Getting started
Download Smite, open it, start lifting. There is no account to create and no setup to sit through: onboarding asks about units and your profile, offers Apple Health, and gets out of the way. Pick a routine or add exercises as you go, tick sets off as you finish them, then hit Finish. From the second session onward the PREV column shows what you did last time, which is the whole game.
What is free, and what Unleashed adds
Logging is free forever: unlimited workouts and full history, the rest timer and plate maths, Live Activity and widgets, Apple Health, and export and import. The free tier also gives you 8 routines, 5 custom exercises, one gym and three months of charts. Smite Unleashed is a single payment that lifts those limits and opens the analysis side: full trends, insights and the progression coach, the muscle heatmap, physique check-ins, more gyms, iCloud sync, the Apple Watch app, and whatever ships next. Limits only ever block creating more, so nothing you already logged gets locked away.
The 14-day trial
Every device can claim 14 days of the whole app for free, from onboarding or from the Unleashed card at the top of Settings. There is no payment and no subscription, so there is nothing to cancel and it ends on its own. When it does, your data stays exactly where it was and the free limits come back.
Buying and restoring Unleashed
Open Settings and tap the Unleashed card at the top. Bought it already, here or on another device? The same card has Restore Purchases, which pulls the unlock back from your Apple Account. It applies to every device signed into that account, and Family Sharing is on, so your family gets it too. If a restore comes back empty, check you are signed into the Apple Account you actually bought with.
iCloud sync
Sync is part of Unleashed and starts off. Turn it on in Settings, under Sync, Backups & Export. Two things trip people up: the app has to be quit from the App Switcher and reopened before the change takes effect, and both devices need the same Apple Account with iCloud available. After that, give it a minute on a decent connection. If a device still looks behind, toggle sync off and on and restart the app again.
Moving to a new phone
With sync on, install Smite on the new phone, sign into the same Apple Account, turn sync on and wait: workouts, routines and history come back on their own. Check-in photos are the one exception, since they never sync by design, so copy those off the old device yourself before you wipe it. Without sync, export a JSON file from the old phone and import it on the new one.
Backups on the device
Smite snapshots its own database on your device automatically, including before an update, so a bad version can be rolled back. Settings, Sync, Backups & Export, Backups lists them and can restore one; the app has to be quit and reopened to finish the swap. Backups cover workouts, routines, exercises, the plan, gyms, goals, measurements and settings, but not the check-in photos, which are left on disk untouched.
Exporting your data
Settings, Sync, Backups & Export, Export. Tick what you want, pick a format, share the file wherever you like. JSON keeps everything Smite knows about your training; CSV is the one for spreadsheets; there is also a CSV layout other trackers can read. Exports are written in kilograms. There is no lock-in and nothing to ask us for.
Sync to your own server
With Smite Unleashed, Smite can keep a copy of your workouts on a server you run, for your own dashboards and automations. It is off until you set it up under Settings, Sync, Backups & Export, Sync to Your Server, and you choose what is shared before anything is sent. How to build the server is in the developer guide.
Importing from another app
Settings, Sync, Backups & Export, Import from File. Smite reads its own JSON export and the CSV that another popular tracker produces, shows you exactly what it found before it writes anything, and lets you decide how to handle routines and a plan you already have. A long history takes a moment, so leave the screen open while it works.
Apple Watch
The Watch app is part of Unleashed and installs from the Watch app on your iPhone. It logs sets from your wrist, runs the rest timer, and records heart rate and active energy into the session it saves to Apple Health. It needs the unlock on the paired iPhone: buy it or start the trial there, and the watch follows within a few seconds.
Apple Health
Turn it on during onboarding, or later in Settings under Data, Sync to Apple Health. Smite writes each finished workout as a strength-training session and shares bodyweight both ways, so a weigh-in in either app shows up in the other. Your set-by-set detail stays in Smite. The permissions themselves live in the Health app and can be changed or revoked there at any time.
Notifications
The rest timer, training-day nudges and check-in reminders are local notifications, so iOS asks for permission the first time one is needed. Settings, Preferences, Notifications is where you choose which you get and when. If none arrive at all, check that Smite is still allowed to notify you in iOS Settings.
Logging a set by voice
During a workout, tap the microphone on the keypad and say something like a hundred by five. Smite turns that into weight and reps, recognising the speech on the device wherever the hardware supports it. It needs microphone and speech permission once. If the button does nothing, that is the first thing to check in iOS Settings.
Gyms and equipment
A gym profile carries its own bars and plates, so the plate maths matches the rack in front of you. The free tier includes one gym and the whole editor that goes with it; Unleashed adds more and picks the right one by location. Location is only ever asked for when you place a gym on the map, and it never runs in the background.
Deleting everything
Settings, Sync, Backups & Export, Danger zone, Delete All Data erases every workout, routine, exercise, record and check-in on the device, and in iCloud too if sync is running. It cannot be undone, so export first if you want a copy. To finish, delete the app and clear its iCloud data in iOS Settings under your Apple Account. We hold no copy of any of it, so there is nothing to request from us.
Something is broken
Email us with your device model, your iOS version, the app version from Settings, About, Version, and what you did just before it happened. The Contact row in Settings opens a draft with the version and system already filled in. A screenshot or a screen recording usually turns a week of guessing into an afternoon.
Refunds and billing
Apple handles every purchase, so refunds and charges are Apple's to sort out: ask at reportaproblem.apple.com with the Apple Account you bought with. If a refund goes through, Smite returns to the free tier and your data stays exactly where it is.
Asking for a feature
Smite stays deliberately focused, but good ideas are always welcome. Tell us what you are trying to do rather than which button you want, and it usually lands better. Every message gets read, even when the answer is not yet.
Still stuck?
If none of that sorts it out, write and a human answers.
Support covers the Smite app for iPhone and Apple Watch and the optional iCloud sync it can use. For problems with iCloud, the App Store or billing themselves, Apple Support can get there faster than we can.