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Questions about Kinetic

Updated September 2026 · S7VC Engineering

Money

Is Kinetic free?

Yes — free to download, and free to log workouts forever. The free tier is not a demo:

Kinetic Pro opens with a 7-day trial and is billed through your Apple Account.

What happens to my workouts if I stop paying?

Nothing is deleted. Kinetic never stops you recording a workout and never removes history you've logged. On the free tier the app displays a rolling 30 days; the rest of your training stays on your account and reappears the moment Pro is active again. Your record is yours whether or not you're paying for it.

How do I cancel?

In the app: Settings → Subscription → Manage Subscription. Or on iPhone: Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Cancelling stops the renewal and you keep Pro until the period you've paid for ends. Note that deleting your Kinetic account does not cancel the subscription — Apple handles billing, so that has to be cancelled with Apple.

The app

What platforms does it run on?

iPhone, built natively for iOS. There is no Android app, no web app, and no Apple Watch app today. If any of those arrive, this page will say so.

Does it work in a gym with no signal?

Yes. Kinetic is offline-first: every set is written to the phone first and synced afterwards. A workout logged in a basement with no bars is already safe, and it uploads on its own when the connection returns. Nothing about logging a set waits on the network.

How does it handle progressive overload?

A Previous column sits beside every set with last session's weight × reps, and empty fields default to those numbers. That turns double progression into one tap: match the top of the rep range on every set, then add load and restart at the bottom. The rep range and the rest interval are already prescribed, so the only live decision on the gym floor is whether to add five pounds. The evidence for that method is set out in full.

How many sets per muscle per week should I be doing?

The hypertrophy literature converges on 10–20 hard sets per muscle per week, split across at least two sessions rather than piled into one. Kinetic's generator divides that weekly total across the days you actually train, at roughly 2×/week per-muscle frequency, in an 8–12 rep range. The science page has the studies.

Can I film my sets?

Yes. A Film Set button sits beside Add Set during a workout. The clip records as HEVC, caps at 60 seconds, and attaches to the exact set you were lifting — not to the workout as a whole — so your log carries the video evidence for that specific rep-out. A free account gets 3 clips — enough to see what your own bar path looks like, which no screenshot conveys — and Pro films every set.

Can a coach see my training?

If you link them, yes. You enter their coach code, and from then on they can see your sessions, sets, and filmed clips, and leave form checks on any clip. The link is consensual and either side can end it at any time, which cuts off access immediately.

Does it track food?

There's a Food tab for logging meals with calories and macros, including a nutrition-label scanner. It does not prescribe meal plans or calorie targets. It records what you ate, the same way the rest of the app records what you lifted.

Is there AI rep counting?

No. You tap the set off yourself — which takes about as long as reading this sentence, and is right every time. A camera-based rep counter is built but switched off, and if it ships it will run entirely on the iPhone using Apple's Vision framework, with no video leaving the device.

Your data

Who owns my training data?

You do. It's stored in a Supabase database on AWS, transmitted over HTTPS, and scoped to your account by row-level security — one account cannot read another's rows. It is never sold, and it is never shared with an advertiser or a data broker.

How do I delete everything?

Settings → Delete Account. It permanently removes your account and every workout, set, body weight entry, goal, and meal attached to it. Immediately, without emailing anyone, with no copy retained, and it cannot be undone.

Does Kinetic track my location or read Apple Health?

No to both, in the app. No location data, no Apple Health data, no advertising identifiers, and no tracking across other apps or websites. The camera is used for filming sets, the nutrition-label scanner, and pose detection if the rep counter is ever switched on — and pose detection runs entirely on the iPhone, so no image or pose data leaves the device.

This website is a separate matter and we'd rather say so than let you assume: it records anonymous visits, including the approximate city its own IP lookup associates with your network, with no cookies and no IP address stored. The privacy policy sets out exactly what that means.

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