What's new

Kohlrabi is in beta and updates often. Here are the highlights, what's coming next, and the quickest way to tell us when something breaks. Report a bug. Last updated November 6, 2026.

v2.7 · Coming soonLatest

These changes are in testing and reach the app soon.

  • Kohlrabi Coach has a new layout: Today, Clients, Programs and More. Coaches try it free with no card, and clients join in three short screens.
  • Add a client in one sheet. A client can train in person, be free, or pay you outside the app. Pausing a client pauses their billing.
  • Coach updates stay your call. If you changed an exercise, tap Keep my changes and the update works around it.
  • Paste a spreadsheet into Coach and 5/3/1 notation like 85%x5+ is read as written. RIR programs stay in RIR.
  • Start from a bigger library of ready-made programs, including Arnold, Mentzer and Phrak's GSLP. Links to a starter open it on your first visit.
  • Next-time targets follow your plan. Low-rep days and ladders are no longer pushed to 6-12 reps, and dumbbell jumps land on real dumbbells.
  • Assisted and weighted bodyweight lifts progress the right way. Warm-ups stay out of every total.
  • CSV import tells you about cells it could not read and can be undone. Sync merges edits from two devices, and an empty cloud copy never wipes your data.
  • The app opens faster, and links to a workout or program work on a first visit and offline.
v2.6 · November 2026
  • A real desktop layout: on a wide screen the app, and Kohlrabi Coach, now lay out as a desktop interface. Printing gets the same treatment.
  • Stages work on every program, and a stage can carry its own workouts. Rest days and odd/even-week workouts can sit in the rotation, and you can reorder days.
  • The finish screen has a "Next time" block with your next target, worked out from the session you just did.
  • The exercise picker shows popular lifts first, then A to Z. Search understands gym shorthand ("db row", "pec deck") and more machine names.
  • Search and the exercise library are faster on slower phones.
v2.5 · November 2026
  • Exercise pictures: how-to photos above the steps for 700+ exercises, plus illustrations for 20 more. They are on by default; turn them off in Settings → Display & Units; the pictures come from the app itself, so nothing is sent to a third party.
  • Completed sets are the only sets that count, on Home, Logs, Stats, exercise pages and shares. Warm-ups no longer inflate totals.
  • A "Week starts on" setting (Monday or Sunday) for Stats and Home.
  • Program weeks count sessions: set a sessions-per-week value and the week turns when that many sessions are done or skipped.
  • Sub-screens inside Workout and Program have their own URLs, so Back walks them in order and a reload returns you to the same screen.
  • One estimated 1RM per session on every screen, taken from the session's top set.
  • Hardware-keyboard shortcuts: 1 to 5 switch tabs, / jumps to exercise search, comma opens Settings.
  • Dumbbell suggestions in kilograms land on dumbbells that exist. Trap bar is its own equipment. Starter programs are back (Full Body, Upper / Lower, Push / Pull / Legs, a %1RM wave).
  • Sharing a program now shows how long it runs and its stage plan. Finished programs read "Program complete" on Home.
  • Kohlrabi Coach, the tool for personal trainers (programs, clients, plans and a public coach page), is built into the app. Its availability is on the Coach page.
v2.0 · October 2026
  • Program stages: give part of a program its own rep range and rule (Strength, Hypertrophy, Endurance, Hold, Deload, or your own).
  • A welcome flow and a seven-card quick tour (Home → "Take the quick tour", or Settings → About).
  • Custom equipment for custom exercises, synced across devices.
  • Stats gains a "Finished programs" section, and a first desktop layout pass.
  • Share links now stay out of search engines and carry stage variants.
Earlier versions
  • v1.93 to v1.99: import your history from Strong, alongside Hevy and MacroFactor. Muscle freshness shows when each muscle was last trained and its sets in the last week.
  • v1.92: a refreshed interface, single-side support, and progression engine updates.
  • v1.8: faster exercise adding, a finish dialog that keeps partial sets, and a standard barbell or dumbbell lift first in search.
  • v1.75: progression for sub-maximal sets, and suggestions that round to your increment grid.
  • v1.7: semi-open beta, opt-in auto warm-up sets, and a Start button on shared programs.

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