KontestClient projectWorkout challenges with friends · iPhone & Android
Working out alone is hard to stick with. Kontest makes it a game you play with friends — challenge your circle on reps, volume, distance, steps or top lifts, and watch the leaderboard move as everyone logs.
Official site: thekontest.com
Beyond step counts
Which leaves out everyone whose training happens in a gym. Kontest runs challenges on five things — most reps logged, total volume moved, distance covered, daily step totals, and top lifts head to head — so the group competes on what it actually does. Leaderboards update the moment someone logs, and Apple Health or Google Fit can feed steps and distance in automatically. Kontest is a client project: Nainnie Labs designed and built both apps, and the product belongs to the Kontest team.
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What Kontest does
Compete
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Kontest is a product of the Kontest team; Nainnie Labs designed and developed the app for them. Leo is an AI fitness coach, not a medical professional — always consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice, injury diagnosis or treatment. Feature availability and pricing are set by Kontest and may change; the app's own site is the source of truth.
Pricing
Kontest is free to download and free to start training with, with no per-session fees. A Pro plan for unlimited Leo coaching and deeper analytics is on the way.
Pricing is set by Kontest — check thekontest.com or the store listings for the current plans.
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From the blog
Most group fitness challenges are decided in week one and abandoned by week three. How to pick the metric, make the scoring fair, and set the rules before anyone starts.
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Yes — Kontest. You challenge your circle, everyone logs their sessions, and a live leaderboard updates as they do. Challenges can run on reps, total weight moved, distance, daily steps or top lifts, so the group picks what it actually wants to compete on.
Five: most reps logged, total volume moved, distance in miles or kilometers, daily step totals, and top lifts head to head. Most challenge apps only count steps, which leaves anyone who trains in a gym out of the competition.
They update live. The moment someone in your circle logs a workout, the standings move — so the competition runs through the week rather than being settled when somebody adds up totals at the end of it.
Yes. Link Apple Health on iPhone or Google Fit on Android and your steps and distance count toward your level automatically, so walking and running you already track are not logged twice.
Yes. As well as challenging friends, you can join public kontests and compete against strangers — useful if your own circle is not on the app yet.
Both, and the lifting side is the point of difference. You can log sets as they happen and compete on reps, total volume or a head-to-head top lift, not only on step counts — which is what most group fitness challenge apps limit you to.
Leo is Kontest's AI coach: personalized programming, plans that adapt as you progress, flexible scheduling, and answers about training and recovery whenever you ask. The app's own line for it is a world-class coach without the world-class invoice.
Yes. Logging workouts, competing in challenges and tracking your stats are free, with no credit card. A Pro tier is planned, adding unlimited Leo coaching and deeper analytics.
Yes, on both — the App Store and Google Play. Challenges and leaderboards work across the two, so a friend group does not all have to be on the same phone.
That is what it is built around. You follow your workout partners, see their sessions as they land and react to them, and the running leaderboard means skipping a week is visible to the people you train with — which is the part that tends to work.
Nainnie Labs designed and built the apps for iOS and Android. Kontest is owned and published by its own team, not by us — this page is a case study of our work on it, and the app itself lives at thekontest.com.