The round timer that works with the connection off.
Thirty seconds before the first round, phone propped on the bench, no signal in the garage. Workouts opens, beeps through your rounds, and remembers what you ran. No ads, no account, no server: everything, including the library of your own gear and exercises, lives on the device.
How it works.
The timer is finished. The library is where the app is growing.
Set the rounds.
One or more active periods per round, a rest between them or once after the round, a short preparation countdown. Save the shape as a preset: three minutes on, one off for the bag; twenty on, ten off for the Tabata.
Run it, phone on the floor.
A big ring counts each period down, the screen says Burn or Rest, and a beep marks every transition. Pause, skip, reset, or stop and save. It runs until you stop it, and picks up where it was when you come back to the page.
Keep the record.
Every saved session lands in the history with its duration and a line per period, which almost no free web timer keeps. Expand a session to read it, delete it if it was a false start.
Build your library, in order.
Add your gear first, then the exercises that use it, then programs that order those exercises. Text and type filters keep it findable. Runs of a single exercise or a piece of equipment open a sets table today; saving those runs and running whole programs are still being built.
Who it is for.
People who train with what they own, wherever they are.
Garage and home circuits.
Tabata, EMOM, custom circuits. Several active periods per round, rest where you want it, presets you keep, beeps you hear from across the room. No signal needed, no ad between rounds.
Boxing and martial arts rounds.
Three minutes on, one minute off, as many rounds as the bag can take. Set it once, save it as a preset, and read the round count from the floor. There is no round target: it runs until you stop it.
Library builders.
You do not need a catalogue of three thousand machines you will never touch. You need your two bars and your twelve exercises, with the notes only you will read, on a device that works with no signal.
Coaches, coming.
Every item already has a private note and a shareable one, and the app has a Clients page and a Share page waiting behind a sign-in. Both say coming today, and they mean it. There is no coach plan and no price for one.
What to expect.
The honest state of the app, so nothing surprises you after the first session.
No ads, no account, no server.
Libraries, sessions, presets and history are stored in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, the app loads no analytics or third-party script, and there is nothing to pay for because there is no server to pay for. Sign in only for the two pages that will need it, sharing and clients, and those are not finished yet.
Screen lock, said honestly.
The running session is saved when you leave the page and resumes where it was when you come back. Keep the screen on while it runs: browsers pause audio on a locked phone, so a locked phone means no beep.
No watch.
Workouts is a web app. There is no Apple Watch or Wear OS version, and none is planned. The phone on the floor and the laptop on the bench are the targets.
What is still being built.
Running a whole program, saving exercise and equipment runs to the history, sharing items with other people, client management and body-weight logs. Each of those pages exists and says so.
Numbers.
Workouts is free, all of it, and stays that way: nothing runs on a server, so there is nothing to charge for.
- 0
- ads, accounts, servers
- 30 s
- default work and rest
- 5 s
- default preparation
- 1
- line per period in the history
Questions people ask.
Does it need an account?
No. The app runs entirely on your device. Sharing and client management will need a sign-in when they ship.
Does the timer keep going if I leave the page?
The running session is saved when you navigate away inside the app and resumes when you come back. Keep the screen on while it runs: browsers pause audio on a locked phone.
Why is it free?
Because it costs nothing to run. Nothing is uploaded and no server holds your data, so there is no bill to pass on. The other Sintopia apps have a paid plan for the part that runs on a server; Workouts has no such part.
Can I log sets and weight?
Running one exercise or one piece of equipment opens a sets table: reps, an optional weight in kilograms, a done checkbox per set. Those runs are not saved to the history yet; the HIIT timer is what the history records today.
Can I run a full program?
Not yet. Program runs are marked as coming; single exercises and equipment run today.
Set a Tabata and go.
Twenty on, ten off. Save it as a preset the first time.
Workouts is part of Sintopia, a suite of small tools by Arasaka.