Does it support heart-rate monitors?

It pairs with Bluetooth chest straps like the Polar H10, Garmin HRM-Pro Plus and Wahoo TICKR. Apple Watch shows the timer and heart rate, and Fitbits and other trackers work through Apple Health.

How much does it cost?

Pricing is not stated on the site; you can get the app for iPhone via the 'Get Pasta for iPhone' link.

Pasta — A personal trainer, in your pocket.

Pasta is an AI-powered personal training app for iPhone. It generates workouts from a spoken or typed request (e.g. "Thirty minutes, upper body, dumbbells only"), coaches them hands-free with spoken set-by-set guidance, writes multi-week training plans toward goals like a half marathon or a bigger deadlift, and tracks progress with heart-rate zones, training load, and a weekly one-page report. Workouts are built on-device with Apple Intelligence, with no account, ads, or tracking.

Key Features

AI workout builder

Hold to talk or tap to type a request and Pasta generates a full session with exercises, sets, reps and rest. You can ask for swaps ("don't like the lunges? Say so and Pasta swaps them") and paste a YouTube or webpage link to turn it into a session when possible.

Hands-free coaching

Press play and Pasta speaks out every set and rest so the phone can stay in your bag — including weight, reps, rest length, and live heart-rate zone callouts.

Plans built around your schedule

Tell it your goal and the days you can train; it writes the weeks starting from weights you've actually lifted, adds a lighter deload week every fourth, and keeps going indefinitely if there's no end date.

Timers everywhere

The rest timer lives on the Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, widgets, and Apple Watch, and keeps running with the phone locked or another app open.

Heart-rate support

Live heart rate shown on the current exercise, post-workout zone breakdowns, and pairing with Bluetooth chest straps like Polar H10, Garmin HRM-Pro Plus and Wahoo TICKR. Fitbit and other trackers work via Apple Health.

Readiness check

A daily read on whether to push or take it easy, based on your latest HRV, resting heart rate and sleep.

Weekly progress report

A one-page weekly report with records, resting heart rate, sleep and an estimated VO₂ max; workouts save to Apple Health and count toward your rings.

Exercise library

873 exercises, each with instructions and technique videos for the common ones.

How It Works

Ask

Hold to talk or tap to type what you want — duration, body parts, equipment — and Pasta builds a full session in seconds; you can iterate by voice or paste a workout link from the web.

Train

Press play and the app speaks each set and rest aloud, with the timer visible on Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, widgets or Apple Watch, and optional heart-rate strap pairing.

Plan & progress

Set a goal and available training days for a multi-week plan, then review a weekly one-page report, heart-rate zones, training load and a daily readiness check.

Pros & Cons

Pros

Fully hands-free voice coaching including exercise swaps mid-conversation
On-device AI with no account, no ads and no tracking
Deep Apple ecosystem integration: Dynamic Island, Lock Screen, widgets, Apple Watch, Siri, Apple Health and Activity rings
Works with popular Bluetooth chest straps (Polar H10, Garmin HRM-Pro Plus, Wahoo TICKR) and Fitbit via Apple Health
Large exercise library (873 exercises) with instructions and technique videos
Adaptive plans that start from weights you've actually lifted and include deload weeks

Who It's For

Best for

iPhone 15 Pro or newer owners who want an AI personal trainer that coaches them hands-free
People deep in the Apple ecosystem who use Apple Watch, Apple Health, Siri and Activity rings
Lifters and runners who want adaptive multi-week plans based on their actual logged weights
Privacy-conscious users who prefer no account, no ads and on-device processing

Not ideal for

Android users or anyone without an Apple Intelligence-capable iPhone (15 Pro or newer)
People who want to train primarily from a desktop or web app

Use Cases

Generating a tailored gym or home workout on the spot by voice, e.g. dumbbell-only upper-body sessions

Hands-free coaching so your phone stays in your bag during sets and rest

Following a structured multi-week plan for goals like a half marathon or a bigger deadlift

Tracking heart-rate zones, training load, HRV-based readiness and weekly progress on iPhone and Apple Watch

Converting a workout found on YouTube or a webpage into a guided session

FAQ

What does Pasta do?

It's an AI personal trainer for iPhone: you ask for a workout by voice or text and it builds one with exercises, sets, reps and rest; it then coaches it hands-free, writes multi-week plans toward your goals, and tracks progress with heart-rate zones, training load, readiness and weekly reports.

Which devices does it run on?

It requires an iPhone with Apple Intelligence — iPhone 15 Pro or newer. Timers also appear on Apple Watch, and there's a desktop web builder for constructing workouts to paste into the iPhone app.

Is my data private?

Yes — Apple Intelligence builds your workouts on your iPhone and everything you record stays on your device. There's no account, no ads and no tracking.

Can it import workouts I found online?

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