Questions, answered plainly

The gauntlet is the resistance that stands between you and the thing you want to do — the first step, the gym door, the return after a long gap. The name is memorable and bold; everything around it is supportive.

Sometimes fitness is effortless; other times it can feel like a gauntlet. On the good days, maybe you inspire your friends. On the tough days, maybe you inspire them too — or they carry you. Together we do better.

Yes — a 90-day free trial of the full app. After that, there's a flat annual membership fee. No tiers, no upsells.

We'll remind you 14, 7 and 1 day before the trial ends — and if it's not for you, that's the end of it. We hope you got some value from the trial either way.

As little as the app needs to work: your first name, an email address to sign in, a short fitness descriptor you write, an optional photo, your device's timezone (to time daily Activities), and a date-of-birth month and year to confirm you're over 18.

We don't collect your last name, and the age data is kept separately and never used for anything else. We want our members to use the app — we don't actually want our members' data. Most apps collect more than they need because data funds them. Our funding is your membership and billboard-style sponsorship, so there's nothing for extra data to do. We never sell or share your data for commercial purposes. We do share data with our infrastructure and systems providers to run the app, under data-processing agreements that do not allow them to use it for their own purposes.

Only the people in that challenge — the friends you invited, or who invited you and which you accepted. There's no public feed, no followers, and nothing is searchable. There's no way to appear in a Google search, even for your name and activity.

No. There's no search, no address-book upload, no suggested friends. No strangers finding you. You're only ever connected to people you invite yourself — or who have invited you and which you have accepted.

They fade after a day. We do this because when updates are permanent, there's more of a sense of having to live up to them — and self-deleting feels odd. With auto-fade, the updates are lighter, more frequent, and honest: the good, the bad and the ugly.

When you finish a challenge, you decide whether that completion is saved privately for you.

Then leaving is easy. Delete your account any time from Settings, which removes your data — except content held for an active report, which we keep for a limited period to review it fairly, and anything we are required by law to keep — and where the law allows us to tell you, we will.

There are no member-targeted adverts. In the future we may take sponsorship, which will work like a billboard: a running brand visible on running challenges. The sponsor sees an activity category — never you, never your name, never what you've done. Nothing shows in the app today, and we'll show you exactly where it would appear before any sponsorship ever goes live.

Yes — and this is where it gets fun. Each challenge has its own small group, and the groups don't see each other. So you might have a daily push-up Activity going with your old teammates, a first 5k with two friends from work, and a big one — a first marathon — with your family cheering you on. Each shared only with the people in that challenge.

A small thing you do today — one push-up, a thousand steps, five minutes of stretching. The app deals you one from your own list each morning, you do it, you tap done. You can use our starter presets or write your own, and you can share these Activities with a group of friends.

You might be exactly who it's for. Nothing within the app measures you, ranks you, or compares you to anyone. A hard day shared matters as much as a good one — showing up is the point.

And if you'd rather accept a friend's challenge quietly, be part of the group's updates and reveal yourself later, there's a setting for that too.

You don't have to do it. When a friend invites you to a challenge, you're free to take it on with them or simply come along to cheer them on. You choose how you're in it — and you can be all-in on one friend's challenge and cheering on another's.

You'll see their updates as they share them, and you can respond, check in, share learning, and send a boost. Think of it as being asked to come along for the journey.

No, you don't need to do the same challenges. You can do different challenges with different friends, or do your own. You might be cheering on a friend in one challenge, sharing an Activity with a group in another, and chipping away at something of your own.

Everyone gets the same 90-day trial, so a whole group can start together for nothing. And if you want to, you can gift memberships to friends or family.