Kinetopia is built by one person. Email support@kinetopia.org and you'll get a real response, usually within a day. For everything else, the answers below cover most of it.
Open the app, tap the Record tab, tap the sport row at the top to pick what you're doing, then tap Start. Kinetopia begins timing immediately. For GPS sports (run, ride, hike, etc.) make sure you've allowed location access on first launch.
Three possibilities: (1) the sport you chose doesn't use GPS — strength, yoga, swim, tennis, pickleball, and scuba intentionally don't show a map; (2) you haven't granted location permission yet — go to Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Kinetopia and choose While Using App or Always; (3) you're indoors with no satellite lock — give it a minute outside.
Tap the You tab → Profile and add your weight (used for calorie estimates). That's the only thing you have to do. Everything else can wait until you actually use the relevant feature.
Yes. $14.99 once. There is no monthly tier, no annual upgrade, no "Pro" version. The version you buy is the version with every feature, forever.
Install Kinetopia from the App Store using the same Apple ID you bought it with. The app will detect your prior purchase automatically. If something looks wrong, email support@kinetopia.org.
Yes. If you enabled Family Sharing for Kinetopia in your App Store settings, every family member can install it without paying again.
Refunds go through Apple. Visit reportaproblem.apple.com, find Kinetopia in your purchase history, and request a refund there. We don't have any control over App Store refunds, but Apple usually approves them within a few days.
The watch app ships inside the iPhone app. After you install Kinetopia on your iPhone, open the Watch app on your phone → My Watch → scroll to Available Apps → tap Install next to Kinetopia. On most devices, it's installed automatically.
Yes for recording. The watch buffers GPS, heart rate, and other metrics locally during the workout. When you finish, the workout is sent to your phone the next time the two are in Bluetooth range. If you only have a cellular Apple Watch, this still works the same way — Kinetopia doesn't use cellular for syncing.
The watch app uses HKLiveWorkoutBuilder, the same Apple framework as the built-in Workout app. If HR doesn't show up: (1) make sure the watch is snug on your wrist; (2) verify HealthKit permissions in Watch app → Privacy → Health; (3) confirm Heart Rate is enabled in the Health app on iPhone.
Go to You → Settings → Apple Health → Connect. You'll see Apple's permission sheet. Tap Turn On All for the cleanest experience, or pick exactly what you want to share.
Two-way. Kinetopia writes: every completed workout (with active energy, distance, and the GPS route as HKWorkoutRoute). Kinetopia reads: existing workouts from any source (including Apple's own Fitness app and third-party apps), plus weight, height, and resting heart rate.
No. Kinetopia deduplicates by Apple Health's stable workout UUID. The same workout imported twice will be matched and skipped on the second pass.
Apple Health requires you to explicitly grant read permission for each data type. Open the Health app → Sharing → Apps and Services → Kinetopia and make sure everything you want shared is enabled. Then tap Sync now in Kinetopia's Settings → Apple Health card.
Yes — through Apple Health. Caltopia is the sibling app from the same developer for tracking what you eat. Kinetopia writes your workout's active energy burn to Health; Caltopia reads it, so your daily calorie target adjusts based on what you actually trained. Caltopia writes your weight to Health; Kinetopia reads it for calorie calculations. Neither app has any direct knowledge of the other — they cooperate through Apple's framework. Both are separate one-time purchases.
It syncs your Kinetopia activities, gear, goals, and personal records across all your Apple devices signed into the same iCloud account. The sync uses your own private CloudKit database — never our servers, never a third party. It's off by default; you turn it on per-device.
You → Settings → iCloud sync, flip the toggle, then quit and reopen the app. SwiftData configures the CloudKit container when the app launches, so the change takes effect on relaunch.
Yes — that's the default. With iCloud off, everything stays on the device. The app has no other syncing or backup mechanism, by design.
Because nobody cares how far you walked on a tennis court. We track what actually matters: matches, wins, losses, set scores, and (optionally) opponent name.
During recording, tap + Won match or + Lost match. There are also Set buttons for finer-grain tracking. Tap Undo last if you misclick. You can also fill all this in after the fact on the save sheet.
No. The scores text field is freeform and optional. Some people just track W-L counts; others write "6-4, 3-6, 7-5" for their records.
Open any activity, tap the ⋯ menu in the top-right, choose Export GPX. The file follows the GPX 1.1 spec with the Garmin TrackPointExtension for heart rate. Every other fitness tool can read it.
The cleanest path is through Apple Health: connect Health, and any workouts already in your Health database (recorded by Strava, Apple Fitness, Nike Run Club, Garmin, anything that writes to Health) will be imported on next sync. Direct GPX import isn't yet supported.
Open the activity → tap the ⋯ menu → Delete. Confirm. The activity is gone immediately and permanently — there's no recycle bin (and we don't have a server to retrieve it from).
Uninstall the app. With iCloud sync off (the default), that wipes everything. If iCloud sync was on, Kinetopia's CloudKit data lives in your private iCloud database — delete it from Settings (iOS) → [Your Name] → iCloud → Manage Storage → Kinetopia.
Phone GPS is rough during the first 20–30 seconds of a recording (the chipset is still acquiring satellites). Kinetopia's accuracy gate drops fixes worse than 35m, which usually catches the early garbage. If you start indoors, the recording's distance will be light by however far you traveled before stepping outside.
HR only appears if a paired Apple Watch was broadcasting during the workout, or if another HK source (third-party HR strap) was active. Without a wearable, Kinetopia doesn't estimate HR.
Sorry. Email support@kinetopia.org with: (1) what you were doing right before it crashed, (2) your iPhone model and iOS version, (3) the Kinetopia version (Settings → About). Crash logs aren't auto-collected by us — you can find them under iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements → Analytics Data if you want to attach one.
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