Settings, sync and your data
Settings is where Durata adapts to you: your units, your plates, your rest times, your data. It's a menu of small focused screens, and every change saves automatically as you make it.
It's also home to what matters long-term: importing your history from another app, exporting it back out, and keeping everything synced to your account. Your data is yours — lossless export is built in, and the app works fully offline.
Last reviewed 2026-07-31 · matches app v0.9.0.69
Profile and workout defaults
Profile holds your units — kg or lbs for weight, km or miles for cardio — plus sex, height and age, which feed calorie and body-metric estimates. Age sets your max heart rate (220 minus age); override it or add a resting heart rate for the Karvonen formula, with a live preview of all five HR zones. A weekly session target feeds your Consistency Score.
Workout Defaults controls the logger: default sets and reps, weight rounding (0.25 kg up to 5 kg — every suggested weight snaps to this step), and toggles for progression hints and the fatigue bar. Effort tracking is where you choose RPE, RIR or off, with an optional default pre-filled on every set.
Every numeric field selects its contents when you tap it — just type the new value, no deleting first.
Rest timer, sounds and reminders
Rest Timer sets whether the timer starts automatically on set completion, the default duration (30 seconds to 5 minutes, overridable per set), and how it appears: a thin header bar, a floating mini timer, or a full-screen countdown.
Pick a rest-complete sound (bell, whistle or horn) and a PR celebration sound — each has a play button so you can hear it first. Vibration and the PR confetti splash have their own toggles. Rest alerts fire even with the screen locked.
Workout reminders live under Workout Defaults: turn them on and Durata notifies you on each of the next 7 days that has a planned session, at your chosen time.
Warm-ups, plates and equipment
Warm-up Profiles holds the calculator's three presets — Quick, Standard and Heavy. Each is fully editable (name, percentage, reps and rest per ramp set), and you pick which one opens by default — Standard out of the box.
Plate Calculator describes your actual gym in your own unit: bars and plates follow your kg or lbs setting, with proper defaults for each (20 kg bar and metric plates, or a 45 lb bar and 45/35/25 lb plates), down to microplates. Your kg and lbs setups are stored separately, so switching units never mangles either. Add custom bars, and if you enable a microplate finer than your weight-rounding step an inline note tells you to lower the rounding so suggestions can actually use it.
Rep Tempo sets the four-phase lifting cadence the tempo metronome beats out (e.g. 3010 — three seconds down, one second up), with an explainer of when tempo work is worth it and a link to the rep tempo guide.
Equipment Tags lets you hide built-in gear you never use and add your own.
Swipe a warm-up set row to the left to delete it.
Importing from another app
Data & Export > Import CSV accepts files from Durata itself, Strong, Hevy and Loadline — the format is detected automatically, and so is the weight unit whenever the file states one. The kg/lbs selector next to the Import button is only consulted for Strong files that don't.
Import is safe to repeat: every session is fingerprinted, so re-importing the same file adds nothing twice — unchanged sessions are skipped, edited ones updated. Exercise names are matched to Durata's library even when the wording differs between apps ("Cable Lateral Raise" finds "Lateral Raise (Cable)"), per-exercise notes come across with them, and anything unrecognised is carried in as a custom exercise. A summary sheet shows what was added, matched and created.
The summary also offers to rebuild your training. Under Rebuild Your Routines it lists the workouts you performed at least twice in the imported history — grouped by title, with Hevy's auto-named "Morning Workout"-style sessions handled by their exercise mix instead — each ticked and ready to become a routine built from your most recent performance, so the weights are your latest, not your oldest. Recent staples rank ahead of years-old history, and re-importing never re-offers a routine you already have. Create two or more and a Group Into a Weekly Program button hands them straight to the program builder, pre-ticked, with training days inferred from when you actually trained.
Skipped the offer, or want a one-off session back? Open any imported workout in History and use Save as New Routine — the manual route still works any time.
Export and backup
Export to CSV writes every logged set — cardio, HIIT and all set types included, with weights, reps, RPE/RIR, distances and durations — in a lossless format that re-imports cleanly. Turn on auto-export and a fresh CSV lands in a folder you choose after every workout.
Backup produces one JSON file of everything: workouts, custom exercises, routines, programs, goals, body metrics, cardio, nutrition, sleep and settings. Restore reads it back in — with a clear warning first, because it overwrites matching records locally, in the cloud and on your other signed-in devices.
On iOS the app also keeps its own safety net: once a day it writes a full backup into Files > On My iPad/iPhone > Durata automatically, alternating between two files so a good copy is always retained. Restore accepts these files too.
Your account and cloud sync
Your account is just your email address: enter it, type the 6-digit code that arrives, and you're signed in — no password. Accounts are created in the mobile app; once one exists, the same email code logs you in elsewhere.
Durata is offline-first. Everything works with no connection, and changes queue up and sync automatically when you're back online. The account card shows when you last synced and whether anything is pending, with a Sync Now button if you're impatient.
Signing out uploads pending changes first, and warns you if any couldn't be synced rather than silently dropping them. Delete Account & All Data does what it says — a two-step confirmation, then your cloud data, account and local data are permanently erased.
Apple Health and Health Connect
The Integrations screen connects Durata to your platform's health store — Health Connect on Android, Apple Health on iOS — read-only by design. It reads workouts, weight, body fat, steps, heart rate (plus resting HR and HRV), sleep, nutrition and hydration from your other apps and devices and folds them into your dashboard. Durata never writes to your health record, so it can't pollute it.
Appearance and the Wear OS companion
Display offers six muted accent colours — the whole interface re-tints to your pick — plus a toggle to keep the screen awake during an active workout.
If you have a Wear OS watch, the companion pairs with the phone app: your session appears on the watch, you log sets from the wrist, and the rest timer runs on both — +/-15 second nudges and skips sync in both directions. The watch can also stream heart rate into your session, and the Watch screen has toggles for HR tracking, sounds and haptics.
Durata Pro
Durata Pro unlocks the web dashboard at getdurata.app (train on your phone, review on a desktop), deep analytics (Recovery Score, ACWR workload ratio, muscle imbalance detection, custom date ranges), smart features like auto progression suggestions and deload detection, progress photo tools, and unlimited routines and programs.
Pro is sold through the App Store on Apple and Google Play on Android, as an annual or monthly subscription (or a one-time lifetime purchase), and Restore Purchase re-links an existing purchase on a new device. During the beta everything is free for all testers, and the first 50 waitlist signups get lifetime Pro.
Tap the version number at the bottom of Settings to read the full release notes for every build — filtered to your platform, so an Apple device never shows Android-only changes (or vice versa).
The web dashboard
Pro includes Durata in a desktop browser — sign in at getdurata.app on a computer and your whole account is there, live-synced both ways. It's a big enough deal that it has its own guide page: see The web dashboard for signing in, what the big screen is best at, and what stays on the phone.
Common questions
Will importing my Strong or Hevy history create duplicates if I run it twice?
No. Every imported session is fingerprinted, so re-importing the same file skips unchanged sessions and updates edited ones — nothing is ever duplicated.
Does Durata work without an internet connection?
Yes, fully. Logging, programs and analytics all run on-device. Changes made offline queue up and sync to your account automatically when you're back online.
Can Durata write data into Apple Health or Health Connect?
No — the integration is read-only by design. Durata reads workouts, weight, steps, heart rate, sleep, nutrition and hydration from your health platform but never writes anything back.
How do I move my data out of Durata?
Data & Export gives you a lossless CSV of every set (including cardio, HIIT and set types) and a full JSON backup of everything. Both are one tap, no subscription required.
What happens to my data if I delete my account?
Everything is permanently erased — cloud data, your account and the data on the device. There's a two-step confirmation, and it cannot be undone, so export a backup first if you might come back.
How do I get to the web version?
On a computer, go to getdurata.app, hit Sign in, and use the same email + 6-digit code as the app. It's desktop-only — a phone browser will point you to the mobile app instead. Web access is part of Durata Pro, free for everyone during the beta.
Put it into practice
Durata is free during beta — 50 proven programs, automatic progression, rest timers and PR tracking, all on your phone.