Cardio, nutrition and body tracking

Cardio: tracked, not typed

Open You > Cardio and every session is already there: cardio exercises logged inside a workout appear automatically, and runs, rides and swims from other apps sync in through Apple Health (on Apple devices) or Health Connect (on Android), aggregated alongside what you logged in the app. There's deliberately no separate cardio diary to maintain.

A ride you logged in a workout counts once here, on the panel, on the dashboard card and against a cardio goal, even though the app holds a record of it in two places. Edit the set in the workout and this panel follows: the minutes, the distance and the charts all read the corrected figure.

For your chosen time range you get six stats, namely sessions, total distance, total minutes, best running pace, average heart rate and estimated calories, plus trend charts for distance, pace (running only), heart rate, heart-rate zones and duration, and a By Activity list with per-activity records.

The trend charts read as trends, not just history. Distance and duration carry a dashed rule at your average session, so you can see at a glance which sessions were the big ones. Pace and heart rate carry a running average of your last seven sessions, drawn over the raw line, so the noise stays visible while the direction is the part you actually read. A small caret marks your fastest run.

Synced sessions carry an Edit button for correcting distance, duration, heart rate, elevation and notes. Enter a heart rate and Durata shows your training zone (Z1-Z5) and estimates calories from it.

Running the timer in a workout

Add any cardio exercise to a workout and its set rows swap weight and reps for distance, duration and an editable REST cell. Tap START and the timer runs the set: a planned duration counts down with a progress ring and carries a Pause button, while no duration at all means a count-up stopwatch.

Either way the big button is Finish, and it logs the time you actually trained rather than the time you planned. Stop a planned 30:00 ride at 20:00 and 20:00 is what lands in the duration cell, with the set ticked off and its rest period started. Next to Finish sits Cancel, which is the separate route for abandoning a set you don't want logged at all.

When every set is done, the button turns into LOG ANOTHER: one tap adds a fresh round and starts it immediately.

HIIT that runs itself

Mark sets as HIIT and the logger runs them as real intervals: each set's duration is the work period, its rest is the recovery, and sets auto-chain from work to rest to work, with the set number and phase (WORK or REST) front and centre. HIIT work gets the urgent red ring; steady efforts stay calm white.

HIIT blocks in Durata's built-in programs are automatically bracketed by a 5-minute easy warm-up and cool-down. The warm-up chains straight into round one, and the moment your last round ends the cool-down starts on its own, so you're never sent cold into all-out intervals or left standing when they finish.

Nutrition: one record per day

Nutrition is built around syncing rather than typing. Connect Apple Health or Health Connect and daily calories and macros flow in from the nutrition app you already use, merged into exactly one record per day, so re-syncing never creates duplicates.

Today's figures keep up with you. Calories and water are a running total that climbs all day, so Durata re-reads the current day every time you open the app or come back to it, and opening the Nutrition panel asks for a fresh read of its own. The last couple of days are re-read too, because a food app often hands last night's dinner to your health store the following morning. Log lunch in your food app, switch over, and the number has already moved. Nothing is rewritten when nothing has changed.

You get average calories, protein, carbs and fat, a daily calories chart, a macro split donut, and protein, carbs and fat trend lines. Edit any day with the pencil button in Log History, and the day stays a single record.

Daily intake is noisy by nature, so the charts do the smoothing for you: the calories chart draws a dashed rule at your average for the range, and each macro line carries a running average of your last seven logged days over the top of the daily values. Days you didn't log aren't counted as zero. They are absent, and the line closes the gap rather than dropping to the floor.

Water syncs the same way the food does. Whatever your health app reports for today shows on its own card, with your seven-day average underneath and a note of where the figure came from. There is nothing to tap and no target to set. Log water wherever you already log it and Durata reads it, rather than asking you to enter the same glass twice. Add the Water widget to Home and today's figure sits on your board too.

Weight, body fat and measurements

Body Metrics is the long-game page. Tap the + button to log today: weight (kg or lbs, following your unit setting), body fat percent, optional lean and bone mass, and ten tape measurements from neck to calves. Stat cards show your latest weight, body fat and BMI with up/down deltas against your previous entry.

Charts cover weight, body fat, lean mass, BMI trend and any single measurement you pick. Sleep and water sit alongside, and both sync from Apple Health or Health Connect, the same as your calories and macros. Sleep also gets its own dashboard card once data is flowing, and it only counts sleep as current within the last week, so stale data drops off rather than pretending you slept.

Set a weight goal and the weight chart draws it as a reference line, with a readout underneath showing your rate of change and how long you're on track to reach it - or a note that you're trending away from it, so you notice before it drifts too far.

Progress photos

The Gallery keeps progress photos in a date-labelled grid, with a filter button in the header, the same funnel you'll know from Goals, separating body shots from post-workout photos. Tap a photo and it opens full screen as its own branded share card, with Share, Save and Delete right on it: Share sends the finished card, Save keeps the clean original photo, and Delete removes it everywhere. Swipe between photos, and toggle which numbers ride along. The full range of photo cards, the hero and ledger looks, and the side-by-side Compare are covered in the share-cards guide.

Tap + to add a photo: take a new one with your phone's camera or pick one from your library, using the same chooser you'll meet everywhere a photo can be added, including the post-workout photo. The Compare button puts any two photos side by side, oldest on the left, reading out the days between them and your weight change over that stretch.

Every photo is also saved to a Durata album in your device gallery, the Photos library on Apple devices and your device gallery on Android, so it backs up with your other photos. That album is how you get your photos back after a reinstall. On iPhone and iPad the gallery restores itself from it automatically, once, with no duplicates, and a Restore from device album button is there if you ever need it. On Android you bring them back yourself: tap Import photos from device on the empty gallery and pick the photos you want out of your phone's photo picker. Each one keeps its original date, and importing the same photo twice does not duplicate it.

Turn photos into a time-lapse

With three or more photos, the Time Lapse button builds a crossfading, date-stamped, Durata-branded video of your transformation, framed at 4:5 portrait for social feeds. Drag the filmstrip trimmer's handles to pick the exact stretch you want; a live label shows the photos and weeks in range.

Download or Share exports a real video file. On devices that can't encode video, Durata falls back to a branded before/after image, so you always get something worth posting.

The time-lapse is part of Pro. Taking, keeping and comparing photos side by side stays free; on a free account the Time Lapse button carries a small PRO mark and opens the Pro sheet.