The honest answers, not the marketing ones.

Does Platepusher have a subscription?

Yes, and a lifetime option too. Platepusher offers three tiers, all live, all shipping the same Pro feature set:

• Monthly — $4.99 per month
• Yearly — $29.99 per year (includes a 7-day free trial; converts unless cancelled)
• Lifetime — $99.99 one-time

The lifter picks the shape that fits a training career. There is no auto-charging trial that silently bills your card, no paywalled historical data, no hidden cancel flow, and no price ratchet on existing lifetime buyers.

Is there a free trial?

The yearly tier includes a 7-day free trial that converts to a paid yearly subscription unless cancelled before day 7, disclosed before purchase. The monthly tier has no trial. The lifetime tier has no trial because there is nothing to convert from.

The app itself is free to download. The free tier covers the full workout logger, CSV import and export, the Apple Watch app, rest timer, plate calculator, and the 815-exercise catalog.

Will the lifetime price ever go up?

The lifetime price you paid is the price you paid. Platepusher does not ratchet pricing on existing lifetime buyers. If the lifetime price changes for new purchases in the future, it has no effect on lifetime accounts already created.

What happens if I stop paying for Pro?

Your entire training history stays accessible. The free tier always includes the workout logger, history view, plan editor, CSV export, CSV import, the Apple Watch app, rest timer, plate calculator, and the exercise catalog — none of that is paywalled at any point.

Pro-only surfaces (plateau detection, regression flags, fatigue indicators, the full Insights surface, Standout Moments) go dark when Pro lapses, but no data is held hostage and re-subscribing brings them back instantly.

Can the developer see my workout data?

No, but the honest version is more specific than "we don't look." Platepusher's database (Supabase Postgres, operated by SailQuery LLC) enforces row-level security at the database layer — Postgres itself refuses cross-user reads. A curious developer or a bug in the app code cannot bypass that boundary without breaking Supabase authentication.

Workout values (weights, reps, exercise notes) never leave the database as analytics properties. The only events captured are anonymous counts like "workout finished" and "paywall viewed," which you can opt out of in Settings. No ad SDKs, no attribution networks, no data brokers.

Where is my data stored?

The canonical store is Supabase Postgres, operated by SailQuery LLC in its own dedicated project. The iPhone and Apple Watch keep a local cache for offline-first logging — every set you log writes locally first, then syncs to the server when network returns. Multi-device sync uses tombstoned propagation so deletes are durable across devices.

Server-side backups mean a lost phone doesn't lose a year of lifting. Platepusher does not use iCloud as its primary store.

What third-party services does Platepusher use?

Four, all disclosed:

• Supabase — canonical database and authentication.
• Sentry — crash reports. Workout values are never shipped as event properties.
• PostHog — anonymous product analytics, event names only ("workout finished," "paywall viewed"), no weight, rep, or exercise values. Opt out in Settings.
• OpenAI — one feature only. When you paste plan text on the Plan screen, the text is sent to OpenAI to be structured into a native plan before you save it. Disabled if you do not use that feature.

Sign-in is Apple or Google; no passwords are stored. Apple HealthKit access is optional and local-only — bodyweight reads in, completed workouts write out, never synced to the Platepusher server.

Can I export my data?

Yes, free tier, one tap. Settings → Data → Export all data writes a CSV in Strong's column shape (Date, Workout, Exercise, Set, Weight, Reps, Notes, Duration) covering every completed workout. The export is not paywalled at any tier and is not throttled. If you ever decide to leave, your data leaves with you.

What happens to my data if I delete my account?

Account deletion is server-first (Apple App Store guideline 5.1.1(v) compliant). When you confirm Delete account in Settings, the server cascades through workouts, exercises, sets, plans, and tombstones, then the local cache is wiped. If the server delete fails, the local cache is preserved so you can retry. The action is irreversible once the server confirms; export your CSV first if you want a record.

Is Platepusher an AI coach?

No. Platepusher does not prescribe sets, recommend lifts, or chat with you about training. There is exactly one LLM-backed surface in the entire product — the optional plan-text import on the Plan screen, where pasted training text is structured into a native plan via OpenAI before you save it.

Everything else (plateau detection, regression flags, volume trends, fatigue indicators, the full Insights surface) is deterministic calculation, not AI. The product posture is observational: surface what is changing in your training, do not tell you what to do. Many Platepusher lifters already have a coach and explicitly do not want a second opinion from an app.

How does plateau detection work?

Plateau detection is a deterministic calculation, not AI. For each exercise with enough exposure (at least four logged sessions), Platepusher computes a rolling best estimated 1RM, compares the most recent sessions against the rolling maximum, and flags a plateau when the trend has been flat or regressing past a confidence threshold tuned for training noise.

Regression flags follow the same logic but require a 5% drop from the rolling maximum. The math is the same every time; the same inputs produce the same flag. No model, no inference, no probabilistic recommendations.

Can I import my Strong workouts?

Yes. Export a CSV from Strong (Settings → Export), open Platepusher, go to Settings → Data → Import history, pick the file. Every workout, every set, every date, every note comes across as native data — imported sets are not stored as second-class rows, they are normal workouts indistinguishable from sessions logged inside Platepusher. Plateau detection and Insights start working on the imported history immediately.

Which other trackers can I import from?

Platepusher supports CSV imports from Strong, Hevy, Jefit, FitNotes (kilograms and pounds), Simple Workout Log, Progression, GymRun, Gymaholic, and generic CSV. XLSX is supported via an inline converter. The parser is widened against a 16-fixture test corpus across those formats.

Plan text (programming PDFs, coach messages, paragraph-style plan descriptions) imports separately via the Plan screen's plan-parser. Platepusher is not affiliated with any of those products.

Is Platepusher a Strong alternative?

Platepusher is built for experienced lifters who already log workouts and are quietly dissatisfied with trackers that stop at storage. It imports Strong history natively. The category-distinguishing posture is that training history should actually improve today's training — surface plateaus before the third stalled week, surface volume imbalances before they accumulate, surface what is changing without prescriptive AI coaching.

Whether that posture fits is a judgment for the individual lifter; the import is free either way, so trying it costs nothing.

Does Platepusher have an Apple Watch app?

Yes, native, included in the free tier. Start a workout on the phone or the watch — either direction works. The wrist surface handles set logging, rest timer, and complication-based glanceability. During working sets, the Apple Watch's heart-rate sensor feeds a fatigue indicator on the phone side so deload timing becomes visible from data instead of guess. HealthKit integration is optional and local-only.

Is there an Android version?

No. Platepusher is iPhone and Apple Watch only, iOS 17.0 and later. There is no Android version, no web app, and no third-party watch support.