Release Notes

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)

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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