May 30 - JUNE 5, 2022
🎉 New Features
Monthly Challenge!! We introduced a monthly challenge feature that will be available on your Monthly RYSE Recap! The first monthly challenge for June is to beat your workouts logged by +1
🛠 Improvements
Enabled full view of Monthly Challenge participants list
Set Monthly Challenge tag color on posts/profiles to be more distinct app wide
Remove Monthly Challenge tag from showing up on Recovery Posts
🪳Bug Fixes
Fix Monthly Challenge tag to link to the app Monthly Challenge page vs the personal goal page
May 23 - May 29, 2022
🛠 Improvements
Improved wording on dialog when post has video but no photo upon workout complete
Added ability to adjust macro goal while logging meals
Adjust app menu color in light mode for improved visibility
Search added to transfer list for adding exercises, sections, etc to dashboard view
Adjusted the “Beat your max volume” prompt to be max < 0 instead of <= 0.1
🪳Bug Fixes
Fixed issue with exercises without weight entry were counted as highest previous max resulting in a few extra PRs - shoutout Queen Deb for the heads up!! Enjoy those extra PRs :P
Handle switching between phone/laptop when displaying workout streak updates
May 16 - May 22, 2022
🛠 Improvements
Display all time max volume and link to past log in workout log form footer and remove 1RM
Improved calculations for exercise metrics and 1RM calculations
Small redesign for Discover Page - focus more on workout routines and RYSE community members
Various library upgrades
🪳Bug Fixes
Edit created exercise was creating a new exercise (duplicate)
MAY 9 - MAY 15, 2022
🎉 New Features
Habit Tracker! We overhauled the sleep/weight/water trackers and introduced customizable Habits! You can now create and track anything as a Habit. Just create the name and unit of measure and you are ready to track!
🛠 Improvements
New exercise filters added to the exercise search within the workout log
Added nicer looking RYSE splash screen on app reload
Use user selected primary/secondary colors on logging screens #fancy
Added app notification to get users to upgrade when app is behind latest version
🪳Bug Fixes
Fix bug with individual nutrient cards on dashboard that was not applying overridden/edited nutrient amounts in the calculations. Shoutout to @inspiredamongstthechaos for the help and heads up on this one
Quick Add calories were not being added to calorie nutrient card on the dashboard
Carry over last weeks goal for streak tracker
Fix spam fetch on dependent items
On blur was not firing on back button - thank you Cole for bringing this to our attention!
MAY 2 - MAY 8, 2022
🎉 New Features
Snapchat volume lens! Now when you complete a workout you have access to a RYSE exclusive lens that shows your total workout volume
🛠 Improvements
Exercise data structure overhaul. This is all behind the scenes stuff so not visible in the app but the restructure helps us prep for future features and enhancements to exercise tracking and creation.
APR 25 - MAY 1, 2022
🛠 Improvements
See post preview button added to log workout screen (it used to be kinda hidden)
Set public view of profiles/posts to dark mode
Behind the scenes library upgrades, misc code upgrades, etc
Remove formatting of large numbers on the volume display (was rounding up and impacting milestones/profile volume display)
Make RYSE Recap background color match on screen capture
APR 18 - APR 24, 2022
🎉 New Features
Image editor - crop, draw on, filter, etc any image on workout/recovery/meal posts directly in RYSE
Share Workout Summary to Snapchat as sticker with direct link to post
Weekly Streaks! Now you can set a workout streak for the week
🛠 Improvements
Added milestones: num workouts, total volume, and total PRs on Complete Workout screen
Sarcophagus pose added to posing dice
🪳Bug Fixes
Fix cropping issue with iOS that was causing image to be distorted/stretched … #trenFilter
Issue with rotated images on iOS
APR 11 - APR 17, 2022
🛠 Improvements
Network/data usage improvement by batching requests
Enable drag/drop reorder of meals and foods
Expand RYSE Recap functionality to work for all months - yay flexible code!
Made share to snapchat share image as sticker instead of photo
3rd party library upgrades
🪳Bug Fixes
Fix decimal rounding in kg weight input. Thank you @mariatirador for the heads up on this issue!
Width of input box in reps only was not taking up the full width of the screen
APR 4 - APR 10, 2022
🛠 Improvements
Automate the generation of RYSE recap
Reduce AWS costs for video streaming, log generation, monitoring and alerting, and use more batching client side 💸
MAR 28 - APR 3, 2022
🎉 New Features
RYSE Recap!! Starting with this past March, we are now providing a monthly recap at the beginning of every month so you can view and share your wins from the prior month and set goals for the next one!
MAR 21 - MAR 27, 2022
🎉 New Features
Offline mode! Some gyms have notoriously bad internet connections or cell service, but now you can start and log your entire workout while offline. It will sync once you are back online and open the app again!
🛠 Improvements
Recipe portions - shoutout to @inspiredamongstthechaos for the idea!
Show percentages for 1RM calculator
Add "See" to historical exercise cards so they seem more clickable
More relevant posing dice chances based on the muscles worked during your workout
MAR 14 - MAR 20, 2022
🎉 New Features
Roll-a-pose!! Not sure what picture to take after your workout? Or just want to put your fate in the hands of a dice roll? We have created virtual dice that contain a famous pose on each side. Some are bodybuilding poses and some are just for fun :) You can roll the dice (up to 3 times) and receive a pose to perform and attach to your workout post!
Added Shamrock confetti for St. Patrick's day only 🍀
MAR 7 - MAR 13, 2022
🛠 Improvements
Added Last 30 quick button to dashboard calendar instead of Month
Better caching of videos that are uploaded so won't have to refetch from backend
Better "loading" placeholders so screen doesn't jump around
Performance improvements while logging a workout that has a lot of exercises and sets
Added haptic feedback to pull down to refresh because Bryan is obsessed with haptic
Better popper positioning when tagging users because why are we the only ones poppin our f*cking…
FEB 28 - MAR 6, 2022
🎉 New Features
Fancy main menu added to Profile and replaced tabs with chips for Your feed, Global feed, 1st Post Club feed, and Form Feedback feed
Add Invite Friends to RYSE to menu with more share options..because friends…duh!
🛠 Improvements
Made search when tagging people or searching for other people less annoying
FEB 21 - FEB 27, 2022
🎉 New Features
New and improved User Profiles!! Brand new profile design with a flashy glass-themed layout and configurable background images behind it!!
New Share screen for sharing profiles, workouts, posts, etc. You can now see different share previews and swipe to select and choose what to share! FANCY!
FEB 14 - FEB 20, 2022
🎉 New Features
Ability to show or hide total volume on your profile
Add Spotify icon tag to Post and swipe to it when clicked
FEB 7 - FEB 13, 2022
🎉 New Features
Drag and drop to Reorder Exercises and Exercise Sets
Direct share to Instagram for Android
JAN 31 - FEB 6, 2022
🎉 New Features
Goals!! You can now create goals and attach them to your workouts. Each of your goals will have a dedicated page for tracking your workout stats and posts completed with these goal tags.
Added some snarky phrases to the Workout Complete celebration screen
🛠 Improvements
Capture more detail on flagged items
Hide completed workout plans after 5 days
Capturing images to share performance improvements
🪳Bug Fixes
Fix default photo upload during onboarding
JAN 24 - JAN 30, 2022
🎉 New Features
Update App Stats for Nerds to toggle to show Weekly stats
Add background images when sharing from post from feed Improvements
Better performance and memory management around loading lots of images over time
Jan 17 - Jan 23, 2022
🎉 New Features
Exercise PR Slides!!! Added dedicated slide for PR badges and details on weight, reps, volume increases.
Complete Workout screen redesign - sweet new glass display with cool backgrounds and more emphasis on your PRs
Select Muscle Highlight color for your post
🛠 Improvements
Adjustments for better app performance - less memory, network, and cpu usage while scrolling the Feed
Replace Feed carousel library for better one
Added slight gradient to cover slide to make sure text is readable
Use JPEG instead of PNG for sharing - more performant and less likely to fail due to memory usage
🪳Bug Fixes
Increase backend memory size for deployments - caused 15 min outage on a Friday night when we were at the gym 🤦🏻♀️
Open links with in-app browser to avoid app connection drops
Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2022
🎉 New Features
Workout Album!! Spotify link can be added to workout posts
Quick add meal calories/macros so you don’t have to search/select all foods
Android Back Button!!!!!!
🛠 Improvements
Added point in time recovery for databases
Added more exercises to library
Bettery video/image upload feedback for success/failure/inprogress events
CTA to set up your app colors
🪳Bug Fixes
Increase timeout for FeedBuilder now that people have over 2.5k followers 😲
Video player retry fixes
Snapchat, TikTok, and Youtube links were accidentally hidden on profile…my bad
Jan 3 - Jan 9, 2022
🎉 New Features
Theme-able app colors! Change the primary/secondary/icon colors and dark mode background color
Added trophy case to profile summary - Liftsmas Badge is the 1st ever RYSE badge!
Ability to scale/crop image position before upload for iOS
Added Share to Snapchat on Complete Workout screen
🛠 Improvements
Use native camera gallery for image/video uploads
Bucket signedUrl expiration to help with auto video caching
Dec 28 - Jan 2, 2022
🎉 New Features
Dark mode is LIVE!!! Thanks for the feedback everyone and the encouragement to just ship it! 🚀
Improved app navigation - can navigate to profiles and not lose your spot in the feed
Display relative timestamps in the activity feeds (ie: 15 min ago) Shoutout to @atunzuman for the feedback
🛠 Improvements
Added Beta Feature Preview to the main menu for the early birds that like to help us test
Trigger app reload during “unrecoverable” error edge case that is super annoying
Retry on photo upload errors
Dec 20 - Dec 27, 2021
🎉 New Features
Dark mode beta!
Pre-process uploaded videos for better playback. Shoutout to @lindseyh for helping us with testing and for the feedback on this
Added ability to create new exercises from existing exercises
Added the “don’t be an asshole” step to onboarding….I won’t tag who inspired this one…
🪳Bug Fixes
Offline data syncing fixes
Use unique ids when rendering SVGs
Dec 12 - Dec 19, 2021
🎉 New Features
Form Feedback tag
Dropdown to select other dates in Last exercise dialog
Add ability to specify Tempos on exercise set
Use border radius 15px throughout app (shoutout @theadampalmer)
Baseline lifts routine for new Ryse users (squat, deadlift, bench)
🛠 Improvements
Getting app ready for Dark mode
Infinite scroll and search users optimizations
Limit Video Upload Size to 128MB
Add more grouped notifications in Public activity feed
🪳Bug Fixes
Handle commas as decimals in input fields
Do not count 0 reps as a max if weight is highest - people like to log failed sets
Dec 5 - Dec 11, 2021
🎉 New Features
RYSE Jacked! End of year wrap up built in less than 48 hours because that’s our idea of fun on a Friday 😅
Lifting Summary
Top Exercises
Most Memorable Lifts
Social Contributions
Thank you!! With a sweet pic of Bryan & I 😏
Share screens, animations, and haptic feedback (Bryan loves haptic feedback now lol)
Add clickable Present icon to RYSE Logo (cmon you know it’s cute)
Grouped notifications on Activity Feeds
Added TikTok and Snapchat links to Profile. Shoutout to @nathan for this idea
🛠 Improvements
Handle poor connection better with a snarky snackbar notification and continue retrying in the background
Added Strongman and athlete/sports to interests @brentnahmias, @thepetpajamas, and @arlind_t for the suggestions
Added more mobility exercises and official routine. Thank you @lingho4
Update share dialogs to be full screen and have more color
Remove display of 0 exercises on routines card. Shoutout @chunkyogurt for the feedback on this!
New user onboarding improvements
Default to Sign up instead of Sign in
Add hint for not being able to change username
Rotate onboarding suggested followers (Reach out if you have at least 6 posts and want to be on the list!)
Present better follow suggestions based on user interests
🪳Bug Fixes
Don't allow Number only usernames (looks ugly)
Don't add multiple plan/routine tags if selecting from recent exercises
Meals were not publishing to the feed when selected. Thanks @randy_getz_gainz for bringing this up!
Fix inputs to turn commas into decimal for Metric system users. Shoutout to @patrickfit for the feedback!
Don't count 0 reps as a Max
Nov 28 - Dec 4, 2021
🎉 New Features
Workout Plans!
Enabled as our 1st workout plan! 12 Days of Liftsmas Challenge!!
Plans are now available on Discovery Page
Call to action added to join the challenge on Home Page
Your plan progress is displayed in your Dashboard
Prompt will appear to do the next workout from plan whenever you start logging a workout
New post type available when you complete a plan! It will aggregate your stats over the whole Workout Plan!
🛠 Improvements
Add cluster and rest/pause set types. Shoutout to @dpfitcoach for the feedback
Improved user follow suggestions
Add workout routine request form for users to submit workout routines to be made publicly available
Add Referral step to onboarding (TikTok, Instagram, Recommended, etc) to help us know where yall are hearing about us
Default search page to plans while Liftsmas is going on
Don't show details on plan/routine page if empty
Add "Challenge" option to plan/routine tags
Clicking Home while on Home screen will scroll back to top of feed. Thank you @randy_getz_gainz for this idea!
🪳Bug Fixes
Fixed Spotlight timezone issue when selecting dates
Allow multiple routine tags on same workout
Refetch metrics in dashboard after completing a workout so it is up to date
Nov 21 - Nov 27, 2021
🎉 New Features
New hotness on the Profile
Pin up to 3 Posts as Highlights
Ability to update your Name on your profile
Set and/or display Height, Weight, Age in Profile
Embedded Youtube player for exercises (It’s only on a few exercises at the moment, but if you have a fave Youtube video for a particular exercise send it to us and we will add it! )
Push notification if someone completes a routine you made
Change Confetti to Fall Leaves Confetti on Workout Complete screen because it’s Pumpkin Spice Latte season and Bryan & I are basic af
🛠 Improvements
Meals are now private by default
Ability to add exercise details to exercises in a routine
Navigate back to Feed after deleting item
Update share dialog
Add toast to screenshot for Android if share fails
Shorten Public links
🪳Bug Fixes
Fix and enable copy to clipboard for Android
Bottom drawer "Done" positioning
Nov 14 - Nov 20, 2021
🎉 New Features
Public app links. People can now view a peek at RYSE without creating account or downloading the app. We limit links to the feed and profiles to only show a few items and then Basil (our pup) will prompt the person to download and join RYSE whenever they scroll to the end or when actions are attempted (boost, comment, etc). Bonus Easter egg if you click on Basil a few times ;)
Direct links available for:
Your Profile
Any Public Posts
Any Workout Routine
Limit feed and profiles to only show a few items - Basil (our pup) will prompt you to download and join RYSE when scroll to end or when actions are taken
New to RYSE! Is now displayed on new users to help the RYSE fam send them good vibes and welcome them!
🛠 Improvements
Make routine page available in drawer during logging
Show detailed users list in feed if not following anyone
Access to both public and your routines in exercise search
Indicator for private log on Workout Complete screen
Improve styling on exercise set slide
Add Max Volume increase amount to Post slide (ie: + 380lbs / ^8.7%)
Android manifest to show smart banner that app is available when viewing on website
Introduced snackbar notifications that can click to open or swipe to dismiss
Add Arrows to Post carousel when viewing on desktop. Thank you @brandon for the feedback!
Show meal type above title when logging meals so people don't type Breakfast before selecting it
Specific formatting for @ryseofficial posts
Nov 7 - Nov 13, 2021
🎉 New Features
RYSE Merch Shop - show your support and help us spread the word!
RYSEOfficial workout routines
Search for routines by category / experience / body part tags
Start this workout button added to user and RYSEOfficial routines
Redesigned Workout Routine page..fancy!
Show creator username and links to their profile
Auto-tagging of posts from routine to build Community section
Clickable routine name shows up in title of Posts on feed
🛠 Improvements
Show positioned tooltip after completing posts and saving draft
Improved formatting for big numbers
Added animations where horizontal scrolling is available
Added Contact, Disclaimer, Feedback, Shop, About to menu
Helpful text on how to search for Foods when none are found
Added a bunch of exercises to our main library
Removed unnecessary information when creating a routine that is only helpful when logging a workout
Oct 31 - Nov 6, 2021
🤫 Unreleased feature work
Enable complete/leave workout plans and adjust progress/dashboard
🛠 Improvements
Add recent workouts and recent meals into dashboard
…… okay I need to sleep so I will finish updating this tomorrow 😅 (Nov 13)
OCT 24 - OCT 30, 2021
🤫 Unreleased feature work
Plan experience level and category tagging
Add Plans to search page…but for our eyes only because it’s a secret!
Workout Plan search
🎉 New Features
Post-complete workout summary…and the confetti cannon!!!
Haptic feedback sprinkled throughout the app - good vibes only 😜
Add workout post slide preview to post-complete workout summary
Toggle between All/Suggested Users in Search Page
First iteration of app feature guides created for Create Custom Food & Create Custom Exercise
Add Ryse Official as suggested user
Bio/Status styling in User Profile
Exercise, routine, recent workouts search/filter UX/UI redesign throughout the app
🪳Bug Fixes
Fixed login issue that blocked resubmit
OCT 17 - OCT 23, 2021
🤫 Unreleased feature work
Plan page
Built out plan tagging
Plan Progress Card added to dashboard
🛠 Improvements
Update post header styling to make some room for….
Add legend icons to post slide for indicating multi photo, spotlight, multi video. Thank you @mb for the awesome idea to keep folks swiping!
PR tagging for expanded fetch
Counts improvements for app wide data
App wide Total Volume Weight, Total Volume Distance, Iframe Routine Help
13 exercises added to exercise library
OCT 10 - OCT 16, 2021
🤫 Unreleased feature work
Created a Plan Builder
Plan Routine page with section scroll nav bar
🎉 New Features
Spotlight added to workout posts - highlight your exercise progress by added a chart of your 1RM, Volume, Max to your workout log posts
🛠 Improvements
Enabled food/exercise search within Search Page, initial redesign to prep for something coming…..
Performance improvements and upgrades
Added grid view for posts on Profile Page with click opening to list view centered at clicked post
Backend timeout/retry improvements
OCT 3 - OCT 9, 2021
🤫 Unreleased feature work
Designed initial Workout Plans UX/UI
Created a progress tracker for Workout Plans
🛠 Improvements
Added swipe to delete for Custom Recipes
Meal title and macros as title in meal detail view
Recipe preview cards in Add Foods Drawer
🪳Bug Fixes
Instagram link in User Profile had excess space which broke the link from opening IG properly. Shoutout @mb for letting us know!
SEPT 26 - OCT 2, 2021
Behind the scenes we’ve been doing work on a top secret feature that yall have been asking for! Hoping to have the first iteration out soooooon!!!!
🛠 Improvements
Create Custom Exercises page and add it to the Main Menu
Make exercises in Custom Exercises page clickable to open the exercise details modal
Add exercise search results message and improve colors/styling of search components
Make Custom Exercises swipe to delete
Update copy for “no picture added”
Add description banner to Log Recovery page to clarify usage. Thank you @wanderingsondering for the tip!
Add Custom Foods page and add it to the Main Menu
Move Created/Saved Recipes to Main Menu
🪳Bug Fixes
User created exercises were not displaying the “User Created” icon in recent exercises list
Invite Friend via SMS on Android was not working. Shoutout to @Lindseyh for the heads up!
Sept 19 - 25, 2021
🛠 Improvements
Moved My Routines & Custom Exercises from User Profile to Main Menu
Trim decimal on duration seconds measurements
Fixed styling on nutrient dashboard
Consistent styling of back button throughout app
Added ability to tag editable items
My Routines & Custom Exercises moved to separate pages for each
Added ability to view exercise details in exercise search (just click the name of the exercise)
Sept 12 - 18, 2021
Not an app feature or anything, but we did add a blog to the RYSE app site so that we can share some of the behind the scenes engineering stuff that goes in to building this app! Check it out at https://www.ryseapp.io/blog/engineering
🛠 Improvements
Made RYSE splash screen the global loading screen
Select all on all number inputs
Add friendly message for User Profile feeds when they have not yet shared workout/daily meals log posts
Enabled copy individual meals from Daily Meals Log posts
Show all posts (Workouts/Daily Meals Log) together on User Profile
App onboarding CTA cards for log workout, meals, update bio
Added distance & duration to metrics
App/User/Item tabs added to App Stats for Nerds
Reps & Duration added as exercise measurement type
Display duration as hh:mm:ss instead of just min
Added Active / Alternating Runner’s Lunge, Flutter Kick, Sit Throughs, Pike Walk Out / Inch Worm, Side / Lateral Plank Walks, Three Legged Dog with Crossover, Lean Backs with Twist, Lean Backs and Three Legged Dog to exercise list. Shoutout to @therealphatmike for these exercises.
Auto refetch posts on Home and User Profile feeds. Thank you @mb for the heads up!
Behind the scenes code library upgrades
🪳Bug Fixes
Fix add set bug on cardio exercises due to two autofocus being set. Thank you @a_humanoid for letting us know!
DNS deleted causing app to not load. Shoutout to @digital.utopia for the heads up!
Sept 5 - 11, 2021
🎉 New Features
Barcode Scanner for food search is now LIVE (beta - let us know if it is trash lol)
You can now add Videos to Daily Meal Logs! 🎥🍝
🛠 Improvements
Move carousel indicator dots below slides
Ability to share/download workout/meals slide within post preview drawer
Open comment activity notification to post instead of comments list
Clean up design of My Routines list in exercise search drawer
Add post loading indicator to feed
Enable users to upload up to 5 videos per post
Different icons for comment and share because the old ones were disgusting 🤮
List recent workouts to Add Exercise search screen
🪳Bug Fixes
Videos were opening to fullscreen when scrolling down the feed. Shoutout to @karleepayne & @nicole for the heads up and details on this!
Photo uploads were failing sometimes due to cache issue
Aug 29 - Sept 4, 2021
We took a lil time off for music festivals, friends, family, and mental break! 💃🏻🕺🏼
Aug 22 - 28, 2021
🎉 New Features
Release Notes are now available within the main menu….is this meta or what?!
🛠 Improvements
Increase height of feed items
Make videos autoplay in feed on mute
Default to posts tab on user profile pages
Add confirmation to copy workout/meal button
Restructure main menu
AUG 15 - 21, 2021
🎉 New Features
Video!!! Users can now upload one 30 sec video to their Logged Workout posts 🔥💪
🛠 Improvements
Added retry handlers on getFollowers/addToFeed
Added image compression to improve network/storage costs and usage
Used bigger/more obvious icon on Dashboard Calendar to hopefully help users realize it is expandable/collapsable
Increased clickable area on Dashboard Widget cards after seeing users click card and it wouldn’t open if their finger was slightly off of smaller clickable area
Enable users to edit the settings per Dashboard section when within details pages - hoping to help users realize the dashboard is customizable
Add Recent Meals to add/search foods drawer - default to Recent Meals if available else default to food search
Fetch more followers on @ tag list
Fancy up the Daily Meals Log and Recipe slides
Added Jessica’s fave yellow color as a font color option for posts
Improved organization/readability of some behind the scenes code
Added Hold and Cool Down as set type options. Shoutout to @samanthavogl and @a_humanoid for the suggestions!
Added ability to edit ALL foods!!!! If you see a food search result that has missing or incorrect values for macros/calories/nutrients, you can now edit them directly!
One image per meal can now be added to Daily Meals Log posts
🪳Bug Fixes
Video was flickering in feed
Video thumbnail was missing
Video playback issue after initial video load in posts
AUG 8 - 14, 2021
🛠 Improvements
After following someone, add 2 instead of just 1 latest posts from that new follow to user feed
Date/date range based PR Count Widget for Dashboard
Instagram Profile link from RYSE User Profile
Display list of sets for 1RM, Max Volume, PRs in Dashboard Exercise Widgets
Add button for copy yesterdays/last logged meals
Display workout routine attribution on workout routines so users can see who originally created the routine
Standardize edit servings design across different screens/components
Display draft recipes/routines on profile even user does not have saved routines/recipes, make draft recipes/routines button more obvious
Remove gear icon from ‘Configure your Dashboard’ alert because users thought it was clickable when it was not
Move Exercises list in Log Workout screen above Workout Description because new users thought they had to individually type all exercises into the description vs clicking Add Exercise button
Add ability to adjust serving size when adding food to meal/recipe
Add ability to change portion size of entire recipe when adding to meal
Adjust app auth so that user auto logout does not occur. Thank you @inspiredamongstthechaos for inadvertently bringing this to our attention when you had that Friday night password issue!
Adjusted scroll in recipe search because last recipe was getting cut off
Add ability to @ tag other users on Daily Meals Log posts
Added a Draft/New Post confirmation dialog to make draft posts more accessible. Shoutout to @karleepayne for answering all of my questions when I was researching this.
🪳Bug Fixes
Dashboard and calendar were not fetching all items within a date range which caused some item count widgets and the calendar to be below actual counts for logged workouts/meals/recovery
Aug 1 - 7, 2021
🎉 New Features
User Dashboard - Fitness, Nutrition, Habits, and Exercise Widgets based on date/date range
🛠 Improvements
Opening comments won’t cause you to lose your scroll position in the feed! Shoutout to @smurd9 for the feedback
Enable users to collapse the full calendar view so that it doesn’t take up too much space
Add time based friendly greeting to dashboard. Example: “Good morning, Jessica!”
Display a heart ♥️ overlay on posts when double tapped to Boost. Thank you @randy_gets_gainz for the feedback!
Better styling of single data Dashboard widgets like: nutrient, weight, water, etc
Double tap to Boost posts. Shoutout to @liftingmotherhood for pushing us to enable double tab to Boost!
Adjust 1RM calculation to limit rep count to <= 10 for increased accuracy
Display PR count on Logged Workout posts and on Dashboard instead of set count
🪳Bug Fixes
Issue with editing a Daily Meals Log which caused it to be saved as a recipe. Shoutout to @charzard_mildog24 for pointing this issue out!
Photo upload issue where uploads would continuously attempt to sync with the backend
July 25 - 31, 2021
🛠 Improvements
Added quick date/date range buttons to Dashboard Calendar (today, this week, month)
Enabled habit (weight/sleep/water) tracking for past dates
🪳Bug Fixes
Dead link when clicking on an activity notification for comments on a Daily Meals Log post
July 18 - 24, 2021
🎉 New Features
Log Recovery Day - recovery days are just as important as workout days! Shoutout to @heitzke for the inspo
Dashboard Calendar - easily see days that included workout, daily meals, or recovery logs
🛠 Improvements
Various behind the scenes code version upgrades
Adjust exercise set type indicators so they look better in exported slide for download or Instagram story
Enabled date/time updates for Logged Workouts and Daily Meals. Shoutout to @liftingmotherhood and @mb for the suggestion
Adjust spacing between feed items to help make posts more distinguishable from each other
Added primary and secondary muscles to each exercise
🪳Bug Fixes
Weight chart width was too small to clearly view data points. Shoutout @mariatirador for bringing this to our attention
Miscalculation on when to display the1RM tag on Logged Workout posts because it was only getting the previous 1RM weight not calculating the previous 1RM based on the previous 1RM weight and previous rep count
Exercises were appearing twice in the recent exercise and exercise list because we were using the wrong id to remove duplicates
July 11 - 17, 2021
🎉 New Features
Exercise Set Types - warm up, normal, AMRAP, drop, failure. Shoutout to @dom.senteza @juliannegregg for the suggestion
Share posts to Instagram Stories or Save to Camera Roll
🛠 Improvements
Various behind the scenes code upgrades
Added icons to indicate public vs private posts
Make exercise logging drawer more colorful and make buttons look more clickable for Last, Max, and 1RM Thank you @mb for feedback on this
Added ability to preview posts before completion
Swipe to delete sets. Shoutout to @mb for the suggestion
Added exercise summary on log exercise drawer - past 1RM, est 1RM, max volume, and total volume
🪳Bug Fixes
Copied exercises were not including the targeted muscles
Carousel was annoyingly auto scrolling in feed. Shoutout @atunzuman for mentioning it to us
Exercise Info tab was hidden
July 4 - 10, 2021
🎉 New Features
New User Onboarding - collect basic user and interest info, follow others, and upload profile photo
🛠 Improvements
Make users tagged in comments clickable. Thank you @charzard_mildog24 for the suggestion
Improved login/create account flow. Shoutout to @joshkim81 for highlighting the friction here!
Users can format their profile bio and added ability to add location to profile. Thank you @nichole.brooks414 for the suggestion
Made muscles on body diagram selectable in Create Exercise. Thank you @smurd9 for the feedback!
Add comment and copy buttons to posts
Added ability to save recipe and workout routine drafts and added a drafts page to view them all
Delete confirmation screen for managing foods, meals, and workouts
Users can Edit/Delete their created exercises and foods
Display recent exercises in search. Thank you @mariatirador for the suggestion!
Redesign of Create Exercise - much fancy, so wow!
🪳Bug Fixes
Users were unable to remove their profile photo
Some exercise metrics for max/volume were counted twice
Boosts on posts were not being shown if you Boosted a post and reloaded the app
Filter pills were not visible if selected
June 27 - July 3, 2021
🎉 New Features
Nutrition Insights - view macro and nutrition breakdowns for entire day and individual meals
App Stats for Nerds - nerd out on various app data with us
View/edit Nutrient/Micronutrient data per food
🛠 Improvements
Added color picker so users can select the font color for their posts
Edit servings from food search list. Shoutout to @samanthavogl for the suggestion!
Display food nutrients in detail view
Improve styling of log/create workout to match log/create meals
Add ability to see averaged nutrition insights over a date range
Remove annoying and hideous outline of buttons after you click them
Display recommended daily value on nutrients
List the foods along with the amount provided per nutrient
🪳Bug Fixes
Deleted posts were not reducing count total
Post options menu was partially visible on wider phones
Image display errors were visible
June 20 - 26, 2021
🛠 Improvements
Daily Meals Log full page design update
Expanded food search to include USDA backed food database
Auto check for new releases to trigger app refresh
Add confirmation when removing a recipe from a meal
Users can “mute” users that they are following so that their posts won’t appear in their Following feed
Make the privacy controls (public/private) more obvious
Disable create recipe/workout routine until user has logged a workout or meal to help keep new users from making recipe/workout routine instead of posts
Enable users to delete drafts
Macros goals can be set on My Information page
Filter out baby foods (sorry babies!) from food search
Display macros on individual meal edit screen within Daily Meals Log
🪳Bug Fixes
Scroll issue on Log Daily Meals/Workouts page
Edit from options menu was not working
Delete photo from post not working
June 13 - 19, 2021
🎉 New Features
Invite Friend
User Goal setting/display on profile - shoutout to @champ2021 for this idea
🛠 Improvements
Add user measurement units selection to onboarding flow, auto-select metric/imperial based on user location if detected
Auto scroll to new meal when added
Add Invite Friend to User Search page
Add User Interests in profile/edit profile
My Information added to main menu
Add gender, date of birth, and Harris Benedict equation to My Information screen
Change gender to sex, added weight and activity level
Added Harris Benedict equation for calorie calculation to calorie goal form
Filter out foods with no macros reported and renamed Saved Meals to Recipes
🪳Bug Fixes
Link to open How to Guide was blocked
Decimal on weight removed which caused issues with kg. Thank you @mariatirador for letting us silly Americans know!
Snack bar was hidden by Apple notch
June 6 - 12, 2021
🛠 Improvements
Viewable draft posts from Drafts page
Feed scroll performance enhancement
PR tag for distance volume added to Logged Workout posts
Display sets on multiple slides if overflow occurs (better formatting)
Add clarification to log/create header titles to help user confusion
User follow suggestions based on user interests
Added steps to exercises (walking, running, etc) Shoutout @a1 for suggestion
🪳Bug Fixes
Super sets we not being added when workout copied from post or added from workout routines in search
Food search was using the wrong field in results display
Meal photos were missing
Input adornments missing (min, lb, kg, etc)
Infinite scroll was not using fetch more properly
May 30 - June 5, 2021
🎉 New Features
Steps Tracker
🛠 Improvements
Infinite scroll performance enhancements
Added backend even counters - user boosts, workout posts, etc
Add toast for copy success
Date range selection slider on insights page
Display targeted muscles on Create Exercise page
Override meal macros
Profile design overhaul
Show exercise PR tags on Logged Workout posts
Behind the scenes code upgrades
Added summary to User Profile page - saved meals and workout routines
🪳Bug Fixes
Create Exercise could not be completed if search string was set as name and was unchanged
Font missing/different for some pages/components
….If you made it this far back, you’re awesome 🤩 Soon I’ll backfill the rest of the release notes up until April when we quit our jobs and went full-time on RYSE. Writing this on Aug 22, 2021 so if it’s like 30 days past and I still haven’t done it, feel free to call me out 😅
