Improva

Earn your screen time. Train first.

Improva locks the apps that distract you for the rest of the day when you skip the workout you planned — plus a science-informed running coach, strength programs, cardio tracking, and nutrition, all in one app.

Free to download. Every install gets all of Premium free for 3 hours after setup, with no card and nothing to cancel. Then Premium is US$29.99 a year or US$44.99 once.

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Improva app icon Improva Home screen: today's workout done, an evening run planned, and the day's calories and macros Apps locked until you check in at your gym for the workout you planned

One app. Everything to train — and follow through.

Accountability, coaching, tracking, and nutrition, built to keep your focus where you want it.

Apps unlock when you show up at the gym.

Pick the apps that distract you. On a day you've scheduled a workout, they lock from the time you planned it; check in at your gym and start the session, and they open while you train. Skip it, and they stay locked until the end of that day. Plans change, so you can cancel a session ahead of time. Start a session and leave early, and they stay locked for longer — you choose how long. It uses Apple's Screen Time, and Improva never learns which apps you chose. Accountability is a Premium feature, and every new install gets it free for 3 hours.

Someone you trust can hold your key.

With Spare Key, you start a lock and give someone you trust the key: your apps stay locked until they send it to you. Your own emergency code ends it too. Spare Key is part of Premium; holding someone's spare key is free.

Real training, not gimmicks.

A running coach that builds a full plan for your goal — from couch-to-5K to a marathon or ultra — and a personal trainer that generates progressive strength programs that adapt as you log your sets.

Cardio & workouts, tracked.

Live GPS cardio with pace and heart-rate cues, a guided workout timer, and Apple Watch support.

Nutrition, simplified.

Estimate your daily targets, log food (even by voice), and plan a week of meals. Estimates to guide you — not medical advice.

Private by design.

Your training, food and health data stay on your device. No account, no tracking, no ads. Back up your data to a file you own, whenever you like.

Everything inside

A closer look at what you get — every part shipped, all on your device. Most of it stays free; accountability, the plan generators and cardio trends are Premium.

Accountability & app blocking

Lock the distracting apps you choose with Apple's Screen Time for the rest of the day when you skip the session you planned. Limited short "unlock bursts" and a private emergency code keep it firm but fair. There is one more lock: if next week isn't planned by the weekly deadline you set, apps lock until you add something.

Weekly planning

Lay out workouts, cardio, and focus blocks across the week in one place. Your plan drives your accountability and your streak, and with accountability on, Improva can remind you an hour before the weekly planning deadline you choose.

Workouts & guided timer

Build your own templates (simple or detailed with sets, reps, rest, and supersets) or start from an evidence-based library. A guided timer runs every set and rest, plays its cues over your music without stopping it, and logs what you lifted. If your machine is taken, it re-orders or swaps the exercise on the spot.

Personal trainer

Answer a few questions and get a multi-week progressive strength program. It applies double-progression as you log sets, schedules deloads, and lets you build or share your own split.

Running coach

Pick your goal — couch-to-5K through marathon, ultra, a time target, general fitness, or team pre-season — and get a full plan grounded in established running science, with paces, heart-rate zones, and safe progression.

Live cardio

Start a GPS session and see pace, distance, and heart rate (via a Bluetooth chest strap) with your route on a map. Structured intervals guide each phase with cues, plus a calorie estimate for the effort.

Nutrition & meal planner

Estimate your daily calorie, macro, and key-micronutrient targets, then log by search, barcode, or voice. A meal-plan generator fills a week from your diet and the ingredients you choose to hide, with a recipe library and batch-cook support. Ingredient data is derived automatically and may be incomplete, so always check the full ingredient list yourself and don't rely on it to avoid an allergy.

Progress tracking

Track personal records, estimate one-rep maxes from the sets you log, and chart your trends. Weights in kg or lb, your call.

Streaks

Complete the training you planned each week and your streak grows — a simple, honest nudge to keep showing up.

Apple Watch

Track cardio from your wrist, mirror the workout timer, and glance at a complication showing whether your apps are locked, your next session, and your streak.

Widgets & Siri

Home- and lock-screen widgets for your calorie ring, streak, and next session. Ask Siri to "start my workout" and Improva opens at today's session.

Backup & restore

Save your workouts, plans, nutrition, recipes, streak and settings to a file you own — keep it in Files or iCloud Drive, or AirDrop it to a new phone — and restore it anytime. Your blocked-apps choice isn't included, because it's tied to the device, so you pick those apps again after restoring. Local-only shouldn't mean you can lose everything.

Improva provides general fitness and nutrition estimates, not medical advice. Consult a qualified professional before starting a new program.

How it works

Plan your week.

Schedule the workouts and cardio sessions you want to hit.

Train — or your apps lock.

Miss a session and your chosen distracting apps stay locked for the rest of the day. Bail on one you started and they stay locked for longer — you choose how long.

Follow through and stay accountable.

Keep your streak, keep your focus, and keep your data yours.

Plan the week, see what you're really eating, and shop from one list.

Get notified at launch

Improva isn't on the App Store yet. Want a heads-up when it lands?