Everything in Built, plus the thing nearly every other app ignores: where you are in your cycle, and what that actually does to a heavy session.
The cycle apps track your phase and leave the training to you. The workout apps program you as a smaller man. This does both jobs in one place, so neither has to guess.
Heavy work timed to your follicular phase, deloads timed to where you actually are instead of a fixed week four. Onboarding can read your last period from Apple Health — and tells you where the date came from.
The same weight feeling heavier in your luteal phase is physiology, not failure. Shaped knows the difference and doesn't quietly downgrade your program over it.
HRV, resting heart rate and sleep, judged against your own trailing baseline rather than a population average. Two or more signals off and the day's working weights come down — with the reason stated. No baseline yet? It changes nothing and says nothing.
Handled deliberately and safely rather than ignored or bluntly blocked, with programming that changes as you do.
Shoot your LabCorp or Quest report. Every marker is extracted, interpreted against athletic-optimal ranges rather than the lab's sick-or-not bands, and flagged if it needs attention.
Calories and macros from an actual TDEE calculation, adjusted by your measured burn instead of a self-reported activity guess. Photograph a meal and it logs the macros.
A readiness score you have to interpret is just another number. When Shaped changes something, it says what it changed and why, in the words a coach would use.
“You're on day 24 — luteal. That set felt heavy because it was heavy today, not because you've stalled. Holding the target and we'll push again next week.”
Shaped reading the same logged set differently, because of where you are.Log sets from the wrist and let the haptic rest timer tap you when it's time to lift again — the phone stays in the bag. The coaching comes with it.
Weight, sleep, heart rate and calorie burn flow in through Apple Health — read from whatever your watch, ring or scale already writes there. Nothing new to buy, nothing to re-log.
Profile, weight history, food logs, lifts and bloodwork are stored locally on your own phone — with no server-side copy. The only thing that travels is the question you ask your coach.
No. Shaped is natural-first strength and nutrition coaching. There is no performance-enhancing content in the app.
No. The programming, deload timing and how a heavy set gets interpreted all change with your cycle, and onboarding asks the questions that makes possible. Everything Built does is also in here.
You can turn cycle-aware programming off entirely and the rest of the app works exactly as it would otherwise. Nothing is gated behind it.
No. Programs are built around the equipment you actually have — full gym, home rack, dumbbells only, or bodyweight.
Yes — Shaped is on the App Store and Google Play. The watch app and Apple Health features arrive with version 1.1.
Free to start, no card to try. One minute of setup and it starts asking the right questions.
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