Frequently asked questions
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Getting Started
What is Capable?
Capable is an AI-powered workout app that builds and adapts your training program around you — your goals, the equipment you have, and how your body is actually responding session by session.
Most fitness apps give you a fixed plan and expect you to fit your life around it. Capable works the other way. The AI considers what you’re training toward (strength, fat loss, endurance, general fitness), what you have available (a full gym, a pair of dumbbells, just your bodyweight), and how each session went before deciding what comes next. If you crushed Monday’s workout, Tuesday’s plan reflects that. If you had to cut a session short, it recalibrates — not just the next workout, but the trajectory ahead.
The result is a program that’s genuinely personal: not a template with your name on it, but a training plan that evolves with you.
Who Capable is for. Anyone who wants to train with purpose and doesn’t want to spend hours researching programming or hiring an expensive coach. Whether you’re just starting out or have years of training behind you, Capable meets you at your current level and builds from there.
Capable is made by BeCapable, a small team focused on making intelligent, personalized fitness accessible to everyone.
You can get started for free at becapable.app.
Is Capable available now, or still in beta?
It’s available now. Capable is fully launched — live, out of beta, and Capable Pro is available too. Anyone can sign up at becapable.app, train for free, and upgrade to Pro if and when it’s worth it. There’s no waitlist, no invite code, and no launch date to wait for.
For a while we did call Capable a beta — always as a statement of honesty, not a quality caveat. It meant we ship fast and listen closely. Launching didn’t change that: we still ship releases every few weeks, still take feedback seriously, and the in-app feedback button is still the fastest way to shape what comes next.
What launching didn’t change is your access or your data. The free tier is real and permanent — not a trial that expires — and your workouts, training history, and account are yours to keep. And we’re still building: deeper personalization, structured exercise modification, and connections to Apple Health and Google Health Connect are on the way. Sign up today and you’re training with a live app, not waiting on anything.
How do I get started with Capable?
Getting started takes about five minutes. Here’s what to expect.
1. Create your account. Head to becapable.app and sign up for free. You’ll need an email address — no credit card required to start.
2. Answer the onboarding questions. Capable asks about your current fitness level, what you’re training toward, what equipment you have access to, and how many days per week you want to train. These answers seed your first program. Be honest rather than aspirational — the AI adjusts as you go, and an accurate baseline gets you better workouts faster.
3. Start your first session. Your first workout is ready immediately. Each session shows you the exercises, sets, and reps, with form cues and video demonstrations where relevant. You log each set as you complete it.
4. Rate the session. After each workout you give quick feedback — effort level, how the weights felt. This is how the AI learns your pace. The more consistently you log, the more accurate your program becomes.
That’s it. There’s no complicated setup, no import from wearables required, no elaborate preference menus to configure before you can train. The program gets smarter the more you use it, so the best way to improve it is to start.
For a fuller walkthrough — setup, your first plan, importing history from another app, and installing Capable to your phone — see the Getting started guide. If you get stuck at any step, you can reach the support team at support@becapable.co.
How does Capable personalize my workouts?
Capable’s AI builds your program from three inputs: your goals, your constraints, and your actual performance — then keeps updating that model every time you train.
Goals. At setup you tell Capable what you’re training toward: building strength, losing fat, improving endurance, general fitness, or some combination. This determines the structure of your program — how volume and intensity are distributed across weeks, which movements are prioritized, how progressive overload is applied.
Constraints. Your equipment, schedule, and injury history shape what the program looks like in practice. A strength-focused program for someone with a barbell and rack looks different from one built around dumbbells and 45 minutes three times a week — even if the goal is the same.
Performance data. This is where the real personalization happens. Every set you log — the weight, the reps, how it felt — feeds back into the model. The AI tracks whether you’re ahead of projected progression, whether certain movements consistently feel too heavy or too easy, and how your recovery looks across the week. It uses this to adjust the next session and the weeks ahead.
The adaptation is continuous, not periodic. You don’t wait for an 8-week check-in. If you put up numbers that suggest you’re ready to progress, the next session reflects that. If you’ve had a hard week and the data shows it, the AI won’t push you into a session you’re not ready for.
Over time Capable builds a reasonably accurate model of your capacity and preferences — which means the longer you train with it, the better the programming gets.
Is Capable free to use?
Yes. Capable has a free tier that gives you a fully functional AI-personalized training program with no time limit.
Free plan. AI-built workouts, full session logging and progress tracking, the full exercise library, and all six workout modes — plus a meaningful amount of AI coaching each month and one form review to try. Everything you need to train consistently and see real results. No trial clock, no payment required to keep using it.
Capable Pro. For people who want the coach on tap. Pro removes the monthly caps: unlimited AI-generated plans, unlimited coach interactions, and unlimited form review. Pricing details are on the pricing page.
You can upgrade to Pro at any time from within the app. If you decide it’s not right for you, you can cancel and your data stays in your account on the free tier — nothing gets deleted.
No credit card required to sign up. Create a free account at becapable.app and start training.
How do I give feedback or report a bug?
The fastest way is the feedback button inside the app — the message-square icon in the top header on most screens. Tap it, type what you want to say, send. Whether it’s a bug, a feature request, a confusing flow, or just “this annoyed me” — that’s exactly what it’s for. User feedback has shaped real decisions on the roadmap, including which features became Capable Pro priorities and which ones got deferred.
If you’d rather email, support@becapable.co reaches the same place. Include what you were doing when something went wrong, what you expected versus what actually happened, and (if you can) what device and browser you’re on. Those three details handle most of what we’d need to follow up.
For security disclosures specifically, security@becapable.co is the right address. Standard responsible-disclosure expectations apply — we’ll acknowledge within a reasonable window and won’t take legal action against good-faith research.
There’s no formal SLA on individual responses. Capable is built by one person, and replies fit between actually shipping the product. But everything submitted through the in-app form gets read, and patterns across feedback — the same thing reported by multiple people — are what tells us what to prioritize. If you don’t hear back individually on something specific, it doesn’t mean it wasn’t useful. It usually means it’s already in the queue.
The AI
What AI does Capable use?
Capable’s coaching runs on Claude, Anthropic’s AI. It’s the engine behind the parts of the app that have to actually think: building your plans and workouts, the conversational coach you talk to between sets, and the vision-based form review that watches a clip and tells you what it sees.
We chose Claude for the qualities that matter in a coach — reasoning that holds up across a real conversation, and judgment that stays sensible when your inputs are messy or specific (“my shoulder’s tweaky, I’ve got 30 minutes, no barbell today”). A coach that can’t follow that isn’t much of a coach.
The AI isn’t the whole app, though. Your logging, progress tracking, PRs, plate calculator, and the exercise library are Capable’s own — the AI sits on top of that, using your history and what you tell it to make the programming genuinely yours. The Train with your coach guide shows what talking to it looks like day to day.
Can I trust an AI to plan my training?
It’s a fair thing to ask. The short version: the AI isn’t inventing exercise science on the spot — it applies established training principles (progressive overload, sensible volume, periodization, recovery) to your goals, your equipment, and the performance you actually log.
Two things keep it honest. First, it adapts to real data, not assumptions — every set you record tells it whether the last call was right, so a plan that’s too hard or too easy corrects itself instead of compounding. Second, you stay in control. Nothing is a black box you have to accept: you can swap an exercise, ask why the plan is what it is, lighten a day, or push harder, and the coach adjusts and explains. The coaching also follows body-neutral, performance-first guidelines rather than pushing aesthetics or intensity for its own sake.
What it does is the programming legwork a good trainer would do — turning your situation into a sensible plan and revising it as you go. What it isn’t is a substitute for medical advice. If you’re managing an injury or a health condition, loop in a professional; Capable is a coach, not a clinician.
How is Capable different from asking ChatGPT for a workout?
A general chatbot can write you a workout. What it can’t do is remember you tomorrow.
Ask ChatGPT for a plan and you get a one-off answer — a block of text you then have to track yourself, judge yourself, and re-explain from scratch every time you go back. It doesn’t know what you lifted last week, whether Tuesday wrecked you, or that you only own dumbbells.
Capable is built around the loop that actually makes training work: plan → log → adapt. Your history is persistent, so the coach sees what you’ve been doing and factors it in. Every set you log feeds the next session. It knows your equipment and constraints because you set them once. And it’s a real app around the coaching — session logging, six workout modes, progress charts, PR tracking, a plate calculator, and vision-based form review — not a wall of text you have to operationalize on your own.
Same underlying kind of intelligence; completely different job. One answers a question once. The other coaches you over months.
Is my data used to train AI models?
Your training data is yours. We use it to run and personalize Capable — that’s it. We don’t sell it, and we’re not in the business of turning your workout history into a product.
The full picture — what’s collected, why, who it’s shared with to operate the app, and how to get it out — is laid out on the Privacy Policy, with health-related data covered specifically in the Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy. Those pages are the authoritative word on how your data is handled.
And you stay in control of it: you can export your training history, or delete your account and data entirely, from inside the app at any time.
Does the AI replace a human personal trainer?
The everyday work of coaching, it handles: writing a sensible program, adjusting it as you progress, answering “should I swap this?” in the moment, checking your form on a lift — all on demand, without booking a session or waiting for one.
Where a good human still has the edge is the physical and the clinical. Capable can’t spot you under a heavy bar, put hands on a movement to fix it, or manage rehab for an injury. If you’re coming back from surgery, managing a medical condition, or chasing a very specific competitive goal, a qualified professional is the right call — and Capable works well alongside one.
The honest framing: for the large middle of people who’d love a coach but can’t justify one every week, Capable is a genuinely capable coach in your pocket. It’s not a medical provider, and it doesn’t pretend to be.
Equipment & Training
What equipment do I need to use Capable?
None, if that’s what you have. Capable is built around the equipment you actually have available, not a theoretical gym setup.
During onboarding you select your equipment profile — anything from “no equipment” through “full commercial gym.” Capable builds your program entirely within that profile, so you’re never given an exercise that requires something you don’t own.
Common setups Capable supports:
- No equipment / bodyweight only. A solid program is entirely possible. Bodyweight training can build real strength and conditioning with progressions like push-up variations, pistol squats, and explosive work.
- Dumbbells or kettlebells at home. One of the most versatile setups. Capable programs around the weights you have, including single-dumbbell variations if that’s all you’re working with.
- Resistance bands. Capable includes band-specific progressions, not just band substitutions for barbell movements.
- Home gym (barbell, rack, plates). Full barbell programming: squat, hinge, press, pull, with periodization.
- Commercial gym. Access to everything — cables, machines, free weights, cardio equipment. Capable uses the full range.
You can update your equipment profile at any time. If you travel and lose gym access for a week, switch to bodyweight and Capable reconfigures your program accordingly — the Make it yours guide covers changing your equipment, goals, and exercise swaps.
The one thing that isn’t required: a wearable or heart rate monitor. Capable works entirely from self-reported effort and performance data — no hardware needed.
What workout modes does Capable support?
Six, and they’re all on the free tier:
- Standard — straight sets and reps, the classic strength format.
- Circuit — move through a sequence of exercises with minimal rest.
- Tabata — 20 seconds on, 10 off, repeated; short and intense.
- AMRAP — as many rounds (or reps) as possible in a set window.
- EMOM — every minute on the minute; a new effort starts each minute.
- Flow — guided sequences of timed holds for mobility and flexibility work.
Each mode tracks the way it’s meant to be trained — timers where you need them, rounds where they matter — rather than forcing everything into a sets-and-reps grid. Alongside the modes you get strength and cardio tracking, a built-in plate calculator, and automatic PR tracking.
The coach picks sensible modes for your goals when it builds a plan, and you can always choose one yourself when you build a workout by hand. The Your first workout guide walks through how each mode tracks a session.
Can I track cardio, or is Capable just for lifting?
Both. Capable has strength and cardio tracking built in — it isn’t only a lifting app.
Several of the workout modes are conditioning-first by design: Tabata, AMRAP, and EMOM are interval formats built around work and rest. So a session can be pure strength, pure conditioning, or a mix, and it’s tracked the way that style is actually meant to be measured rather than squeezed into a sets-and-reps table.
When you tell the coach what you’re training toward — endurance, general fitness, fat loss, or strength — it weights the balance of lifting and conditioning to match, and adapts it as your performance data comes in.
Can Capable build training around a specific sport or goal?
Yes. Capable isn’t a one-size program — you tell it what you’re working toward and it shapes the training around that.
When you generate a plan or create a workout, you can set the focus (strength, fat loss, endurance, general fitness), where you’re training, and the sport or activity you have in mind. The coach uses that, together with your equipment and any constraints you mention, to build sessions that point in the right direction rather than a generic template.
And because it’s conversational, you’re not locked into what you picked at setup. Tell the coach you’ve got a race coming up, or you want to shift toward strength for a few weeks, and it adjusts the plan from there. The more specific you are about the goal, the more the programming reflects it.
How does vision-based form review work?
You record or upload a short clip of a set, and the coach looks at the movement itself — not just the numbers you logged — and gives you feedback on your form: what looks solid, what to watch, what to cue next time.
It’s the piece that usually needs a trainer standing next to you, and it runs on the same conversational coach, so you can ask follow-ups about what it flagged. The free tier includes one form review to try; Capable Pro makes it unlimited, so you can check a lift whenever something feels off.
On privacy: the clip is used to produce that review and isn’t retained by us afterward — it’s analyzed, you get feedback, and the media isn’t kept on our servers. The specifics are documented in the Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy. For a walkthrough of using it, see the Form review guide.
Can I import my training history from another app?
Yes. Capable imports your history by CSV from Strong, Hevy, and FitNotes — the export those apps already give you drops straight in.
This matters more than it sounds. Workout history compounds: the longer a coach can see, the better it understands your capacity and progression. Bringing your past training in means Capable’s coach starts with real context instead of guessing from a blank slate on day one — your PRs, your volume, where you’ve been.
If you’re coming from one of those apps, export your data there and import it during or after setup — the Getting started guide covers where import fits in the flow. You can also read more about how Capable compares to Strong and Hevy.
Multi-Device
Can I use Capable on more than one device?
Yes. Capable is tied to your account, not a single device, and your data syncs to the cloud — so sign in on your phone, a tablet, or a computer and your plans, training history, settings, and PRs are all right there.
That means you can log a session on your phone at the gym and review your progress on a bigger screen at home without exporting or re-entering anything. Start on one device, pick up on another; it stays in step.
All you need is to sign in with the same account. There’s no per-device setup and no separate purchase — your Capable (free or Pro) travels with you.
Is Capable a native app or a web app?
Capable is a Progressive Web App (PWA). It runs in your browser and installs to your home screen like an app — so there’s no App Store or Play Store download, and no waiting on store review to get the latest version. You open becapable.app, and you can add it to your home screen to launch it full-screen like any other app.
It’s fully featured that way: workout timers, autosave that survives interruptions, offline support once it’s loaded, and the whole coaching experience. For most people, day to day, it feels like a native app.
The honest caveat: it isn’t a native app, so it works within what the browser allows. A PWA doesn’t reach as deep into the operating system as a store-installed app can — things like certain system-level notifications or background behavior. If that distinction matters to you, it’s worth knowing up front.
Can I install Capable on my phone?
Yes — and it takes a few seconds, no app store needed.
- iPhone (Safari): open becapable.app, tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.
- Android (Chrome): open becapable.app and use the Install app prompt, or the menu’s Add to Home screen option.
Once it’s on your home screen, Capable launches full-screen like a native app — its own icon, no browser bars in the way. You don’t have to install it to use it; the browser works fine. But installing gives you the app-like feel and one-tap access from your phone. Installing is part of setup in the Getting started guide, alongside your first plan.
Does Capable work offline?
Mostly, yes — which matters, because gym Wi-Fi is famously terrible.
Once the app has loaded, Capable keeps working if your connection drops mid-session: your timers keep running, you can log sets, and autosave protects your work. When you’re back online, it syncs up. So a dead spot in the squat rack won’t cost you a set.
The one thing that needs a connection is the AI: generating a new plan, chatting with the coach, and form review all run in the cloud, so those need you to be online. Tracking the workout in front of you doesn’t — you can train through a bad-signal session and let it catch up afterward.
Is there an Apple Watch or wearable app?
Not right now. Capable runs on your phone — and any device with a browser — but there’s no wrist app, so logging happens on your phone rather than your watch.
Worth saying plainly: Capable also doesn’t require a wearable or heart-rate monitor to work. It coaches from self-reported effort and the performance you log, so you don’t need any hardware to get a fully personalized program. But if watch-based, phone-in-your-bag logging is central to how you train, that’s a genuine gap today.
On the connected-health side, two-way sync with Apple Health and Google Health Connect is in active design — that would let recovery and activity signals flow into the coach, and your training flow back out. No timeline promised; it ships when it’s genuinely ready.
Pricing
How much does Capable Pro cost?
Capable Pro is $9.99 a month, or $69.99 a year if you pay annually.
Pro removes the free tier’s monthly caps: unlimited AI-generated plans, unlimited coach interactions, and unlimited form review. It’s the same app either way — Pro just takes the limits off the coaching so it’s there whenever you want it.
The free tier stays free the whole time, with no time limit. The full side-by-side of what’s included is on the pricing page.
Is there a free trial?
You don’t really need one — because the free tier isn’t a teaser that expires. It’s a genuinely useful way to train, permanently: AI-built workouts, full tracking, the complete exercise library, all six workout modes, and a real amount of AI coaching every month. There’s no clock counting down to a charge; the free tier is simply free, for as long as you like.
So most people never need a trial at all — you can explore everything the free tier does, indefinitely, and never pay a cent.
If you want to see what unlimited coaching feels like, you can upgrade to Pro whenever and cancel anytime, keeping your data on the free tier if you decide it’s not for you. No credit card is needed to start on free. Details are on the pricing page.
Can I cancel Capable Pro anytime?
Yes. Pro is month-to-month (or annual, if you choose the yearly option) with no lock-in — cancel whenever you want.
When you cancel, you keep Pro access through the period you’ve already paid for, and then you simply move back to the free tier. Nothing gets deleted. Your account, training history, saved plans, and settings all stay exactly where they are — the coach just returns to the free monthly limits.
The full cancellation and refund terms live on the Refund & Cancellation Policy.
What's your refund and cancellation policy?
You can cancel Capable Pro at any time and keep access through the period you’ve already paid for — there’s no lock-in, and cancelling never touches your data.
The complete terms, including how cancellations and refunds are handled, are set out on the Refund & Cancellation Policy. That page is the authoritative version; if you have a specific billing question it doesn’t answer, you can reach us through the contact form.
Privacy & Data
Is my workout and health data private?
Yes. Your data is used to run and personalize Capable — and that’s it. We don’t sell it.
In practice that means it’s used for the things you’d expect: keeping you signed in, powering your account, personalizing your coaching, and — in aggregate — understanding how the app is used so we can improve it. Your training history isn’t a product we broker to anyone.
You stay in control of it, too. You can export your training history and fully delete your account and data from inside the app whenever you want. The complete detail — what’s collected and why — is on the Privacy Policy, and health-related data has its own Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy covering how that specific category is handled.
Will I keep my workout history and data?
Yes — your data is yours, full stop. Your account, training history, saved plans, settings, and exercise customizations all stay yours. There’s no migration to do, no account to re-create, nothing that gets wiped.
This matters because workout history compounds. The longer you train with Capable, the more your data is worth: your coach has more context, your progress charts have more signal, and your PRs and trends turn into something genuinely useful.
The same holds across the free and Pro tiers. Stay on free and your account works exactly as it does now. Upgrade to Pro and your existing history is what your Pro experience is built on — the coach doesn’t start from scratch.
And if you ever want your data out, you can export your training history from inside the app, and full account-and-data deletion is available too. Yours to keep, take with you, or delete.
What happens to the videos I upload for form review?
The clip is used to give you that one piece of form feedback, and then it isn’t retained by us. It’s analyzed, you get your review, and the media isn’t kept on our servers afterward.
That’s a deliberate choice: a video of you training is about as personal as fitness data gets, so it does its job in the moment and doesn’t linger.
How this fits into the broader handling of health-related data is documented in the Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy.
Roadmap
What's coming next on the Capable roadmap?
The near-term roadmap focuses on the things that make Capable’s coaching more genuinely personal — not bolting on features for the sake of a longer list.
Capable Pro is already live: unlimited AI workout generation, unlimited coach interactions, and vision-based form review — upload a clip and the coach checks your form, not just your numbers. The free tier stays full-featured for tracking, the full exercise library, and a meaningful amount of AI coaching. Beyond Pro, three areas are in active design:
- Cycle-aware coaching — for users who track their cycle, the coach can adjust training intensity and recommendations across the four phases, without making it a separate “women’s mode” or a different experience.
- Exercise modification system — structured swaps for pregnancy, postpartum, mobility limitations, and pelvic-floor-friendly variations, mapped to specific exercises rather than left as generic suggestions.
- Apple Health and Google Health Connect — two-way sync so the coach has more context (sleep, activity, recovery signals) and your training data flows back to whichever health ecosystem you use.
We don’t commit timelines on any of these — Capable ships when something is genuinely ready, not on a calendar. Feature requests from real users have already shifted what’s on this list; the in-app feedback button is the most direct way to influence what gets prioritized next.