Built for training partners

A workout buddy who's always paying attention.

SetBuddies keeps your crew connected — lifting, running or boxing — with check-ins, a live activity feed, and real accountability, even when you're not training in the same room. And if you coach others, it runs your clients and classes too.

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2–5
people per group
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works solo too
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always has your back
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How it works

Accountability, without the guilt trip

No gates, no setup friction — every account starts as a group of one, and inviting a buddy is just sharing a code.

1

Start or join a group

Every account is a group of one by default — invite a buddy anytime by sharing your group code, link, or email.

2

Check in when you train

"At the gym" or "at home," with an optional gym name and a one-tap flag if you need a spotter.

3

Watch it happen live

See who's training right now, react to a set, and thread comments on anyone's session or check-in.

4

Stay on each other's radar

Nudge someone who's gone quiet, confirm tonight's session, and get a weekly recap of how the group did.

Features

Everything your group needs, nothing it doesn't

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Shared Plan

A day-numbered rotation the whole group edits together — pick from a searchable exercise library, group sets into supersets or circuits, and export it as a printable PDF.

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Ready-Made Templates

Not sure where to start? Pick a novice, intermediate, or pro program — gym or fully equipment-free — and you're training on day one.

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No Gym? No Excuse

Any day you can't make it to the gym, get an AI-matched home version of that exact day's workout — same muscles, same movement pattern, built around whatever equipment you have at home (or none at all) — and log it like any other session.

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AI-backed Progress

Plain-language coaching insights, a training calendar with teammate overlays, and per-exercise progression across the group — plus, on Pro, long-range strength trends, a 1RM projection and plateau & deload detection.

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Not Just Lifting

Log runs and boxing rounds alongside your lifts — distance and time, or rounds and time. They count toward your streak and weekly target the same way, so a runner and a lifter can hold each other accountable in one crew. Tell us what you train and the app sets itself up around it.

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Group Trophy Case

A weekly leaderboard, a trophy case of recent PBs, and an auto-generated Sunday recap that keeps everyone in the loop.

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Share Your Wins

Hit a new PB or a training streak and get a branded, ready-to-post image in one tap — straight to Instagram, or wherever, no extra design work.

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Streaks & Smart Reminders

Build a real streak by hitting your weekly target, and get nudged — not spammed — with granular, per-type notifications you control.

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Group Chat

A real conversation for your crew — right in the app, in real time. Tag a teammate with @, react to messages, and see who's read what. Separate from the feed, so plans and banter don't get lost between PBs.

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Body Tracking

Log your weight and, if you track them, body fat and muscle, and watch the trend over time. No smart scale? Estimate body fat from a tape measure. Yours alone — never shown to the group.

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Emergency Safety Net

One button alerts your whole group and puts a call to your local emergency number or your personal emergency contact one tap away.

A closer look

Built for mid-workout, one-handed use

Home screen with an active check-in card and live activity feed
Home
Shared weekly training plan with assigned members
Plan
Progress screen with AI coach insight and training calendar
Progress
Group screen with weekly leaderboard and trophy case
Group
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Settings — light mode
For coaches & gyms

Coach your people. Run your gym.

The same accountability your crew feels, turned into a tool for the people who train others — a personal trainer, a class instructor, or a whole studio.

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All your clients, one view

Oversee every client and team from one dashboard — who's training, who's drifted, who's on which day — across as many groups as you run, with the 5-person cap lifted for teams you coach.

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Plan, message, note

Write and adjust each client's plan, keep private per-client notes, and message any client 1:1 — plus their Pro-level progress, since your seat carries it.

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Classes, booked and marked

Set recurring classes with a capacity, let members reserve their spot, and take the register — present, absent, or a walk-in — right from your phone.

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Your gym, your brand

Group several coaches under one organisation, see the whole gym roll up, post gym-wide announcements, and give members your name and accent colour. A manager can run it without coaching a single session.

Coach on SetBuddies

Coaching works today; founding coaches use it free while we finish billing. See the Coach plan.

FAQ

Questions, answered

The app is, permanently — logging and your full history, your training plan, a group of up to 5, check-ins, the activity feed, progress charts, the emergency alert, and importing or exporting your data. Three AI features have a monthly allowance, because each one costs us real money every time it runs. A paid Pro plan lifts those limits and adds adaptive progression and a weekly training review. There's no payment system and no price yet — we wrote the whole line down on the pricing page before asking anyone for money, so that nothing you rely on today can be taken away and sold back to you later.
No. Every account starts as a group of one, so there's no separate onboarding gate — you can log workouts and track progress solo, then invite a buddy whenever you're ready.
No — start from a ready-made novice, intermediate, or pro template (gym or fully equipment-free), or build your own from a searchable exercise library. Either way, it's fully editable afterward, and you can group exercises into supersets or circuits. Or describe what you're actually after — "I'm new and don't know where to start," "lose fat and gain muscle" — and it'll ask a few questions back and draft a programme around your answers. And on any day you can't make it to the gym, get an AI-generated home version of that exact day's workout instead — same muscles, no equipment.
Your plan holds sets and a rep range, and that part is free — type them in, or have them read off what you've already been lifting. Deciding the weight is the paid part: adaptive progression moves your working load session to session. Reach the top of your rep range on every set and next time goes up; sit at the same load for three sessions and it eases back so you can build into it again — and it warns you the session before, so a drop is never a surprise. Everyone keeps their own weights, even when the group shares one plan.
Yes — a new personal best or a training streak generates a branded, ready-to-post image right in the app, which you can share straight to Instagram, X, or anywhere else in one tap.
Tapping the emergency button starts a short confirmation flow — you type your group's invite code to confirm it's a deliberate action, then it immediately notifies everyone in your group and surfaces one-tap calling for your region's emergency number and your personal emergency contact. It doesn't share your live location, and it doesn't dial anything automatically — you make the call yourself. See our Safety & Emergency Disclaimer for the full details.
Your training data belongs to you. We only use it to power your check-ins, feed, and progress charts, and you can export or delete it at any time from Settings. See our Privacy Policy for the full details.
A peer group — you and your training partners — is capped at 5, because it's built around small, real-world crews. A coached team is different: once a coach oversees a group, that cap lifts so a trainer can run a proper squad, and a coach can run as many teams as they like. See For coaches & gyms.
Yes. There's a Coach plan for people who train others: a dashboard across all your clients and teams, plan-writing and 1:1 messaging per client, private notes, and recurring classes members book and you take a register for. A gym can group several coaches under one organisation, roll the whole thing up, post gym-wide announcements and add its own branding — and a manager can run it without coaching sessions themselves. It works today; founding coaches use it free while we finish billing. The pricing page has the details.
SetBuddies is an installable web app (PWA) — open app.setbuddies.com in your phone's browser and add it to your home screen. It works on both iOS and Android this way, with no app-store download required.