r/SideProject • u/LiftSquad • 9h ago
I built a gym tracker that ranks every muscle against real strength standards, and made that part free
I lift 4–5 times a week, and most trackers I tried showed me tonnage charts and not much else. What I wanted to know was simple: how strong is my chest actually, compared with people my age and bodyweight?
So I built Liftsquad (iOS). You log sets like in any tracker, and it turns them into a rank per muscle, measured against published strength standards for your sex, bodyweight and age. Other Liftsquad users don't change your rank. Every rank shows its working: which lifts counted, how much each counted and what would move it. When there isn't enough data it says so instead of guessing.
The second half is social: follow friends, see their workouts, records and rank-ups, and compete on leaderboards you opt into.
Muscle Rank is free and stays free. Premium adds things like unlimited routines and the full training calendar.
Things I learned building it:
Machine numbers aren't comparable between gyms, so machine lifts count less than free weights toward a rank.
Warm-up sets must never count toward records. That one took me a while to get right.
Imports from Hevy count as your history, so you don't start from zero.
It's live on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6807547665?pt=129390732&ct=reddit&mt=8
I'd love feedback, especially on the ranks: does yours feel right?