Apple Watch app: WristDeck

Actually, I built the app roughly a year ago, but I realized I didn’t write about it anywhere. Since I often share my website for job applications and portfolio purposes, I thought it’s high time I share this project too. Many things I work on end up forgotten, possibly because I question if they’re worth documenting. The same applies to this app, but after a year of personal use, I find it quite cool. So, for all my non-existent readers, here’s a post about it.

The meat

A bit over a year ago I decided that it was time to get fit. So I signed up for a gym membership and started going.

Whilst there I got a training program to follow from a trainer every other month and I started doing those. But I found it really annoying to have to keep looking at my phone to see what exercise I was supposed to do next. Not only that, the locker system was a bit annoying. You didn’t get to pick your own locker, you just got assigned one. So I had to remember which locker I was assigned, and then remember the number.

Which I didn’t. More than once. Because I was not paying attention.

So naturally, instead of paying attention, I spent some time building an app to help me with this instead.

The app

The app is a straightforward list of decks and slides. Each deck, representing a training schedule for a specific day or a recipe to cook, contains slides (exercises or ingredients and steps) that can be swiped through.

Editing is possible on both the phone and the watch, and data syncs seamlessly through iCloud.

A standout feature is the “quick note,” a stored text field where I conveniently save the locker number.

Built entirely in Swift with SwiftUI, the app is not only fast but also lightweight, weighing in at just 2.2MB.

Link to the App store page: WristDeck

Some screenshots (just a couple, the rest is on the app store page):