Plates

ABABNEH LTD

About this app

Plates is a calm, private workout log built around the most iconic image in the iron gym: a fully loaded Olympic bar. Every exercise is a barbell on the platform; every set you lift is a fresh load of plates — weight × reps, written into the chrome; every personal record is a crown of red 25kg plates, sorted by estimated 1RM. The interface borrows from a working free-weights room: deep rubber-floor black, chrome bar lines, classic Olympic plate colours (red 25 / blue 20 / yellow 15 / green 10 / white 5), and the soft white of chalk on the wall.

THE FLOOR · The home screen
The home screen is the gym floor. A SLIM LEFT-EDGE NAVIGATION RAIL runs down the side with three icon buttons — FLOOR (home, active and underlined in red), REC. (records), RACK (catalogue & settings) — and the tiny "PLATES P" monogram at the bottom of the rail. This is a fundamentally different navigation pattern from the previous bottom-tab layout. The main content begins with the brand "PLATES" in big letter-spaced sans across the top-left, with the tagline "load the bar" in red italic underneath. At TOP-RIGHT — replacing the floating bottom FAB — a fat horizontal "+ LOAD" button rests like a power-rack pin, glowing red with a brass border. Tap it to pick a bar.

The hero is TODAY'S LOAD: a literal CHROME BARBELL loaded with coloured plates proportional to today's total volume. End caps, knurled centre, collars, and each side stacked with red/blue/yellow plates that grow as you log more sets. The big serif number underneath shows the actual total moved today in kg or lb, with SETS and DAY RUN beneath the bar. If the bar is empty, the readout says "empty bar — load it." Below the hero, every exercise you've already touched today is its own EXERCISE CARD with a thin coloured top stripe, the name, a meta line ("4× · 1,250kg · CHEST"), a circular "+" pin to add another set, and below — a list of SET LINES, each with a TINY PLATE-STACK PREVIEW (the actual coloured plates the weight breaks down to), the weight × reps, and a "★ PR" red badge if it was a record. Long-press to unload.

ON THE RACK shows the rest of the catalogue as a 2-COLUMN GRID. Each card has a coloured top stripe, the exercise name, primary muscle, a thin divider, and the PR weight in BIG red type — with a MINI PLATE-STACK PREVIEW above it showing the actual plates of that weight. A LAST FORTNIGHT chart plots daily volume as VERTICAL BARS COLOUR-CODED by intensity: yellow (light), blue (mid), red (heavy). A legend at the bottom explains the colour code.

THE QUICK-LOG MODAL now shows a LIVE PLATE BREAKDOWN of the weight you've typed — as you punch in 100, the modal renders the actual plate stack you'd load on each side. And the estimated 1RM ticks in monospace below.

ANVIL · Exercise detail (CipherDay)
Tap an exercise to open its full log. A coloured-stripe hero shows name and muscle. A PR CARD shows your heaviest single set in BIG serif with estimated 1RM, total sets, and total volume. A "＋ LOAD A SET" button kicks off the modal. Every set is grouped by day, newest first — each line with index, weight × reps, estimated 1RM, and ★ PR badge for records. Long-press a set to unload from the bar.

RECORDS · The PR rack
The records screen collects lifetime numbers — day-run, sets logged, total reps, total tonnage — in a clean 2×2 grid. A LAST FORTNIGHT volume chart plots daily volume with red/blue/yellow plate-colour bars. The PR RACK lists every exercise with a record, sorted by estimated 1RM. RECENT SESSIONS lists your last 8 days as cards with date, time, sets, exercises trained (clickable chips), and total volume.