May 20th 2026
The Outsiders adds widgets, activity status, Garmin workouts import, training form and more
Earlier this week, The Outsiders was named an Apple Design Awards 2026 Finalist, a huge honour for us. Fittingly, we’re launching our largest update since the app’s launch in September last year: widgets, activity status, Garmin workouts and FIT file import, training form, and more. With it, the app becomes even more attuned to endurance athletes with a structured approach.
Today's Topics
Version: 1.7
App Store ETA: May 20th 2026
Home screen widgets
Activity status
Importing workouts beyond Apple Watch: Garmin Connect™ and FIT file support
Training form
New metric: number of sessions
Refreshed body metrics UI
New workout types
Photos on map
Variety of app icons
Here Come the Widgets!
The second most requested feature. We're bringing a lot of it straight to your Home Screen: Training Readiness, Training Load Ratio, Endurance Fitness, and Health Metrics, single or multiple.
Training Readiness. See at a glance whether your body is ready for a hard session or asking for something easier. The kind of check-in that's most useful first thing in the morning, before you've committed to a plan.
Training Load Ratio. Keep an eye on the balance between recent effort and your longer-term baseline. A quick way to spot when you're drifting into overreaching, or when you've got room to push.
Endurance Fitness. Track how your aerobic base is trending over time. Less about today, more about the direction you're heading.
Body Metrics. Pin the signals you care about most, like HRV, resting heart rate, and others, either one at a time or grouped together. The numbers you'd otherwise open the app to check, sitting right in front of you.
Ready For a Week Off? Got Sick? Injured? We Got You
Until now, activity status in The Outsiders has been focused on the active side of training. With this release, we're adding four new states that reflect the rest of the picture: Active Recovery, On a Break, Injured, and Sick.
The pre- and post-workout descriptions adapt to your current status, so the framing of an effort means something different depending on where you're at. For instance, a session during sickness is interpreted differently than the same as a session during active block.
All of those states are an essential part of real life, and the kind of detail that matters to people who train deliberately.
Importing Workouts beyond Apple Watch
The Outsiders is made for serious athletes, and those athletes like their gear. This update is supposed to bring joy to the cycling and running community! Your Garmin workouts now import automatically, bringing all the data your device recorded into the app.
For athletes on Zwift, Wahoo, COROS, Karoo, Amazfit, and others that export .FIT files to Apple Health, we also have good news: manual import is supported!
This means various indoor cycling sessions, gravel rides, long runs, wherever is part of your training, will now become a valid part of your training picture.
This was by far one of the most consistent requests we have received, and we're glad to expand further into the relevant community.
“Widgets were the number one ask since launch, so I was happy to mark that off our list. Garmin was the other big one, and it’s the bigger shift of the two: until now, The Outsiders lived inside the Apple ecosystem, leaving a huge part of the cycling and running community on the outside. No pun intended. Bringing Garmin in opens the app to a much broader community of athletes who train like us: with intent and precision,” Andrej Mihelic, Gentler Stories co-founder and product designer.
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Training Form to Help You Peak on Race Day
For those preparing for a race or peak effort, you can now switch from Training Load Ratio to Training Form. Training Form shows where fitness and freshness meet, and when the balance is right, you're ready to perform.
It's a more focused lens for the part of training that's about pointing at a specific day on the calendar, rather than maintaining over time.
New Metric: Number of Sessions
Progress and Workouts charts now include a sixth metric: number of sessions. One more way to track consistency over time, alongside the metrics you're already watching.
Redesigned Body Metrics UI
Body metrics will now open as individual cards, similar to the approach we take in Gentler Streak. Browsing and comparing your data becomes easier, and the layout makes fuller use of the liquid glass visual style, something we've wanted to lean into for a while.
New Workout Types
All in all, now supporting 161 workout types. You can make full use of this when tracking with the Gentler Streak Apple Watch workout tracker. New types: Dog Running, Kettlebell Workout, Swimming Tethered, Gravel Ride, Outdoor Hand Cycling, Bouldering, Windsurfing, Beach Volleyball, Inline Hockey, Surfskate, BMX Freestyle, BMX Racing, and likely the one most in demand: Assembling Furniture.
Photos on Map
Open any workout summary that includes photos, and you’ll see them pinned to the exact location where you took them on the route.
Variety of App Icons
Something to make the app even more yours: choose from a selection of app icons, and pick the one that speaks to you the most.
About The Outsiders
An app that delivers performance-driven insight through relevant, hand-picked metrics, without clutter or distraction, in a design that feels clear and purposeful.The Outsiders is built around training load and recovery, giving clear guidance on when to push and when to hold back.
Just as important to us as what to show is how to show it. A smooth, intuitive user experience makes the data useful in the first place. Every interaction is designed without distractions, so the app feels as good under your fingers as the information is clear to comprehend. That level of care takes time, but it’s what turns a tool into something you actually want to use every day.
This update reflects how we like to build: a small team, eager athletes, hands-on decisions, and a strong preference for things that are intentionally made. We hope this update brings joy and watts to your training!
