Last updated: 2026-09-05
WorkoutSmith is built and supported by one person. If something is broken, or if you cannot work out how something is meant to work, the routes below reach him directly.
If you have the app installed, the fastest route is the in-app feedback form: Settings → Send feedback. There is also a speech-bubble button in the navigation bar on the main tabs that opens the same form. It is better than email for a bug report, because it carries the context a fix needs and an email cannot: your app version and build, your device model, your iOS version, the screen you were on and the last few screens you visited, your language, time zone, free storage, and how long since the phone was restarted. The form shows you that list before you send it. You can attach a screenshot, and you can attach the app’s diagnostic log, which is the last 24 hours of what the app and your watch were doing and which stays on your device unless you choose to send it. No workouts, lifts, or health data are ever attached.
No account is needed to send feedback, and you can send it without your name.
Feedback is copied once a day into a private spreadsheet that only the developer reads. What it does not have is a reply channel — the form sends one way, so if you need an answer, use email.
By email: workoutsmithgeneralcontact@gmail.com. It is read by the developer personally. Use it if you do not have the app installed, if you cannot get into it, or if you want a reply.
If you are writing about a bug, the two things that make it fixable are what you expected to happen and what happened instead. A screenshot is worth more than a description of a screen.
WorkoutSmith asks Google for two permissions when you connect Sheets, and they are not equally narrow. Google’s consent screen shows you both, so it is worth knowing which is which.
drive.file is the narrow one. Google describes it as “only the specific Google
Drive files you use with this app”, and that is exactly what it does. It is what
lets the app put a new spreadsheet into your Drive, and it gives no view of
anything else in there.
spreadsheets is the wider one, and Google classes it as sensitive. It covers
seeing, editing, creating and deleting your Google Sheets spreadsheets, and it
is not limited to the files the app made. It is asked for because there is
no narrower permission that can read and write cell values, and reading and
writing cell values is the whole feature: without it there is no export to edit
and no import to bring back.
What the app does with it is a good deal narrower than what it is allowed to do. It never lists, searches, or browses your Drive, and there is no file picker in it. It touches the spreadsheets it creates for you and the ones whose links you paste in yourself, and nothing else. It has no way to find a sheet you have not handed it, and it never asks Google for one.
If that is more than you want to give, do not connect Google Sheets. Nothing else in the app depends on it, and Settings → App integrations → Google Sheets disconnects it later and tells Google to revoke the grant.
What the importer cares about is the layout, not which file it is. It reads the sheet your link points to and checks that the columns and rows are the ones the export laid down, so keep that shape intact when you edit. If you made a copy of the exported sheet and edited the copy, import the copy’s link rather than the original’s. If the app says it could not find that spreadsheet, the link is wrong, or you are connected with a different Google account from the one that owns the sheet.
How the round trip works. From the Plan tab you can Export this program to Google Sheets, edit it in Google Sheets, and then Import a program from Google Sheets to bring your changes back. The sheet has to be one the app made for you: either an export of a program, or the starting sheet the import screen can create for you. A blank spreadsheet you built yourself cannot be imported, because the exported sheet is what establishes the format.
Workout history goes out and does not come back. In Settings, Export workout history to Google Sheets makes a spreadsheet of every set you have logged, in your own Drive, to keep, chart, or send to somebody. There is no import for it, and that is deliberate rather than missing: your logged history is the record of what you actually did, and a path that let it be overwritten from a spreadsheet would make every number in the app worth less.
If the Sheets rows say Google Sheets is not set up, or Google refuses a permission, disconnect and reconnect under Settings → App integrations → Google Sheets, and allow both boxes on Google’s screen.
WorkoutSmith does not sell, host, or provide AI. Everything else in the app works with no AI configured at all: logging, progression, the program builder, walking and running, Adventure, and Compete.
The optional coaching conversation runs on an API key you fetch yourself and paste into Settings → AI coach, either a Google Gemini key from Google AI Studio or an Anthropic Claude key from the Anthropic Console. The app walks you through getting one. Requests are billed to your own account with that company, not to WorkoutSmith. Your key is stored only on your device, in the Keychain, and is never stored on the server or written to logs.
So if the coach is asking you for a key, nothing has gone wrong. That is the design. You can also choose No AI coach and keep everything else.
The AI is not what a WorkoutSmith subscription buys. It is your own purchase from Google or Anthropic, and it works the same whether you subscribe or not.
There are two monthly subscriptions, in one subscription group, so you can move between them:
| WorkoutSmith Premium | $4.99 per month |
| WorkoutSmith Coach | $24.99 per month |
Which one you want. Premium is for your own training, and it lets you coach up to 2 people at a time. That is a concurrent limit, not a lifetime one: if you take back a program you shared with somebody, the place is free again. WorkoutSmith Coach is for people who coach others and need more than two, and it includes everything in Premium. If you do not coach anybody, Premium is the one.
There is a free introductory period, and its length is shown to you on the purchase screen before you pay. It is available once per Apple ID across both tiers, so moving between Premium and Coach does not start a second one.
The prices above are in US dollars. The App Store shows the price in your own currency, including any tax, before you confirm.
Apple handles the billing, not us. Every subscription is bought through your Apple ID, so cancellations and refunds go through Apple and cannot be done from inside the app or by emailing the developer.
You can see where you stand at any time under Settings → Subscription.
The full policy is here: Privacy Policy.
The short version, for a support question: your workouts, your health data, and your entire training history live on your iPhone, not on a server. There is one server and it exists only for the social features. There are no ads, no analytics SDKs, and no tracking.
You can delete everything yourself, from inside the app, without emailing anybody. There are two separate controls in Settings, because they do different things:
Both ask twice, and neither can be undone. What survives each one, and the one narrow exception to deletion, is set out in full in the privacy policy. You can export your data before you delete anything.
WorkoutSmith carries things other people write, such as handles, display names, challenge and group names, and the labels and notes on a race course. If you see something that does not belong in the app, or somebody behaving badly, report it.
How to report: use Settings → Send feedback, or email workoutsmithgeneralcontact@gmail.com. Both go straight to the developer, who reads every one. Say what you saw, where you saw it, and the handle or name involved. A screenshot helps more than anything else. Content that breaks the rules is removed, and an account can be removed from a race or from the service.
The person you report is never shown who reported them. A report is not visible to the person it is about.
Blocks are listed under Settings → Blocked people, where you can also lift one. A block is enforced on the server rather than merely hidden on your phone: neither of you sees the other anywhere in the app, cheers stop in both directions, and on race boards and standings a blocked person appears to you as a hidden participant. If you were friends, that ends. The person you block is not told.
If you need somebody blocked and cannot do it yourself, email the address above and say who.
Do I need an account? Not to train. Logging, programs, progression, Apple Health, Adventure, and the walking and running tab all work signed out. Signing in is only for the social features: friends, challenges, leagues, and races.
Where did my session go? It did not go anywhere. If you close the app mid-set, or the battery dies, the session is waiting where you left it when you reopen the app.
Apple Health is not showing my workouts. Health access is granted per category, and iOS remembers a refusal. Check iOS Settings → Health → Data Access & Devices → WorkoutSmith and confirm the categories are switched on.
Can I use kilograms? Not yet.
workoutsmithgeneralcontact@gmail.com, or Settings → Send feedback inside the app.
WorkoutSmith is published by Michael Lee, an individual developer based in Massachusetts, USA.