Pelaris

What is Pelaris?

Pelaris is an AI coaching app that builds one periodized program across lifting, running and swimming (or any of them on their own) and rewrites it as your sessions, sleep and life come in. Underneath is a workout tracker that is free for good; the paid plans pay for the AI that writes and rewrites your program. It runs in the browser at coach.pelaris.io and as apps on iOS and Android, and it is built in Melbourne, Australia, by a one-person company.

Pelaris's own pages disagree on Strava. Its integrations page says: "Strava has changed API access for third-party developers, which has paused our integration," and that sync will be switched back on when access is restored; the homepage and features page also say it is temporarily unavailable. Its pricing page, About page and App Store and Google Play pages still say it syncs with Strava. We've asked the maker which is current. Apple Health, Health Connect and Polar sync workouts, and Wahoo is listed as coming soon.

"AI coach" is a crowded category and a lot of it is fluff, so it's worth being specific about what this one actually does. The program isn't static. Pelaris writes next week from this week, using what you logged, how hard it felt and your check-ins, so volume, intensity and exercise choice shift as you go rather than following a fixed plan.

Key Features

Adaptive periodized programs

Pelaris builds a periodized program from named training methodologies (Wendler 5/3/1 to Swim Smooth on the homepage) and keeps adjusting it as you train. It builds each program in layers: your goals, your methodology, the phases and weeks, every session, then a final check that nothing conflicts. Hit a PR or miss a week and the program adjusts.

Strength and endurance in one plan

The pitch is hybrid training: lifting and running (and swimming) in a single plan, with hard endurance days and heavy leg sessions spaced apart and deloads lined up, instead of two plans fighting each other. It also covers cycling, triathlon, Hyrox, CrossFit, tennis, general fitness and team sports including rugby, AFL, soccer, basketball, cricket and netball.

Set tracking and PR detection

For strength work it tracks sets in real time with progressive overload, and weights adjust from your last session. It detects personal records automatically and feeds them back into the program. Coming from another lifting app, you can import your history from Hevy or Strong.

Rate My Program

A free tool on the site, no signup: paste in any training program and Pelaris grades it against an eight-point rubric.

Claude and ChatGPT integration via MCP

Pelaris exposes a Model Context Protocol server, so you can drive it from Claude or ChatGPT, and it's in the ChatGPT Plugin Directory. The integrations page lists 31 tools, 13 that read and 18 that write, covering things like daily check-ins, swapping exercises, logging sessions and generating a full program from inside the chat. Write access is a separate permission you approve when connecting, and the privacy policy says any confirmation before an action happens inside the assistant, not in Pelaris. MCP access is part of the free tier.

What it reads, and what it doesn't

Pelaris's privacy policy says that from Strava it imports sport type, date, duration, distance, heart rate, pace or speed, cadence, power and elevation gain, and that GPS coordinates and route data are not imported. The data helps the AI understand your recent training load.

Who It's For

• Self-coached hobbyist athletes who want structure without paying for a human coach
• Hybrid athletes juggling lifting and endurance, since folding them into one program is the actual differentiator
• Strava users, with a caveat: while the integrations page says Strava sync is paused, Apple Health, Health Connect or Polar are the documented ways to get your training in
• If you mostly want raw analytics rather than told-what-to-do programming, a platform like intervals.icu is a better match