Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to I built a virtual pet that gets stronger when you exercise
Hello HN, I built Motion, a fitness app where your virtual pet (we call it a Motmot) grows and gets stronger as you become more active. I wanted a fitness app that didn't feel like a fitness app. Most tools are either data-heavy dashboards or generic streak counters. Neither kept me moving. I thought a creature that visibly reflects your health might create a different kind of attachment. The pet is tied to a broader system: weekly challenges against friends, points for any type of movement, and personalized goals that recalibrate based on your actual activity history rather than fixed…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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GymPet▲4Boost Fitness with Gamified Consistency & Virtual Companion
2024 · gympet.app · its alternatives →
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Loomi ▲47A self-care habit tracker that grows your virtual pet
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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My cofounder and I have been working on a site called Fitocracy (www.fitocracy.com), which is a social game for fitness. The idea was very much inspired by our experiences growing up as nerds playing video games, later on discovering weightlifting, and drawing the parallel between working out and "leveling yourself up." XKCD has a pretty well known comic to this effect: http://xkcd.com/189/. We find that the metaphor of workout out as leveling up in a video game resonates with quite a few people, so Fitocracy is an attempt to bring that to life. On Fitocracy, tracking your workouts earns you…
2011 · xkcd.com · its alternatives →
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A friends-only activity journal
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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EndurePath▲128Hi there, EndurePath has been my main project over the past few months, and I’d love to get feedback from the HN community. The main focus of this application is to improve your mood in a moment and help you to keep it as positive as it can be in your circumstances. For those reasons I’ve added simple mood tracking, tiny tasks, and to keep you engaged personal companion with AI insights. Disclaimer: it’s NOT your personal psychologist or complex application with tasks that cure your past traumas and I don’t have plans to add complex tasks, since there better alternatives that already exists.
2025 · endurepath.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN'ers! If you sit around a computer all day and are looking to be more active, or are just active in general, check out our app! https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id903459923?pt=265797&ct=hn&mt=8 or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.activityclub We have been hacking on this for 2 years and it's finally nearing a state where we are stoked about! Launched last Aug (2015) to the public. Coming up on our 1 yr anniversary and starting to get some traction. Two of us have _each_ lost about 70lbs while building the app…
2016 · its alternatives →
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I started running 5 years ago and it completely changed me. Recently, I decided to train for my first marathon and needed something more than just tracking my runs to motivate me. I noticed all the apps currently available are just trackers and route finders, but nothing has solved the problem of consistency. So I thought of combining the basic idea of the Forest app with running and created a small app for myself which would reward me with plants and trees for my runs. I am not a mobile developer but then i came across Capacitor. Since I knew Next.js and have been working with it for the…
2025 · runandgrow.com · its alternatives →
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I've been working on a side project called Streak.ly with a friend of mine for the past month or so; it's intended to help keep you motivated to do otherwise mundane daily tasks (like do 10 pushups, read for an hour, etc.) by letting you log "streaks" — consecutive days in a row of doing something. It's in private alpha/beta/gamma/whatever right now (has some rough edges to clean up), but is more or less functionally complete and pretty stable. I'm a big fan of the Seinfeld calendar, and have seen other services which do similar things but were unsatisfying to use, either from an aesthetic…
2010 · streak.ly · its alternatives →
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Touch anywhere on screen and a dog will reach for it
2019 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Streaksy▲2Build habits by taking care of a virtual pet
Dec 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Movely▲20Oli here, I’m 32, working remotely and spending 10h a day sitting at my desk, This is slowly but surely killing me (and you), It kills my body but also my productivity so here is my attempt to fix this: Connect your Calendar, Movely will find free slots and adds 5min micro breaks in it (Strength, Mobility, Reduce eye strain or stress), Every Sunday night I’m running a task that will create the sessions for next week based on your available slots, My stack if you wanna know: * Monorepo: Nx (web / backend / marketing + shared libs) * Front: Next.js, Tailwind, Radix UI, Zustand *…
Dec 2025 · movelyapp.com · its alternatives →
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Virtual Pet & Step Counter - a cute pet on your watch
Jun 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Swizz▲8I built this because I wanted workout, calories, nutritional tracking and scheduling all in one place! My hope is that I'll be able to wrangle all these ideas together to build the perfect system that will help with your fitness levels and make workouts more fun! It's a fun app I use daily, any feedback and requests are welcomed !
2025 · getswizz.com · its alternatives →
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Build daily habits by keeping a virtual pet snake alive.
Jul 2026 · snakestreak.com · its alternatives →
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Raise pets by exercising!
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Have Fun and cute digital Pets while you build habits
2024 · zheng.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Stunning 3D animated exercising videos with human anatomy
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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