Public iOS app · Built in Sydney

Train. Compete. Connect.

FitPal is a public digital fitness platform that matches you with workout buddies, local crews and group sessions — then keeps you accountable with Coach Rex, your 24/7 AI coach. Available now on the App Store.

Public website · Public App Store listing · Digital subscription model A$9.99/mo
5 surfaces
Discover · Sessions · Messages · Coach · Profile
Public iOS app ships the core v1 experience
3 formats
Tournaments
Single-elim, round-robin, leaderboard
1 public app
App Store
FitPal: Find Your Fit Partner
A$9.99/mo
Plus tier
Free forever for the basics
Public startup information

Built as a digital-native fitness company. Public by design.

FitPal is not a consultancy, agency or content site. It is a public consumer mobile product with subscription revenue, in-app AI features, cloud infrastructure and a named founder/operator.

  • Product FitPal: Find Your Fit Partner is available on the Apple App Store.
  • Business model Freemium consumer app with A$9.99/mo Plus via App Store + Play Billing through RevenueCat. Coach Pro for verified coaches is also billed digitally.
  • Company FitPal Pty Ltd, based in Sydney, Australia. Founder: Lucas Nguyen. Contact: admin@fitpal.info.
  • Cloud stack Fastify API on Google Cloud Run, PostgreSQL + pgvector, Socket.IO, Google Cloud Storage and Google Gemini 2.5 Flash for Coach Rex AI.
01 Discover near you

Find your crew. Today.

Buddies, group sessions and tournaments — filtered by activity, distance and schedule. Matching runs on pgvector embeddings so the people you see actually fit your pace, goal and week.

  • 1-on-1 Buddy. Auto-matched by activity, pace, schedule and proximity.
  • Group workouts. Crews, runs, lifting jams — RSVP in one tap.
  • Tournaments. Single-elim, round-robin or leaderboard formats.
  • Trust signals. Selfie verification + verified badge filters.
FitPal Discover screen showing nearby workout buddies and group sessions
02 Talk & schedule

Less coordination. More training.

Match, message, schedule and check in — all in one thread. Real-time chat via Socket.IO with voice notes, smart schedule pills, and an inactivity beacon that pings your emergency contact if a session goes silent.

  • Direct chat. Read receipts, voice notes, swipe-to-delete.
  • Schedule from chat. One-tap to lock in time and place.
  • Live GPS. Active session streams every 10s for buddies and safety contacts.
  • Safety beacon. Inactivity check-in + emergency contact alert.
FitPal Messages screen showing a buddy chat thread with scheduling pill
03 · Coach Rex · AI

Your own coach, 24/7.

Coach Rex reads your last 5 sessions, weekly check-in, soreness, equipment and goal — then plans your week and rolls with what changes. Powered by Google Gemini 2.5 Flash with streaming responses and a persistent memory of facts you've shared.

  • Knows your history. Pulls profile, RPE, pain signals and equipment into every reply.
  • Adaptive programming. Auto-builds a weekly plan, adjusts on the fly.
  • Persistent memory. 50+ facts extracted from your chats — Rex remembers.
  • Streaming replies. Server-sent events. Token-by-token, no waiting.
Coach Rex AI chat screen showing a streaming coaching reply
How it works

Three steps to your first session.

1

Tell us what you train

Activities, schedule, level, vibe, equipment and session length preference. Two minutes max.

2

Get matched

Buddies, crews and group workouts that actually fit your level, your week and your suburb.

3

Train together

Schedule in chat, log the session, earn XP and streaks. Repeat. FitPal stays out of the way.

About FitPal · Business model

A consumer subscription app, with coaches live.

FitPal is a digital-native consumer mobile product. User revenue is a freemium A$9.99/mo Plus subscription billed through App Store + Play Billing (RevenueCat on the wire). Verified coaches are live in the app, with Coach Pro billed through RevenueCat and real-world session payments arranged directly between athlete and coach.

Free

A$0/mo

For new athletes finding their crew.

  • 5 buddy connections / mo
  • 3-day Coach Rex AI trial
  • Public group workouts
  • Tournaments + leaderboards
  • HealthKit / Health Connect sync
Live · 2026

Coach marketplace

Coach Pro for coaches

Verified human coaches, booked in FitPal for real-world training.

  • Coach Pro via App Store + Play Billing
  • Recurring sessions
  • Coach portal (earnings, clients, schedule)
  • Post-session reviews + dispute flow
  • Session payments arranged directly with coaches
The team

Small team. Real product.

FitPal is built by a focused founding team based in Sydney, Australia. We ship the app, run the API, write the code and read every support note personally.

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Lucas Nguyen

Founder & Engineering

Solo founder based in Sydney. Owns product, mobile, API, infrastructure and design end-to-end. Code is open on GitHub.

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Coach Rex

AI coach · Google Gemini

The in-app AI coach. Gemini 2.5 Flash under the hood, with a custom prompt-assembly pipeline that pulls profile, last-5 RPE average, pain signals, equipment, weekly check-in and 50+ extracted memory facts into every reply.

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You?

Hiring soon

We'll be opening roles for community ops and a mobile engineer after the public iOS launch. Email us if you train, ship, and want to build the social layer of fitness.

Built right

Real engineering. Not a wrapper.

React Native 0.81 · Expo SDK 54 on the client. TanStack Query 5 with AsyncStorage persistence. Zustand for local state. FlashList for long lists. The app stays snappy on a 4-year-old phone.
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Mobile stack
iOS first · Android in 2026
Fastify 5 + PostgreSQL 16 + pgvector on the API. HNSW indexes for buddy compatibility. pg-boss queues for delayed jobs. Socket.IO for chat and GPS streams. Deployed to Google Cloud Run.
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API stack
api.fitpal.info · Sydney region
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash powers Coach Rex with SSE streaming. Custom prompt-assembly pulls profile, last-5 RPE, soreness, equipment and 50+ extracted memory facts per reply. Single-provider, low-latency, predictable cost.
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AI stack
Coach Rex · Gemini · SSE
Available now · iOS

Stop training alone. Start showing up.

Download FitPal from the App Store to find workout buddies, schedule sessions, join groups, compete in tournaments and train with Coach Rex AI.

Contact

Talk to us. Directly.

Press, partnerships, coach onboarding, app support, bug reports, safety concerns — all of it lands in the same inbox and gets read by a human.

Location Sydney, NSW · Australia
Production API api.fitpal.info