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Kinoku

One private Android app for lifting, running and walking

Free, with lifts and runs in one history, for lifters on a program, runners chasing a race and walkers who love maps.

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Lifters

At this hour the gym is chalk and iron, and Kinoku keeps the log of every set you lift in it.

Kinoku's Barbell Squat log: six sets that climb from 20 kg to 107.5 kg for 5 reps, with the personal record on top.
Kinoku's Routine Changes after a Lower Strength workout: the Barbell Squat moves from 100 to 107.5 kg on all three sets.
  • Set-by-set lifters

    You log each set with its weight, its reps and how hard it felt, as a rate of perceived exertion (RPE) or reps in reserve (RIR). Kinoku keeps the rest timer, the warmup sets and the plate math in the same place.

  • Lifters on a program

    You follow a plan such as 5/3/1, nSuns or GZCLP (a beginner barbell program), and Kinoku raises the weights as you go. All 25 program templates are free, and so is the builder for a plan of your own.

  • Powerlifters

    You train the squat, the bench press and the deadlift for a meet. Pro adds the published strength scores that compare lifters across body weights, and the free plan keeps the history and trend of every lift.

Kinoku's Muscle Map, front and back, with each muscle colored by how often it was trained in the last 7 days.
Kinoku's Skill Board: First Pull-Up in progress, with First Dip to 10 Dips, 10 Pull-Ups and First Muscle-Up ready to explore.
  • Lifters over 40

    Longevity Mode turns on at 40 once your birth date is set, or whenever you choose, and it frames the Kinoku Score and the Coach around long-term health. The numbers under it stay the same, and the free 8-week Longevity Foundations plan comes with it.

  • Bar and bodyweight trainers

    Seven free Skill Journeys lead toward moves like a first pull-up or a wall handstand. Kinoku works out the real load of each pull-up, push-up or dip from your body weight, and a follow-along video can sit on any routine you train at home.

Where it stopsKinoku has no social feed, so nobody sees a lift unless you choose to share it yourself.

Hybrid athletes

Between the barbell and the road sits a week of squats, tempo runs and swims, and Kinoku reads it as one week rather than two apps.

Kinoku's Coach screen with the training form curve moving between Fresh, OK and Tired since July, and today's form at -1.
Kinoku's September calendar, with logged and planned sessions on most weekdays and each program week marked Accumulation.
  • Hybrid athletes

    You lift and run in the same week, and sometimes you swim too. One Form curve on the Coach screen scores a squat session and a tempo run in the same units, and Smart Today names the workout you are due for next.

Kinoku's Running hub: the last run of 16.45 km at 5:41 /km, with Running Progress and the training load below it.
Kinoku's workout on Today: a set of Bent Over Barbell Row at 70 kg for 8 reps, ticked off as done.
  • Week planners

    You like the week mapped out before Monday comes. The free calendar holds as many plans as you want, as far ahead as you want, and Pro adds repeating schedules and drag-to-move.

  • Plans from a coach

    Your plan may come from a coach's sheet or from a chat with an AI assistant. Kinoku can read a photo of the sheet, or a file the assistant writes, into routines on your phone, and one prompt gets ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to write that file for you.

Where it stopsA swim or a spin class has no pace or heart rate for the curve to score, so Kinoku falls back on how long it lasted and how hard it felt.

Runners

At dawn the park is quiet, and each run becomes a line of pace, splits and distance in the same record as your lifts.

Kinoku's Running Progress: pace over time at 5:40 /km, and personal bests with a 4:55 /km fastest pace and a 26:13 5K.
Kinoku's Zone Training: a training balance ring at 29% easy running, and bars of each week's time by effort zone.
Kinoku's Run Analytics overview: 180 runs and 985 km in total, a weekly distance chart and the three latest runs.
Kinoku's Share Your Run card: the route of a 16.45 km run inside a brushed ink circle, at 5:40 /km in 1:33:30.
Kinoku's run print: a 16.45 km run in Manhattan, New York, as a poster with its pace, climb and time.
Kinoku's Run Studio: an 8.19 km route at 5:42 /km, with charts of its pace and its 21 m of climb.
  • Watch wearers

    The free Wear OS app tracks workouts, runs and steps from your wrist. Health Connect brings in your sleep, your resting heart rate and the runs that other apps saved.

  • Runners leaving Strava

    You want years of runs without the feed that came with them. Kinoku reads the Strava archive ZIP on your phone, with no login and no link to Strava's servers.

Where it stopsKinoku has no cycling mode and does not pair with a Bluetooth chest strap, so heart rate comes from its watch app or, after the run, from Health Connect.

Walkers

From the day you start a road, the kilometres you walk or run move a small marker along it, whichever streets you took. Only the distance travels, so the map never draws your route.

Behind this text is the Tōkaidō road as the app draws it, with sample progress: the marker has walked from Nihonbashi toward Hakone, whose print stays covered until it arrives.

  • Walkers who love maps

    You may never log a workout, yet your everyday walks and steps carry you along Hadrian's Wall (135km), the Tōkaidō (492 km) or the Odyssey, whose 2,400 km is a distance chosen for the story. Most stops keep their print covered until you arrive, there is no deadline, and Pro adds a Sandstone Relief edition of Hadrian's Wall.

  • Runners who lift

    Tracked runs and walks move the marker, and gym work can join if you switch it on. Every 2,000 kg you lift then counts as one kilometre, shown on its own line apart from the distance you covered on foot.

Where it stopsA road begins on the day you start it, so older walks stay in your history without moving the marker, and one road collects distance at a time.

Kinoku's Journeys picker: Hadrian's Wall in its free and Pro editions, the Tōkaidō at 173 of 492 km, and the Odyssey.
Hiroshige's woodblock print of a procession crossing Nihonbashi bridge, the first stop on the Tōkaidō.
Nihonbashi by Utagawa Hiroshige, from the Art Institute of Chicago, in the public domain.

People who want no account

Your training history has no Kinoku server to go to. The network paths the app does use are all named in the privacy policy. They include Android backup to your Google account, Play billing, map tiles and a promo check that may run when the app starts. For video links you save, the app fetches titles and thumbnails from YouTube or Vimeo. Weather and diagnostics stay off until you turn them on.

  • Private by choice

    There is no account to make, and no Kinoku server holds your training history. Android Auto Backup, manual backup, export, and each network exception are explained plainly.

    Android system backup can copy eligible main data to your Google account. Dedicated cycle records and configuration are excluded from future automatic cloud backup; they move only through manual Kinoku ZIP backup or device transfer you start.

  • Keepers of long logs

    You have years of training in one log, and a backup of it is a lossless file you own. Kinoku shows each saved edit as a plain before-and-after and keeps deleted workouts for 30 days.

  • Cycle-aware trainers

    Cycle tracking, forecasts and a trying-to-conceive mode are free, and after 3 full cycles Pro can compare your training with each phase. Kinoku is a tracker rather than a medical tool.

    The cycle database stays separate and is excluded from Android's automatic cloud-backup path.

Where it stopsTwo phones do not sync with each other, because there is no Kinoku account or server to keep them in step.

Kinoku's Import and Export settings: CSV import and export, Export for AI, Backup and Restore, Change History and a 30-day Trash.
Kinoku's Cycle Tracking screen on day 12 of 28, in the follicular phase, with today's symptom log and 30-day trends.

Numbers people

After dark, months of sets and runs turn into charts and data-art, and every one of them is drawn from your own training.

Kinoku's Stats: a heatmap of training days, 612 workouts and 469 hours in all, and a weekly workout chart.
Kinoku's Exercise Galaxy: every exercise as a colored star, placed near the moves that work the same muscles.
Exercise GalaxyA free map in your browser turns all 1,321 exercises into stars, placed by the muscles each one works. It is in the app too, where it lights up the moves you train.Open the galaxy →
  • Numbers people

    You like reading your own charts, and Pro Analytics adds strength scores, a 90-day Form Band and a check on how fast your training load is climbing. Until there is enough data, the free Kinoku Score shows a learning state instead of a made-up number.

Kinoku's Your Story for 2026: a bloom of data-art over 757k kg lifted, 150 workouts and 9 personal records.
Kinoku's Share your galaxy card: 9 moves trained, 7 for strength and 2 for cardio.
  • Progress sharers

    After a session Kinoku suggests up to 6 share looks that fit what you did, and 8 of its card styles turn your numbers into generative data-art on every plan.

  • Design lovers and tinkerers

    The free plan includes 20 of the 26 themes, and each theme sets the motion of the whole app as well as its colors. You can add your own exercises and daily metrics with no cap on either, and choose which screens sit in the bottom bar.

Where it stopsSome of this depth is paid, including Pro Analytics and 6 of the themes, and the pricing page says which parts.

Everyone

First light comes round again, and every person on this page starts from the same free download.

  • People tired of paywalls

    The free plan is a complete app, with zero ads and no caps on workouts, routines, history or runs. Training often can earn Pro time through Rewards with no payment asked, and Today may show one occasional Pro suggestion that you can dismiss.

  • Lifters switching apps

    Your history can come with you from Hevy, FitNotes or a spreadsheet as a file. A review screen lets you fix exercise names before anything is saved.

Where it stopsKinoku is Android only, so it runs on Android phones and Wear OS watches, with no iPhone or web version.

An iPhone version is in the works.

Kinoku's starter packs, from Bodyweight Basics and Home Dumbbell to Hybrid Athlete and Circuit Warrior.
Kinoku's reward after 25 workouts: Pro turns on for 3 days with nothing to pay, and it turns off on its own.
Kinoku's import preview for a file from another app, with each exercise matched to the library and a button to review every match.

Whichever of these worlds sounds most like your week, Kinoku starts free, and Pro stays the one optional extra.

Each FREE or PRO label on this page comes from the same list as the features page.

The painted scenes on this page are AI-generated.