Fitbod’s Apple Watch app works alongside the iPhone app. Start and save workouts from your iPhone while your Apple Watch lets you log sets, track your rest timer, and monitor heart rate during your workout.
Table of Contents
Requirements
What you can do on your Apple Watch
What requires your iPhone
How to install Fitbod onto your Apple Watch
How Fitbod uses Apple Health data
FAQ
Requirements
Fitbod requires iOS 18 and watchOS 10 or later. Older versions may continue to work, but compatibility isn’t guaranteed. For the best experience, keep both devices up to date.
Note: Always On display is not currently supported.
What you can do on your Apple Watch
During an active workout, your Apple Watch can:
- Log sets and mark exercises complete
- Adjust reps, weight, distance, duration, resistance, incline, or band setting per set
- Add or remove sets during a workout (up to 9 sets per exercise)
- Show your rest timer with haptic and audio cues
- Display your live heart rate
What requires your iPhone
- Starting a workout: Your watch will prompt "Start workout on your iPhone"
- Swapping or adding exercises during an in-progress workout
- Saving your workout: Tapping Finish on your watch ends the session and your iPhone logs it
How to install Fitbod onto your Apple Watch
In most cases, Fitbod installs on your watch automatically when you install it on your iPhone. If it doesn't:
- Open the Watch app on your iPhone
- Go to the My Watch tab
- Scroll to Available Apps
- Find Fitbod and tap Install
How Fitbod uses Apple Health data
During workouts, Fitbod reads heart rate data from your Apple Watch in real time to help refine calorie estimates. When you save a workout, Fitbod writes the completed workout and calorie data to Apple Health.
When you first connect Apple Health, Fitbod can also import profile information such as height, weight, age, and gender to help personalize your workouts.
Note: For more details about Apple Health permissions and syncing behavior see: Apple Health.
FAQ
Does Fitbod for Apple Watch work without my iPhone nearby?
Fitbod for Apple Watch is designed as a companion app, not a standalone experience. After starting a workout on your iPhone, you can use your Apple Watch throughout the workout to log sets, track your rest timer, and monitor heart rate without interacting with your phone. Your iPhone is still required to swap or add exercises and to finalize and save the completed workout.
Why does my timer appear frozen or my rest notifications not fire?
Fitbod's Apple Watch app doesn't currently support Always On display. When your watch screen dims, the rest timer pauses and may not fire a rest notification. A few things that help:
- Disable Always On on your Apple Watch (Settings > Display & Brightness > Always On)
- Raise your wrist or tap your watch when a rest period ends to advance to the next set
I'm unable to install Fitbod on my Apple Watch. What should I do?
Make sure your Apple Watch is running the latest version of watchOS that it supports. Then try reinstalling Fitbod on your iPhone. Your watch should pick it up automatically.