Built — A Social Fitness App That Shows What It Really Takes to Build Your Physique

A social fitness app that lets users visualize recovery, follow AI-guided workouts, and see how friends and influencers actually train over time.

Ever wondered what your friend or favorite gym influencer does for their workouts? Built answers what it took for someone to reach YOUR dream physique.

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Built app home screen showing recovery status with anatomical muscle heatmap at 53% recovery, displaying 15 ready and 39 resting muscle groups, plus workout routines including one by Thommy Ishida

Recovery, Made Visual

Recovery differs by muscle group. Training blindly leads to plateaus or injury. Built visualizes your recovery so you can train intelligently.

See What Your Body Can't Tell You

Different muscles recover at different rates. Your chest might be ready while your shoulders are still fatigued. Built tracks every muscle group individually and shows you exactly what's ready to train through real-time recovery heatmaps.

  • Real-time muscle heatmaps: Color-coded visualization of every major muscle group's recovery status
  • Individual tracking: Each muscle group recovers independently based on training volume, intensity, and time
  • Smart decisions: Know when to push hard and when to dial back before you overtrain

This is the information professional athletes have always had. Now it's visible to everyone.

AI That Guides You Through Training

The AI coach in Built doesn't just tell you what to do—it explains why your workout changes, adapts based on your recovery, and helps you learn how to train smarter over time.

AI Coach Interface

Chat interface showing AI explaining workout adjustments based on recovery status

Smart Adjustments

Example of AI suggesting workout modifications: "Your shoulders are at 45% recovery—let's focus on legs today"

A Coach That Explains, Not Just Commands

Most fitness apps give you a workout and expect you to follow blindly. Built's AI coach explains its reasoning so you understand the principles behind training decisions.

  • Recovery-aware programming: AI reads your muscle recovery data and adapts workout volume and intensity accordingly
  • Real-time guidance: Get form tips, rest recommendations, and progression advice during your workout
  • Learn the system: The AI explains why it makes suggestions so you develop training intuition over time

This isn't a black box coach. It's a teacher that shows you how to think about training.

See How Real People Actually Train

Following someone's fitness journey on social media shows you their highlights. Following them on Built shows you their actual training—exercises, volume, recovery, and how they progress over time.

Transparency Over Guessing

Built is like Strava for the gym. Instead of guessing what program your friend follows or how that influencer trains, you see their actual workouts, exercise selection, and recovery patterns.

  • Real workout data: See exactly what exercises, sets, reps, and weights people use—not just before-and-after photos
  • Recovery visibility: Understand how training volume affects recovery and performance for different people
  • Consistency over time: Watch how routines evolve and adapt as people progress toward their goals
  • Learn from paths, not just results: See the process that builds physiques, not just the final outcome

Built is to gym training what Strava is to running.

Like Strong or Fitbod, but social and visual. You don't just track your own progress—you learn from how real people train.

Learn the Process, Not Just the Result

Physiques are built over months and years. Built shows you how training evolves, how recovery improves, and how consistency compounds into results.

Progress Over Time

Timeline showing workout frequency, recovery trends, and strength progression across months

Routine Evolution

How someone's training program adapts over time as they get stronger and more recovered

Training Is a System, Not a Secret

There's no magic program. Success comes from understanding how training volume, recovery, and progression work together. Built makes that system visible.

  • See routine evolution: Watch how programs change as people adapt to higher volume and better recovery
  • Understand recovery adaptation: Learn how muscle groups respond to consistent training over time
  • Track real progression: See how strength and work capacity improve week over week, month over month

The path to your goal physique is already being walked by someone else. Built lets you observe and learn from it.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Built?

Built is a social fitness app for iOS that combines three key features: real-time muscle recovery visualization (showing which muscle groups are ready to train through color-coded heatmaps), AI-guided workout coaching that explains its reasoning and adapts to your recovery status, and a social feed where you can see exactly how friends and influencers train—including their exercises, sets, reps, and recovery patterns.

Who is Built for?

Built is for people who want to understand training, not just follow programs blindly. It's for gym-goers who want to track recovery intelligently, learn from others' real training data, and develop their own training intuition over time. If you've ever wondered how someone actually trains (not just what they post on Instagram), Built is for you.

How is Built different from Strava or Strong?

Built combines the social transparency of Strava with the detailed workout tracking of Strong, then adds real-time recovery visualization and AI coaching. Strava shows you running/cycling activities but doesn't track gym workouts with granular detail. Strong tracks your workouts comprehensively but isn't social—you can't learn from how others train. Built gives you both: detailed gym tracking AND the ability to see how real people (friends, influencers, people with your goals) actually train and recover over time.

Is Built free?

Built offers both free and premium tiers. The free version includes workout tracking, social features (following friends and viewing their workouts), and basic recovery visualization. Premium unlocks real-time live recovery tracking with detailed muscle heatmaps, full AI coaching features, and advanced analytics. Premium features require a subscription, which helps us continue developing and improving the app.

How does recovery tracking work?

Built tracks every exercise you perform and maps it to specific muscle groups. Based on the volume (sets × reps × weight), intensity, and time since your last session, the app calculates recovery levels for each muscle group individually. This data is visualized through color-coded heatmaps on an anatomical body view: red/orange indicates muscles still recovering (fatigued), while gray indicates fully recovered muscles ready to train. The AI coach uses this recovery data to suggest appropriate training volumes and rest periods.

Can I use Built without sharing my workouts?

Yes. When you complete a workout, you can choose whether to share it to your feed or keep it private. Your workout history and recovery data are always private unless you explicitly choose to share individual sessions. You control what's public and what stays personal.

What platforms is Built available on?

Built is currently available for iOS (iPhone and iPad). We're focused on delivering the best possible experience on Apple platforms first. Android and web versions may be considered in the future based on user demand.

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