rep detections to assist you better.
• Revamped in-app blogs - Explore new copy, fresh blogs, and easy-to-follow velocity tracking ideas crafted specifically for coaches and lifters.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Low light recording - Fixed issues with low light recording in standard modes to enhance your recording experience.
• Camera lens selection - The camera will now default to the main wide lens (1.0x) on all devices, eliminating any confusion with the ultra-wide lens.
• iOS 14 deprecated - To enjoy the latest version of Metric VBT, please upgrade to iOS 15 or above.

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What’s new 🚨

Olympic lift tracking improvements
‍Thanks to the videos sent in by the Metric users we have been able to target and fix some issues when tracking fast lifts. As a result, the Metric Olympic lift tracking algorithm is now significantly better. This enhancement will provide you with more accurate and reliable results when tracking Snatches and Cleans.

Tap the timer to end recordings
‍You can now tap the recording timer to stop a recording after your set. This prevents any motion in the camera from reaching for the stop button if it obstructed in your recording setup, which might lead to false rep detections.

Improvements ✨

Bug report button - If your results aren’t as expected during your set, you can now inform us directly via the Report Bug button in the set review menu. Just remember to select Mail Drop when sending so we can use the lift analysis in our bug fixing process.

Video flicker fix - If you experience a video flicker caused by the lighting in your gym, simply tap the lightbulb symbol to adjust the Metric camera settings before you press record.

Bug fixes 🐛

As always, we’ve squashed some bugs to improve the overall performance and reliability of the app.

What’s new 🚨

Bar path tracking
‍Watch your lift trajectory in high definition after each set. This insightful new feature will take your technique analysis to the next level as you can see every portion of the repetition as it moves through space.

RPE & RIR entry
‍Choose between RPE and RIR systems to log your rating of perceived exertion right after each set. Combining a subjective assessment of how hard you are training alongside the objective data provided by Metric VBT is a powerful combination.

Strength and power trend charts (Pro)
‍Review progress of your strength and power performance over time for all your exercises in the new Trends tab. Quick reference cards shows a list of all your records and how long ago they were set. Choose between 6-weeks, 1-year, or all time for your progress charts.

Compact view for session mode
‍Keep your session page clean with the new compact view. Once you finish all your sets for an exercise hide the details and see just a basic summary of each set, making it easier to navigate your workout as you record more exercises.

Improvements ✨

History page and set review redesign - The training history and set review pages have been given a facelift and are now more intuitive, helping you navigate your training data with ease.

Visual flourish added to the video overlay - A touch of flair has been added to your training videos.

Bug fixes 🐛

More speed and processing improvements - A few tweaks and optimisations behind the scenes have boosted Metric’s speed and efficiency to make it even faster and more reliable.

What’s new 🚨

Trend charts (Pro)
‍View a progress chart and table of your mean velocity performance over time on each exercise and load immediately after each set. With the trend summary card quickly glance to see if your bar speed is trending up, stable or trending down.

Adjustable context numbers (Pro)
‍Now you can personalise your context for comparing today’s performance. Choose between your last session stats or a 6-week average to serve as your benchmark.

Auto-save videos
‍Forget to save a video? Now you don’t have to worry! By enabling auto-save in settings, your Metric videos will be saved directly to your camera roll immediately after you finish a set.

Custom app icons
‍Personalise Metric with one of four different app icons. Choose your favourite icon in the app settings and have Metric VBT fit the aesthetic of your device home screen.

Load increment buttons
‍Enter your training weight faster and more efficiently with our new load increment buttons.

Multi-athlete session recording (Teams)
‍Enhance your coaching sessions with our improved Coach Mode. Record sets for all your athletes working in together on the same barbell with a single device, making multi-athlete training sessions seamless and efficient.

Full team training history (Teams)
‍Keep a close eye on your athletes’ progress. You can now review the training history of your entire team, offering valuable insights into their performance journey.

Improvements ✨

Algorithm adjustments - We’ve fine-tuned our algorithm to handle more edge cases, this will help filter out more unracking ghost reps for accurate set data.

10x set processing speed optimisation - We’ve undergone a spring clean to the Metric computer vision algorithm to make it faster and more efficient, delivering your training data quicker than ever. In some trickier cases this has resulted in processing being reduced from 25 seconds down to two seconds post recording.

Training profiles refresh - Your profile and membership pages have been refreshed for easier navigation. Find & update your details with less hassle.

Improved user guide & support documentation - Learning VBT and troubleshooting your recording setup is easier than ever with the reorganised support menu and settings pages.

Cosmetic improvements - We’ve rearranged some pixels for a more aesthetic and user-friendly Metric app. Navigation is easier and Metric is faster than ever leaving more time in your session for the important things - lifting!

Bug fixes 🐛

App crashes - We’ve tackled bugs that were causing occasional app crashes, improving the overall stability of the Metric app.

Video processing bugs - Bugs impacting video processing have been identified and fixed. You can now expect a smoother video saving and review experience.

Set management improvements - We’ve improved set management, making editing and deleting sets more intuitive and hassle-free.

What’s New 🚨

Personal Record Alerts
‍Real-time updates on your all-time best velocity, load, rep, and power records for any given exercise.

Records Feed (Pro)
‍A timeline dedicated to showcasing all your exercise records documented in the app.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Stability and performance improvements - Metric is smoother and faster, giving you a more seamless training experience.

What’s New 🚨

Power profiles (Pro)
‍Our newest feature allows you to choose between a load velocity and load power profile for each exercise during your barbell tracking, giving you more personalised and relevant insights depending on whether you are training for strength or power.

Profile context (Pro)
‍Stay informed with our new ‘last time profile’ line that compares today’s velocity or power profile with your most recent session for that same exercise.

Session display customisation (Pro)
‍You can now adjust the metrics shown for each exercise in session mode and training history. Tailor the data to your training style, and adjust these metrics for all exercises or each specific exercise individually.

Set review customisation by exercise
‍More personalisation is now possible with the ability to tailor the metrics and display for each exercise separately.

Recent exercise filtering
‍Our new filtering feature gives you a list of your most recently completed exercises during setup, making it easier to keep track of your progress.

Improvements ✨

• Updated collapse control for charts - Navigate your charts more easily with our new expand and collapse feature, ensuring you always have access to the insights that matter in your training.
• Video processing speed enhancement - We’ve made significant speed improvements in our post-set processing, with some tests on iOS 16 showing an impressive 400% speed increase.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Algorithm fixes - We’ve squashed a bug that created false reps during set up. Now, false reps are much less likely to occur.
• General aesthetic enhancements to make Metric easier to navigate and more user-friendly.

What’s New 🚨

Redesigned App Navigation
Navigating through Metric has never been easier. We’ve introduced a new tab menu to give you quick and seamless access to all essential features. Whether you’re keen on exploring your training history, starting a new session, or accessing the support pages, we’ve made everything straightforward and hassle-free.

Improvements ✨

• Faster Training Flow in Session Mode: Taking our revolutionary session mode a step further, we’ve integrated additional options for your training efficiency and convenience. Add another set for an existing exercise or start a new exercise to your session without breaking your training flow. Perfect for superset training.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Darker dark mode with some minor colour palette adjustments.
• Squashed some general bugs that were impacting look and feel. Metric is smoother and prettier as a result.

What’s New 🚨

Introducing Metric Pro
‍Take your training to the next level with a revolutionary set of barbell tracking features when you subscribe to Metric Pro.

Enjoy advanced features such as a full training history, Session Mode, automated load velocity profiling and advanced metrics including: pause tempo, power, peak velocity.

You can subscribe to Metric Pro inside the Metric iOS app. No hardware required.

Training history (Pro)
‍Store and review every rep, set & session you record in Metric.

Session Mode (Pro)
‍Record multiple sets in a row, combining exercises into a single workout on a single page. Training with velocity has never been easier sessions!

Advanced metrics (Pro)
‍Peak and mean power metrics are now available from the settings of your set review. Also added for PRO subscribers are peak velocity & pause tempo metrics.

Automatic Load Velocity Profiling (Pro)
‍Every session, every exercise, automatically calculated. Gain insights into your performance across all loads and velocities.

VBT Support Pages
‍We’ve expanded our support pages, helping you to optimise your Metric training. Join our Metric Discord community and learn from your fellow lifters. Pro and non-pro members welcome!

Improvements ✨

• Video Saving Optimisations: We’ve fixed the issues causing crashes during video saving. Now, you can save your videos smoothly without any interruptions.
• New Onboarding Flow: Getting started with Metric is now faster and easier. Our tutorial is directly connected to your first set, providing real-time tips when they matter.

Bug Fixes 🐛

• More Robust Set Edit Functionality: We’ve made improvements to our set edit functionality. Now, you can update, modify, and delete sets just the way you want.
• Aesthetic Spring Cleaning: We’ve spent some time tidying up. Layout fixes, and a more friction-free app experience.

What’s New 🚨

Eccentric tempo tracking**
‍**Metric now tracks and reports your eccentric tempo for each rep. Tempo tracking is a great way to keep yourself honest and train for better control on the descent.

Customize your highlights cards**
‍**You can now pick your preferred display settings, choosing which metrics and highlights get shown on the training dashboard. You can tune Metric to better support your goals.

Bodyweight recording**
‍**You can now keep track of your bodyweight on your profile. This feature doesn’t do much (for now) but very soon Metric will leverage this data for calculating more advanced scores like relative strength and power.

Improvements ✨

• Algorithm improvements. Metric has been improved with better handling of unilateral and Olympic lifts.

Fixes 🐛

• Inevitable bug fixes. Another release, another slew of bugs crushed and general usability improvements help Metric be faster and more reliable than ever!

What’s New 🚨

Snatch velocity tracking
Metric now supports tracking for Snatch variations. Be sure to place your phone in a position that allows for the entire lift to fit in the frame.

Bug report button
Users now have a direct line to the Metric development team so they can report issues, share glitchy videos and request features.

Improvements ✨

• Compact bar charts on the home page. The Metric UI is now cleaner, with the bar chart getting far easier to access.
• Stability improvement to filter false repetitions. Thanks to your feedback we were able to find a bug causing false rep detections when phones were in certain positions. This should now be much more reliable.

Fixes 🐛

• Moved some pixels around to keep Metric looking slick and easy to use.
• Improved the login, sign-in and forgot password flow, including a bug fix for keychain access.

What’s New 🚨

Training context
Metric now provides simple training context information that helps you determine how well you are lifting. The difference between the current set and the last set you performed of the same exercise at the same weight is shown below each stat on the homepage.

Camera zoom capability
Users setting up in tight spaces rejoice! You can now pinch to zoom. If your phone features a wide angle lens you can now use that extra space too.

Custom plate sizes
Now it is possible to train with those odd sized plates floating around your gym. When entering the set exercise information add the diameter of the largest plate on the bar and Metric can deliver accurate data.

Improvements ✨

• Less invasive alerts in camera setup. Metric will still alert you when stabilisation issues are detected, but will be a bit calmer This makes it easier to play with the new Zoom feature and not feel you are being yelled at by a computer!

Fixes 🐛

• A bug that caused noisy reps for some users has been tracked and fixed.
• A laundry-list of housekeeping and pixel pushing was also achieved.

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What’s New 🚨

Major algorithm upgrade
Metric has thrown out the rulebook (again 😀) by using an all-new intelligent rep feature classifier that determines your actual rep start and end points. With this smart algorithm update your rep velocity and ROM data is more truthful and actionable than ever before, and Metric can now easily handle ballistic lifts.

Ballistic lifts added
Several new lifts have been added to the exercise list including: loaded jumps (trap bar and barbell), cleans, jerks, push-press, high-pulls and step-ups. This is made possible thanks to the new rep feature classifier algorithm.

Support for multi-athlete recording
Early access users of Metric for Teams can now quickly switch between athletes while using one device to record sets.

Support for deleting sets
For future planned capabilities we have now added the ability to delete a recorded set entirely. This can be handy if you are messing about showing someone how to use the app and don’t want their set saved in your training history (hint hint).

Improvements ✨

• Search field on the exercise selection screen. You can now quickly filter the list to find your lift.
• Fewer taps between sets. Metric previously had an extremely convenient workflow for adding a new set, but after hundreds of sets recorded we realised we could significantly reduce the taps required by condensing everything to a single screen prior to recording.

Fixes 🐛

• Accelerometer tweaks to reduce false set cut-offs. Metric was previously a little sensitive to the device being moved and would prematurely end sets. Dropping your deadlifts is now less likely to kill the set recording (thanks Bryce!)
• General bug squashing. As ever Metric has had a range of small bugs or crashes resolved.

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What’s New 🚨

New exercises
Two new exercises added to the library - Step Ups and Floor Press.

Improvements ✨

• Overhauled the tracking algorithm. Metric is now able to record sets reliably from a wider range of phone positions, including placing the phone lower down relative to the barbell.
• X & Z axis correction. Metric now features X-axis and Z-axis correction so mean velocity is more accurate, and aligns with other velocity tracking technologies that also offer X-axis correction.

Fixes 🐛

• Touch ups and bug squashing. As usual stability has been tweaked, bugs and crashes should be less common as a result.

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What’s New 🚨

Editing set details and hiding reps
You can now change the exercise or weight after recording a set. Even better, Metric now allows you to exclude a rep from the results. Maybe you pulled the bar too hard on set-up? No problem, press the icon next the detected rep to remove it.

Improvements ✨

• Variance is now consistency. Previously Metric reported how varied your range of motion was each set. Now Metric displays how consistent - the inverse number. Basically you should aim for 100% consistency!
• Optimisations for older phones. Users with older devices (especially on iOS 14), were sometimes getting some funky results. Metric is now better optimised for these devices and should be more reliable for these users.
• Memory handling restructure. When video was being reprocessed for accuracy, sometimes results would be wildly inaccurate. The culprit was memory handling; Metric now handles memory properly so more accurate results are in fact more accurate.

Fixes 🐛

• Tiny pop-up is no longer. A micro-sized information box in the app would randomly show up after a set and force users to re-start. We hunted down a tiny error that caused the tiny pop up and it should no longer be a problem.
• Touch ups and bug squashing. As usual stability has been tweaked, bugs and crashes should be less common as a result.

What’s New 🚨

Video data overlay and easy sharing Metric now has a visualisation of your data placed on your lift video. This can help you understand how each rep looks and relate it back to your velocity. With the addition of a share button its now even easier to post your lifts to social, or quickly send them to your coach.

Rest timer Keep honest about your rest times with a new timer on the menu bar. It starts counting as soon as your last rep ends so you don’t have to do a thing!

Video re-processing Some older devices could struggle to keep up with the Metric computer vision algorithm during live recording. Now Metric will automatically detect if your device dropped frames and quickly re-process videos to confirm everything is accurate!

Fixes 🐛

• Weight field now allows comma’s to denote decimal place. Metric was not recognising European keyboard entry on the weight field. Region localisation is now turned on so Metric can be used no matter where you are!
• Missing video thumbnails have been found. Metric would sometimes show an ugly placeholder where the video thumbnail should be. Now it will always show you getting ready to max out!
• Kicking you out of the highlights screen shouldn’t be a thing. Metric was shooting people back from the screen with the bar charts before they could actually look at them. We couldn’t actually replicate this issue but Metric has been changed so that this is less likely to happen… (Let us know if you spot this bug?!)

What’s New 🚨

Metric VBT now publicly available on the App Store for iOS
We are thrilled to be able to launch the first public version of Metric VBT. Metric allows users to record a set of a barbell lift and immediately receive accurate velocity and range of motion analysis.

Find Metric VBT here.

User training data in the cloud
For now there is little change to the user experience compared to the last beta, but Metric now connects to a cloud storage database which will allow future performance tracking features to be built!

Improved ✨

• Added 0% velocity loss support card. Sometimes Metric reports 0% velocity loss across a set, and that can be confusing! So now there is a support card explaining why this happens.
• Changed highlight information for single rep sets. Similarly you can’t have fatigue or variance on singles, so the highlights cards now show no value for these.

Fixes 🐛

• Tapability of cards. Some of Metric’s cards which looked tapable would not respond to taps if you didn’t tap the text or icon. Now the entire card can be tapped and Metric will respond as you expect (by opening the card!)

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What’s New 🚨

Account creation
Metric now requires users to create an account. In the future your user profile will allow Metric to track your velocity data over time and much more!

Error messages and information
Metic will now report when your data may be inaccurate due to errors in phone positioning. Messages point users to a guide for these common errors, helping you quickly make adjustments to your set up.

Improved ✨

• Shortened introduction flow. We removed instructions about keeping the phone stationary from the onboarding because Metric now actually checks that your phone is stationary before recording, and warns you if it isn’t.

Fixes 🐛

• Various text and UI colour changes. Do you ever notice spelling mistakes after hitting send on an email? App interface design is like that, and since launching the new UI we have spotted a lot of little things and got to work fixing them.
• Various crash fixes. Metric was crashing and having issues with some phones on iOS14, and was being limited to 30FPS on some front facing cameras. Metric should now no longer have these issues.

What’s New 🚨

New user interface design
‍Metric has been completely re-designed thanks to the feedback of our early testers. This new user interface features:

• A persistent bottom menu lets you can start a new set with fewer taps
• Refined Set Review screen following Apple design conventions
• Highlighted stats which can be expanded
• Graph and table design refinements for better clarity
• The ability to review your set video from all the major screens
• Consistent dark/light mode colour scheme

Improved ✨

• Set data retained until a new set is recorded. Metric now holds onto your set data right up until you actually record your next set. Leaving the Set Review screen will not delete this data.
• Unit type permanence. Previously if you selected pounds for your weights Metric would sometimes be stubborn and convert everything to… well, metric! Metric now accepts that metric is not the only metric.
• Velocity trace auto-trim. The velocity trace now automatically trims to the first and last rep of a set, giving you a more focused view of how the set went minus all the pre-set fluffing around.
• Ongoing improvement to algorithm precision. Metric more accurately tracks velocity and range of motion data than ever before.
• Tweaked the acceleration triggers. You probably won’t notice but Metric is just a little faster at starting a set now!

Fixes 🐛

• Removed Trap Bar Jumps and Squat Jumps. This is a temporary measure as Metric was throwing errant results for these explosive lifts. A future release will bring these back when Metric can confidently handle explosive lifts!
• Various crash fixes. The endless hunt for the source of crashes on certain devices continues. Metric is now more efficient than ever, meaning many commonly reported crashes should be resolved.
• Video rotation fix. Sometimes Metric would warp and stretch your video in unexpected ways. Now Metric should present videos as expected.
• Camera preview dropout fix. Some users experienced a camera preview dropout while recording multiple sets in a row. We believe we found the culprit for this behaviour, and Metric should now correctly show you what Metric is seeing when recording.

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Improved ✨

• Enhancement to the velocity detection algorithm.
  The increase in fidelity with version 0.2.0 exposed a skew in Metric’s measurement of fast movements where bar speed exceeded ~0.8m/s mean velocity. This update removes this skew at faster velocity, further improving Metric’s validity and correlation to MOCAP reference data. Users may see notable change to their reported velocity for fast reps.

Fixes 🐛

• Fixed a selection of annoying crashes.
  Metric pushes some older devices to the limit, often asking too much (of their memory and graphic processing). Metric is now less demanding, so older devices should no longer throw in the towel during sets!

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Improved ✨

• MAJOR UPGRADE to the velocity detection algorithm.
  Metric has been overhauled to enable high frame rate analysis at higher video resolution. This results in superior measurement fidelity and processing speed. Metric could previously process live video at 480p resolution at throttled frames per second. Significant re-writing of code now enables live video processing at HD 720p resolution and 60 frames per second. To say we are ecstatic about this update is an understatement!
• Tweaking the movement triggers that end set recording.
  Metric should end the set recording when you pick up your device, but not when you bump it or drop weights. The device accelerometer monitoring has been tuned to better distinguish events and this should prevent set recording from ending early. We expect the trigger algorithm will need further refinement but this version should be a big step in the right direction!

Fixes 🐛

• Fixed a selection of annoying crashes. Metric would spontaneously and dramatically stop in the middle of some users’ workouts. Now it should be more considerate and keep working for as long as you do.
• Made the results table display more reps. Some users (who apparently enjoy pain and discomfort) would do sets of more than 17 reps. Metric previously couldn’t scroll that far on the results table, but now displays as many rows as required to pinpoint the exact moment you lost the will to go on.
• Reduced media playback cut-outs. Your music or podcasts will cut-out at least 50% less often when starting sets. The other 50% is still unresolved but we continue to aim for perfection!

Improved ✨

• Update to the ROM measurement algorithm. Metric uses a velocity threshold to determine the starting point of each rep when calculating ROM. This could result in overly short ROM for very slow reps. Now the algorithm waits for the velocity threshold, but travels back in time to where the bar first moved. As a result, the Metric ROM calculation is now more accurate without counting false reps.
• Sticking-point recognition. When you hit a sticking point Metric would sometimes think you had actually reached the end of your rep. Now Metric believes in you, and will keep measuring the rep all the way to the top as you grind it out!
• Refined the device movement trigger for ending recordings. Metric stops recording when you pick up your phone. Previously the movement trigger was a little too sensitive, and vibrations from dropping weights could end your set too early. Metric should now recognise the difference between vibrations and you actually picking up your phone.

Fixes 🐛

• Fixed a bug that resulted in some users experiencing a crash while recording their sets. We were able to replicate the bug and Metric should now stay open and continue recording instead of just quietly giving up.
• Tidied up pixels that were not quite up to par with a few UI tweaks (thanks Andrew!) so the interface is now in a better place.

Fixes 🐛

• Fixed a bug where after selecting your weight Metric would correctly display the camera briefly, before incorrectly returning you back to the weight selection screen. This was due to a known problem with certain versions of iOS 14. Now instead of being refused entry to the future of VBT, Metric users on iOS 14 can actually experience it!
• Changed the app settings so it is no longer available on iPad. Truthfully Metric wasn’t built for iPad, so users who installed it found everything was a bit off. One day soon we will make a version for iPad… but that is not today!

What’s New 🚨

Movement warnings prior to recording

‍Because the device must be stationary to correctly measure velocity, Metric now features warnings when the phone is moved or not in a vertical position. This prevents you from recording sets before the camera is correctly positioned.

Picking up the device ends recording

To make it faster to end a set simply pick up your phone. Metric will automatically stop the recording when it detects movement.

Removed video upload feature

Now that in-app recording is working great, we no longer need the ability to upload footage from the camera roll for testing. This simplifies using the app, and also stops users uploading videos that have movement or the wrong camera settings, both of which were resulting in sub-par data.

Improvements ✨

• Velocity-time trace graph upgraded. Metric now shows a much better looking and more readable graph.
• Minor changes to text sizing and colours.

Fixes 🐛

• Fixed a text wrapping issue on some crucial pieces of information on several buttons and alerts. There’s nothing worse than when a sentence just…
• Certain progress indicators were not being displayed at the right time. They now show up where they should, letting you know that Metric is processing your video rather than frozen!

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What’s New 🚨

Set Summary Page

After your set you will now be directed straight to a set summary highlighting key numbers from your set like best rep velocity, velocity loss and ROM variance

Bar charts

We now have a rep-by-rep bar chart in the Set Review screen which helps if you are the visual type! It is excellent for understanding how performance changed over the course of your set.

Onboarding tutorial

The key instructions for using Metric are now in an illustrated onboarding when you open the app for the first time, and also available from a Help button on the Home Screen.

Improvements ✨

• Enhanced post-set workflow.
  When you have finished reviewing a set you can now save it and immediately start your next set with the press of a single button.

Fixes 🐛

• Fixed landscape orientation killing the app. We have locked the app in Vertical orientation to prevent it becoming very not functional if you turned your phone on its side.
• In certain cases racking and un-racking the bar was being mis-categorised as a rep. The rep detection model should now properly ignore racking and un-racking!

What’s New 🚨

HD Video

Metric records sets in HD from either the rear or front-facing camera at 60 FPS. This means when you save the video to your camera roll it will be nice and crispy, just like your lifts.

Exercise and load picker

Prior to recording you can now select your exercise and weight. This information is then displayed on the Set Review screen so you can remember what you are looking at. If you screenshot your results this is quite helpful.

Improvements ✨

• Listen to music while recording your sets.
  Previously when recording a set the video camera would take control of the audio, interrupting whatever you had playing. We wrestled the audio back under your control so you can keep smashing PRs to Tay Tay!
• Less numbers on the review screen.
  We have simplified the set analysis page to just highlight Mean Velocity and ROM. We also reduced decimal places to make the results table much easier on the eyes.
• **The rep and velocity detection model got better (again).
  **Uploaded videos process much faster, and missed reps should be few and far between now.

Fixes 🐛

• Fixed a strange flicker where dark-mode or light-mode switched for a moment when going from recording back to the app home screen. The flicker is no more.
• Fixed a crash which happened for some users on first installing the app. Metric was asking too many questions about your device when you opened it. It’s much more restrained now. Everything is on a need-to-know basis.