These iOS 26 Apps Are Using Apple Intelligence to Power New Features

Starting with iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26, Apple provides app developers with access to a new Foundation Models framework that allows their apps to tap into the on-device large language model at the core of Apple Intelligence.

Apple Foundation Models Apps
Apple today highlighted some of the iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps utilizing the Foundation Models framework to power new features and capabilities.

For example, in the fitness app SmartGym, users can now describe a workout and turn it into a structured routine with sets, reps, rest times, and equipment adaptation. SmartGym also generates insightful summaries of workout data, and more.

In the journaling app Stoic, users can now receive contextual journaling prompts that are generated from their recent entries, and there are other new features.

SwingVision, an app that helps users with their tennis or pickleball skills, uses the framework to generate advice for players to improve their game.

Foundation Models powers new Listen Mode and Scan Mode options in the to-do app Stuff.

The task management app OmniFocus 4 can now generate projects and next steps on a user's behalf, such as helping them know what to pack for an upcoming trip.

Apple's press release highlights many other apps using the framework.

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Top Rated Comments

Apple Knowledge Navigator Avatar
13 weeks ago

('https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/29/ios-26-apps-using-apple-foundation-models/')
In the journaling app Stoic ('https://apps.apple.com/us/app/journal-mental-health-stoic/id1312926037'), users can now receive contextual journaling prompts that are generated from their recent entries, and there are other new features.
I don’t see what’s smart about that, it’s just connecting dots. The whole point of a journal is to be in the present, not to write based on common patterns of usage.
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con2apple Avatar
13 weeks ago
Let me put it in a particularly cynical way:

Fitness app
Quick question: if you have not even have an idea or desire to create a routine, will you ever exercise at all?
So you might as well throw the app away right now.

Journal app
So you let the app write your Journal based on the last few days. I see. If your life is so dull and uneventful that you can write the same thing every day, why bother?
And if something great actually happened, but you don't feel like writing it down, why use a Journal app?
So you'd better throw the app away right away.

Conclusion
In two out of three cases, you should delete the app if you think you want to use AI.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
turbineseaplane Avatar
13 weeks ago
The gym one I will go with you on

The rest of it is a bunch of nonsense.

What we are seeing here is a whole bunch of solutions trying to find a problem.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
svish Avatar
13 weeks ago
Very slow start. Over the years maybe more apps will be using it. Waiting to see how Apple will improve Apple Intelligence.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
What_Is_George Avatar
13 weeks ago
Really love SmartGym, some features are gimmicky but overall the best gym app I have used
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
What_Is_George Avatar
13 weeks ago

Fitness app
Quick question: if you have not even have an idea or desire to create a routine, will you ever exercise at all?
So you might as well throw the app away right now.
This article just talks about the recent update to the app that adds some ai features. I have used the app for a while before it because I found myself falling into too much of a routine where I was doing the same exercises. This app makes me switch some up, do a different workout when a machine is busy and keeps track of what weights I do what at. Some of the ai features are really gimmicky and more to get people started, but if it works for some people it works for them to get healthy and stay active.
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