Getting started with Durata
Durata is a gym log and program planner for Android and Apple. You log your sets in the gym, the app calculates what you should lift next, and everything syncs to the cloud so your training history is never lost.
This guide takes you from a fresh install to your first look around: creating an account, the first-run checklist, what everything on the dashboard means, and how to bring years of history with you from another app. It takes about five minutes.
Last reviewed 2026-07-31 · matches app v0.9.0.69
Install the app and create your account
Durata lives on the Google Play Store (Android) and the App Store (Apple). Account creation happens in the mobile app only — the web dashboard (a Durata Pro feature) is for logging into an account you already have, not for creating one.
There are no passwords. You sign in with your email address and a 6-digit code — Durata emails you the code, and the moment you type or paste the sixth digit it submits itself. No verify button, no password to forget.
Right after your first sign-in, a one-time 'Before You Train' sheet asks you to accept Durata's health and liability terms — Durata is training-log software, not medical advice, and you confirm you're training at your own risk before the sheet lets you through. It only appears once (it carries across your devices), and it reappears only if the terms materially change.
Durata is currently in beta, which means two things: you need a spot on the waitlist (join at getdurata.app) before your first sign-in will work, and every Pro feature is unlocked for free while the beta runs. The first 50 waitlist signups get lifetime Pro.
- Install Durata from the Google Play Store or the App Store.
- Open the app and enter your email address.
- Check your inbox for the 6-digit code and type it in — it submits automatically on the sixth digit.
- Accept the one-time health & liability terms on the 'Before You Train' sheet.
- You're in. Everything you log from here syncs to your account.
The first-run checklist
On first launch Durata shows a short welcome sheet with a handful of optional setup actions: import your history from another app (Strong, Hevy, Loadline or a CSV), set up your profile (sex, age, units), find a training program from the 50 built in, and connect Health data for steps, sleep and nutrition (Health Connect on Android, Apple Health on iOS).
None of it is mandatory. The big button at the bottom is 'Log a workout now', and if you dismiss the sheet Durata drops you straight into the logger. You can re-run the checklist any time — the new-user card on the dashboard has a 'Redisplay Onboarding' option.
A tour of the dashboard
Home is a stack of cards, and every one of them earns its place: This Week (a 7-day overview of logged and planned sessions plus stat tiles), your Active Program's Up Next session, Last Workout, Recovery Score, Training Load and Weekly Sets charts, This Week's PRs, and pinned Bodyweight, Sleep and Nutrition tiles.
The Up Next card is the one you'll use most. It shows today's planned session from your active program - tap a session to preview it, exercise by exercise with reps and working weights already resolved from your history, or hit its play button for a quick Start Workout confirmation. Running more than one program at once? Each session gets its own row, tap the card's background instead of a specific row to see all of today's sessions together. On rest days it looks ahead instead: the next scheduled session, where the same tap-to-preview works and a Start Early button lets you jump in ahead of schedule.
The Recovery Score card is tappable too — tap it for the full Insights breakdown: the workload trend, deload guidance and what each fatigue factor (volume, RPE trend, frequency and sleep) actually means.
The stack is yours to rearrange. Scroll to the bottom and tap Customize Dashboard: drag cards into whatever order suits you and hide the ones you don't use. The layout syncs to your account, so it follows you across devices.
In the header you'll find your streak chip. Each day you log a workout adds one day. Up to 3 rest days are allowed before the streak breaks — the chip turns amber after 2 rest days and red after 3, when it's train today or lose it.
Long-press anywhere on the This Week overview to jump straight to the full History calendar.
Tap the streak chip itself for a plain-English explainer of exactly how the streak and rest-day rules work.
The line under the date shows your live sync status — a green dot and 'Synced 2m ago' means everything is safely in the cloud.
Bring your training history with you
Years of logs in another app shouldn't keep you there. Durata imports CSV exports from Strong, Hevy and Loadline (plus its own format) via Settings, under Import CSV — or straight from the first-run checklist.
The import is re-import safe: run the same file twice and nothing duplicates. New sessions are inserted, changed ones are updated, identical ones are skipped. Exercises Durata doesn't recognise aren't dropped — they're matched to the 415-exercise library where possible (even when the wording differs between apps), per-exercise notes come along with them, and anything genuinely unique is created as a custom exercise so your history stays complete.
Units take care of themselves: Hevy exports state their unit in the file (kg or lb) and Durata converts automatically, and Strong files are auto-detected the same way whenever the file says which unit it uses. The unit selector next to the import button only matters for Strong files that don't — set it to match how that app was set up.
You get more than the history back, too. The import summary spots the workouts you repeated and offers to rebuild them as ready-to-use routines — each built from your most recent performance, with your latest weights — and, once you've created a few, to group them into a weekly program with the training days set from when you actually trained. Your old splits come back working, not just archived.
Getting around the app
The bottom navigation has five buttons: Home (the dashboard), Training (the programs hub), Log (the barbell button in the middle — your workout logger), Analytics, and More.
More opens a grid holding everything else: Exercises, History, Cardio, Body, Gallery, Nutrition, PR Board, Goals and Settings. If you can't find something, it's in there.
Durata works offline and syncs when you're back online, so a gym with no signal never costs you a set.
The barbell Log button doubles as the sync indicator — a thin ring spins around it whenever Durata is saving to the cloud.
With a workout in progress, the dashboard shows a pulsing LIVE banner — tap it to jump straight back into your session.
Common questions
Do I need to create a password?
No. Durata is passwordless — you sign in with your email and a 6-digit code that's emailed to you each time. The code submits itself as soon as you enter the sixth digit.
Can I sign up on the website?
No — accounts are created in the mobile app (Android or iOS) only. The web dashboard is a Durata Pro feature for logging into an existing account on a bigger screen.
Do I have to accept anything before I start training?
Yes — a one-time 'Before You Train' sheet appears right after your first sign-in with Durata's health and liability terms. It's non-dismissable, but it's quick, and it only reappears if the terms materially change.
Is Durata free?
During the beta, yes — every Pro feature is unlocked for everyone, and the first 50 waitlist signups get lifetime Pro. You'll need a waitlist spot at getdurata.app to sign in.
Will importing my Strong or Hevy history create duplicates?
No. Imports are re-import safe: identical sessions are skipped and changed ones are updated, so you can run the same export twice without doubling anything up. Unrecognised exercises are added as custom exercises rather than lost.
Does Durata work without signal at the gym?
Yes. Everything works offline and syncs automatically when you're back online — the spinning ring around the barbell Log button shows when a sync is in flight.
Put it into practice
Durata is free during beta — 50 proven programs, automatic progression, rest timers and PR tracking, all on your phone.