PLATES

PLATES

by a lifter, for lifters

  • stack plates
  • track weights
  • map gains
  • pls, pls
  • – just load the tape…
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Free on Windows, macOS, Linux & your phone.

The Plates logo: a pixel-art weight plate

a training ecosystem for lifters, by a lifter

Tracking your lifts is essential for long-term progress, whether your goal is strength, size, or both.

Most training trackers are either too rudimentary to be useful, or so bloated they get in the way of the training itself. Plates is built to avoid both, without being overpriced.

It's simple enough for a beginner's first session, and rigorous enough to carry a dedicated athlete through years of structured mesocycles.

  • Runs on your own machine, free: desktop and phone alike
  • Your data is a file you own, not a row in someone's database
  • No ads. Ever.
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Inside the Training Nexus

A single workspace to track, analyse and organise your training long-term.

The Logbook
Calendar-based logging for every session. Sets, reps, weight, tempo, RPE and bodyweight, plus calories, protein and water, all editable, all stored by day.
The Archive
Analytics across your whole training history. Progression, volume and estimated 1RM over weeks or years, plus muscle balance, plateau watch, Wrapped, to-scale timelines, collages and export.
The Workshop
Write, store and schedule programs. Build your own mesocycles, fill working weights from a training max, then drag the whole block onto the calendar.
Circles v1.1
Not in the first release. A social space for the lifters you actually care about: PRs, sessions and the data behind them, plus group chats and forums. Your community, not clout-chasing algorithmic noise. It arrives in v1.1, free update, and nothing you pay for at launch is buying it. Free accounts get it too, for text and emoji; putting your own photographs and clips up needs the cloud storage that comes with Deluxe.
Spotter desktop
An in-app AI that can read your training and answer questions about it, log lifts, build graphs and bulk-import old spreadsheets. Every change it wants to make is staged for you to review before it touches your data. At launch it runs on the desktop app only, on a model on your own machine. There is no Spotter on the phone: a model small enough to run on one is not worth shipping. The hosted version, on the web and the phone, comes with Circles in v1.1.
Profile
Your lifts, PRs and stats, with per-field control over what's public. Post to your wall straight from a session you've logged.
The Panel
Themes, wallpapers, colour roles, desktop widgets and screen effects. Tune the Nexus until it matches your vibe and your training philosophy. The free app ships one minimalist theme with a light mode and a dark mode; the rest of the Panel is Deluxe.

Free by default

Every module above runs on your own machine at no cost, on the desktop app and on the phone app alike. Spotter is the desktop's alone, on a small on-device model: useful for questions and simple edits, and honestly not much more. What free will not do is leave the machine it is installed on — the free desktop app and the free phone app do not sync to each other, even signed in as the same person, because there is no cloud in between them. Circles is the one thing that does carry across, and it is the exception in both directions: it is not in the first release at all, and when it lands in v1.1 the free tier gets it, for text and emoji. Putting your own footage up is the part that costs real money to store and serve, so that one is Deluxe.

How it works

  1. Download Plates. The desktop app for Windows, macOS or Linux, or the phone app. No account, no card, not even an email address: every byte of your training lives on the machine you installed it on.
  2. Train. Log it, plan it, pull it apart in the Archive. No ads, no nags, no cloud required.
  3. Go Deluxe when you want more. Make an account, and your local data links up to it and syncs. Carry on from the web, the desktop app or your phone, and pick up on one where you left off on another.

Lite

Free

Desktop and phone, on your own machine.

  • The desktop app and the phone app, every module
  • All your data stored locally, yours to keep
  • Circles: follow, read, chat, post text and emoji v1.1
  • Spotter on a small local model, on the desktop app (it sucks for anything requiring over room-temperature IQ)
  • Local only. No cloud backup, no web app, and no sync — the free desktop app and the free phone app do not talk to each other
  • No Spotter on the phone, at all
  • No posting your own footage to Circles, once it arrives
  • One minimalist theme, light or dark, and that's the lot
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Deluxe

Deluxe

£9.99/month

or £99.99/year — two months free

Web, desktop and phone, with the cloud behind it.

  • Everything in Lite, on web, desktop and phone, all of it in sync. Spotter is the exception: it runs on your own machine until the hosted one lands
  • 100 GB of Cloudflare R2 cloud storage
  • A £2/month AI budget. Spotter on Kimi K3 via DeepSeek, for heavy imports, plus Groq dictation (it actually works :) v1.1
  • Post your own footage to Circles v1.1
  • Every theme, plus full customisation: wallpapers, colour roles, presets, widgets, screen effects
  • Still your call where the data lives: keep it local on your computer or phone, or put it in the cloud
  • Every device in sync, paired by QR code, and the web app on top
Go Deluxe

The phone app

Free, like the desktop app, and on the same terms: what you log stays on the phone. Deluxe is what joins it to everything else — scan a QR code in the desktop app and you're paired. It's built for one job either way: getting a set logged in the time between them. Standard mobile menus: open it, log, leave. No Nexus desktop metaphor, no theme customisation, just a clean modern layout. On Deluxe, sessions go to the cloud, or straight to your phone's own storage if you'd rather keep your cloud usage down.

Where your data lives

Deluxe doesn't force anything into the cloud. Keep your training on your computer or your phone if that's what you want. One thing does need cloud storage, because it physically can't work without it: reaching your data from the web. Posting your own footage to Circles will be the second, when Circles arrives in v1.1.

Need more room?

+£4.99/month buys another 100 GB — and triples your AI budget with it. It's opt-in, it's monthly whichever plan you're on — yearly included — and it starts the month you run out of room. Add a second one if a first isn't enough: they stack, and you can drop them again the month you stop needing them.

Going over on AI?

The £2 monthly budget is capped at £0.70 a week, so one session can't burn the month. The £4.99 add-on above triples it — +£4 a month and +£1.40 a week per add-on, and they stack. Anything past whatever you're on is billed on top of your subscription at a 20% markup, or the AI features simply stop until the budget resets. You choose which, in settings.