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Hi HN, I'm an indie dev who built this to settle a long-running argument with my teenage son about who lifts more at the gym. I wanted a workout tracker to kept our data side-by-side on a leaderboard, and let us swap training plans without texting screenshots back and forth. Nothing I tried did all three without a subscription wall, so I wrote my own.Most of the app is free, it covers the full workout experience and progress tracking with 80+ exercises. The one-time purchase unlocks multiple plans, custom movements, and the social/sharing features, mainly to pay for the infra.The mobile app is React Native via Expo with Expo Router, NativeWind for styling, Zustand for state (every store is user-scoped via an AsyncStorage key prefix so account switches do a clean rehydrate, good way to have several using using the same app), Reanimated for animations, and react-i18next across six locales. The core workout loop is fully offline, and a Firebase layer sits on top for optional cross-device sync and the social features. Backend is a small workspace of Firebase Cloud Functions v2 that handle cross-user fan-out (friend requests, shared plans, shared movements) with rate limiting and anti-spam in Firestore triggers.Published a few weeks ago, I can proudly but surprisingly see the daily usage increasing.This is my first mobile app since a while (was doing some 10+y ago), keen for any feedback since it gave me the excitement of building some more.Android only for now, iOS to be published soon.
HN · launched May 12, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: fitness and health trackers · 434 launches, 41 in the last 7 days ▼ -7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Vertical SaaS
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes An offline-first gym tracker mobile app with local storage, workout plan sharing, and basic leaderboards is a standard Flutter/React Native/SwiftUI application.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 364 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #329 of 365 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 195 days after the earliest competitor.
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