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Strength training on Apple Watch.

Your iPhone stays in the locker. The watch shows the target, you check it off, it times your rest.

In short

With Tarvo, you train on your Apple Watch even without your iPhone nearby: the watch shows weight and reps for every set, you check it off, and it times your rest. When your iPhone is back in range, every set arrives exactly once.

One set at a time.

The watch shows only the set that’s up: exercise, set 2 of 3, weight and reps. If a number is off, turn the crown, in the same steps as the app. Tap the check, and your rest starts.

Tarvo on Apple Watch Ultra: bench press, set 2 of 3, 82.5 kg × 8

Rest fills the screen.

A ring with the time left, the next set below it, plus −15 s, +15 s and Skip. When your rest is over, the watch taps your wrist.

The question on your wrist too.

After the last set of an exercise, the watch asks how many more you could have done: 0, 1, 2 or 3+. Then it shows what your answer does. A personal best shows up in gold right away.

Without your iPhone nearby.

Open Tarvo on your iPhone once, and your workout is on the watch. From then on, you start it on the watch, even with your iPhone in the locker. When it’s back in range, Tarvo syncs and every set arrives exactly once.

Heart rate and Apple Health.

The watch shows your heart rate during the workout and saves it to Apple Health as strength training with heart rate and calories, if you allow it.

And without an Apple Watch?

Then your iPhone’s Lock Screen shows your rest and the next set. Tarvo works fully with just your iPhone.

Questions

Which Apple Watch do I need?

An Apple Watch with watchOS 26 or later.

Do I need my iPhone at the gym?

No. The watch shows the target, times your rest and syncs with your iPhone later.

Can I swap exercises on the watch?

No. Swapping exercises and building plans happens on your iPhone. The watch is for training.

Do I need a separate subscription for the watch?

No. Your subscription covers iPhone and Apple Watch.

Keep going

Leave your iPhone in the locker.

Tarvo runs on Apple Watch, with everything you need while you train.