Apps

Built by Glen Rogers · Be Strong Again · Wisconsin Barbell

I own a gym. I coach people. I have a family. I write books.

And somewhere along the way, I started building apps.

Not because I wanted to become a software company. Not because I was looking for another subscription to sell you.

I built them because I needed them.

I kept running into the same thing: “Why doesn't somebody just make an app that does this?”

Eventually I realized I could. So I did.

Coding has been a passion of mine ever since second grade, when I made a pixelated donkey walk across an IBM screen using MS-DOS. C:\ was amazing to me.

I taught myself Visual Basic in Excel in 2006. I built things that worked. But I had no way to get them out to the world. Just my network.

Then the road forked and I went the other way. The gym. Coaching. People.

AI gave me that time back. I can now run parallel lives — coding and gym ownership. And I get to give back in the way that fork took away from me.

These aren't apps I dreamed up in a boardroom. They're things I wished I had. Things my family needed. Things my friends needed. Things my clients needed.

I built them for me. You get to use them too.

And I'm done with the idea that everything has to have a monthly fee, an ad shoved in your face, or some business model attached to it.

Most of these are free. The ones that are free will stay free.

Why I build them

I'm a coach before I'm a programmer.

I spend my days working with people, solving problems, and trying to help somebody become a little stronger than they were yesterday.

That's where these apps came from.

A weekend where I needed a better plan. A cabin where I couldn't remember what was already there. A gym contest where there was no internet. A gymnast whose season shouldn't disappear when the meet was over. A business owner who just wanted to know where the money went without becoming an accountant. A family sitting around a table that needed something better to talk about.

And honestly, some of these started because I was the guy who needed them.

I don't need to build 100 apps. I don't need millions of downloads. I don't need to turn every idea into a subscription.

I just want to build useful things. Things that solve real problems. Things that help people.

Help people get strong. Build something that lasts.

That's really what Be Strong Again has always been about.

On the App Store

The Week Ender

On the App Store

I built this because I know what happens on Friday.

You've worked all week. You're tired. The weekend starts, and suddenly all the good intentions go out the window.

The Week Ender gives you a plan before the weekend starts.

Three questions. A simple plan. Something to follow when Friday turns into Saturday and Saturday turns into “I'll start again Monday.”

I needed this. So I built it.

Cabin Notes

On the App Store

I own a seasonal cabin.

And every time we went up there, somebody forgot something.

Or we couldn't remember what was already there.

Or something needed fixing.

Or somebody asked, “How do you turn the water on again?”

So I built the app I wanted to have.

Keep track of what's at the cabin. Take pictures. Make the bring-list. Keep the opening and closing checklist. Send guests the instructions.

And when you're sitting at the cabin with no cell service?

It still works.

Footsteps of the Teacher

On the App Store

I wanted my kids to learn how to code.

But I didn't want them staring at another boring programming tutorial.

I wanted them to build something they already knew.

Bible stories.

So I started building a world where kids learn real code by making those stories come alive.

Write the code. See what happens.

Make the donkey move. Build the story. Fix the mistake.

And when the code doesn't work, Ada the owl is there to help instead of making them feel stupid.

Kids don't need another game that wastes their time. They need something that makes them want to learn.

In review

Strongman Contest

Submitted

I've run strongman contests.

I've stood in a gym trying to keep track of points, placings, ties, and events while also trying to actually run the contest.

And a lot of the time you're in a basement with zero cell service.

So I built the scoring system I wanted.

One phone.

No internet.

Enter the athletes. Enter the events. Let the app do the math.

The scoring works the way a strongman contest should work.

I didn't build this because I thought there was a huge market for strongman scoring apps.

I built it because I run strongman contests.

Season Book

Submitted

If you're a gymnastics parent, you know the feeling.

Your kid competes all season. Meet after meet, score after score.

But Grandma and Grandpa can't always make it.

Mom might be at one kid's meet while Dad is taking another kid somewhere else.

Sometimes the people who want to be there the most simply can't be.

So I built Season Book.

Keep the whole season in one place. Scores, personal bests, memories — all of it.

Then turn the season into a scrapbook you can send to Grandma and Grandpa, or sit down at home and watch it together on the TV.

Because the season shouldn't only belong to the people who were sitting in the bleachers.

And your memories shouldn't belong to somebody else's server.

Your data. Your memories. You own them. Always.

Being built

Two or Three

Coming

The name comes from one of my favorite verses in the Bible. Matthew 18:20.

“Where two or three are gathered, I will be there.” — Jesus

I wanted that for my kids. I wanted it for my family. And then I figured other families could probably use it too.

This one started with something I kept thinking about:

What if we actually put our phones down and talked to each other?

Two or three people around a table.

One topic.

Everybody gets a question that makes sense for where they are in life.

A six-year-old shouldn't get the same question as a fourteen-year-old.

You talk.

You listen.

Ten minutes later, the phone goes face down.

That's it.

No ads. No subscription. Nothing to buy.

Just people talking.

Because I think we need more of that.

Spotter

Coming

I own a gym.

I know what it's like to be the person doing everything.

Training people. Scheduling people. Keeping track of sessions. Collecting payments. Trying to remember who trained when.

And then doing it all again tomorrow.

Spotter is the gym CRM I wanted.

Not for a corporation with 500 employees.

For the person who owns the gym and is still the one unlocking the door in the morning.

Clients. Sessions. Payments. Simple.

Your data stays yours. No server. No monthly fee.

Just the stuff you actually need.

BizLedger

Coming

I have friends who own businesses who don't need QuickBooks.

They don't need a financial department.

They don't need a 47-step reconciliation process.

They just need to know:

What came in? What went out? How many miles did I drive?

That's BizLedger.

I built it for the person who has a business but doesn't want their bookkeeping app to become another job.

Simple accounting. No bank connection. No complicated chart of accounts.

No nonsense.

On the web

Polly started with a simple question:

“Where did I put that?”

And then I started thinking about something bigger.

Every family has knowledge that exists nowhere except inside somebody's head.

Where things are. How things work. The stories. The memories.

The little things that somebody knows because they've been around long enough to know them.

What happens when that person isn't there anymore?

So Polly became more than a voice assistant.

It's about remembering.

Every voice deserves to be remembered.

Workout Tracker

Open the tracker →

This is probably the most obvious one.

I'm a coach. I needed a workout tracker.

I didn't want another complicated fitness app trying to be your coach.

I wanted something where I could write the program and my clients could simply open their phone and do the work.

Set by set. Workout by workout. Keep going.

There's travel workouts for when you're away, a pain-and-injury video library, and a belt system when you're ready to see what you're really capable of.

This is the one I use with the people I train.

It's free for anyone who wants to train.

If you want in, ask me for a code.


One last thing

I'm not trying to build the next big tech company.

I'm trying to build things that matter to somebody.

Sometimes that somebody is me. Sometimes it's my family. Sometimes it's one of my clients. Sometimes it's a friend who has a problem nobody bothered to solve.

And sometimes it might be you.

If something here makes your life a little easier, helps you get a little stronger, helps you remember something important, or gets your family talking again — then it was worth building.


If you need something built

I build software for people and causes I believe in, and I usually do it for nothing. Churches, coaches, small operators, families — anybody who needs one good tool and cannot justify paying somebody to make it. If it is about fitness or about leaving something behind, I am especially interested.

I take on a few of these a year. I would rather finish three things properly than start ten. If that sounds like what you need, write to me and tell me who it is for.

Tell me what you need