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Coach-in-a-pocket fitness app for smarter training

Client

A US startup

Industry

Fitness & Wellness

Services

Mobile Development, DevOps, Testing

Tech

Swift, Kotlin, Dagger, Typescript, React, MySQL, ElasticSearch, PHP 8, SQL, AWS

Challenge

As the pandemic is forcing mobile consumers to look for new ways of staying fit while social distancing, fitness app installs have boomed. To find a competitive edge in the market is no easy task today. Our client, however, had an idea how to stand out from the crowd. The client wanted to build a mobile fitness app that would offer users an all-in-one fitness solution with smart training plans, healthy diets, and a lot of other valuable content based on scientific research. To convert their idea into life, they needed an experienced mobile development partner that would be able to integrate training and nutrition knowledge smoothly. They turned to ITRex.

Our task was to:

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Conduct business analysis to scope the solution and make recommendations on its optimum functionality within the client’s budget expectations

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Design and build the front and back end of the Android/iOS fitness app using DevOps to accelerate the process

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Run manual testing to ensure smooth user experience

Solution

A content-rich fitness app for Android and iOS provides fitness enthusiasts with access to tried and tested workouts and nutrition tips. The app makes it easy for users to reach their fitness goals by offering individually tailored training plans and diets, exercise videos, webinars, recipes, and scientific articles. Engaged as a provider of end-to-end mobile development services, ITRex helped the client simplify the solution scope while preserving desired functionality in line with the client’s budget expectations. For the management of content assets, we used AWS for cloud storage

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UX/UI giving the app a “scientific” feel

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Onboarding via an application form to recommend a personal training program, including a training schedule and a meal plan. The app makes recommendations based on user inputs, from age, gender, fitness level, and available equipment to the muscle group they want to train, by matching the inputs to training plan parameters set via the admin panel

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Workout tips and video instructions provided as part of the training program

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Option to add days and exercises to the training program or change the set number, rep number, or rest interval

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Overview of achievements upon workout completion

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Option to view and select other training programs

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Ability to add programs and exercises to favorites

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Recommendations on the next training schedule/meal plan

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Workout reminders and other motivational notifications

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Quizzes

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Personal scoreboard to keep track of weight progress and personal records

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Option to share personal training logs on social media

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Leaderboard to compare individual progress with others’ achievements

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Library of exercise videos

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Library of webinars

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Offline mode

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Admin panel providing a convenient way to create and manage the entire content, including adding and deleting plans

Impact

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Acting as a one-stop shop for science-based content on training and nutrition, the fitness app helps users train and eat in a smarter way

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With its superb design giving the app a “scientific” feel, the app has become a coach in a pocket for thousands of users in the first couple of months since its launch