HEROMINUTES — fitness app that adapts to how you feel

Q: What leaves my phone?

The privacy policy lists everything. It is at herominutes.com/legal/privacy.html.

The app

What it looks like.

Real screens from the app: how you feel today, the session it wrote, and your week.

The Progress screen: this week's sleep, energy, discomfort and stress

The Home screen: today's readiness, how you feel and your Apple Health reading

Today's session: the movements, with swipe to heart or skip

Drag the phones to turn them.

Real screens, not mock-ups.

These screens show Full access. See what each one includes ›

The problem

Your body isn’t the same every day. Most training plans are.

So people push through the rough days and stall, or stop and lose ground. Either way, they drift from their goals.

Same plan, no question

Today: the planned session

Glute bridge3 × 10
Split squat3 × 8 each side
Row3 × 10
Dead bug3 × 8 each side

The same session whether you slept badly or well.

Drag the line. Example sessions, not a prescription.

The one rule

The red point is discomfort. It never fades.

Most apps make your discomfort look smaller to keep you motivated. We show it exactly as you report it. The red point only changes when you say it has, and your training adapts around it.

If what you report looks like it needs a doctor or a physical therapist, the app stops and says so — no session that day.

The third way

Most people push through it and stall. Others stop and lose ground. A third way: slow down, keep building, and come back with more confidence.

Why I built it — Launched in 2024

I injured my back, my neck, and my hip. I was told to expect a new normal, or surgery: no sport, no lifting.

I didn’t want a new normal.

I didn’t want surgery either — that’s my call, and yours is yours. What nobody helped with was the part after: getting back to training, around a body that felt different every day.

So I built it. My comeback.

— Jamil, Founder

Five phases

You do not move up because time passed.

Phase 1 · Ease In

Settle it down

Rebuild the basics without stirring up whatever is sore.

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Phase 2 · Ramp Up

Put the weight back

Add weight and effort back slowly, checking after every session how you handled it.

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Phase 3 · Build

Real strength work

Strength work, built on a base that has proven itself.

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Phase 4 · Perform

Your sport, not a gym

Power, speed and the movements your sport actually asks for.

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Phase 5 · Elite

Stay there on purpose

Training at full tilt, with the work that keeps you there instead of hoping you stay lucky.

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Journeys

Start where you actually are.

Two journeys, each with its own checks and its own program. Start with one, and add the other once you pass your first phase check-in.

Comeback

For training around something that’s been bothering you. Five phases, built to keep you moving rather than waiting it out.

Desk Reset

For bodies shaped by a chair. Four phases of undoing what sitting all day does to you — and building back the strength it quietly takes.

The payoff

One answer. A different session.

67 Drive

Finish every set.

Your readiness comes from a twenty-second morning check-in. It is what today’s session is built from.

Today's session AS PLANNED

Glute bridge

3 × 10

Split squat

3 × 8 each side

Row

3 × 10

Dead bug

3 × 8 each side

Okay morning — the plan stands. Log how it went at the end and tomorrow starts from that.

The feedback loop

It asks. Then it actually changes.

Four moments. The check-ins feed the next program it writes; the phase review tells us what to build. Answer them honestly and the sessions get more like you.

01

Morning

How you slept, how sore you are, what the day has in it. Twenty seconds, and today’s load is set from it.
02

Session

After a session, how it went: discomfort, energy, effort and how you feel now. A movement you keep skipping stops turning up.
03

Feeling

Once a day, whenever you like: how you feel, and where, on a body picture. If what you report needs a professional, the app says so.
04

Phase review

Once a phase, how it went and what else helped. That one tells us what to build next.

Every check-in feeds the next program.

A look inside

Four small things you’ll notice.

Today’s session screen: the list of movements, with one swiped to reveal Like and another swiped to reveal Skip.

The Breathwork screen: the breathing practices, Stillness and Quiet Places.

The Progress tab: this week's summary, with sleep, energy, discomfort and stress for the week.

Home: today’s Drive reading, how you feel next to your Apple Health number, and the check-ins.

Shape it as you go

Swipe on anything that is not working.

Swipe right on a movement you want more of; swipe left to skip one, and say why if you like. Both reach the coach that writes your next session.

Between sessions

The training is not the whole of it.

Five breathing practices, four tracks to sit still to, and three quiet places — a forest, a tide, a fog — for the minutes after a hard set.

Every tester has all of it — nothing here is held back behind a tier.

See the pattern

Everything it read, shown back to you.

Discomfort, readiness, sleep, the sessions you finished — as a trend rather than a number. It shows you what it is reading, so you can tell it when it has you wrong.

Beside Apple Health

How you feel, next to your Apple Health number.

Your check-in and your Apple Health reading sit side by side on Home. When they agree, the day is easy to read. When they don’t, you can see it, and open the last 7 days.

What makes it different

It’s not a library of workouts.

There’s no catalogue to scroll, no plan to follow rigidly for twelve weeks, and no assumption that today is like yesterday.

No catalogue to scroll

One session, written for today.

No rigid twelve weeks

You move up on your own numbers.

Today isn't yesterday

Your check-in shapes the session.

A setback re-plans it

It doesn't end it.

HEROMINUTES

Reads your check-ins, your discomfort trend and how the last sessions landed — then writes today’s session around them.

A setback re-plans it. It doesn’t end it. Flare up, miss a fortnight, come back sore — the program rebuilds around where you actually are, instead of handing you back the week you couldn’t finish.
You move up when your own numbers say so — never on a calendar.
It keeps learning you. Month three isn’t month one repeated.

Not one plan. A system that keeps running.

“Couldn’t I just ask ChatGPT for a training plan?”

You could, and it would write you a good one. Keeping it adapted to you, every day, is on you. Everything below is what happens when that is built in.

What HEROMINUTES does, compared with a chatbot and with other fitness apps
Capability	HEROMINUTES	ChatGPT	Fitness apps
Writes you a training plan	✓	✓	✓
Remembers your check-ins	✓	you set it up	some
Rebuilds the plan when you flare up	✓	you set it up	some
Moves you up on your own numbers	✓	you set it up	some
Won’t write if you need a professional	✓	×	×
Talks you through it out loud	✓	you set it up	some

“Some” means a few fitness apps do it. “You set it up” means ChatGPT can do it if you build it yourself and prompt it each time — here it is built in. This is what each does, not a scoreboard.

Comparison analysis as of October 6, 2026.

Under the hood

It’s checked three times before you see it.

On Comeback and Desk Reset your session isn’t written in one go. It’s built in three stages, each with a different job, and you only ever see the finished result.

1
Screening

What you’ve reported is read first — and can stop the whole thing.
2
Programming

The session is written around what screening allowed.
3
Safety review

It is checked again before it reaches you.

The part that matters

And sometimes it says no.

If what you’ve reported looks like it needs a doctor or a physical therapist, the app stops there and tells you why. You get no session that day.

That’s the part worth understanding. A tool built to always give you an answer will always give you one, however you’re feeling when you ask. This one is built to know when not to.

No human reviews your program. Here’s exactly how the AI works — including what it can’t do.

Take it to your appointment

A record you can hand to a professional.

Training record — Alex

Comeback · phase 2 of 5 · 20 Jun to 18 Sep

Sessions

Discomfort the athlete logged after training

Other discomfort entries

Movements skipped

Phase history

Restrictions the athlete asked for

It contains no diagnosis, no assessment and no clinical interpretation — every number below is what the athlete entered themselves.

Ninety days of what you logged, as one document you can hand to a physical therapist or coach — your sessions, your discomfort entries, the movements you skipped and the restrictions you asked for. You can also share the exercises in your plan, phase by phase, with how to do each one.

It carries no diagnosis, no assessment and no clinical interpretation — no coach notes, nothing naming a cause or an outcome. It is a record of what you logged, and the person reading it is the qualified one.

You read the whole thing before it leaves your phone, and it states its own window, so nobody reads a fortnight as a year.

Ninety days

Of what you logged.

✓

Your own entries

Sessions, discomfort entries, skipped movements, restrictions.

No diagnosis

No assessment, no clinical interpretation.

You read it first

Before it leaves your phone.

The voice

Zeeva talks you through it.

Not a beep and a timer. She explains the movement in plain English, counts your reps, tells you when to rest and how long — and stays quiet when you don't need her.

She is on your wrist and your lock screen too, so a set does not mean holding a phone.

Explains the move

In plain English.

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Counts your reps

So you don't have to.

Tells you when to rest

And for how long.

Quiet when you don't need her

She stays out of the way.

One more thing

Your readiness, on your wrist.

Your readiness

Your number, on your wrist.

Check in once on your phone — about twenty seconds. After that the wrist shows today’s number with the two behind it (how you feel, and your Apple Health number when you have one), the one-word reading it lands on (like Drive), and one short line telling you how hard to go — the same number the phone shows. Until you have checked in, it says so rather than guessing.

Swipe on and the rest of your day is there: today’s session, steps, water, a breathing minute, time outdoors and a Desk Reset ring.

Safety check-in

Heading out alone.

It shares where you are, and a short message, with the people you picked — and a watch-face shortcut puts it one tap away. The edge lights while it arms, so you can see it from a glance at arm’s length.

Three seconds to start it. Ten to change your mind. Those are the real numbers, and the watch is running them here — each one a tap on your wrist, so the count can be felt without looking.

The Watch app and its safety check-in are built and working. They come with the current version of the app, which is in internal testing now.

Four ranks to earn

Full access

Ranks are earned, never bought.

You start as an Athlete and move up as you show up and pass your phases.

Athlete
Warrior
Hero
Legend

Badges and rank medals are part of Full access. See what each one includes ›

Full access for TestFlight testers

Fitness guidance, not medical advice

HEROMINUTES is a general wellness app. It does not diagnose, and it is not a substitute for seeing a qualified professional. If something hurts more than usual, or sharply, stop. If you’re working around an existing problem, talk to your doctor or physical therapist before you start. And if you report something that needs proper attention, the app will stop and tell you so rather than writing you a session.

Full disclaimer ›

Free access and Full access

What each one includes.

Both begin with the same morning check-in. Full access adds a session built around you each day, your journeys and your numbers.

Same morning, two ways in. How did you wake up?

Free access

Basic Desk Reset

The same set for everyone, with smaller doses and one movement fewer.

Full access

Built for you

The whole session adapts to how you feel.

Drag the line, or use the arrow keys on it, to compare.

Every day

Feature	Free access	Full access
Morning check-in	Included	Included
Today’s session	Included, basic version	Included
Free access: A Basic Desk Reset: 5 movements, about 11 minutes, the same set for everyone. Full access: A session built for you each day from how you feel, in Comeback and Desk Reset.
A gentler version on a rough day	Included, basic version	Included
Free access: Smaller doses and one movement fewer. Full access: The whole session adapts.
Zeeva coaching your movements	Included, basic version	Included
Free access: The Basic Desk Reset and Breathwork. Full access: Every exercise.
Breathwork	Included	Included
Stillness After Motion	Included	Included
Discomfort log and the stop screens	Included	Included

Your journey

Feature	Free access	Full access
Comeback journey	Not included	Included
A second journey at the same time	Not included	Included
Phases and graduation	Not included	Included
Exercise swaps	Not included	Included

Your numbers and extras

Feature	Free access	Full access
Today’s Charge and the Progress tab (trends, weekly reports)	Not included	Included
Apple Health insights	Not included	Included
Water log, Quiet Places, Focus & Move	Not included	Included
Badges and rank medals	Not included	Included
Share a summary with a professional	Not included	Included
Safety contacts and the Apple Watch safety check-in	Not included	Included
App icon choice	Not included	Included

Request early access

Request an invite with your name, email and a quick waiver signature. TestFlight testers have Full access.

More about Free access ›

Before you join

Questions.

Short, honest answers.

Is it free?

TestFlight testers have Full access while the app is in testing, with nothing to pay.

Does it replace a doctor or other licensed professional?

No. HEROMINUTES gives general fitness guidance. It is not medical advice.

What if something I report needs a professional?

It stops and says so, and points you to a doctor or other licensed professional.

Do I need an Apple Watch?

No. The app runs on your iPhone. The Apple Watch app is an extra, and it is part of Full access.

How do I join?

Request an invite with your name, email and a quick waiver signature. Your invite appears right after, with a link to open it in TestFlight.

What leaves my phone?

The privacy policy lists everything. Read the privacy policy.

Join now

You won’t just test it. You’ll shape it.

The app isn’t finished, and that’s the point. The beta is a small group — small enough that I read every piece of feedback myself and reply.

Features get added, changed and cut based on what testers say. Several things in the app right now exist because a tester asked for them.

Once it’s on the App Store, the big decisions are made. Right now they aren’t — and you’d help make them.

Request early access

Full access while we’re testing — no card, nothing to pay.

Other projects

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Mac · Coming soon

Focus & Reset for Mac. A focus timer with a guided 10-minute movement reset: focus for 30 or 50 minutes, then get up and move with a goofy turtle coach.

See Desk Turtle

Turtle GIF Keyboard

iPhone · Private beta

Type a message, tap the turtle, and send the GIF that says it. Your message never leaves your phone.

See Turtle GIF Keyboard

All projects

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