August 13, 2026

1.8.0 — one coach for training and food

A real trainer doesn't stop at the last set. They ask what you ate.

Until now Ollim only had half the picture. It could read your training week and set your targets, but it knew nothing about the food that had to support them. 1.8.0 closes that. Here's everything in it.

Meet your nutrition coach

Tap the centre button and the whole app switches. Not a tab, not a sub-screen — the tab bar itself changes, because nutrition isn't a feature bolted onto a lifting app. It's the other half.

  • Snap it, logged. One photo. The dish gets named, the calories and protein counted. No searching a database for "chicken breast, raw, 100g".
  • Targets that fit you. A daily calorie and protein target computed from your body, your goal and your training — not a generic 2,000.
  • Fix what's wrong. Every estimate leads with the dish and its total, with a note on what a dish like that usually costs — so a 1,000-calorie salad reads as a loaded salad, not a mistake. The ingredients sit one tap away, where you can correct a number, add what the estimate missed, or drop what wasn't yours.

Your meals, by month

The Meals tab keeps every day you've logged in a month calendar — each day showing what it came to, coloured against your target. Tap a day to see the meals; tap a meal to open it back up and fix it. Nothing you log disappears into a feed.

After a workout, a glance at your day

Finish a session and your coach does what a trainer does: checks the food diary. Calories and protein against today's targets, and one line about what's left — "Protein-forward dinner tonight — 74 g to go."

It's guidance, not a new plan. Your targets still move weekly, never daily, because a coach who rewrites your numbers every evening isn't coaching, they're twitching.

One coach, your terms

Some people want the food side. Some want to be left alone about it. Coach focus lets you choose what your coach speaks up about — both halves, training only, or nutrition only. Everything keeps working either way; it just stays quiet about the half you didn't ask for.

Notifications worth having

Two. That's the whole list:

  • Your weekly review is ready.
  • A quiet nudge if it's been a long while.

No streak guilt, no "you haven't logged today!", nothing engineered to make you open the app. If I can't justify a notification to myself, it doesn't ship.

Exercises you can actually find

The catalog is 205 movements deep now, nearly all with a demo clip, a numbered how-to, and the three things people most often get wrong. Search finally ranks the way you'd expect — type "chest su" and the chest-supported rows come first instead of drowning under every bench press. And if something's genuinely missing, request it: you'll hear back when it lands.

Also in this release

  • Height in feet or centimetres, chosen right where you type it.
  • Sex and age band, so your first week of targets is sharper than an average.
  • Meal-photo settings moved to Profile, where the rest of your privacy choices live.
  • Your coach's weekly suggestions now apply for everyone — free included.

Weekly coaching and the whole nutrition side are free right now. I'd rather find out whether this actually keeps people training than charge for it before I know.

Get it on the App Store — and tell me what breaks. That's still how this gets better.

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