Fit us
Gamified fitness app designed to keep people active and healthy
Short summary
Client: Multinational startup in fitness industry
Need: To create native iOS and Android applications.
Challenge: Although having clear product vision, client lacked a technology experience and a fully-fledged product development team to meet the deadlines and get next round of investment.
Solution: Existek assigned a mobile development team (project manager, business analyst, UI/UX designer, developers, QA) capable of leading the client through the entire mobile application development process. We created both technology and functional foundation for the successful product.
Impact: With the help of our project team, the client managed to define the scope of work for the application development, get the application in time and receive the next round of investments for future product updates and development.
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Phillip Wilkinson
Product Manager @ Fit Us
The fitness app market is crowded. However, all of them are bothersome to use and often abandoned. We want to create another one yet make sure it has a unique value offer for the users. Can you solve this problem and create an app that gives maximum analytics at minimum user's effort?
Hello! Sure, we can help you with this. We have experience with gamification of mobile applications and integrations with iOS and Android SDK for health and activity data fetching. Let’s arrange a short 30 minutes intro call and start the discussion of your needs.
Victor Osetskyi
Head of Sales @ EXISTEK
Requirements analysis
Core features implemented by EXISTEK
For Fit Us EXISTEK was tasked to come up with a fitness application that suits both sports pros and rookies at the same time. It is easy to learn and provides users with new features as they master it.
One-click water consumption tracker
Users can easily access the water consumption screen to add another glass of water or see how much to drink in order to achieve their fitness goals. It is as simple as drink another cup.
Calories calculator with the database
An integrated database of the nutrition and energy value for the most frequent food.
Activities tracking
Integration with Apple HealthKit and Android Health to track the number of steps daily, stand hours, burned calories, etc.
Meditation module
One of the premium features - meditation. This mode helps the user to focus attention, plays background music, and silences all the notification on the phone on a system level.
Project objective
The client's main goal was to create an app that will become a real everyday fitness companion that motivates users to be more active and track their performance regularly.
Target market
The application is targeted at professional athletes and beginners and provides a rich feature set for both demographics
Challenges
- To automate an input of the user's activities
- To make integration with Apple HealthKit and Google Fit
- To find a solution to the high user's churn rate that is standard for fitness apps
Solution
Our team needed a powerful technology to create a deep integration with Android and iOS SDKs. To achieve that, we selected native frameworks as our main technologies. For user retention, our business team created a plan for the gamification of the application
Collected requirements
- Should be able to track water consumption
- Simplicity of activity tracking
- Database of the raw food and consumer goods
- Robust performance
Discovery stage
- A dedicated business analyst with gambling experience assigned
- UI/UX designer involved producing wireframes
- Over 15 requirements analysis calls and presentations
- 240 hours spent on documentation development
Deliverables
- A software requirements specification (SRS) document
- A system architecture design document and a database design
- Wireframes of every apps screen ready for the final design
- The final estimation of the project timeline and cost
- A complete project plan with milestones, sprints, and deliverables
Deliverables
SRS Document Contents
- User stories
- Acceptance criteria
- Business rules
- User roles
- Database design
- Wireframes
- System architecture
Interface wireframes
Highlights
UI/UX design
Colors
The combination of colors is aimed at highlighting the most important data while keeping the design clean and simple
#FF3F6F
Active color
#219D5A
Active color
#2F80ED
Active color
#FF783F
Active color
#282828
Main text
#8E8E8E
Plain text
#E2E2E2
Badges
#FFFFFF
Background
Typography
Avenir font family is a simple design with the purpose to be a common font in the business world.
Font size
Use
Typeface
Highlights
Development and testing
Technologies
Technology choice for the application literally means how scalable and future proof it will be. We do our best to ensure the long lifespan of the apps that we develop for our clients
Backend
370%
Engineers number growth in the past 2 years
15%
Less expensive workforce than Java and Ruby
Mobile app frontend
swift
kotlin
30%
Quicker native interface
Advanced integration with OS health APIs
Development tools
jira
testFlight
785
Tasks in Jira visible to the client as a PM tool
18
TestFlight testing versions pushed to client’s devices
Technologies used by
Development roadmap
EXISTEK creates the Development Roadmap with all major milestones and a detailed description of the features will be delivered during that milestone. We don’t ask for any prepayment and send invoices only after the client accepts the milestone.
Team composition
The team that already worked together saves precious time and money for our clients. We assigned a team of developers who created dozens of app together in the same roster and have 5+ years of experience on average.
Backend developer
UI/UX designer
Android developer
iOS developer
QA Engineer
Business analyst
Project manager
How we ensure visibility for the client
Our clients see the progress on a daily basis. EXISTEK achieves that through daily communication, check-ins, and availability of the up-to-date app version on the client’s device.
Highlights
Project summary
Uncompromised quality and cost-effectiveness
Our team managed to deliver two native applications from the idea to launch within a short 9 months timeframe. The well-thought pre-production stage allowed us to avoid any delays or additional costs during the development stage. As the final result - we completed a sophisticated and quality app in time and with zero budget over-burn.
50%
IOS and Android apps
$80k
20%
Web control panel & backend
$32k
30%
Design and documentation
$48k
$160 000
Total project cost
9months
Total project duration
Development
Design & documentation
6 weeks
Development
24 weeks
Launch & support
4 weeks
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Our locations
Warsaw, Poland, 00-645
Bucharest, Romania, 011663
Vinnytsia, Ukraine, 21021
