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For lifters, runners, and hybrid athletes. Your lifts, runs, steps, and metrics, all in one place. It works offline, and the free plan is the whole app.
No ads · No account · No limits · Free forever
Built for real training types
Kinoku does not ask lifters to act like runners, or runners to live in a bodybuilding logger. The app is broad on purpose, and each lane still feels like home.
Fast set entry, RPE and RIR, a muscle map, and routines. Plus warmups, plate loading, PR tracking, and program planning, all in one place.
Kinoku treats outdoor runs as a core part of the app. You get GPS tracking, splits, a fitness score from your runs, pace zones, heatmaps, and routes you can share.
Kinoku keeps your lifts, runs, steps, recovery, custom metrics, and calendar in one private record.
The Kinoku Score
Your lifts, runs, swims, steps, sleep, heart data, and the metrics you log all feed one daily score. It shifts to match what you track.
COMPUTED ON YOUR DEVICE · NEVER LEAVES IT
Inside the app
Six core screens, straight from a real training log.
Kinoku Score · Free
One number each morning, from your training, recovery, and health.
See Kinoku Score →
Stats · Free
Volume, PRs, and trends, with a chart that fits each exercise.
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Run Analytics · Pro
Splits, pacing, a fitness score, and your routes. All offline.
See Run Analytics →
Coach Intel · Pro
The Coach flags each lift that is rising or stalling. All on your phone.
See the Coach →
Strength Standards · Elite
A score ranks each lift from beginner to elite, with your PR trend.
See Strength Standards →
Progress · Free
Your lifts, routines, and runs each get an honest progress read. It stays quiet until the trend is sure.
What you will not find anywhere else
Three things Kinoku ships that no other consumer fitness app does. The research is there. Other apps chose not to build it.
Bodyweight Total Load
Coefficients (pull-up 1.0×, push-up 0.64×, dip 0.98×) turn bodyweight reps into real per-rep load. Progress holds through cuts and bulks.
FREE · Deep Tracking
Banister Form Band
The fitness-fatigue model TrainingPeaks made popular, run across gym, run, and brisk-step load. No cloud, no new subscription.
ELITE · Supplemental IntelligenceReproductive health, separately stored
Cycle, fertility, and pregnancy data live in a second on-device database. It is left out of Google Auto Backup at the file level. A test locks the rule in. No one else in this space does this.
FREE · Privacy architectureMore that sets Kinoku apart
Not one-of-a-kind like the three above. But still rare. We checked each one against the big trackers in June 2026.
Rest-pause automation
Log a rest-pause set and a 15-second countdown starts on its own. When it hits zero, the app adds the next mini-set for you. None of the big trackers we compared even has a rest-pause set type.
FREE · Deep Tracking
Whole-athlete form curve
Your lifting, runs, and brisk steps all feed one fitness-and-fatigue line. We could not find another training-form curve that counts all three. The base chart is free.
FREE · Supplemental Intelligence
Programs that run themselves
Choose 5/3/1, GZCLP, or nSuns from 13 templates. Enter your maxes once. Kinoku writes the full plan into your calendar, week by week.
PRO · Supplemental IntelligenceElite Analytics Hub
The same engines TrainingPeaks and Intervals.icu use, now across your full training stack: lift, run, and steps in one record. It all runs on your device.
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Tab 1
DOTS, IPF GL, Wilks, FFMI, PR timeline, 95% CI trajectory, RPE drift, Form Band curve
Tab 2
Muscle balance radar, frequency overlay, effective volume, ACWR injury risk
Tab 3
Peak performance windows, session composition, plateau detection + substitutions
Tab 4
Readiness score, Banister snapshots, fatigue curve, ACWR zones
Tab 5
Pace progression, splits, elevation profile, run PR timeline
Tab 6
Phase correlations, per-exercise phase sensitivity (min 3 completed cycles)
Built on real research
Every engine-driven number in Kinoku comes from named, citable research. Tap any panel for the formula, the parameters, and the source studies.
01 / Fitness-Fatigue
Impulse-response model from Banister 1975, reviewed in Clarke & Skiba 2013. Run across your full training stack, not just running.
Banister 1975 · Calvert 1976 · Clarke & Skiba 201302 / Strength Standards
Four coefficients shipped as offline tables. No network call to get a score. Wilks 2 (2020), DOTS, classic raw IPF GL, and FFMI with the height fix.
Wilks 2020 · Kouri 199503 / Injury risk
7-day load divided by a 28-day baseline. Below 0.8 is undertraining, 1.3 to 1.5 is caution, above 1.5 is Gabbett's danger zone. The critiques are shown too.
Gabbett 2016 · Impellizzeri 202004 / Volume landmarks
Per-muscle weekly set tracking against your low, best, and top recoverable volume. Defaults from published Renaissance Periodization ranges, set per muscle.
Israetel · Schoenfeld (RP)05 / Polarized 80/20
Six zones built from your own best efforts, not fixed pace tables. A weekly chart tracks the 80% easy, 20% hard goal. Training Effect runs on a 0.0 to 5.0 scale.
Adaptive to your fitness06 / Honest load
Coefficients (pull-up 1.0×, dip 0.98×, push-up 0.64×) turn bodyweight reps into real per-rep load that holds through bulks and cuts.
Per-exercise coefficientsA real look
Every screen below is a real on-device shot against a full training history. Nothing is faked.
Reference library
Deep articles on the science behind Kinoku's biggest features. Sources at the bottom, methods on their own page.
14 min read
What CTL, ATL, and TSB mean, and how to read your own.
11 min read
Why pull-up progress needs coefficients, and what the research says.
12 min read
Why Kinoku's AI shows patterns but never decides. The case against AI that takes over.
Make it yours
Each theme ships its own colors, shapes, motion, and even haptic feel. Pick one below and watch the sample card change.
7 of 23 shown. The full set lives on the themes page.
Ownership is the core promise
There is no Kinoku account to make and no required cloud to join. Workouts, metrics, photos, and plans live on your phone. Health Connect stays in the Android health stack. Export exists because leaving cleanly is part of trusting the app.
Stays on device
Workouts, sets, RPE, and notes
Routines, programs, and plans
Progress photos
GPS routes, splits, and heart rate
Cycle data, in a separate database
Pulse history and achievements
Themes, scenes, and settings
Leaves by your action
Health Connect, when you grant it
Social Bets, when you join one
Play billing, when you buy
Weather, only if you turn it on
Map tiles, while a run is live
Backups and share cards, where you send them
Never collected
No account, email, or name
No contacts, texts, or call log
No advertising ID
No background location
No mic, outside voice logging
No ad SDK in the app
Built in, not promised
Some app behaviors are missing as a policy choice. These four are missing because the hooks do not exist in the app at all. Each one is locked in at the build level, not just a values page.
Built-in absence · I
There is no signup, no email field, no password reset. Firebase Auth ships only in anonymous mode for the Social Bets opt-in, and only fires when you join one. The app has nowhere to put your identity.
Built-in absence · II
Your training record lives in SQLite on your phone. The two opt-in cloud parts (Social Bets and opt-in weather) are limited in scope and kept apart from the core app.
Built-in absence · III
Not "no ads for now." The APK has no ad SDK built in at all: not AdMob, Unity Ads, or the Facebook Audience Network hook. Adding ads would need a new dependency, a new permission, and a new release.
Built-in absence · IV
DREAM SOFT DISTRIBUTED EOOD is the data controller. Selling training data is not part of the model, because no Kinoku server holds training data to sell.
One app, two optional extras
Free handles real daily training, with no caps on the basics. Pro and Elite are optional extras for people who want more. Billing runs through Google Play. The yearly price comes first, monthly is the lighter option, and lifetime is only for high-intent buyers.
The whole app
A complete training app with good defaults, not a teaser.
Your core logging, routines, history, and tools stay free.
Optional extras
For people who want more depth. The app works without them.
An optional extra
Deeper planning and run analysis, if you want more than the basics.
Plus more planning, recovery, and coach depth across the app.
The deepest optional extra
The adaptive layer and the full analytics hub, for people who want all of it.
Plus the rest of Kinoku’s deeper analytics and smart layer.
No tricks
Most apps pay servers for every user. That bill pushes them to squeeze the free tier. Kinoku runs on your phone, so there is no bill to chase. The free plan stays whole.
Trust and momentum
Public release notes that show what shipped, how quickly, and where the product is moving.
A public roadmap that shows where Kinoku is headed in broad strokes. No dates, no fake quarter promises.
Brand files, positioning copy, and product facts for coverage, reviews, and creators.
Direct email support, bug reporting guidance, and no outsourced help desk layer.
On the Play Store
The same screens from our Play Store page. Real captures, with a short caption on each.
"Track deeply.
Keep the record."
Kinoku is built for people who want their training history to feel personal, careful, and fully theirs.
