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For lifters, runners, and people who do both. A tracker built around how you train, not just your reps.
Free to use · No account · Works offline
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.
What the app proves
The site leads with the systems the app ships: daily logging, cross-sport tracking, real planning depth, sharp share output, and choices that keep your data yours.
Logging, warmups, plate loading, routines, and rest flow are built for daily use, not a quick demo.
Stats, a muscle map, steps, calendar plans, run analysis, and cycle notes all feed the same record.
Kinoku ships 15 share card types, magazine covers, route art, stickers, and photo overlays. Your progress looks ready to post.
Themes, motion feel, scenes, Daily Pulse, Smart Today, nav setup, language, and custom metrics keep the app yours.
Free covers core tracking and the base Form curve on the Coach screen. Pro adds Run Analytics, calendar plans, Quick Log, and Volume Landmarks. It also adds forecast lines on the Form curve. Elite adds the Training Load screen, readiness, race times, Form curve notes, and the smart layer.
The changelog and roadmap live right here on the site. For an app built by one person, steady progress is the clearest trust signal there is.
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 TrackingBanister 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 architectureElite 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.
See the hubTab 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, refined by Skiba 2014. Run across your full training stack, not just running.
Banister 1975 · Calvert 1976 · Skiba 201402 / 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, no hedging.
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 19 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
kinoku_db/workout_sets. Read by repositories only. Backed up to a file you save when you initiate a manual export.kinoku_db/routines, planned_workouts, routine_exercises. No remote sync at any time.filesDir/photos/. Sandboxed at the OS level; other apps cannot read them.kinoku_db/route_points, run_analytics. Routes never auto-upload. Map tiles render at view time only.kinoku_cycle_db, a second SQLite file. Excluded from Google Auto Backup via res/xml/data_extraction_rules.xml. A regression test fails the build if the rule ever drifts.kinoku_db/pulse_scores, achievement_unlocks. All scoring runs as pure Kotlin on your device.kinoku_db/scenes. Never serialized over the network.Leaves by your action
androidx.health.connect.client. Requires an explicit permission grant per data type in Android system settings. Data stays in the Health Connect store; Kinoku reads it locally.BillingClient. Receipt and anonymous subscription token only. Google sees what you bought; Kinoku does not see your Google account.Never collected
signInWithEmail, signInWithGoogle, or password-reset path in the binary. The only auth is anonymous, used solely by Social Bets opt-in.READ_CONTACTS, READ_SMS, or READ_CALL_LOG permissions in AndroidManifest.xml. The permissions are not declared at all.play-services-ads dependency. No AdvertisingIdClient calls anywhere in the codebase. The library is not in the binary.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION permission. The foreground LocationTrackingService only runs during an explicit GPS run you start.RECORD_AUDIO is requested only when you tap the voice quick-log button. The mic is released the moment the session ends.QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission. Kinoku cannot enumerate the other apps installed on your device.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." There is no AdMob, no Unity Ads, no Facebook Audience Network hook built into the APK. 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.
Three editions
Free handles real daily training. Pro adds planning and depth. Elite adds readiness, patterns, and the deeper layer. Billing runs through Google Play. The yearly price comes first, monthly is the lighter option, and lifetime is only for high-intent buyers.
A complete training app
A real training app with good defaults, not a teaser.
Your core logging, routines, history, and tools stay free.
Install freeDepth for serious training
More planning, more notes, more depth for serious training.
Plus more planning, recovery, and coach depth across the app.
Install + choose ProFull analytics plus smart training
For athletes who want the full analytics hub, readiness-led training, and the deeper layer.
Plus the rest of Kinoku’s deeper analytics and smart layer.
Trust and momentum
Public release notes that show what shipped, how quickly, and where the product is moving.
A public roadmap with shipped, now, next, and exploring buckets instead of 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.
"Track deeply.
Keep the record."
Kinoku is built for people who want their training history to feel personal, careful, and fully theirs.