A free Apple Watch app for logging your lifts, with or without your iPhone

What can you do with WLog on Apple Watch?

• Start any routine from the watch.
• Log sets and change reps and weight with a swipe or the Digital Crown. A logged set can be fixed or undone.
• Log with a double tap of your fingers on watchOS 11 or later (Apple Watch Series 9 or later).
• Run the rest timer, with a haptic tap when the rest target is reached.
• See live heart rate, calories and elapsed time while the workout runs.
• See last session's numbers on the wrist, and a PR badge when you beat a record.
• Glance at the watch face: complications and a Smart Stack widget show what is up next, your weekly goal ring, and live set progress and rest timer.
• Train without the phone: once your routines have synced, the watch runs the whole session by itself and hands it to the iPhone later.

Do you need your iPhone with you?

No. Once your routines have synced from the iPhone, the watch can start, run and finish a session by itself, so the phone can stay in the locker. You need the phone for setup: routines are created and edited in the iPhone app, not on the watch. Among the other apps, Strong advertises Apple Watch logging with or without the iPhone, Hevy says watch workouts save when the watch reconnects to the iPhone, and Fitbod needs the iPhone to start and save a workout.

1. Build or import your routines in the iPhone app. Routines cannot be created on the watch.
2. Let them sync to the watch while the iPhone is nearby.
3. Pick a routine on the watch and start. From here the watch does not need the phone.
4. Finish the workout on the watch. It is saved to Apple Health, and the watch hands the session to the iPhone later.

Does WLog work on Wear OS?

Yes. WLog has a free Wear OS app on Google Play with the same logging: pick a routine and start, log sets, change reps and weight with a swipe or the rotating crown or bezel, fix or undo a logged set, and follow the rest timer, live heart rate and calories, with last session's numbers and a PR badge on the wrist. Once your routines have synced, it runs a session without the phone nearby; routines are created on the phone, not on the watch. A Tile shows what is up next, your weekly goal, and live set progress and rest timer, and there is a watch-face complication.

Does it save workouts to Apple Health?

Yes. The watch saves the session to Apple Health as a strength-training workout. On the iPhone, WLog writes finished workouts to Apple Health and syncs body weight in both directions.

How do Apple Watch workout apps compare?

Is the WLog Apple Watch app free?

Yes. The watch app needs no subscription, and neither does automatic progression: hit your reps on the watch and the weight still goes up for next session. The Wear OS app is free too. The plate-by-plate loading picture is PRO on both watches, as it is on the phone. JEFIT, by comparison, lists its watch app under Elite.