🚀 RELEASE NOTES 📝
Here you will find a high level list of everything we released to RYSE during the week. This weekly list will include all new features, improvements, and bug fixes that we accomplished during the week.
Thank you RYSE fam for the support as Bryan and I build RYSE each day! ❤️
Jan 23 - Jan 29, 2023
🎉 New Features
The highly requested Rest Timer is LIVE!!
You can now use a built in “stopwatch” while logging your workouts
Use as a Rest Timer or to time your exercises like planks or wall sits
Change Username feature!
Get your RYSE username before the username real estate market gets HOTTT
Obscure Bangers playlist added to the Weekly mix
Available on the RYSE Spotify profile or from the weekly @ryseofficial post or profile
We take the songs that aren’t quite as guaranteed banger-ish and put them in their own playlist
Useful if you want to get an artist’s name out there or if you just know of a super, non-mainstream banger that you wish everyone on RYSE could know about
🛠 Improvements
Upgraded to Android 31, received a few user reports of app crashing, fixed and released a new version within a few hours (thanks @theaznsensation and @jesse)
Fix post tags so they show properly when shared (@rig)
Jan 9 - Jan 22, 2023
🎉 New Features
Milestones are now automatically tagged on Posts!
Congratulate others on achieving milestones
Tap milestone to open a drawer to see who else has completed that milestone
More to come here in the future!
RYSE Lifting Straps
We now sell RYSE Liftings Straps in the Merch store
All straps come with a QR code to scan and “Equip” your RYSE user with a pair of straps on your profile
The straps can be applied to the exercises you use them on while you are logging
They will accumulate stats, so you can see just how much you use your straps over time
🛠 Improvements
Redesigned swipe to “share” screens
UNDO button when you accidentally select “Recovery” while logging to get back to a normal workout (@jessylynnjo)
Add “Now” button to date/time of workout while logging to make it easier for those who preload workouts and log them the next day (@seanmontana)
Jan 1 - Jan 8, 2023
🎉 New Features
Achievements!!
The first RYSE Achievements were released
Look for super cool and trendy achievement badges on your Profile when you complete challenges and hit other milestones
See how many achievements you have and see others’ achievements as well
January Challenge
Log 15 workouts or recovery days in January and receive an Achievement on your Profile
Dec 19 - Dec 31, 2022
🎉 New Features
Remove Summary tab from Profile, move Highlights to be Pinned at the top of Posts grid, and adjust the middle section to make room for Achievements, Milestones, and more!!
Show “Form Feedback” feed if you have > 75 posts
🛠 Improvements
Show alert of profiles if the account where the account was deleted
Dec 12 - Dec 18, 2022
🎉 New Features
Send or Scan workout links with friends while logging!
If you are in the middle of logging a workout or pre-filled one out and want to share it with a friend, you can now send them a link that will open a new workout directly in RYSE or you can have them scan a QR code on your phone to auto-populate exercises and optionally include or exclude the weights
12 days of Liftmas Challenge
Log 12 workouts (or recoveries) from Dec 12 - Dec 31
Earn a sweet badge on your profile to let everyone know that gains are earned not gifted!
On Jan 1st, 3 winners will be randomly selected to receive the first ever RYSE lifting
straps!!!!
Dynamic notifications in Activity feed
Allows for one time push notifications from backend to persist somewhere for the user to re-engage with
Dec 5 - Dec 11, 2022
🎉 New Features
RYSE 2022 #gymWrapped!!
~2-3 minute personalized video similar to Spotify wrapped with all of your lifting stats for the year!
Reveal your #1 exercise, best lifts, weight lifted, and so much more.
Nov 14 - Nov 30, 2022
We are focused on building our 2nd annual Spotify Wrapped for the Gym!!! Will post more updates after the launch on Monday Dec 4, 2022 💪
To keep up with the build behind the scenes, checkout my tiktok
Nov 7 - Nov 13, 2022
🎉 New Features
RYSE Merch!
After receiving a lot of requests for RYSE merch and requests for how to help support RYSE, we launched RYSE Merch Season 1! Find the link at the top of your Home page or on the Discover page
Reminder Notifications!
“Forgot to Post” - After 255 (we counted) “Forgot to post” messages, we added a little reminder 2 hrs after you stop logging and haven’t posted 😉
Streak reminders - if you haven’t logged a workout or recovery by Friday, the app will notify you so you don’t lose your streaks!
Monthly Recap - the app will now send you a notification when your Monthly Recap is ready to view!
🪳Bug Fixes
Fixed “Duration” exercises displaying as reps on charts (thanks @a1)
Fixed “Workout not found” message that appears if your app reloads after being in the background and you haven’t logged anything yet
Oct 31 - Nov 6, 2022
🎉 New Features
Push Notification Deep linking - update your app in the App Store!
tapping on a notification will now open directly to the Post / Comment / Profile that the notification is about
Comments and being tagged in a post will now show some of the comment/post text in the notification
🛠 Improvements
Akatsuki themed October Recap
Share screens now produce images with a more standard height / width depending if it’s vertical, horizontal, or square so it can be more easily shared to more platforms
Oct 24 - Oct 30, 2022
🎉 New Features
Beta Feature - Send Workout and Scan workout QR code
consolidate Send and Scan workouts while logging into one drawer (similar to Venmo’s Scan/Send payment)
integrated QR code scanner within the app (can still use phone camera as backup)
🛠 Improvements
Improve push notification receiving while app is in foreground on both Android and iOS
Oct 17 - Oct 23, 2022
🎉 New Features
Deep Linking on iOS and Android is live! Make sure you are on the latest version of RYSE from the App Store!
Share a routine link with your workout buddies, so they can just click it and “start workout” without having to find the routine
Share a link to anyone’s post so you can directly land on the post and shower them with boosts and praise
When you “copy” and share a link (Profile, Post, Routine, etc), that link will take the user directly to that page in RYSE if they have RYSE installed on their phone. If not, the link will still open in a browser and behave as it did previously
🛠 Improvements
Fixed sorting on dashboard where if you just completed a workout that would show up first on graph instead of last - thanks @fira !
Show username letter if no profile picture
Speed up rendering of Share screens
Oct 10 - Oct 16, 2022
🎉 New Features
Ability to link a YouTube video on Create Exercise
The video will display under the “Details” tab while logging
Helpful for showing how to perform a lift
If someone else uses your custom exercise, they will also see the YouTube video
Added “What’s New?” link to Discover page to make it easier to see RYSE updates
PR tags while logging!
Added indicator to set PRs to show previous, new, and percent change - based on suggestion from @edgyveggie
Shown while you are logging so you can be surprised at how strong you've gotten in the moment
BETA Feature - “Send Workout” deep linking
Toggle it on in the menu on your profile
You will see a “Send Workout” button on your workout logging screen
Use this to send workouts to your friends and it will open RYSE directly to a new workout where they can start logging immediately with the same exercises and sets
🛠 Improvements
Improved exercise search!
Results are sorted better by relevance and misspelling is way more forgiving - ie: “bnch” will return results as if you had typed in “bench”
Replace Exercise will pre-fill the search box with the exercise that you are replacing, so you will have more relevant results immediately (ie: replacing “hip thrust (barbell)” with “hip thrust (machine)” should be super quick and easy now)
Share screens should be faster and not freeze as much
Preview workout always visible during logging @edgyveggie
Fixed set type color for “cluster” to be more colorblind friendly - thanks to @colorblindguy for helping us validate
Oct 3 - Oct 9, 2022
🎉 New Features
New Workout Logging experience released!
Full redesign while maintaining all existing functionality
Progress indicators for entire workout and each exercise driven by checkboxes on sets
Swipeable drawers for quick access to exercise log
View entire exercise history and notes while logging
Sets are pre-populated by previous log
Long press or swipe for exercise and exercise set options
Exercise Stats tab displays PRs including Max, Est. One Rep Max, Max Volume, and Individual Rep Max PRs
View past workout posts while logging from History or Stats tabs - no more going to dashboard or profile during a workout
View exercise charts and ability to toggle for certain date ranges
Apply previous sets from past workout logs
Details tab displays helpful exercise YouTube video if it exists
Overwhelming positive feedback so far!!
One person said it is “sleeker, sexier, more versatile, and easier to navigate”
Sep 26 - Oct 2, 2022
🎉 New Features
Weekly Streaks overhaul!
Streaks are now the same for everyone and only require 1 workout or recovery log to extend your streak!
Updated streak celebration and graphics on Dashboard
Beta testing started for new workout logging experience
Fall / Naruto-style themed Monthly Recap for September!
Add fall leaves as default confetti for Workout celebration screen for October
🛠 Improvements
Add light/dark mode selection to onboarding (default to dark)
Sep 19 - Sep 25, 2022
🎉 New Features
Updated Discover tab to show Spotify playlist and invite links, and updated Community Workouts to display as a Grid
🛠 Improvements
Added Juggler Lilac (@too.metal) to posing dice
Long press to edit / reorder / delete Highlights on your profile. Thank you @too.metal for the suggestion!
Update "Pose" chip attachment to show the name of the Pose on your workout post
Sep 12 - Sep 18, 2022
🎉 New Features
Added easier ability to save other routines and it will copy the cover image as well
🛠 Improvements
Use circular progress display for daily habits (currently behind Experimental Feature flag found in profile menu
Sep 5 - Sep 11, 2022
🛠 Improvements
Use Drawers for habit tracker inputs
Added Wolverine pose to posing dice. Shoutout to @thepack for this suggestion!
Selecting Tab chip or Home tab will scroll back to top of feed
AUG 29 - SEP 4, 2022
🎉 New Features
RYSE Discord!! Shoutout to @switty for pushing us to do this!
🛠 Improvements
Show body highlighter and summary on Workout celebration screen. Thank you @dom.senteza for this idea!
Add exercise sets count to body part breakdown on dashboard. Thank you @vinie_ for this suggestion!
Ability to specify "push only values" back to your routine so new exercises won't be added to them
AUG 22 - AUG 28, 2022
🎉 New Features
RYSE Spotify Weekly Workout Bangers playlist! Auto populate playlist from attached songs on workout posts each week
Ability to Replace an exercise and retain set information if same type. Thank you @slade51 for this suggestion!
🛠 Improvements
Use drawer for attaching songs to workout
Aug 15 - AuG 21, 2022
🎉 New Features
Allow YouTube music to be added to workout anthems
🛠 Improvements
Backend adjustments to only populate Active user feeds (helps with performance / cost savings)