Fitness challenges shared with the handful of people who'd be glad to see you out there. Shared, not compared.
You keep them going. They keep you going. Nobody's keeping score.
Jo this morning · fades tonight
Day 4. Nearly didn't go. Went.
Mia moments later
Knew you would.
between friends
Not an audience. Not a leaderboard. Gauntlet Challenge is a small, private place to share the running, the gym, the early starts — with the handful of people who'd be glad to see you out there. To share the journey, inspire friends, be inspired by them, and encourage each other along the way.
Busy lives, bad weather, friends in other cities or on different schedules — the odds are stacked against staying active. But when we share it with others, we bring more energy to our own activity and to our friends' too.
It is built for fitness and activity — running, cycling, swimming, the gym, yoga, and the rest. It is not for serious athletes chasing performance metrics, and it is not for anyone who is happiest being ranked. There are excellent apps for that. This is not one of them.
Why it's different
Numbers, rankings, segments, leaderboards. For a lot of people that's exactly the thing that puts them off — the quiet sense of being scored and compared to everyone else. Gauntlet Challenge is not the platform you perform for.
A hard day shared matters as much as a good one.
1 push-up a day : 5 burpees a day : 20,000 steps this week : first 5k together
How it works
A daily push-up, your first 5k, your first marathon, back to the gym after a period away.
To do it with you, or to be in your corner.
Short updates, photos, the learning, the good days and the bad.
What we promise
You decide who comes on each journey with you. Not followers. Not the public. Your people. No search. No address book. No strangers finding you.
The app doesn't measure you or rank you. Showing up is the point.
Updates last as long as the moment does. Nothing is cross-posted or broadcast.
No follower counts. No engagement metrics. And your data is never sold.
On purpose
See how your people are doing, give someone a boost, and get on with your day. If you've had a good five minutes here, it's done its job. We're focused on your value — there's no advertising reward for us in time spent in the app, no endless newsfeed, and no bait to pull you back.
We'd rather you left feeling lifted in 5 minutes than stayed for 30 and felt emptied.Pricing
A free trial, then a flat annual fee — or buy for a group of friends at a discount. No upsells, no premium tiers with features held back.
Like a billboard. A running brand on running challenges, say. They get visibility in a relevant space; you get a lower fee.
What sponsorship can never include: anything about you.
Not your name, not your gender, not what you've done in the app, not how often you open it. The sponsor sees an activity category — nothing else. This isn't a policy we can quietly change; it's written into the architecture. Nothing shows in the app today, and we'll show you exactly where it would appear before any sponsorship ever goes live.
Get the app
Quiet by design. When it lands, it’ll be on the App Store and Google Play.
The gauntlet is what stands between you and the thing you want to do — the first step, the door to the gym, the return after a long gap, the fear of looking slow. Gauntlet Challenge is the place that helps you through it. It feels like a gauntlet. We are here to help you through it.