A free account should feel like a real account. Not a maze of locked buttons, not a pop-up every third tap asking for an upgrade. With this release, the line between Smagpie’s free tier and the Athlete Pass is as clean in the app as it is on paper.
No locked buttons. No pop-ups. Nothing to trip over.
If an athlete doesn’t have a pass, the controls for pass-only features — event goals, strength session logging, 1RM updates, health metrics, RPE and feel ratings — are simply not shown. No padlock icons to poke at, no “upgrade now” interstitials blocking the way. The app a free athlete sees is the app they have, and it’s a complete one.
And everything free stays exactly as it was: the training schedule, every assigned workout, training zones, and full history — workouts, sessions, past 1RMs — all still there and fully usable. Free athletes lost nothing in this release. They just stopped seeing buttons that were never theirs.
The same logic now applies to notifications. Athletes without a pass no longer receive the daily digest email or training-log reminder nudges — those exist to drive features the pass provides, so a free athlete’s inbox stays quiet. Your notifications now match your account.
The Athlete Pass page tells it straight
Open the Athlete Pass page and you’ll see live pricing — $20 for a season, $28 for a full year, or $24 per athlete when a team buys passes in bulk — always current, never stale. Below it sits an honest list of what the pass adds on top of free, instead of re-selling things every account already gets. The pricing page on this website now says the same thing, because it should.
If your athletes have been asking what the pass actually buys, that page is now the answer.
Finished a workout? Tell your coach — one tap.
Here’s the one thing free athletes get new in this release. When a workout syncs in from a watch, free-tier athletes now get a push notification inviting them to leave a note for their coach — and tapping it lands directly on that workout’s notes section, expanded and scrolled into view.
Previously that push asked how the workout felt, then pointed at a rating input free accounts don’t have. Now it invites the one thing that’s always free on Smagpie: the conversation between athlete and coach.
Fixes & polish
- Newly created or edited workout templates now show their library name immediately on the public detail page — it could show blank for up to a day.
- The Total Distance/Time bar in the workout editor updates live as you type, instead of lagging behind your edits.
- The benchmarks popup on Coach Hub now shows the athlete’s actual name.
- Training Log Reminders shows its proper name and icon in notification settings — it had been appearing as “Unknown”.
- Training-plan editor messages now appear in Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Italian.
Next time an athlete asks about the Athlete Pass, send them to the pass page — the pricing is live, the list is honest, and everything free is still free.