Changelog

August was about three things: coaching, pacing, and polish.

Meet Chalk. There’s now an AI coach in the app that chats over your actual training data — your history, your balance, your bells. Ask it what to do next, or why your pulls are outrunning your presses, and it answers from your numbers, not from generic advice. You can also export your full training data as JSON and bring it to any AI assistant you like.

Race your past self. Ghost pacing shows how today’s session stacks up against the last time you ran the same workout, rung by rung. It’s the training partner who never misses a day.

A builder that keeps up with you. Drag and drop to reorder movements. The weight mode now follows the movement you pick. Any rung can be max reps or max time. Straight sets run as true sets per movement instead of a circuit. And the whole thing collapses into tidy sections with summaries, so a long workout no longer means a long scroll.

Also this month: a Training Mix card on your history that shows your modality balance (and feeds it to every AI surface), a Spotify mini-player for mid-workout track control, a movement details page with your personal history per movement, new catalog movements (marches, band pull-downs, Pallof presses, ab wheel rollouts), the ability to tell Bellskill which kettlebells you own so recommendations only suggest weights you can actually pick up — and a stack of fixes that make repeating programs, timed rungs, and complex-set cards behave exactly the way you’d expect.

Mid-month update. The active workout got more forgiving in three ways. Chevrons on either side of the controls let you move through your session freely — skip the rest of a rest, or rewind a set you advanced by accident, with your reps, volume, and rounds coming right back. Hitting your goal now asks before ending the session, so a strong day can keep going past the number you set. And interval programs count the rounds you actually do, not clock minutes — backgrounding the app no longer ends a session short. Program weight adjustments also learned to respect your deload and test-day offsets instead of flattening them.

If you only read about one month, make it this one. July shipped programs — the feature Bellskill was always headed toward.

Follow a real program. Browse a catalog of classics — Dan John’s 10,000 Swing Challenge, Easy Strength, and the Armor Building Complex; StrongFirst’s A+A Protocol and Snatch Test plan; Simple & Sinister; The Kettlebell Mile — or build your own from scratch. Enroll, pick your starting weights (per movement, even), and your next session is waiting on the home screen every time you open the app.

Make it yours. Run up to three programs in parallel, queue them back-to-back, edit any session and apply the change to every future one, adjust weights mid-program, and flip on auto-repeat for the programs you never want to end.

A new coat of paint everywhere. The workout builder, the start page, and the weekly history view were all redesigned. Navigation became one system — bottom nav on your phone, sidebar on your desktop. Workouts got titles, swipe-to-select weights and reps, straight-sets mode, and a satisfying ding (plus a buzz) when a rest timer ends.

Under the hood: timers now key off wall-clock deadlines, so switching apps mid-rest no longer eats your countdown.

June was a planting month — most of what went in the ground here bloomed in July and August.

Recommendations, take one. The first version of the AI session recommender landed on the Start Workout page: one tap, and Bellskill proposes a session built from your history.

Your balance, measured. A new Pattern Debt engine quietly started tracking which movement patterns you’ve been feeding and which you’ve been starving, with a Weekly Balance view to show the score.

A better first day. New lifters now get curated first workouts instead of a blank builder, and your history page loads faster with paging instead of one giant list.

Two big ones this month.

Complex mode. Some of the best kettlebell training chains movements back-to-back without ever setting the bell down — clean, press, squat, repeat. Bellskill now understands that. Flip on complex mode and the app runs the chain as one piece: shared weight, all movements visible at once, and a Complex badge in your history so you can spot those sessions later.

Find any movement. Typing movement names from memory is over. The builder gained an autocomplete backed by a proper movement catalog — fuzzy search, your most-used movements ranked first, and results filtered to match how you’re holding the bell.

The completed-workout page also got a fresh editorial look for admiring what you just did.

Bellskill didn’t start as Bellskill. It started in late 2022 as a scrappy workout generator, spent a while as Kettlebod, tried on Cannonbells, and in April 2026 finally settled into its name.

Along the way it grew the bones everything since is built on: workout generation with timers and progress tracking (2023), rep ladders and per-movement logging, RPE, interval and rest timers, dark mode (2024), workout goals — time, rounds, or volume — pounds and kilograms, a searchable movements page, and a proper install-to-your-home-screen app experience (2025).

Three eras, three names, one constant: put down the notebook, pick up the bell. The monthly notes above pick up the story from May 2026 — the month things started moving fast.