Fixed plans punish real life
A rigid programme assumes a life you do not have. The first missed session turns the whole plan into evidence that you failed it.
Season 1 · closed beta
Level up your
fitness adventure
Raid is the training app for people who have quit the gym before. An adaptive quest engine reads how you actually train, a lore-driven AI mentor keeps you in the story, and your stat sheet only moves when real strength does.
- Strength-first, not step-count
- Difficulty reacts to your week
- Mentor written, not templated
- 12-week seasons, clear endings
Player fileSEASON 1 · WEEK 03
Ashborn Striker
Path: Strength · Dumbbell route
Level27
XP to Lv 284,820 / 6,000
Today's quest
Trial of the Third Set
Press 3 × 8 at 22.5 kg. Last session you stalled on set three — the engine dropped volume by one set to protect the streak.
+320 XPDIFFICULTY −1~24 MIN
Str62
End48
Dis71
12-day streak1 skip token left
ADAPTIVE QUESTSSEASON PROGRESSIONAI MENTORGUILD RAIDSSTREAK ARMOURRARITY DROPSBOSS WEEKSSTAT SHEETS
Why comebacks die
You did not lack discipline.
You lacked a feedback loop.
The pattern is always the same: two strong weeks, one bad week, a broken streak, and an app that keeps yelling at you about it. Raid is designed around the bad week, because that is the week that decides everything.
Streak counters are brittle
One zero and the number resets, along with the only thing that was keeping you going. Nothing is designed to catch you.
Nothing is watching your arc
Generic push notifications do not know you stalled twice, or that you are nervous about the squat rack. So they cannot say anything useful.
The quest engine
Six systems doing one job: get you back through the door tomorrow
Every mechanic below exists because a specific point in the comeback arc is where people quit. Nothing here is decoration.
Core loop
Adaptive quest engine
Every logged set feeds the engine. Stall twice and today's quest shrinks. Clear three clean weeks and it escalates. Difficulty is negotiated with your actual behaviour, not a fixed 12-week PDF.
AI powered
Lore-based mentor chat
A mentor with a real voice and a real memory of your arc. Tell them you have 20 minutes and a broken streak; they answer in-world, then rewrite the quest to match.
Retention
Streaks that bend, not break
Skip tokens, rest days and difficulty relief replace the all-or-nothing counter that has killed every comeback you have attempted. Missing a day costs you a little. It never costs you everything.
Structure
Seasons and boss weeks
Twelve-week seasons with escalating arcs, a boss week to close each one, and rarity drops for the sessions you nearly skipped. Progress has a shape, an ending and a next chapter.
Honest numbers
Stats mapped to real strength
STR, END and DIS are computed from load, volume and consistency — never from vibes. When the number moves, something real moved. Export the underlying log whenever you want it.
Co-op
Guild raids
Join a four-person guild with a shared weekly objective. Nobody sees your weight. Everyone sees whether you showed up — which turns out to be the only accountability that works.
How it works
Three minutes to start. One quest a day to continue.
No fitness test, no 40-question intake, no plan you have to read before you can move.
- 01
Pick a class and a path
Three minutes of onboarding: equipment you actually have, days you can realistically train, and how hard you want to be pushed. No fitness test, no shame audit.
- 02
Clear the daily quest
One quest per day, sized to your week. Log sets as you go and watch the XP bar move in real time. Your mentor reacts before and after every session.
- 03
Close out the season
Boss week tests what the arc built. Clear it and your stat sheet, rank and lore chapter all advance together — then Season 2 opens harder.
Build order
The RPG layer first. The camera later — on purpose.
Computer-vision form checking is the flashiest thing we can build and the easiest thing to get wrong. So we are proving the quest loop keeps people training first, then adding the camera on top of an experience that already works.
Phase 1 — live in beta
The RPG layer
- Adaptive quest engine
- Streak, skip-token and season system
- AI mentor conversations
- Stat sheet and progress log
- Guild raids
Phase 2 — after retention is proven
Computer-vision form check
- On-device camera rep detection
- Depth, tempo and lockout feedback
- Form-quality XP modifiers
- Included in Ascendant at no extra cost
How we compare
Gamified fitness already exists. Anime-native strength questing does not.
Running stories, step games and adaptive lifting apps each solve one slice. Raid is built for the overlap nobody covers: heavy training, an anime world, and a coach who talks back.
| Capability | RaidAnime fitness RPG | Zombies, Run!Running narrative | Fitness RPG / WalkrStep & habit games | FitbodAdaptive strength plans |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strength training is the main event | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Narrative world with recurring characters | Yes | Yes | Partial | No |
| Difficulty adapts to your logged behaviour | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Conversational AI coach, in character | Yes | No | No | No |
| Built anime-native for the 18–30 fandom | Yes | No | Partial | No |
| Streak design that survives a bad week | Yes | Partial | Partial | Partial |
| Camera-based form feedback | Partial | No | No | No |
Comparison reflects each product's primary positioning as publicly described, not an exhaustive feature audit — these apps ship changes often. “Partial” in the Raid column marks camera-based form feedback, which is planned for Phase 2 rather than launch.
Live AI mentor
Say the thing that usually makes you quit. Out loud.
This is the real mentor channel, running on your own AI provider — not a scripted demo. Pick a voice, tell them what is in the way, and see how the answer lands.
Pick a mentor
Mentor channel · RyosenLIVE DEMO
Ask Ryosen anything
This is the same in-world mentor that greets you before every quest. Try one of the openers below.
Beta feedback
Written by people who had already given up on fitness apps
I have started and quit four times. The difference is that when I missed Tuesday, the app got smaller instead of louder. I came back Wednesday.
Ryosen told me to stop negotiating and do three sets. Something about being spoken to like a character in the story made me actually put the headphones on.
The stat sheet is the part I did not expect. Watching STR climb because I logged real weight feels better than any badge I have earned in a fitness app.
Sample quotes shown while the closed beta runs — verified reviews replace these at public launch.
Pricing
One tier, priced between a habit app and a human coach
You get AI coaching and a world built for your taste, at a fraction of one-to-one programming. Start free, upgrade when the loop has earned it.
Trainee
Free
Enough of the loop to find out whether questing actually gets you through the door.
- One daily quest, one active path
- Streak tracking and season log
- Starter lore arc (chapters 1–3)
- Adaptive difficulty engine
- AI mentor conversations
- Guild raids
Founding priceAscendant
$7.99/ month
Billed $95.88 once a year — two months lighter than monthly.
- Full adaptive quest engine — difficulty reacts to every logged set
- Unlimited AI mentor chat, in-character, all three mentors
- Season progression, boss weeks and rarity drops
- Guild raids with shared objectives
- Stat sheet mapped to real lifts, volume and consistency
- Form check (computer vision) at no extra cost when it ships
Secure checkout. Cancel any time — no lock-in, no cancellation fee.
Season 1 waitlist
Your comeback arc starts with one quest
Join the waitlist for a Season 1 invite. Free tier included, no card, no account to create today.
FAQ
The questions people ask before they trust another fitness app
No. Pick the bodyweight path and every quest is built around your own weight plus whatever you own — a chair, a backpack, a single dumbbell. If you later join a gym, the engine re-scales your quest line instead of restarting it.
No. Raid is strength-first. Quests map to real sets, reps and load, your stat sheet is computed from what you actually logged, and the engine applies progressive overload the same way a coach would — the lore is the wrapper, not the workout.
It is an in-character conversation, not a canned tip feed. You tell your mentor what got in the way — a bad week, 20 minutes, a broken streak — and they answer in-world, then adjust the next quest. Ryosen is stern, Aya is pure hype, Bael speaks in parables. You choose who you answer to.
Deliberately later. We are shipping the quest, streak and mentor loop first and adding computer-vision form feedback once retention is proven, so the core experience is not held hostage to the hardest feature. Ascendant members get it at no extra cost when it lands.
The Trainee tier is free forever. Ascendant is $11.99 per month, or $95.88 billed annually — about $7.99 a month. It sits above generic fitness apps and well below one-to-one coaching, which is roughly the value line we are aiming at.
Streaks bend before they break. You bank skip tokens for rest and life, and a missed day drops difficulty instead of wiping progress. Restarting from zero is the reason most comebacks die, so we removed it.
Not at all — the tone is shonen but the onboarding assumes nothing. Fans get more of the references; everyone else just gets a clear quest, a mentor with a personality, and a number that goes up.
Yes. Cancel from your billing portal whenever you like and you keep access until the end of the period you paid for. No cancellation fee, no retention maze.