u/Civil-runner

The goal was always to get people moving again by helping them recognize the fitness that lives within every day chores. The ChoreFit is meant to be an entry point, physical activities that are familiar but still can reach moderate intensity levels. The app was never a direct competition with structured workouts like running or weight training. And gardening (4.0 METS) and shoveling (6.0 METS) were added. All of this was because of conversations and feedback from this thread. Thank you. The updates should be ready in a week.

Apple's 2027 upgrades have a lot of fancy medical tools; menopause tracking, sleep apnea detection cane out last year, longevity focus, better heart rate measurements etc.
BUT their recent heart and movement study highlighted a glaring issue for society....we don't move that much. Of their 82k + participants, one representative week showed that only 30.6% of users logged a workout. The bigger issue; the majority of people are completely intimidated by structured workouts and have no idea where to begin. So my opinion here, I love the fancy health readouts and data, but we need a nudge as a society to just get moving again.
Thoughts......

I launched an Apple app 10 months ago. And I do minimal marketing on Reddit. And man!!!! The least receptive people are the Apple Fitness crew….its brutal the comments I’ve received. Two people went so far to pay for it only to leave me a one star review.

The negative comments is strangely helpful and I’ve shaped my education and marketing around it.

I launched my app back in November 2025. I hit 550 paid downloads today. I have zero marketing budget and have been working this all on my own.

Update: Lots of questions about how I got to this amount of downloads. I spent a lot of time making posts on Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok. I focused hard on my niche users. And I sent over a thousand outreach messages to people in my app’s interest group (cleaning enthusiasts, fitness over 40, Apple Fitness Community, etc). It was a lot of my time daily, and after running my numbers through Chat it seemed bleak. But this group made me feel like 550 downloads was something. Thank you.

My app launched last November and I have a total different unload count of 535. Thoughts on moving forward

Has anyone given this feature a good run??? Is it accurate???

Very curious why this still isn’t an option.

About eight weeks ago I started trolling this subreddit. I knew I wanted to try Zoloft; at 51 and in the middle of hormonal chaos, I really wanted to deal with my on and off again anxiety disorder since childhood. And what pushed me was that I was asked to go on a seven day cruise and my husband and older son wouldn’t be able to join us. I realized that the amount of anticipatory anxiety I was experiencing; jitters all day, stomach hurt, losing weight, and thoughts of freaking out on the cruise and embarrassing myself - well, this just all needed to be addressed.

I’ve read everything about anxiety, listened to countless podcasts, I live a healthy lifestyle, BUT I’ve also created a life of AVOIDANCE to protect me from feeling uncomfortable. No more, I’m the coping mechanism, not a meme, supplement, self help book etc…..me♥️

This is why I started therapy and 25 mg of Zoloft. The first two weeks were not great, I felt like I had the flu and my anxiety increased a lot. At week three I started to feel less crappy and by week six I left for my cruise. Of the seven days, three days I had a few moments of panic. I’ve literally never been on a cruise and I haven’t traveled without my husband in over 10 years. This was a huge win.

So this is my success story….the mindset shift was definitely supported by therapy and Zoloft ♥️♥️♥️

I met with a research scientist at a top fitness/health/digital company regarding my ChoreFit app that tracks chores as fitness using MET values from the Compendium of Physical Activities. My app would fit better in a larger fitness app ecosystem; after the meeting, this is the email I received. Is this a polite brush off, positive signal, or neutral??

“So nice to speak with you in person and learn your perspective live! I passed on your app and the context to some internal folks here. This is an area I don't know much about, so | will let you know if they get back to me.
Just to be candid, we get a lot of inbounds and it's often hard to predict which if any have followup conversations. But I will keep you posted.
I also looked in the App Store and only found one other app trying to give credit for chores and it had one star :)
Anyway, thanks again”

Do you take a day off, bundle up and get after it no matter what, count your indoor chores towards your steps/fitness??

I launched a fitness app ($2.99 one time download) 8 months ago. I have about 483 downloads so far. My goal is to gain traction and attention to be acquired by a bigger ecosystem. Thoughts on pulling the paywall and making it totally free…..

I’ll keep posting my experience because I’ve found reading others has been priceless for information. My GP didn’t tell me anything about side effects so I started Googling why I had more anxiety after started Z. I came across this thread…thank God♥️

I’ve had anxiety on and off most of my life. At age 10 I had my first panic attack and it was horrific. I’m convinced from this one awful day I wired up to be petrified of any type of anxious feeling (like if a child was viscously attacked by a dog, they would be forever afraid of dogs). So whenever I hit life transitions (good or bad ones) I suffer time periods of intense anxiety.

At 51 I’m trying Z and I’m scared but so so hopeful. Week 1 has brought more anxiety and exhaustion. I would have stopped the meds if it wasn’t for finding this subreddit - so thank you. A few people recommended taking the first week and just resting as if you were sick. Awesome advice. I’m praying that as I post here every week that I’m getting better.

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