Most gym apps tell you how much you lifted.
Almost none tell you how strong that makes you.

torq does. Every set you log is scored with the DOTS formula, the same normalisation powerlifting uses to compare a 60 kg lifter with a 95 kg one, then turned into a rank you climb across nine tiers.

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Open it and it already knows what today is

The day, not a dashboard Home is one question: what am I doing today? A training day is a lime panel with the session name, the muscles it hits, how long it will take and one button. A rest day is a different object entirely: grey, moonlit, no primary action, spending its space on what is recovering and what lands next. Under it sits the week as seven tagged days, your rank, your streak, and the exact kilos standing between you and the next tier. No volume anywhere. Nobody trains to move tonnes.

A logger built for the gym floor Weight × reps, tick, next. Your last session sits beside every row so you know what to beat, and the app suggests the next load with double progression: up when you hit your targets, repeat when you miss, deload when you stall twice. Rest timer that drains across the row and counts you in out loud Warm-up ramps that remember the percentages per exercise Swipe left to delete a set, sticky notes that come back every session Set types (warm-up, drop set, failure) and per-set rest overrides

Nine tiers. One number that means something. Rust → Iron → Bronze → Silver → Gold → Platinum → Diamond → Elite → World Class. Your rank comes from your best estimated 1RM on each lift, scored with DOTS, so it is normalised for bodyweight and sex. The same 100 kg bench is a different achievement at 60 kg than at 110 kg, and the number knows it. Every competition lift also carries a percentile, measured against 2.2 million lifters in the OpenPowerlifting database. It never says "top 10% of people", because that population is everyone who entered a sanctioned meet, a far stronger crowd than the gym floor. The app says "of competitive lifters" every single time it shows the number.

Progress that shows the climb Points over time with the tier bands drawn behind them, so you can see the Gold line you are pushing toward. Under it, a before and after bar per lift shows exactly what moved and what stalled. Hollow dot is then, filled is now. A row with no gap is a lift that has gone nowhere, and the chart refuses to hide it.

A log that shows your pattern Not a wall of identical cards. A rail down the left with a node per session, lime when that session set a record, and the row says what the session did: records, rank points gained, muscles worked. The empty days are named between them ("2 days off"), because your pattern across a year says more than any single session's numbers.

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More of it

1,500 exercises Animated demos, muscle maps and instructions, searchable by any word

Warm-up ramps Bar × 5, 50% × 3, 80% × 3, editable and remembered per exercise

Records, called out 1RM, weight and volume PRs flagged on the set that set them

Plan-aware streaks Rest days don't break it. Three missed sessions in a row do.

Routines and a real plan Pick your goal, your days and your focus, and torq builds the training week around them

Your athlete card Rank, best lifts and percentiles, shareable as a story image

And when you want someone to race: add friends by handle, compare head to head on points rather than kilos (comparing raw weight between a 60 kg and a 95 kg lifter would undo the whole point), and opt into a global board per lift. Being findable and being ranked globally are two separate switches, and both are off until you turn them on.

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Built like it matters

Runtime	Expo SDK 57 · React Native 0.86 · React 19 · TypeScript (strict)
Design	Cardless near-black system · lime #C8FE23 · Space Grotesk · Tabler icons
Storage	Local-first: one JSON snapshot in AsyncStorage, works with no account
Cloud	Supabase auth + last-write-wins delta sync behind row-level security
Ranking	Official DOTS polynomial · percentiles from 2.2M OpenPowerlifting lifters
Tests	198 vitest assertions over the pure logic the product's claims live in

A few decisions worth naming:

• Cloud sync is free forever. Holding someone's training history hostage behind a subscription is not a business model.
• Nothing leaves the device by default. Publishing a rank, appearing in search and entering the global board are three separate opt-ins.
• Implausible lifts are gated from anything other people can see, because a decimal-point typo shouldn't rewrite a leaderboard.
• The app is fully usable with no account. Guest mode is a first-class path, not a trial.

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