Feature 09
A social network built for the gym
Forjex is more than a fitness app with a friends list. It's a complete social platform built around gym culture. Post your PRs and transformations to a feed where people care about training. Share 24-hour stories from your training sessions. Scroll through Bursts, a TikTok-style vertical video feed of quick gym clips. Follow athletes you admire, discover trending content through hashtags, and see everything happening in one activity feed. Create squads, launch team challenges, and rank on exercise-specific leaderboards with verified lifts.
Overview
Forjex has a full social surface because training already creates the things people want to share: sessions, personal records, clips, outdoor activity, progress, questions, and competition. The Following feed stays focused on people you chose, while Explore helps you find athletes, posts, hashtags, exercises, and topics outside that graph.
Bursts give short vertical clips their own fast feed. Moments cover temporary updates from the day. Standard posts support text, media, GIFs, location, hashtags, and exercise context, with likes, comments, replies, reposts, bookmarks, follows, reports, deletion, and sharing wired into the same social graph.
Full social feed with posts, likes, comments, reposts, and bookmarks
Bursts: short-form vertical video feed
24-hour stories
Follow/following social graph
Hashtag discovery and explore tab
Exercise leaderboards with verified submissions
Squads with team challenges and group chat
Unified activity feed for all notifications
How it works
The social system supports several kinds of fitness content without forcing every workout, clip, and temporary update into one format.
Create a standard post, share a quick Burst, or add a temporary Moment depending on what happened and how long it should live.
Attach media, a GIF, location, hashtags, exercise context, or a verified proof item where the post needs more than a caption.
Like, comment, reply, repost, bookmark, follow, report, delete, or share through visible actions with optimistic updates and honest failure states.
Inside the feature
Following, Explore, Bursts, Moments, profiles, search, and activity all connect back to the same people and content instead of acting like separate mini apps.
Following and Explore
Following is the feed for accounts you already care about. Explore adds category filters, discovery rails, hashtags, and broader content so finding someone new does not distort the feed you built yourself.
Pagination keeps both feeds moving beyond the first few cards. Empty and offline states explain what is available instead of inserting invented engagement.
Bursts and Moments
Bursts are short vertical clips with their own composer, media editing, captions, lift metadata, visibility, and playback feed. Moments are temporary updates for content that belongs to the day rather than the permanent profile grid.
Both formats connect to the same profile and social graph as standard posts, so an athlete does not have to rebuild an audience for every content type.
Profiles and search
Profiles bring together identity, posts, training signals, progression, and relevant competitive history. Discover search can find people and content rather than limiting search to an exact username.
Hashtags, exercise tags, and shared activity give each post more useful routes into discovery than a generic trending label.
Trust and actions
Likes, bookmarks, follows, reposts, comments, and replies update optimistically for speed, then revert or show a real error if the backend rejects the action. Reporting and deletion use explicit flows rather than decorative menus.
Verified proof can distinguish a supported result from a number written into a caption. The social layer can celebrate training without asking every viewer to take every claim on trust.
Connected tools
For gyms
Forjex gives gyms a member feed, Squads, challenges, and leaderboards connected to the training people already record.
Questions
The practical details people usually want before adding another fitness app to their routine.
Standard posts can include text, photos, video, GIFs, location, hashtags, and exercise context. Bursts support short vertical video, and Moments support temporary updates.
Following is based on accounts you chose to follow. Explore is designed for discovery through categories, hashtags, people, and broader fitness content.
Yes. Posts support likes, comments, replies, reposts, bookmarks, sharing, reports, and deletion where you own the content.
Yes. Supported proof flows can attach verification context to a social result instead of relying only on a number in the caption.
Pre-launch
Forjex is launching on iOS first. Join the waitlist and we’ll tell you when it is ready to use.