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. You don't pick. You don't plan. You just show up. No equipment needed. Just your phone and a bit of floor space.

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

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 five protocols for different moments: grounding before work, getting activated, resetting midday, winding down at night, or pushing through something hard. Each one is guided by haptics and a breathing orb on screen. No spiritual framing. No guided journeys. Just targeted state change. Every session is short, guided, and requires zero equipment.

20 minutes max. Most are shorter. Short enough to always do. Real enough to matter. You'll never have to decide whether you have time. You do.

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. Baseline 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. Baseline 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. The kind of thing a good physio would tell you to do every morning if you asked them what actually matters.

It's not trying to. If you lift heavy, run, or play a sport, keep doing that. Baseline 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. Baseline 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 a little, every single day, for decades. That's what this builds.

No. Sessions are short, low-impact, and designed for people who are starting from zero. You don't need to be fit to start. You just need to show up.

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, and missing it when you skip. The people who get the most out of Baseline 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. Baseline is designed to be the thing you actually keep doing.

To disappear. Baseline is not trying to impress you. It's not trying to keep you engaged, entertained, or coming back for more content. 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, Baseline 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. Baseline 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. Baseline 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 Baseline in your calendar, the same way you'd schedule anything that matters. A decision you made, not a prompt we sent.

Baseline 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 30 seconds under tension. For a strength hold, it might be 20. 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. The progress bar fills as you go. Each block means your body got something real from that movement. Not a reward for showing up. Evidence that you did the work.

Every exercise in Baseline passed two filters. First: does it require equipment? If yes, it's out. Baseline 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 55 movements that are effective, safe to do alone, and need nothing but your body. No compromise on either point.

Yes. You get 3 full sessions free. No credit card, 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 for your first year. After that, it renews at $29.99 USD/year. Or you can go monthly at $3.99 USD. Most fitness apps charge $10 to $20 a month. We charge less than a coffee per month for your first year.

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. Baseline 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. Baseline 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.