Fivebar · Privacy

Your training stays on your iPhone.

Last updated 10 November 2026

Fivebar is an iPhone app that helps you train consistently. It is made by Werk Studios LLC, a company licensed in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. There is no Fivebar account and no Fivebar server holding your training. The short version: what you put into Fivebar stays on your iPhone. The only things that leave it are a few anonymous counts, if you say yes to them, the text of a workout you let AI read, the app's check for updates, and anything you choose to share yourself.

What stays on your iPhone

Your first name, the activities you pick, your weekly target, your sessions, the days you mark, your plans and your habits are stored inside the app on your iPhone. They are included in your normal iPhone or iCloud backup, depending on your backup settings, and nowhere else. You can export a copy as a file at any time in Settings, under Your history. Fivebar sends nothing itself: the file goes where you send it, and is then covered by that app or service. Deleting the app deletes all of it.

Workouts you bring in

You can add a workout of your own by pasting text, picking a screenshot, or sharing a caption, link or screenshot to Fivebar from another app. Fivebar reads the text in a screenshot on your iPhone with Apple's built-in text recognition. The picture itself is never sent anywhere or stored; Fivebar only sees the photos you pick or share, never your whole library.

The first time you bring in a workout, Fivebar asks whether AI may read it. If you say yes, the text Fivebar found (never the picture) goes to Fivebar's reading service, which runs with Supabase in the EU (Frankfurt) and asks an AI model from Anthropic to pick out the workout: its name, the moves and the numbers. Fivebar then checks every move and number against the text before showing it. Along with the text goes a random ID made on your iPhone only for this, so the service can limit how many reads one phone makes in a day; the service keeps a daily count for that ID and nothing else, not the text and not the workout. Anthropic does not use this text to train its models. If you say no, or you are offline, Fivebar's own rules read the text on your iPhone instead. You can change your answer at any time in Settings, Read workouts with AI.

If you share a link to an Instagram post or reel, Instagram sends Fivebar only the link. Fivebar then opens the post's public page from your iPhone to read its caption, the same way a browser would, so Instagram sees that request. If the caption is read with AI, it is handled as above.

Sending a workout to a friend

If you tap Send to a friend on one of your workouts, Fivebar puts the workout into a link to this site, after the # sign, and hands it to the app you choose. Browsers never send the part after the # to a server, so this site does not see or keep the workout: the page, or Fivebar on your friend's iPhone, reads it on their device. Nothing is sent unless you send the message yourself.

Widgets and the lock screen

If you add Fivebar widgets, they show your week, your next planned session and whether today is marked. While a workout runs, its clock and current step can show on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island. Fivebar keeps this in a shared space on your iPhone that only the app and its widgets can read. It is not sent anywhere. Anything on the lock screen can be seen by whoever holds your iPhone, so choose which widgets you put there. Siri, Shortcuts and the Control Center button can mark today or open a part of the app; they run on your iPhone and send nothing.

Apple Health

Connecting Apple Health is optional. If you do, Fivebar reads your workouts (the type, when each started, how long it lasted, the distance, and the name of the app or device that recorded it) and your body weight, for example from a smart scale's app. When you open a workout from your watch, Fivebar also reads what Health recorded for it, such as heart rate, calories, pace, the route, a swim's laps and a ride's power and cadence, to show it to you. Fivebar uses them to mark the days you trained, to show your weight and to suggest a weekly target. It can read them in the background when Health has something new, so a day is marked without opening the app. A weight you type in Fivebar is never replaced by one from Health.

If you turn on "Save sessions to Apple Health", Fivebar saves the sessions you finish in Fivebar to Apple Health as workouts: the type, when it started and ended, and the distance where there is one. Apple Health then shares them with the apps you have allowed to read your workouts. Turn it off in Settings at any time; removing a session in Fivebar also removes the workout it saved.

Health data stays on your iPhone unless you share it yourself: an export includes the workouts and weights Fivebar read from Health. Fivebar never sends Health data to me or anyone else, and never uses it for advertising. You can stop access at any time in the Health app, under Sharing, Apps.

Reminders

Reminders are scheduled on your iPhone by the app itself. No server sends them and no notification token is collected.

Anonymous counts (optional)

If you turn on "Share anonymous counts", Fivebar sends a small record when you finish onboarding, open the app, mark a day in the app, make a comeback or complete a week. It also records which features you use: starting, finishing or stopping a guided session, logging a quick session, planning a session, marking a planned session done (and whether that was in the app, on a widget or from a notification), opening a notification (and which kind), answering a movement snack, marking today from a widget, your answer when iOS asks to allow notifications, Fivebar asking iOS for the rating prompt, tapping Rate Fivebar or Send feedback, pausing a week, building a workout with Build me a workout, swapping or removing a move in one (and which kind of movement, for example "lunge"), throwing a built workout away before starting it, reading a workout from a screenshot or a shared post (and whether AI or Fivebar's own rules read it), saving a workout of your own (and whether it came from a photo, text or typing), tapping Message me in Settings or on Today, Fivebar asking once for your ideas, and finishing a built workout with a weight noted on at least one move (whether, never the weight). The screenshot, its text and the workout's moves are never sent.

Each record holds a random install ID, the event, at most one word saying which kind (for example "routine" or "widget"), the date, and the app version. It never includes your name, your moves, weights or times, how much or how long, anything you typed, or any Health data, and days marked from Apple Health are not counted. The records are stored with Supabase in the EU (Frankfurt) and used only to see whether Fivebar helps people keep training and which parts of it are worth improving. Like any web server, Supabase sees the internet address a request comes from; it is not stored with the counts. You can turn this off at any time in Settings, Share anonymous counts, and no further records are sent. If you said yes before these feature records existed, Fivebar asks you once before sending them.

The install ID is created on your iPhone and is not linked to your name, your Apple ID or your device. That also means I cannot pick out your records if you ask me to, so the way to stop them is the switch in Settings.

Ratings and feedback

Fivebar may ask iOS to show Apple's rating prompt after a good week. Apple decides whether it appears and does not tell me whether you rated. Send feedback in Settings opens an email to me with the app version filled in; nothing is sent unless you send that email yourself.

Messaging me

Message me on Instagram, in Settings and once on Today, opens a direct message to @getfivebar in Instagram. Nothing is sent unless you send it yourself, and Instagram's own privacy policy covers the conversation.

App updates

When Fivebar opens, it checks with Expo's update service for a newer version of the app. The check sends the app version, the platform and a random ID the update service uses for this install, along with the internet address it comes from. It carries none of your training data and is not used to identify you.

Beta testing

If you test Fivebar through TestFlight, Apple may share crash reports and any feedback you choose to send with me. Apple's own privacy policy covers that.

The page that gives out the TestFlight invite, getfivebar.app/try, asks when you last trained regularly and, if you like, what stopped you last time. It stores those two answers and which link brought you there, with no name, contact or device ID, with Supabase in the EU (Frankfurt), to see which places reach people who want to start again.

What Fivebar never does

No ads. No tracking across apps or websites. No selling or sharing of your data. No third-party analytics or advertising code. No account to create.

Children

Fivebar is not directed at children under 13.

Changes and questions

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and a meaningful change is mentioned in the app's update notes. For any question about your data, write to hello@werkstudios.ae.