Frequently asked questions

A daily movement app for your iPhone. Open it, press Start, and it gives you a short session: mobility, strength, or breathwork.

A baseline body app gives you the minimum effective dose of movement every day. BaselineBody covers mobility, strength, and breathwork in under 20 minutes, built for you automatically. No browsing, no planning, no equipment.

Because choosing is the problem. You've downloaded fitness apps before. You browsed the library, spent ten minutes deciding, and closed the app. BaselineBody skips all of that. The system picks your session.

It depends on the mode. Baseline is your daily session, a mix of movement and breathwork. Body focuses on mobility. Move is bodyweight strength. Shift is functional breathwork with six protocols for different moments: grounding before work, getting activated, resetting midday, winding down at night, pushing through something hard, or deep rest.

By default, it's 20 minutes max. Most are shorter.

Because the apps you quit were designed to keep you browsing, not moving. They gave you hundreds of options, then punished you with streaks and notifications when you stopped showing up. BaselineBody removes all of that. There's one button. The session is chosen for you. There's no streak to break and no library to get lost in. The reason most people quit isn't laziness. It's friction. BaselineBody is designed to have almost none.

No. Every session combines three disciplines: mobility work to keep your joints moving well, bodyweight strength to build functional capacity, and breathwork to regulate your nervous system. It's a complete daily practice.

It's not trying to. If you lift heavy, run, or play a sport, keep doing that. BaselineBody is the layer underneath: the mobility, recovery, and breathwork you know you should be doing but never get around to. It makes your training work better, not replace it.

No. And it's not trying to. BaselineBody is about building a baseline of daily movement: the mobility, strength, and breathing patterns that keep your body functioning well over years. Think of it as the foundation underneath everything else. The people who stay healthy long-term aren't the ones who train hardest for six weeks. They're the ones who move every single day, for decades. That's what this builds.

No. Sessions are short and designed for people who are starting from zero. You don't need to be fit to start.

Yes. The first week or two will feel almost too easy. That's by design. You're building the habit of showing up before you build the intensity. If it felt hard from day one, you'd quit by day ten. Stay with it. By week three or four, you'll notice you're moving better, breathing more deliberately. The people who get the most out of BaselineBody are the ones who trusted the simplicity early on.

20 minutes every day is 120+ hours a year. The problem was never that your workouts were too short. It's that you did them for two weeks and stopped.

To disappear. BaselineBody is not trying to impress you. It's trying to make being well the thing you don't have to think about. The best outcome is that you open it every morning out of habit, do your session without deliberating, and forget about it five minutes later. That's the goal. Movement that becomes as automatic as brushing your teeth. When that happens, BaselineBody did its job.

Nothing happens. No guilt. No broken streak. No notification telling you you've let yourself down. The grid resets every Monday. Clean slate. The system is there when you are. It doesn't chase you.

Yes, but they build as you go. Most apps try to keep you entertained with endless variety. New workouts every day, new programs every month. You never do anything long enough to get good at it. Nothing becomes automatic. BaselineBody works the other way around. The sessions evolve over time as you progress, but the core movements repeat often enough that they stop requiring thought. That's when it becomes a habit. And habits are the only thing that last.

Because streaks make you show up to protect a number, not because the work matters. When you miss a day and the streak breaks, most people quit entirely. BaselineBody has no streaks. You showed up, or you didn't. Tomorrow's still there.

Because a notification is a nag, not a commitment. If you want a daily reminder, you put BaselineBody in your calendar, the same way you'd schedule anything that matters. A decision you made, not a prompt we sent.

BaselineBody tracks one thing: did you show up? Each exercise held at its effective dose earns a block. Blocks fill a grid. Over weeks and months, the grid tells you everything that matters. No charts. No dashboards. No numbers pretending to be progress.

Every exercise has a minimum effective dose: the shortest duration that produces a real physiological benefit. For a stretch, that might be 60 seconds under tension. For a strength hold, it might be 120. These aren't arbitrary. They come from sports science research on what actually moves the needle for mobility and motor control. When you hold an exercise for its full duration, you earn a block.

Because the dose is the floor, not the ceiling. The moment you hit it, the block is earned and the benefit is locked in. The timer keeps running past that point so you can keep going if you've got it. Everything beyond the dose is bonus, and bonus compounds. As you get fitter, you'll naturally want more than the minimum, and the app gives you room to take it. Some days you stop the second the dose lights up. Other days you ride it out to the cap. Both count the same on the grid. The cap just bounds the step so a session can't run forever.

Every exercise in BaselineBody passed two filters. First: does it require equipment? If yes, it's out. BaselineBody works anywhere with floor space and nothing else. Second: does the risk outweigh the benefit when done unsupervised? If there's a meaningful chance of injury without a coach watching your form, it's out. What's left is a library of >50 movements that are effective, safe to do alone, and need nothing but your body.

Yes. You get 3 full sessions free. No credit card authorisation, no sign-up. After that, you decide.

The app asks if you'd like to subscribe. If you do, you get full access. If you don't, no pressure. We don't lock your progress, spam your inbox, or nag you with discount popups. You either saw the value or you didn't.

$9.99 USD/year. Most fitness apps charge $10 to $20 a month. We charge less than a coffee per month.

Cancel any time through your Apple ID settings. No hoops, no retention screens, no emailing support. If it's not for you, it takes ten seconds to stop.

Because the goal is for you to use it every day for years, not to extract as much money as possible before you churn. BaselineBody is built by one person with no investors to satisfy. The price reflects the product: honest, sustainable, no tricks.

Any iPhone running iOS 26 or later. No Android version. It's iPhone only.

Yes. No accounts, no email, no sign-up. Everything stays on your device and backs up automatically through iCloud. If you get a new phone, your progress, blocks, and settings come with you. We use anonymous analytics to improve the app. That's it. Full details at baselinebody.app/privacy.

Yes. BaselineBody reads Apple Health to know when you've already trained hard that day and adjusts your session accordingly. Your completed sessions also write back to Apple Health.

Email support@baselinebody.app. It goes straight to the person who built it. You'll get a real reply.