The Menos hero — a samurai idling with a flaming sword
MENOS
THE LIFTING RPG

Your gym, but it's a dungeon crawler. Log real lifts, level a real character, and let a real progressive-overload engine pick exactly what you lift next.

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Every workout is a raid.

Real reps drive a real character. The RPG is the reason you keep showing up — the progressive-overload engine underneath is the reason it works.

Dungeon Mode

Your session becomes a top-down dungeon climb. Every exercise is a monster encounter — hit your prescribed sets and reps to defeat the boss, fall short and leave wounded. The fog clears node by node as you fight up the map.

Party Mode

Raid the same dungeon live with friends. Everyone lifts their own weights; when the whole party finishes, you all share an XP multiplier. Add friends with a share code — no usernames, no feed, no noise.

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Hall of Lifters

An opt-in global leaderboard ranked by character XP. Off by default — flip it on when you want to see where your grind stacks up against everyone else putting in the work.

XP

Levels & XP

Every set logged earns XP. Break a PR, finish a block, clear a dungeon — your character levels up and grows alongside the numbers on the bar. Run up to four characters, one per class.

Hand-Animated Pixel Art

Side-view samurai sprites animate every exercise, level-up, and victory. No stock photos, no charts pretending to be motivation — a world that reacts to the work you put in.

Your training goal picks your character.

Build muscle, get stronger, run further, or just stay healthy — Menos sets the program style to match your goal and gives you a character that levels with you.

Warrior class hero — male, strength build Warrior class hero — female, strength build
WARRIOR
Strength. Heavy weight, low reps.
Berserker class hero — male, hypertrophy build Berserker class hero — female, hypertrophy build
BERSERKER
Build muscle. Moderate weight, medium reps.
Ranger class hero — male, endurance build Ranger class hero — female, endurance build
RANGER
Endurance. Light weight, high reps.
Adventurer class hero — male, general health build Adventurer class hero — female, general health build
ADVENTURER
General health. Balanced. Stay strong.

Lifts Fight Back

Deep in the dungeon, hand-animated bosses guard the way up. Hit your prescription to bring them down.

Lord of the Flames — a hooded boss wreathed in fire
Lord of the FlamesBoss · Bench Press
The Tarnished Widow — a spider boss with glowing red eyes
Tarnished WidowBoss · Squat
Bone Reaper — a floating skull boss
Bone ReaperBoss · Deadlift

A real progressive-overload engine.

The game gets you in the gym. This is what actually makes you stronger — no spreadsheets, no guesswork, no DIY programming.

Your Next Workout, Picked For You

Open the app and your next session is ready — exercises, sets, reps, and weights. The progression engine decides what to lift next based on what you logged last time. No spreadsheets, no second-guessing.

Progressive Overload

Every exercise tracked across sessions. Hit your reps cleanly and the weight goes up. Stall and we hold the line, swap the exercise, or roll you into a deload. The work scales with you, not against you.

One-Tap Logging

Tap to log a set. Skip a set. Swap an exercise. The active-workout screen shows your prescribed weights, your last result, and your character animating the lift — so logging is fast and the screen never feels like a spreadsheet.

PR

PRs & Personal Records

Every working set is checked against your all-time best for that lift. Hit a new max and you'll see it celebrated on the post-workout summary, logged to your character sheet, and worth bonus XP.

Six Real Programs

Pick from six proven splits — Full Body, Push/Pull/Legs, Upper/Lower, and Heavy/Volume variants. Your program is set during onboarding from your goal, experience, and days-per-week. No template-shopping. No DIY.

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Character Sheet

Your stats screen shows Big-4 PRs (squat, bench, deadlift, OHP), strength score, current streak, training age, blocks completed, perfect sessions, and your full lifetime volume. The book of every session you've ever run.

It programs you. Automatically.

Most apps hand you a fixed plan and a timer. Menos runs a real coach's logic under the hood — it learns from every set you log and rebuilds the next session around you, not a template.

It builds on itself

Your first weights are just an estimate. After that, every session is computed from the last one — and it always measures from what you actually lifted, not what was on the card. Your numbers only move forward. Nothing ever resets to generic.

It meets you at any level

Brand-new or already strong, it calibrates to you in a single session. Handed something light and crushed it? Next time it climbs from your real number, not the textbook guess. No beginner jail, no being held back, no ceiling.

Double progression, done for you

Earn the reps first, then earn the weight. Hit the top of your range on every set and the load goes up; land in range and you hold and chase one more rep. You never have to decide when to add weight — the engine already knows.

It knows when to back off

Stall twice — or flag a lift "too heavy" — and it deloads you automatically. Every sixth week is a built-in recovery block. The hardest part of programming, knowing when to push and when to ease off, is handled for you.

Three steps. Zero guesswork.

Stop wondering if you're doing enough. Start knowing.

Open the app

Your next workout is already on Home — the exercises, the weights, the rep targets, the rest timer, all picked from your history. Tap Start and you're in.

Train and track

Tap to log every set as you go. The app tracks PRs, volume, and milestones in real time. Skip a set, swap an exercise, or push past the rep target — we record what actually happened, not just what was planned.

Level up every session

The progression engine adjusts your next workout from what you actually lifted. Your character earns XP, breaks PRs, clears dungeons, and finishes blocks.

One price. Everything unlocked.

Play the whole game free for 7 days. After that it's $6.99/month — or $39.99/year — no tiers, no per-feature upsells, no ads.

Menos
$6.99/mo
7-day free trial · or $39.99/year (save 52%) · cancel anytime
  • Dungeon Mode, Party Mode & Hall of Lifters
  • Character system — 4 classes, XP & levels
  • Real progressive-overload engine, picked for you
  • Six proven programs (Full Body, PPL, U/L, Heavy/Volume)
  • One-tap set logging
  • PR tracking + Strength Trajectory pace badges
  • Unlimited workout history
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The small stuff that adds up.

Built so you don't have to think about anything but the next set.

Questions, answered.

The stuff people ask before they download a gym app.

What is Menos?

Menos is a lifting RPG for iPhone. You log real workouts, a real progressive-overload engine picks exactly what to lift next, and your reps drive a pixel-art character that levels up, raids dungeons, parties with friends, and climbs a leaderboard. Built for lifters who want the bookkeeping done — and an actual reason to keep showing up.

Is Menos a game or a real lifting app?

Both — and the order matters. Underneath the pixel art is a real per-exercise progressive-overload engine, six proven programs, deload logic, and full PR tracking. The RPG layer — classes, XP, Dungeon Mode, Party Mode, the Hall of Lifters — sits on top to make you actually want to train. Strip the game away and you still have a serious tracker; the game is why you'll keep opening it.

How much does Menos cost?

Menos is $6.99/month, or $39.99/year (save 52%), with a 7-day free trial — every feature unlocked, no tiers, no per-feature upsells, no ads. Cancel anytime in iOS Settings.

Is Menos available on Android?

Menos is iPhone-only. We have no Android release planned at this time.

What does Menos do that other gym apps don't?

Most gym apps are spreadsheets in disguise — you log sets, you get a chart. Menos closes the loop and makes it a game: it picks your next session from your history, applies progressive overload automatically, swaps stuck exercises — then turns the whole thing into a dungeon raid where your character levels up. You stop guessing what to lift, and you stop dreading the log.

What is progressive overload?

Progressive overload is the principle that to keep getting stronger, you have to give your body slightly more work over time — more weight, more reps, more sets, better form, or shorter rest. Menos applies progressive overload automatically so you don't have to do the math after every set. Full explainer here.

What programs does Menos support?

Six proven programs: Full Body, Push/Pull/Legs, Upper/Lower, and Heavy/Volume variants. Your program is picked during onboarding based on your goal, experience, and days-per-week. You don't pick a template — Menos picks the right one for you.

menos
/ˈme.nos/
Noun · Ancient Greek
μένος — spirit, strength, battle-fury

"The battle fury breathed into a warrior by the gods. The force that makes a man stronger, faster, more alive than he was the moment before."

Menos — the pixel-art pup who hypes you through every set

Menos was built for one reason: every set you do should make the next one better. Not random, not guesswork — a real progressive-overload engine that picks your next workout from what you actually lifted.


Then we made it a game worth opening. Built by a lifter, wrapped in hand-animated pixel art. No fluff, no social feed, no body-transformation challenges — just a world that levels up when you do.